Beijing normally doesn’t have much snow in winter, so artificial snow is being used at venues for the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games, with the quality of the white snow drawing _________ from many athletes, and even officials. Artificial snow gives the courses a better and more _________ quality.

“This is by far the best man-made snow I’ve ever _________ on,” American freestyle skier Ashley Caldwell said at a _________ conference. After receiving _________ from many athletes through the training period and first days of _________, Kit McConnell, sports director of the International Olympic Committee, said the participants _________ the artificial snow is outstanding. “The focus is on doing this in a sustainable way, and also _________ the athletes have an outstanding field of play on which to _________ at the Olympic level,” McConnell said.

Russi, chairman of the International Ski Federation’s alpine committee, also a former Swiss World Cup alpine ski racer and one of the course __________ of the Yanqing National Alpine Skiing Center in Beijing, told China Central Television: “I think for the skiers the course we designed is just like paradise.” “Although sometimes __________ with natural snow, artificial snow has __________ been used in competitions in the past five to 10 years,” he added.

On November 7, during the __________ for the Games, Chongli District in Zhangjiakou __________ its first snowfall this winter. But the 20-centimeter-thick snow was __________ up, because it would be more __________ to use natural snow as it __________ more easily and brings safety risks.

However, there are __________ regarding the environmental hazards of using so much water for snow-making. The snow machines at Beijing 2022 have __________ used renewable energy since the beginning of snow production. “For water from melted snow, we have a reservoir and two lakes which can __________ it so that it can then be used for agriculture, irrigation, tourism and landscaping.”

To this day her kindness brings tears to my eyes.

It was from more than 15 years ago and I felt like I’d always been too embarrassed to _________ her properly. I hope to share this so that there’ll be more _________ in the office. I was the “idiot (白痴)” in the office and my _________ was annoyed by my inability. I watched secretly from the corner as my manager _________ to the CFO (财务总监) about how I wasn’t _________, and that I was extremely slow to learn, before actually calling me an idiot. I believed what she said and felt _________.

However, Teresa who was my manager’s assistant was so _________ to my trouble, and she would stay back each day to teach me ever so patiently. She knew of my personal _________, and would call me to make sure I didn’t _________ to my bad habit (which I’m not yet ready to share here). She never wanted attention, always __________ me when no one is watching, and she had no agenda.

With her help and the confidence she __________ in me, I finally advanced and doubled my salary after just over a year. Actually, I was __________ after my manager’s complaint but got promoted a few times in the next company. However, her biggest __________ to me was simply that she cared for me. So I had to believe in myself.

Kindness is a gift. I hope to return the __________ to Teresa one day, and to __________ the same opportunity to others.

At work, the core function of the management is to make decisions on business operations and growth. _______ it is managing the workforce, servicing clients, _______ production, or hiring new employees, we see plenty of decision-making skills examples in everyday operations. Let’s understand the importance of decision-making better by looking at some examples of decision-making in management:

Imagine you are the CEO of an e-commerce start-up. Your work is expanding and you need to hire the right resources to help you _______ the vision of creating a leading online retail platform.

You would need to hire people who are experienced and adept in their _______ such as software development, marketing, operations, procurement, and logistics.

Since the business is an online start-up, you won’t need to hire _______ who work on the premises exclusively. You can also get talented location-independent workers _______ of delivering the required technical support and services online.

By ensuring an optimal mix of on-site and _______ workers, you can easily carry out the functions in a cost-effective way. Emails and chat communications as well as video interactions can keep the team spirit going. This will also give you the _______ of hiring talents that might be scattered over different geographic locations and can come together digitally to create _______ solutions.

At some point or the other in their journeys, most companies undergo rebranding. Usually, businesses are small ________ , with only local or regional reach and branding, but as they start ________ , the need for rebranding surfaces.

Quite often, logos, the company’s official mascots, and even names are changed to assert a new identity, capability, and vision. Rebranding activities are strong examples of decision-making skills that ________ company values, products, target audiences, cultural and social sensibilities, and business aspirations.

Such situations are common decision-making examples.

We just ________ some of the usual decision-making and problem-solving examples that are a part of most people’s professional lives. There could be more complex decisions that we would require to take in the ________ of our careers. Sometimes these can be individual decisions such as hiring or firing an employee or ________ decisions such as opening a new office.