In the case study, The Micromanager, the reader is introduced to George Latour, CEO of Retronics, a software engineering firm, damaged by the dot-com bubble burst, but with desires to eventually go public. The organization is struggling and George's job is on the line. To make matters worse, he r...

"Motorola is one of the world's leading providers of wireless communication equipment, advanced electronic systems and services"1 with "operating companies in more than 80 countries and sales of $ 23 billion "2. The development of the "foreign currency netting system&...

Leadership Leadership Defined As defined by Webster, a leader is someone who has commanding authority or influence or a first or principal performer of a group. It is my position that Leadership, in essence, is the sum of these definitions. In order to have and maintain commanding author...

I had a Little League coach in 1996 that led our team to a Michigan state championship. He was a true leader, with important leadership qualities. He was out to accomplish the same goal as my team was-to win ball games. This man was always looking to do what was best for the team, and he had the ...

Outsourcing presents a number of difficult ethical concerns for the operations manager. Recently, IBM was faced with the decision of whether or not to outsource technical jobs to India. In considering outsourcing, IBM had to balance potential negatives like job loss against potential profit gains. A...

The book Animal Farm was written by George Orwell. It is a political satire written to parallel communist Russia. Every event and character in the book has a parallel in history to the events and characters that make up the communist revolution. Characters in the book such as Old Major and Nap...