公司职员的工作问题(2/3)-英语听力

[00:01.592]Well, I now know to take all this talk about the importance of communication skills seriously. [00:07.280]I used to think it was all rather woolly, [00:10.105]but when you've seen the damage misunderstandings can do. [00:13.672]I suppose the board was a grouping of people with such strong backgrounds individually [00:18.512]that each of them expected to be top dog, [00:21.216]and that it was perhaps inevitable [00:23.088]that they'd clash over what direction the company should go in. [00:26.817]Anyhow, [00:27.465]it looked very grim for a while but, [00:29.601]in the end, [00:31.056]two of them took the pretty sizeable payoffs they were offered and moved on. [00:35.264]From our point of view, [00:36.656]at least it saved us from the prospect of the group being split up [00:39.616]and the shares sold off. [00:41.232]We were all extremely glad to see the back of that particular episode in the company's history. [00:47.521]I know there's quite a trend to constantly reviewing your sourcing in the search for cost savings, [00:53.776]but it was crazy to move over to such an untried firm. [00:57.056]The trouble was we were getting nearly all our parts from them, [01:01.353]so everything was leaving the factory here with faulty components, [01:04.873]with appalling results. [01:07.112]We should have listened to the consultants, [01:09.184]but on this one we thought we knew better. [01:11.416]It got so bad that predatory offers were being made for the division, [01:16.320]and we had to think hard about how to save the brand's reputation. [01:20.313]Raising fresh capital through new shares was the right way to go [01:24.185]and enabled us to cover the losses we made in sales. [01:27.704]