What surprised me was most of the b-school academics had no general management knowledge or experience or skills.
Now the emphasis is on integrated general management and problem-solving across functional silos.
Irving also held a variety of development and general management positions at Microsoft.
They are more broadly competing with the world's highest-ranked business schools, which tend to have a model of general management.
Or it is a complete failure of internal controls and risk management systems, which means general management failed big time, too.
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However, companies can take steps to give their people more general management experience, which may help them avoid the narrowness of functional specialization.
Located in Ossining, New York, Crotonville, when it was launched, offered GE executives general management courses that lasted up to 13 weeks.
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The companies said schools are doing a better job all around at helping to hone general management and leadership skills among employees who attend.
He says the classes strengthened his general management skills -- a key to enhancing his technical background and to his advancement up the corporate ladder.
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Stanford's director of executive education program development, Sean Bendarkar, says the school offers a three-week general management program in Singapore which is proving very popular.
Kellogg's general management focus gave me an excellent understanding of each functional area, the unique concerns of the CEO and those of the Board of Directors.
As a result of this shift, career paths today are less geared towards filling the few remaining general management positions, and instead focus on functional specialization.
It is not widely known in general management circles that these practices have been tested over the last fifteen years in thousands of organizations around the world.
Advise the Board of Management on general management of USLS in view to improve the performance of the USLS and to ensure its management in a controlled environment.
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Allow for two types of development paths in companies within functional specialties and across them so that at least some managers broaden their exposure and get more general management learning.
An expert in managing people in the workplace, Anne is the founder of Anne Libby Management Consulting LLC, where she works with senior leaders, founders, business owners to build excellent general management practices and knowledge into their firms.
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Writing skills, general management experience, technical and computer skills, people smarts, and international experience or language skills are examples of skills with what we call high option value -- that is, they are transferable to a wide range of possible options.
The flotation, according to the document, is also attracting investment from Hargreave Hale Limited, Artemis Investment Management LLP, Margarita Funds Holding Trust, Cazenove Capital Management Limited, Legal and General Investment Management Limited and Insight Investment Management (Global) Limited.
The process of selection reflects a deep-rooted prejudice against management in general and business management in particular.
Regulators forced all twelve servicers to move bankruptcy processing activities out of specialized units to their general cash management unit.
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Societe General Asset Management senior economist Akio Yoshino said the new development "casts uncertainty over the prospects for the investment stance of foreign investors who had already turned active sellers".
"The failure to inform headquarters adequately, and in a timely manner, contributed to miscommunications between the field and headquarters and between the United Nations and member states, " said Joseph Connor, undersecretary general for management, who wrote the report.
Banks' use of the three-year loans also means current holders of bank debt would stand behind the ECB in the line to collect if a borrower collapsed, so "it has become even more expensive for banks to fund in the wholesale bond market, " said Ben Bennett, credit strategist at Legal and General Investment Management.
One reason few investment managers are not paying attention are a general unease about management.
At a recent general meeting college management announced that, in light of looming public service funding cuts, redundancies should be expected.
In general, API management involves implementing and enforcing a whole set of rules governing who has access to what, and in how much quantity.
That plan was then reviewed with General and Function Management (a sprint review, with stakeholders present) and once confirmed, was locked for the next week at an operational level.
Even Joseph Juran, one of the two American post-war germinators of the quality idea (the other was W. Edwards Deming), considered that quality circles were pretty useless if the company's management was not trained in the more general principles of total quality management.
The course offered a general focus on risk management, and includes substantive content on the financial crisis.
Speakers at the meeting talk of the government's actions as going beyond the general norms of news management on controversial research results.
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