Yet the bungling shows that Congress's back-room managers face a long-term problem: finding able, youthful leaders they can promote.
If your name was on the green sheet you went to the back of the room where managers handled your redundancy.
There is a mock hotel room where managers try out a score of different mobile devices, building confidence in working anywhere on the kind of tablet or phone they like.
In fact, when mission managers in the control room at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory first get word early Monday that the craft has reached the top of the Mars atmosphere, the vehicle will have been safe or smashed on the surface for at least seven minutes.
That still leaves room for fund managers to win new business, but only if they can meet the political criteria.
He huddled in a conference room with a dozen managers who briefed him on their separate businesses.
As a career coach, I have conducted thousands of mock interviews for anxious job candidates who are about to step into a room with human resources managers.
Knowing nothing about how to move steel, Shnaider hung out at Ukrainian mills and made deals with desperate managers, providing everything from VCRs to dining room sets in exchange for hot-rolled steel.
All Microsoft execs and managers care about is a cushy job, nice dining room with great benefits and tons of time off.
The pressure to deliver short term profits is intense and reaches through every level of the company, cascading down from the Board room to the executive suites to the line managers.
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That has freed up the HR staff to help managers solve more strategic problems, identify elephants in the room, look at the human capital implications of business strategies, and challenge them to assign the best people on the most critical assignments.
"The advice that has been given to managers you should have another person in the room, you should focus on the positives may be driven by the legal department, " says Matthew Wood, a co-author of the study and an assistant professor of management at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington.
Managers said they had also almost doubled the size of the dining room while trying to keep a welcoming and homely atmosphere.
And building managers like Komorowski needn't be tethered to a bunch of screens in a basement control room.
Coincidentally CV, who works for a national firm, had been in a scheduling meeting, where somebody noted that everybody in the room was a woman and that, in fact, it was the women directors, managers, etc. who were making everything run.
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