a race to the bottom
- Nghĩa tiếng Việt
- Cuộc đua hạ chuẩn
- Định nghĩa tiếng Anh
- A competition between companies that keeps lowering quality or standards to cut costs.
Ví dụ: Cutting wages to compete with rivals only leads to a race to the bottom.

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Khám phá các thành ngữ về chiến lược doanh nghiệp và chính trị công sở như a poisoned chalice, kick the can down the road và low-hanging fruit.

Ví dụ: Cutting wages to compete with rivals only leads to a race to the bottom.

Ví dụ: The new manager soon realised the promotion was a poisoned chalice.

Ví dụ: When the project failed, he threw his assistant under the bus in the meeting.

Ví dụ: Let's circle back to the budget question after lunch.

Ví dụ: Before tackling the harder problems, the team focused on the low-hanging fruit.

Ví dụ: None of the small changes really moved the needle on sales.

Ví dụ: The CEO's contract included a golden parachute worth millions.

Ví dụ: The regulators were asleep at the wheel during the crisis.

Ví dụ: Politicians keep kicking the can down the road on the pension issue.

Ví dụ: This is just a back of the envelope estimate of the cost.

Ví dụ: Every reorganisation is described as cutting dead wood.

Ví dụ: They hired a rainmaker and gave him no support at all.

Ví dụ: Every organisation has a fixer and no job title for it.

Ví dụ: A bean counter killed the whole programme in one meeting.

Ví dụ: That department has been a revolving door since the merger.

Ví dụ: The reorganisation was empire building with a strategy attached.

Ví dụ: Two directors ran a turf war for eighteen months.

Ví dụ: He wanted a corner office more than he wanted the work.

Ví dụ: The figures showed a glass ceiling exactly where everyone said it was.

Ví dụ: Nobody at the coal face had been consulted about any of it.

Ví dụ: The stock went in a fire sale three weeks before Christmas.

Ví dụ: A hostile takeover was the only way in and everybody knew it.
