Bosses can be good at using — not just reading — body language, which may be one of the reasons they got to be boss in the first place.

老板可能不仅善于解读身体语言，也同样善于利用身体语言，这也可能是他们当初成为老板的原因之一。

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Of course, you’ll probably have to talk to your boss about this, but many people have flexible hours and many bosses would be happy to let you go early if you get your work done.

当然，这要先争得老板的同意。 事实上很多人都可以灵活的掌握工作时间，并且如果能尽早完成工作，老板都很乐意这样做。

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Other bosses often need to face a crisis—a “burning platform”, in the memorable phrase of Stephen Elop, Nokia’s boss—before they make changes.

其他公司的总裁们经常在来不及做出改变之前，就需要面对一场危机，令人印象深刻的是，诺基亚总裁斯蒂芬埃洛普形容这种危急情况为“燃烧的平台”。

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Previously the head of a private clinic, he is reputed to have been close to the jailed former "boss of bosses", Bernardo Provenzano.

BBC: File photo of Salvatore Cuffaro in Palermo, 2002

Appeal court judges rejected a testimony from one Mafia turncoat who said he had seen Mr Andreotti kiss the now imprisoned Mafia "boss of bosses" Toto Riina.

BBC: Andreotti escapes conviction

Business journalists have taken to producing glowing profiles of self-effacing and self-denying bosses such as Haruka Nishimatsu, the boss of Japan Airlines, who travels to work on the bus and pays himself less than his pilots, and Mike Eskew, the former boss of UPS, who flew coach and shares an administrative assistant with three other people.

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