13_26_ch02.fm Page 13 Friday‚ September 8‚ 2000 2:43 PM Chapter 2 Basic Skills for Project Managers Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great; some achieve greatness—others have greatness thrust upon them. William Shakespeare Twelfth Night Introduction Before now‚ we had discussed project management in the broad sense‚ that is‚ from the perspective that any type of project—industrial assembly line‚ new construction‚ or technology implementation— operated by the same sets of rules
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Running Head: The Role of the Financial Manager Paper The Role of the Financial Manager The role of the financial is to maximize a shareholder ’s value. A shareholders ’ wealth is represented by the market price of a firm ’s common stock. The financial manager should seek to maximize the present value of the expected future returns to the owners of the firm. In an efficient market‚ a financial manager maximizes stock prices and identifies and implements projects that add value to the firm
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The Best & Worst Managers of the Year 1. Take a look at the most recent list of “The Best and Worst Managers of the Year” and pick one of the best managers and one of the worst manager. America’s Best Leaders: Anne Mulcahy‚ Xerox CEO Shortly after Anne Mulcahy took over the helm at Xerox in 2000‚ with the company facing possible bankruptcy‚ she had a blunt message for shareholders. "Xerox’s business model is unsustainable‚" she said. Expenses were too high‚ and the profit margins were simply too
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nd nd 2 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC RESEARCH (2 ICBER 2011) PROCEEDING WHAT IT TAKES TO BE A MANAGER: THE CASE OF MALAYSIAN FIVESTAR RESORT HOTELS Rozila Ahmad (rozila@uum.edu.my) Noor Azimin Zainol (azimin@uum.edu.my) Universiti Utara Malaysia Sintok‚ 06010 Kedah ABSTRACT This article investigates the requirement for managerial posts in five-star resort hotels in Malaysia. Despite the growth of hotel industry in Malaysia‚ academic literature especially qualitative
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1. What is an organization? Why are managers important to an organization’s success? Answer – An organization is a systematic arrangement of people brought together to accomplish some specific purpose. All organizations because each comprises three common characteristics. 1) Every organization has a purpose and is made up of people who are grouped in some fashion. 2) No purpose or goal can be achieved by itself; therefore‚ organizations have members. 3) All organizations develop a systematic structure
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Managing Without Managers by Ricardo Semler Harvard Business Review Reprint 89509 HBR SEPTEMBER–OCTOBER 1989 Managing Without Managers by Ricardo Semler I n Brazil‚ where paternalism and the family business fiefdom still flourish‚ I am president of a manufacturing company that treats its 800 employees like responsible adults. Most of them—including factory workers—set their own working hours. All have access to the company books. The vast majority vote on many important
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MANAGEMENT 100 Using examples‚ compare and contrast the characteristics of both managers and leaders. There is a lot of confusion‚ or at least very different views‚ about what is meant by management and what is meant by leadership‚ about whether the work of managers is fundamentally different from the work of leaders‚ and whether they are in fact different roles at all. Of course the meaning of such ambiguous words will depend on the definition people choose to give those words‚ and there are
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PROBLEMS FACED BY WORKING ADULT LEARNERS 1.0 Introduction Some of the basic assumptions under-pinning adult educations are that adults tend toward self-directedness‚ that adult learning needs are generated by real-life problems‚ and that adults wish to apply acquired knowledge and skills. Part time studies is the potential method for increasing participation‚ through the integration of learning into the life space of adults. It has always been the concern of adult education to democratize education
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Leaders Vs Managers Steven Powell MGT 380 Ms. Alysia Young July 12‚ 2010 There is the age old question of what is the difference between a manager and a leader? Most people will say that you can’t be a manager without being a leader. In this paper‚ I will discuss in detail‚ what is it that leaders and managers do‚ can leaders and managers be one in the same‚ as well as‚ explain the difference between managers and leaders. Most successful businesses usually consisted of a team
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Scott Gallo Management 220 5 Commandments of Being a Good Manager It is clear that in today’s world there are no very successful businesses that do not have a solid management. A manager is a position that has high importance and they help their respective companies run as smoothly as possible. Without this position it would take longer for things to get done because they are the executive position in the company‚ which means that they take care of the entire system and they do not worry about
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