New York City Opera, meanwhile, has teetered on the edge of extinction, its board and management accused of hard-heartedness and ineptitude.
Content-management programs are hard to use and rarely fully implemented.
But what about the library director in Pueblo, Colo. who had the gall to hand out copies of Winning, the management guide by hard-charging former GE chief Jack Welch?
Mr Carswell has hard-edged views on everything from economic management (he's very worried about inflation) to defence procurement (he thinks the British arms industry is taking the taxpayer for a ride) and he's not shy of expressing them.
This is an area of debt management that far too many hard-working folks struggle with.
As a journalist covering the company, it was refreshing to ask hard questions of management and get a self-deprecating answer.
Managers who have been evaluating employee performance based on dedication and hard work will need to re-write their management practices.
And we made a very firm decision up front that either we were going to run the company day to day, or we would find the finest management and the most independent, hard-nosed board of directors we could and asked them to take on that responsibility.
It's hard to imagine that Dell's current testosterone-heavy management group--or any other group--will ever be able to change that.
When he first moved into management he proved to be an equally hard task-master.
But could careful measurement and management of sustainability also provide short-term, hard-nosed business advantages, especially when it comes to logistics?
"Staying on top of soft skills such as critical thinking and time management while maintaining expertise in hard skills such as widely-used software programs provides candidates and employees with a necessary edge, " says Christian Idiodi, director of CBInstitute.com, a division of CareerBuilder.com that offers online courses and certifications.
And such hard exchange-rate regimes do not offer suitable policy instruments for domestic economic management: Argentina's monetary policy was, in effect, made in Washington and was often inappropriate for Argentina's needs.
COSCO's new management will have to work hard to cut costs in its 600-strong fleet.
It is hitting white-collar workers just as hard, and in some cases, when it comes to middle management it's actually hitting them harder.
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After a recent two-week inspection, an IMF team praised the government for its fiscal management in a hard time, and says GDP should go on growing by more than 5% this year after expanding by an average of nearly 6% for the past nine years, Zambia's longest period of growth since independence.
In addition, management has worked hard to develop private label fashion merchandise that will appeal to a more value-oriented customer.
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So far, most have found it hard to use it effectively: one recent survey found that about two-thirds of customer-relationship-management projects fail.
If higher expenditure on public services comes to be seen as payday for public-sector workers, Labour will lose the reputation for prudent economic management which it struggled so hard to win in its early, parsimonious, years.
Wales' autumn international training camp began on Monday, giving the management team the 13 days they demanded before the Saturday, 7 November New Zealand game in a hard-fought agreement between the WRU and the four Welsh regions.
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