To err is human
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Small businesses are often faced with the difficult of distributing responsibilities among limited human resources. In such cases, frank assessment of the skills from management and personnel is needed. Small businesses must learn to value their personnel, and help them develop skills and insights as team members. Large businesses also can learn from this approach to be forgiving of small failures because by demanding personnel keep up a front companies are weakened from within. Failure is a part of the managerial process and must be dealt with in a nurturing approach if executives are to be encouraged to stretch their skills and capacities.
Publication Name: International Management
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0020-7888
Year: 1990
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The new disease called 'general manager aspiration syndrome'
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The general manager aspiration syndrome (GMAS) reflects the new trend in management psychology: the executive seeks to build on his or her ambition to improve on the future. One side of GMAS is the company influences which are set to make huge and steady changes to corporate structures before checking whether the present executives can adapt to the new environment. The splitting of large segments of conventionally managed businesses into small market-niched, self-contained profit centers is ideal for maintaining the flexibility which allows the company to shift quickly.
Publication Name: International Management
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0020-7888
Year: 1986
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What do we mean by emotional maturity?
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Reaching maturity is an attenuated process that encompasses a mix of physiological, psychological, and social elements. Behaviors that tend to vary according to degree of emotional maturity include: cerebral response, containment, perspective, insight, intimacy, attenuation, proportion, and goal-seeking. Over-emphasis on maturity can result in dullness and predictability. It is necessary to have circumstances in which it is acceptable to be immature. Being too grown up can be an inflexible, irresponsible reaction to an ever-changing environment.
Publication Name: International Management
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0020-7888
Year: 1987
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