Peter Olafson Case
PETER OLAFSON
BACKGROUND Peter Olafson has just taken a position as the general manager for Cable King Television (CKV) of St. Paul Minnesota. CKV has been in existence for the past four years. The company is by UniComm of Beverly Hills California and a local St. Paul businessman, 85%-15% respectively. The first three years of CTV were spent securing state, federal, and local franchises and permission to operate in the St. Paul area. When Olafson arrived, CTV had six employees working on the design, preparation, and initial construction of the cable system. CTV's parent company, UniComm, was founded by William Jurgens. Jurgens built UniComm up from a small west coast cable system to $25 million company that now ranks within the top 20 firms in the nation. Jurgens is known as tough business man, a self made man who aggressiveness and ability brought him considerable success. Peter Olafson has just graduated with his MBA; his credentials include BS in electrical engineering from MIT and an MS in communications engineering from the University of Minnesota. He also worked his way up to a captain in the United States Army Signal Corps. …show more content…
From the text: "Olafson took several steps in attempting to help Kurt improve the planning and coordination. One of these was having one-on-one counseling sessions to show Kurt how to plan better, A second step he took was to have Kurt call weekly construction meetings to which everyone in the organization was invited, including the new subcontractor supervisor, "Happy" DiStellano Kurt did not become involved enough in most of them." And " it was clear that the shortage was as much as surprise to Kurt as it was to him (Olafson, re: cable for construction)." From the text we see that like with Harvey, problems are occurring because Olafson cannot persuade Anderson to work to Olafson's
BACKGROUND Peter Olafson has just taken a position as the general manager for Cable King Television (CKV) of St. Paul Minnesota. CKV has been in existence for the past four years. The company is by UniComm of Beverly Hills California and a local St. Paul businessman, 85%-15% respectively. The first three years of CTV were spent securing state, federal, and local franchises and permission to operate in the St. Paul area. When Olafson arrived, CTV had six employees working on the design, preparation, and initial construction of the cable system. CTV's parent company, UniComm, was founded by William Jurgens. Jurgens built UniComm up from a small west coast cable system to $25 million company that now ranks within the top 20 firms in the nation. Jurgens is known as tough business man, a self made man who aggressiveness and ability brought him considerable success. Peter Olafson has just graduated with his MBA; his credentials include BS in electrical engineering from MIT and an MS in communications engineering from the University of Minnesota. He also worked his way up to a captain in the United States Army Signal Corps. …show more content…
From the text: "Olafson took several steps in attempting to help Kurt improve the planning and coordination. One of these was having one-on-one counseling sessions to show Kurt how to plan better, A second step he took was to have Kurt call weekly construction meetings to which everyone in the organization was invited, including the new subcontractor supervisor, "Happy" DiStellano Kurt did not become involved enough in most of them." And " it was clear that the shortage was as much as surprise to Kurt as it was to him (Olafson, re: cable for construction)." From the text we see that like with Harvey, problems are occurring because Olafson cannot persuade Anderson to work to Olafson's