Ejabat was probably the perfect CEO for Ascend when its customers were primarily engineering managers at Internet companies.
Thus far, designers, product managers, engineering managers and even a recruiter are among the 450 who have completed the training.
Mr. Page has asked product and engineering managers to email him about their projects to potentially winnow them down, said people familiar with the matter.
Four others--development officers, mortgage lending directors, plant engineering managers, and advertising and public relations managers--have seen their paychecks shrink from 2005, but have done better since 2009.
About a month ago, he sent an email to product and engineering managers asking them to write to him about what they were working on in 60 words or less, said people familiar with the matter.
In September Ecuador's president, Rafael Correa, expelled managers of Odebrecht, a Brazilian engineering company which he accuses of bribery and shoddy construction of a power plant.
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Another fad that registers less with managers is business-process re-engineering.
He thinks that good managers may be at least as valuable as science and engineering graduates (though given where he works, perhaps he is talking his own book).
Sinopec Engineering is still gauging investors' interest in the IPO, but some fund managers said bankers are asking for too much.
VW's managers would doubtless welcome the chance to get on with building cars, and put all the financial engineering behind them.
To start the process of developing Mongolian managers, he hired Mongolian engineers to come work in Wyoming and sent promising students to study mining and engineering at the University of Arizona.
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