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听众朋友，大家好，欢迎您收听优马思中级商务英语节目，我是欧德喻。这套英语节目是给已经具备初级商务英语基础的听众编写制作的。在这套节目中，我们会让您接触到更多实际的商务场景，同时还为您详细分析一些商业文章和报告，进一步提高您的商务英语学习听说读写能力。 今天要给大家讲解有关teamwork--团队合作的课文。课文主要内容是卡森公司如何在波兰的子公司开拓团队合作。我们在阅读文章时要思考卡森公司采取了什么方法，What did Cussons do?并取得了那些收益。What benefits did this bring? No longer Poles apart When Peter Welch, president of Cussons Polska and Uroda SA, arrived at Cusson’s newly acquired factory in Poland in 1993, he discovered that the concept of teamwork didn’t exist. ‘The guy who ran it before had a queue of people outside his office waiting for decisions on everything from taking a day’s holiday to major investments. All decisions were made by one man.’ Cussons entered Poland by taking over a manufacturer of cleaning products in Wroclaw. Two years later they bought Warsaw-based Uroda toiletries. Turnover increased at Wroclaw from ￡11m to ￡ 50m and the smaller Uroda quickly grew into a ￡ 22 m business. Both businesses are now major brands in Poland and export to other eastern European markets. But in spite of these successes, it is still hard to develop new approaches.?The company culture here is the result of fifty years of regulation and control.?explains Welch. ‘ It’s not easy to get people to take on responsibility and be accountable when things go wrong. The sales department used to be a guy next to the phone waiting for it to ring.’ To help solve these problems, Cussons brought in three expatriate managers to work closely with the local sales staff in project teams. They also brought in senior Coverdale management consultant keith Edmonds to work on the team’s managerial skills and improve communication within the team. Edmonds held two one-week programmes, working on team-building and developing creative thinking. ‘The imaginative ideas participants came up with were extraordinary electric.’ He describes the programmes as helping people recognize that there is a rang of effective management styles. ‘We wanted to throw new light on old problems. The particip