Yeah, the cardinal rule for managers is to keep an open mind at all times.
Well, for many years, creativity was the least of our worries.
Great Lakes was considered eminently successful in marketing, constantly spewing out new products.
────────────────────────────── worth someone's while, 時間 [手間] をかけるだけの価値がある ────────────────────────────── If an action or activity is worth someone's while, it will be helpful, useful, or enjoyable for them if they do it, even though it requires some effort.
E-DICより
"I've decided to turn down your job offer." "Please reconsider. I'll make it worth your while." "How much?"
────────────────────────────── cardinal rule, 鉄則 ────────────────────────────── A cardinal rule or quality is the one that is considered to be the most imortant. [FORMAL]
ex) Harmony, balance and order are cardinal virtues to the French.
────────────────────────────── the least of, 最も…でないもの ────────────────────────────── E-DICより
That's the least of it. そんなのはまだ大したことではない
That's not the least of our troubles. それよりまだ大きな問題が私たちにはある
────────────────────────────── eminently, 極めて、著しく ────────────────────────────── You use eminently in front of an adjective describing a positive quality in order to emphasize the quality expressed by that adjective.
ポジティブな意味というところに注目。
ex) His family was eminently respectable.
────────────────────────────── spew out, …を吐き出す ────────────────────────────── When a machine spews something out, it produces it very quickly.
ex) More and more, airline weather forecasts and flight plans were being spewed out by computers.
"NHKラジオ 実践ビジネス英語 Fostering Creativity (1) 6/4 2008"
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