Contents n n n Objectives After studying Chapter 3, you should be able to: n The Interest Rate Simple Interest Compound Interest Single Amounts • Annuities • Mixed Flows Understand what is meant by “the time value of money.” Understand the relationship between present and future value. Describe how the interest rate can be used to adjust the value of cash flows – both forward and backward – to a single point in time. Calculate both the future and present value of: (a) an amount invested today;
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Acclaim for THE LEAN STARTUP “The Lean Startup isn’t just about how to create a more successful entrepreneurial business; it’s about what we can learn from those businesses to improve virtually everything we do. I imagine Lean Startup principles applied to government programs, to health care, and to solving the world’s great problems. It’s ultimately an answer to the question How can we learn more quickly what works and discard what doesn’t?” —Tim O’Reilly, CEO, O’Reilly Media “Eric Ries unravels
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C H A P T E R Organizational Culture Learning Objectives After reading this chapter, you should be able to: • Describe the elements of organizational culture. • Discuss the importance of organizational subcultures. • List four categories of artifacts through which corporate culture is communicated. • Identify three functions of organizational culture. • Discuss the conditions under which cultural strength improves corporate performance. • Discuss the effect of organizational culture on business
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O B J E C T I V E S Reading this chapter will help you do the following: 1. Learn who managers are and about the nature of their work. 2. Understand the importance of leadership, entrepreneurship, and strategy within organizations. 3. Know the dimensions of management articulated in the planning-organizing-leadingcontrolling (P-O-L-C) framework. 4. Understand the relationship between economic, social, and environmental performance. 5. Understand how the concept of performance is used at the individual
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A White Paper Future Trends in Leadership Development By Nick Petrie Issued December 2011 CONTENTS 3 3 5 6 7 10 29 30 32 About the Author Experts Consulted during This Study About This Project Executive Summary Section 1 – The Challenge of Our Current Situation Section 2 – Future Trends for Leadership Development Bibliography References Appendix About the author Nick Petrie is a Senior Faculty member with the Center for Creative Leadership’s Colorado Springs campus. He is a member of the
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What is Candlestick Trading? Back in the day when Godzilla was still a cute little lizard, the Japanese created their own old school version of technical analysis to trade rice. A westerner by the name of Steve Nison “discovered” this secret technique on how to read charts from a fellow Japanese broker and Japanese candlesticks lived happily ever after. Steve researched, studied, lived, breathed, ate candlesticks, began writing about it and slowly grew in popularity in 90s. To make a long story
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com/content/case-ajay-bam INSTRUCTIONS: For your Midterm paper, you will review the case of Ajay Bam. This case contains a manageable amount of material but presents the opportunity to consolidate the material covered to date in the course. Entrepreneurial Attributes: Consider Ajay’s background and experience. Create a comprehensive list of attributes that you think Ajay possesses. Which three are the most important; why do you think so? How did these attributes help him succeed? Business
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ORGANIZATIONAL POWER POLITICS This page intentionally left blank ORGANIZATIONAL POWER POLITICS Tactics in Organizational Leadership Second Edition GILBERT W. FAIRHOLM PRAEGER An Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC Copyright © 2009 by Gilbert W. Fairholm All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, except for the inclusion of brief
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Learning Objectives After studying this chapter, you will be able to: 1. Distinguish leaders from administrators and managers 2. Describe the evolution of leadership theories 3. Enumerate different theories of leadership, and their main features. 4. Discuss the contingency theories, especially situational theory of leadership 5. Explain the concept of the development levels of a group and how to raise them 6. List steps in the process of delegation
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contributions to this assignment; First of all I would like to thank to my lecturer Mr. Kanchana Wimalasurendra who helped me to understand the problems of the scenario that helped me to approach the problems confidently. I would like to acknowledge to the lecturers of ICBT Kandy Campus, my friends and the people who helped me to finish the assignment successfully. Finally, I gratefully acknowledge to the support, encouragement, and patient of my parents. Thank You Ahamed Rikaz
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