The observation that in hierarchical organizations, individuals tend to get promoted to their level of incompetence.
What is the Peter Principle?
100
When lack of authority is used as an excuse for lack of performance.
What is Authority Syndrome?
100
The first place an individual should look for a “better opportunity” is in his/her present situation.
What is Acres of Diamonds?
100
The differential cost that arises out of ineffective use of resources.
What is Opportunity Cost?
200
Accomplishment of predetermined objectives through others.
What is Main Event Management definition of management?
200
The person that an organization cannot afford to lose.
What is Indispensable Person?
200
Services of any person in any organization may be lost to that organization at any time.
What is Mack Truck Theory?
200
An analysis of life on the basis of the seven areas where time/life, is spent.
What is the Seven Ports of Life model?
200
An unrecoverable cost which should be written off for analysis purposes in planning future resource commitments.
What is Sunk Cost?
300
Five kinds of decisions that managers must make in taking action.
What is Main Event Compass?
300
Organizational results are a composite of contributions, both plus and minus.
What are Algebraic Results?
300
Organizational effectiveness and efficiency is positively influenced when personnel are in general agreement with the strategy and tactics of the organization
What is Yes Concept?
300
Behavior influenced by our perception of how others view us.
What is Self-Fulfilling Prophecy?
BONUS: I am not what I think I am. I am not what you think I am. I am...
300
Significant items tend to be disproportionately distributed.
What is Pareto's Law?
400
The “curve” represents the impact on related productions and/or attitude, which usually follows the implementation of a change.
What is The Change Curve?
400
The four steps in the recruiting process.
What are picture, locate, compare, and sell?
400
Five steps in the delegation process.
What are Communication, Competence, Motivation, Results, and Information System?
400
Motivation stems from a desire to satisfy a need, and people will tend to give priority to the more basic needs before proceeding to the satisfaction of higher needs.
What is the Motivation Stair-Steps model?
400
The idea that the most effective and efficient level to carry planning, organizing, and controlling activities to is 80% of perfection.
What is the Eighty Percent Rule?
BONUS: What must you do to 100%?
500
A style of management characterized by frequent and massive changes.
What is Slot Machine Management?
500
The concept that the primary job of the manager is to identify those individuals who can accomplish satisfactory results on a particular job, within the constraints of the input resources and the environmental context in which the job is set.
What is Identification?
500
When sub-unit objectives are given priority over the unit objectives.
What is sub-optimization?
500
Three principal sources of anxiety.
What are guilt feelings, concept of death, and lack of sense of purpose.
500
The five points of the Planning Pentagon? In other words, five approaches to setting objectives.
What are competitor results, organization results, resources, opportunities, and shareholder expectations?