24 February 2010 
Practice Test, Mid-Term, Business 100; Northern Virginia Community College
Following are the tests given in past classes from a previous text edition. The Alert Student can expect similar questions.
Thank you (foot)notes:
Be sure to follow Your Business Blogger(R) and Charmaine on Twitter: @JackYoest and @CharmaineYoest
Jack and Charmaine Yoest, Ph.D. also blog at Reasoned Audacity and at Management Training of DC, LLC.
17 February 2010
Business Quiz, Business 100, Northern Virginia Community College, Chapters 7 to 11
Alert Students, this is an open book assignment and collaboration is permitted — indeed, encouraged.
No class on Monday 22 Feb 2010. Quiz is due Wednesday 24 Feb. Mid-term moved to 1 March.
Take Home Assignment — Quiz Name ____________
Chapters 7, 8, 9, 10 & 11
Two Points and Two Bonus points. Max 4 points.
Open Book. In your own handwriting. Collaboration Permitted.
Define
1. Organization Chart
2. Chain of Command
3. Span of Control
4. Departmentalization
5. Delegation
6. Responsibility
7. Authority
8. Intrapreneur
9. ad hoc committee
10. grapevine
11. operations management
12. R&D
13. product line
14. capacity
15.Gantt Chart
16. Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award
17. Six Sigma
18. ISO 9000
19. Productivity
20. Recruiting
21. profit sharing
22.ADA
23. morale
24.Scientific Management
25. Team
26.labor union
27.Right to Work State
28. Collective Bargaining
29.Arbitration
30. Mediation
Bonus Two Points- For a job interview: Provide an example from your experience where you faced a problem, initiated a solution and the result; a PSR.
Thank you (foot)notes:
Be sure to follow Your Business Blogger(R) and Charmaine on Twitter: @JackYoest and @CharmaineYoest
Jack and Charmaine also blog at Reasoned Audacity and at Management Training of DC, LLC.
4 February 2010
Management Seminar, Free, at the Northern Virginia Community College
You Are Invited to a FREE* Management Seminar.
The Manager’s Formula for Success
The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey: An Introduction
How to Manage Your Staff, How to Manage Your Manager and Completed Staff Work.
Well-run organizations have managers and staff who work to control events, instead of events controlling them. They anticipate the future . . . adapt to the present . . . and learn from the past.
Who: Managers and Staff who need to get in control of events or to better influence results
What: An introduction to The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey
1. The Management Equation:
Vocational Time vs. Management Time2. How Management Really Works:
The Molecule of Management3. Completed Staff Work:
The Freedom Scale
When: Monday, April 19, 2010, 11:00am to 12:15pm
Where: Northern Virginia Community College,
Alexandria Campus, campus map
The new Bisdorf Auditorium, room 196
3001 North Beauregard Street, Alexandria, VA 22311 street map
Parking and Directions here.
Why: Improve managerial effectiveness and staff efficiency.
Cost: FREE* Registration is helpful here. Space is limited.
The class will reference the work of Ken Blanchard and Bill Oncken in their book The One Minute Manager Meets The Monkey.
Also cited will be the Harvard Business Review article, Managing Management Time: Who’s Got the Monkey?, published in 1974, by Bill Oncken, Jr.. The article, an edited excerpt of the Managing Management Time™ seminar, has gone on to become one of the two most requested reprints in the history of the Review.
The training summarized in the article is sometimes called the “Monkey Management” seminar.
Jack Yoest, Adjunct Professor of Management and President of Management Training of DC, is a former Armored Cavalry Officer in Combat Arms.
His military leadership training and management experience guides his philosophy at the core of Managing Management Time™. He has managed software, health care and international human resource management companies.
His experience is in Military, Academia, Early-Stage, Non-Profits, Fortune 500 and Government.
Jack also served in the Governor’s Office of the Commonwealth Virginia as Assistant Secretary for Health and Human Resources where he acted as the Chief Technology Officer for the secretariat. He was responsible for the successful Year 2000 (Y2K) conversion for the 16,000-employee unit.
He was also a manager with a medical device start-up and helped move sales from zero to over $12 million, resulting in a buy-out by Johnson & Johnson. Jack has consulted in China and India.
Questions? email JYoest@NVCC.edu or call Jack at 202.215.2434 to save your spot.
Jack Yoest
202.215.2434
Adjunct Professor
Thank you (foot)notes:
*FREE. The Alert Reader knows well that there is no free lunch. But some products and services can be rendered at NO CHARGE as a component of an organization’s marketing budget. The taxpayers of the Commonwealth of Virginia have provided the compensation for Your Business Professor at NOVA.
Following is the PowerPoint for the lecture:
Suggested class reading:
Do You Have An Incompetent Manager? From The Washington Post
One Minute YouTube Introduction: The Manager’s Formula For Success.
The six part management training video.
3 February 2010
Second Lady Dr. Jill Biden Teaching at Northern Virginia Community College
Alert Readers know that Your Business Blogger(R) teaches at the Northern Virginia Community College in Alexandria and Arlington. Jill Biden, The Second Lady, is an enthusiastic supporter of the Community College system and proves it two days a week.
By teaching English at the Alexandria campus.
Even if one disagrees with her politics, everyone agrees on one thing about Dr. Biden:
She is authentic.
Following is her interview on CBS.
(Governor Sarah Palin never got a softball interview like this. Goodness, this is typical of interviews JOE Biden lounges through…)
Thank you (foot)notes:
Botox, capped teeth, hair plugs. Why does the media love Joe Biden? Because he’s authentic too…
Be sure to follow Your Business Blogger(R) and Charmaine on Twitter: @JackYoest and @CharmaineYoest
Jack and Charmaine also blog at Reasoned Audacity and at Management Training of DC, LLC.
1 February 2010
Hayek vs. Keynes in Boom and Bust, A Rap Anthem
Thank you (foot)notes:
Be sure to follow Your Business Blogger(R) and Charmaine on Twitter: @JackYoest and @CharmaineYoest
Jack and Charmaine also blog at Reasoned Audacity and at Management Training of DC, LLC.
Hat Tip: VoluntaryXchange.
Hat Tip to VoluntaryXchange.