Chairman Lee is an authoritarian leader. All the Samsung staff members wear the same colour uniforms and new recruits have to study him and participate in team building.
After his travel to the U.S., Lee realized Samsung had to make a great change if it wanted to? beat Sony. And he made a 3-day speech talking about his vision and stategy for change to the executives.
He was aggresive and visionary, and knew there is an opportunity presented by the digital age. He seized this chance by improving their product quality and marketing strategy.
After finding out the emloyees were still making poor quality products, he was furious and set fire to 15 million dollars worth of products, which turned out to be a turning point for Samsung.?
He is an architect that transformed Sumsang from bargain basement to top-of-the-range.
Good usage of words:
1. We are driven in career by a strong sense of crisis.
2. bargain basement
■an underground room in a shop where things are sold at reduced prices（商場(chǎng)的地下）減價(jià)商品區(qū)
?Jonathan?manages to buy all his clothes at bargain-basement prices (= very?cheaply).喬納森所有的衣服都買(mǎi)得很便宜鞋怀。
3.big name companies
bonfire
UK['b?n.fa??r]US['bɑ:n.fa?r]nouncountable
■a large fire that is made outside to burn unwanted things, or for pleasure（為焚燒廢棄物或?yàn)閵蕵?lè)而燃起的）火堆感耙，篝火耻姥，營(yíng)火
extol
UK[?k'st??l]US[-'sto?l](-ll-)formal
verb transitive
■to praise something or someone very much贊揚(yáng)；贊頌；贊美
?His book?extolling the benefits of vegetarianism sold thousands of?copies.他那本宣揚(yáng)素食益處的書(shū)賣(mài)出了好幾千本吃粒。
?She is forever extollingthe virtues?ofher children.她經(jīng)常夸耀自己小孩的優(yōu)點(diǎn)。
Beat
3.也有“比之搶先”县忌、“搶在（某人或某事）之前”（瞬時(shí)動(dòng)詞，第四類）的意思继效≈⑿樱【例如】Beatthe rush hour, travel early. 搶在高峰時(shí)間之前，提早上路瑞信。/ Buy now andbeatthe new tax. 搶在新稅目實(shí)行之前趕快現(xiàn)在就買(mǎi)厉颤。/ Ibeathim to the telephone. 我比他先一步趕到了電話那里。/Beata possible increase next winter plus save an extra $50. （電熱器廣告）請(qǐng)趕在今冬可能漲價(jià)之前購(gòu)買(mǎi)凡简，而且可以另外多節(jié)省五十美元逼友。
