Outstanding Operations (and Controls)
Ch. 14&15
Excelling at Entrepreneurship
Ch. 15A
Mastering Motivation
Ch. 11
Labeling Leaders
Ch. 12
Competent Communication
Ch. 13
100
The controlling function helps managers protect these for their organization.
What are assets?
100
This term refers to starting a business with very little money and growing through sales.
What is bootstrapping?
100
This theory proposed by McGregor assumes that employees are driven by fear, lack ambition, avoid responsibility, and need to be coerced or forced to work hard.
What is Theory X?
100
This type of leader creates a credible, attractive vision of the future that makes followers want to work toward its realization.
What is a visionary leader?
100
Groups that meet through blogs or social networks who share a concern, a problem, or a passion about a topic are called this.
What are communities of practice?
200
This type of management oversees the transformation process that converts resources such as labor and raw materials into finished goods and services.
What is Operations?
200
This term refers to the first commercially viable version of a software product used to try out a proposed solution on customers.
What is a minimum viable product?
200
This theory proposed by McGregor assumes a positive outlook - that employees want to control their own destinies.
What is Theory Y?
200
The key to this type of leadership is to inspire followers to follow the leader's path.
What is transformational leadership?
200
An organization with this type of culture values taking care of customers - finding out what their needs are, meeting those needs, and following up to make sure that their needs were met satisfactorily.
What is a service culture?
300
This is the final step in the management process.
What is controlling?
300
This term refers to the day when an incubator's companies pitch to potential venture-capital investors.
What is demo day?
300
This practice involves sharing organizational finances with employees.
What is open-book management?
300
This type of leader offers rewards of some type in exchange for the output of workers
What is a transactional leader?
300
Organizations with this type of culture compare knowledge that has been accumulated to other resources such as money, raw materials, and equipment.
What is a learning culture?
400
This company was the target of a high-skill, high-focus hacking attack by North Korea that embarrassing emails about Hollywood stars
What is Sony?
400
The Lean Start-up methodology replaces a traditional business plan with this one-page framework sketching out how the founders propose to create value for themselves and their customers.
What is the Business Model Canvas?
400
This theory describes a comparative system in which individuals gauge their own situation against other individuals, systems, or their own values.
What is equity theory?
400
According to Covey and Conant in HBR, this traditional social virtue has a measurable effect on a company’s financial performance by affecting the speed and cost of doing business.
Q: What is Trust?
400
Chip and Dan Heath, authors of Made to Stick, coined this term referring to the phenomena of experts becoming bad communicators because they can no longer imagine the position of their audience, not knowing what the expert knows.
What is the curse of knowledge?
500
This book by Israeli management guru Eli Goldratt is an oddly gripping thriller about how to manage a factory.
What is The Goal?
500
This term refers to a program that helps young startups refine their product and pitch themselves to investors, in exchange for a cut of equity.
What is an Accelerator?
500
According to Dan Pink, author of Drive, carrots and sticks are not effective for knowledge workers because they can extinguish this type of motivation.
What is intrinsic motivation?
500
Fiedler concluded that leaders were either task oriented or relationship oriented based on these ratings.
What are the Least-preferred co-worker (LPC) ratings?
500
According to Somerville and Hassol, scientists can communicate more effectively with the public by inverting the pyramid of their usual presentations to colleagues by starting with this, instead of background.
What is the bottom line?
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