Welcome to the Real World
Welcome to the Real World!
There is no such thing as partial credit!
Appearance is important.
Each organization has its own way of doing things which may or may not be consistent with what you learned in class and their terminology isn’t always consistent with what you saw in your textbooks.
Your evaluations and future promotions may be determined as much by your interpersonal skills as by your knowledge and abilities in your specialization. Corollary (an immediate consequence or easily drawn conclusion): Your golf game may be as important to your career as anything else you do.
Never surprise your boss
Don’t come late to meetings – it indicates that you don’t think the meeting is important enough to take the trouble to be on time.
Many of the “hot” management theories and practices of the day will prove to be the “flavor of the month”.
Everybody has an agenda.
Corollary: Your co-workers may not always be as helpful as you might like them to be.
Politics is not restricted to Washington and Albany!
Many managers sub-optimize due to the performance evaluation structure.
Ask for forgiveness not for permission (but make sure you have a really good reason for what you did!)
Consultants are people who ask you how things are done in your organization then create a nice report and charge lots of money.
Corollary: Management won’t believe you but they will believe a consultant who obtained all of his/her information from you.
Your supervisor/manager may not be of your generation
Corollary: He/she may not be as adept with social media, iPads/iPods/iPhones, etc. as you are.
Be careful how much you drink at office parties (assuming there are still such things as office parties). Remember the old Latin phrase: In vino veritas. Too much veritas is not necessarily a good thing.
There is no such thing as a good excuse.
Budgets:
If you under run your budget by 10% this year, your budget for the following year will be
There is no such thing as partial credit!
Appearance is important.
Each organization has its own way of doing things which may or may not be consistent with what you learned in class and their terminology isn’t always consistent with what you saw in your textbooks.
Your evaluations and future promotions may be determined as much by your interpersonal skills as by your knowledge and abilities in your specialization. Corollary (an immediate consequence or easily drawn conclusion): Your golf game may be as important to your career as anything else you do.
Never surprise your boss
Don’t come late to meetings – it indicates that you don’t think the meeting is important enough to take the trouble to be on time.
Many of the “hot” management theories and practices of the day will prove to be the “flavor of the month”.
Everybody has an agenda.
Corollary: Your co-workers may not always be as helpful as you might like them to be.
Politics is not restricted to Washington and Albany!
Many managers sub-optimize due to the performance evaluation structure.
Ask for forgiveness not for permission (but make sure you have a really good reason for what you did!)
Consultants are people who ask you how things are done in your organization then create a nice report and charge lots of money.
Corollary: Management won’t believe you but they will believe a consultant who obtained all of his/her information from you.
Your supervisor/manager may not be of your generation
Corollary: He/she may not be as adept with social media, iPads/iPods/iPhones, etc. as you are.
Be careful how much you drink at office parties (assuming there are still such things as office parties). Remember the old Latin phrase: In vino veritas. Too much veritas is not necessarily a good thing.
There is no such thing as a good excuse.
Budgets:
If you under run your budget by 10% this year, your budget for the following year will be