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Your boss is nuts!
He’s started using company resources to achieve a personal goal. He has managed to hypnotize the whole staff (except you, of course) into following his lead. He’s offered them big rewards and exacted pledges of loyalty! Why do the owners put up with this? …(click title for more info)
Your business is going well. You and your partners have earned a tidy profit from a traditional business for many years, and you see nothing that signals change. Engaged in the normal routine of challenges and problem solving, one day you have an idea so different that it will revolutionize the…(click title for more info)
At the Walling home, Mary awakes in the middle of the night to find her husband working at his drawing board. They talk. Walling explains that Grimm will be elected the company’s new president. He and Anderson have talked it through. They are sure they can get the votes and that Grimm will accept. Mary asks if the choice of company president should be made by the stockholders. “The stockholders made their decision with then elected the board of directors,” Walling explains. . .Walling tells her Alderson wanted him to go for the presidency, but he turned it down. He tells Mary that he doesn’t want to “die young at the top of a tower worrying about bond issues and stockholder’s meetings. . .that’s not what I came here for. . .I’m a designer, not a politician. . .I think.” Mary agrees with him.
The defense of Rorke’s Drift, Natal, during The Zulu War is one of the most famous battles in British military history. In late January 1879, British forces at Isandhlwana suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of the Zulus. Buoyed by their victory and armed with rifles seized…(click title for more info)
It hasn’t been a business-as-usual day. You got married, announced your retirement and learned that an old “gun-slinger” rival is coming after your company because he wants to get back at you for fouling up his career. It’s going to be an event-filled 24 hours, but you start out confidant you can get through. After all, this is your company! You’ve built it up, protected its people, and helped it get and keep on its feet. Now, surely, you can count on the employees to help you out. Whoops! Wrong assumption. This company seems to be an ESOP. Those friendly employees are…(click title for more info)
The word “takeover” strikes fear in the hearts of entrenched managers and the employees who work for them. It also holds forth the carrot of immediate, large returns for shareholders in targeted companies. . Often the media (and the movies) champion the cause of the targeted company…(click title for more info)
Study Guide 28: ??? The Devil Wears Prada study guide by Flannery M. Higgins can be purchased as an instant PDF download for $5.95. After reading the description below, if you wish to purchase this study guide, just click the “Add to Cart” button and follow the simple instructions. Don’t worry – if you change your…
The Efficiency Expert is set in Australia in the 1960s. The movie works on several levels: as a coming of age story about a young worker, the getting of wisdom by an industrial patriarch, the getting of different wisdom by a hard-nosed consultant. While these elements add to the overall…(click title for more info)
This segment explores the role of business in a society and looks at the standards by which business performance should be judged. Classic theory holds that the first responsibility of any firm is to produce wealth for its stockholders, maximizing profit by charging as much as the market will bear while producing goods and services at the lowest possible cost. A number of intangible factors may affect a company’s ability to sell its products. For example, a corporate image of excessive greed or unfair labor practices may lead to consumer boycotts…(click title for more info)
Baltimore,1963. You’re an aluminum siding salesman, a tin man. You live by your wits, your smile and your shoeshine. Sales are getting harder to come by. State regulators are cracking down on the hard sell – pressure sales that are your stock in trade. On top of that…(click title for more info)