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A place to explore what it means to be a management professional. Thursday, May 16, 2013. Beware, teacher provoking thoughts - While it is clear to me that earning an MBA is powerful accomplishment for any student, it is indeed important to consider the images that others may hold regarding the MBA. That realization raised a business question in my mind - do MBA programs represent a philosophical brand for a school of thought? Is it really clear what the MBA is about? What do I represent? Do we subscribe...
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Truth to Power
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A place to explore what it means to be a management professional. Thursday, October 4, 2012. In time, all great managers discover the wisdom of profits. Profits are the premiums paid for the performance of promises. Real profits are not a function of predatory speculation or buying low and selling high. Real profits of course are the result of adding value. In fact, it is the same lesson we learned from the late great Viktor Frankl when he talks about success being like happiness. View my complete profile.
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Truth to Power: Go Figure
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A place to explore what it means to be a management professional. Friday, November 23, 2012. As with law and medicine, management is a practice, not a religion. Every situation is a unique opportunity. Therefore, all relevant theories, methods and techniques must be considered to effectively plan, execute and control the making of effective decisions and the creation of desired value. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I am a management geek and I have not made a decision in six hours.
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Truth to Power
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A place to explore what it means to be a management professional. Thursday, November 8, 2012. In the early 1980’s the United States was hit by a major wake-up call. Three phenomena separated by thousands of miles totally shook the foundations of modern American business thought. The first was airing of the documentary “If Japan Can, Why Can’t We? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I am a management geek and I have not made a decision in six hours. View my complete profile.
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Truth to Power: Business Liberal
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A place to explore what it means to be a management professional. Wednesday, September 26, 2012. As many of my students know, I am a diehard business professional; therefore, I do not come by my more liberal opinions easily. For many of my students, my opinion of the Citizens United ruling by the United States Supreme Court in 2010 has been confusing. The ball is in my court to rectify this. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I am a management geek and I have not made a decision in six hours. The Servic...
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A place to explore what it means to be a management professional. Monday, September 24, 2012. I had the good fortune to meet an amazing educator named Rita Mulcahy. In her text, she published the results of a study that changed how I look at Organizational Change Management (OCM). She said, “When it comes to taking a professional certification exam, the most common reason individuals fail, is because they pick the answer that matches what they do it at work, not the professional standard.". Simple templa...
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A place to explore what it means to be a management professional. Monday, September 24, 2012. While the transition effort can be reactive, post-change (after we buy the software) or proactive, pre-change (before we buy), the transition effort is necessary. Organizations using post-change efforts tend to direct negative energy to the cause of change. Organizations using pre-change efforts tend to avoid negative energy by developing buy-in and support in anticipation of the change. View my complete profile.
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Truth to Power
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A place to explore what it means to be a management professional. Thursday, November 22, 2012. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I am a management geek and I have not made a decision in six hours. View my complete profile. There was an error in this gadget. The Wisdom of Workers Before I became a management. In 1995, both China and India, began investing in . A different kind of Viking leadership. Women Know- Leadership is Only Part of the SystemM. In some areas, such as technological innovation, t.
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Truth to Power
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A place to explore what it means to be a management professional. Monday, September 24, 2012. Or are the vast majority of managers working in the United States amazingly under qualified to fill the positions they hold. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I am a management geek and I have not made a decision in six hours. View my complete profile. There was an error in this gadget. Theory is how we think something should behave w. I had the good fortune to meet anamazing educator .
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A place to explore what it means to be a management professional. Thursday, May 16, 2013. When theory and reality collides, what happens? Michael Paul Ervick, MBA, Adjunct, Seattle University. Usually on the first day of a graduate course I often ask my students if they have learned how to learn. Most think they have. I often share a Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut quote with my students and ask them to tell me what the author means. After a pause, I looked around the room and asked the students if they foun...
