Моя группа - Бостонские Чайники, aka The Boston Tea Party, тьфу-тьфу-тьфу срастается.
Сегодняшние уроки - management и accounting.
Урок 3ий: main theme in accounting, unexpectedly enough, is - "it depends". Для большинства вопросов есть несколько вариантов ответа. Company Balance Sheet is snap shot of finances at a particular point in time. And as you smile and brush up your hair when someone snaps your picture, so do the accountants with the financial statements.
Урок 4ый (management of people at work)
- all too often we reward A while hoping for B, because A is easily quantifyable. A = number of lines of code written (programmer), first year's revenue from a sales contract (sales rep), number of cases reviewed (patent examiner), ...
- the strategic management process: analyze situation, highlight problems, come up with solutions, find holes in solutions, get humbled by the complexity of the problems, start again, but hope to be a bit further along
- люди по природе своей соглашатели - насколько проще находить аргумент, подтверждающие теорию, чем выступать с контраргументами. Надо бы воспитывать критическое мышление.
Урок 5ый: SAT words: guile, shirk, valence