Buying the needed technology and acquiring the design team from Digital would solve its problems, management thought.
If management thought this same environment would be here for 2 more years (economic or regulatory), GS would likely be a lot smaller.
"The realization that there is a relationship between employee welfare and productivity is actually not new, " says Daniel A. Wren, author of Evolution of Management Thought.
"The captain and the management thought it was going to win us the game and at the moment we're in a position where we can win the game, " he said.
New York Yankees management thought it would be a good idea to identify players by where they hit in the batting order, hence No. 3 was issued to Babe Ruth, No. 4 to Lou Gehrig.
One interesting fact: two workers who had been complaining constantly about the conditions on the job and riling up other workers were among the worst performers, so management thought that giving them the information might get them to change their behavior.
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My firm, Temin and Company, a boutique management consulting firm of 12 people, is focused on providing world-class marketing and media strategy, crisis and reputation management, thought leadership, and leadership communications (speaker and media) coaching.
Whereas Mr Keynes stressed the inherent riskiness of capitalism and the role of government in economic management, they thought the opposite.
Also, fund managers might seek to shun a reputation for intervening in companies' management if they thought it might lose them pensions business in the long run.
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Thought processes and management structures are indistinct from the products or services they create.
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We talked to one "management company" saleswoman who thought we were potential marks.
The display, touch-screen module, as well as the applications processor and power management integrated circuit are all thought to be made by Samsung.
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Hany and I convinced the management team of how we thought of the evolution of the business model, not just from a China perspective but also from a U.S. perspective.
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Mr. Russell, of U.S. Bank Wealth Management, said he had thought the recovery would force the Fed to pare back its asset-purchase program as soon as the third quarter of this year.
It seemed to provide a focus on long-term investment and management techniques that U.S. corporations could not match and from which it was thought that U.S. management needed to learn if they were going to survive.
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After much campaigning, he thought he persuaded his management team that upgrading the menu was the thing to do.
He said he first verbally alerted his management in 2009 and when no action was taken, he put together a report for "all four levels of management", detailing what he thought was wrong and the remedy.
In 1998 turmoil in financial markets including the collapse of Long-Term Capital Management, a hedge fund once thought too brainy to fail helped persuade the Fed, then led by Mr Greenspan, into three quick rate cuts that contributed to the dotcom bubble.
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The biggest lesson Debelov learned: he thought advertisers would need account management but it turned out self serve has worked fine.
And does the chief information officer, or head of knowledge management, work for the providers of thought leadership, or do they work for her?
For much of the development cycle, he thought of the Windows 8 app as a management tool.
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She is responsible for driving thought leadership in the field of human capital management for global organisations facing cross border expansion and growth.
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Then a formal, thought-out system of supervision and risk management is created and applied at every level to ensure execution of the strategy and protection against internal and external threats.
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Last week, I discussed these issues with Dave Sutton, who is founder of TopRight Strategic Marketing, co-author of Enterprise Marketing Management: The New Science of Marketing, and a thought leader regarding technology and marketing.
Though not a majority, 33% of hiring managers surveyed said they thought mature workers have trouble taking direction from younger management.
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In 1997, when Times Mirror Corp. sold its 30% stake in Tejon to funds run by New York investment firm Carl Marks Management Co. and mutual fund manager Martin Whitman, speculators thought Tejon's time had come.
The process left the companies weighted with crushing debt loads, which was thought to be a good thing as it prevented management from embarking on wild spending sprees and ensured strict financial discipline (conversely, it also limited innovation and growth).
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