The four elements in the process of personal improvement.
What is the KASH Formula?
100
A differential cost that arises out of using a less effective alternative (opportunity) for resources.
What is Opportunity Cost?
100
The person in the organization who is seen by others as the one who knows what the boss said, or what the boss wants done.
Who is the Boss Interpreter?
100
The perception of others.
What is Borrowed Perception?
100
The idea that the "price" to stay in an organizational position is the same as the "price" to get the position.
What is the Price to Stay?
200
Accomplishment of predetermined objectives through others.
What is the Main Event Management definition of Management?
200
The idea that usually the most effective and efficient level to carry planning, organizing, and controlling activities is 80% of perfection.
What is the Eighty Percent Rule?
200
Information which cannot be retrieved within the time and/or cost constraints of a particular situation.
What is Fugitive Information?
200
An available course of action open to the individual without further authorization, which will contribute to the achievement of the organization's objectives.
What is the Action Path?
200
The idea that the ability to give up past duties and responsibilities is an essential part of a successful promotion.
What is Promotion Jettison?
300
An operating theory based upon the idea that the services of any person in any organization may be lost to that organization at any time.
What is the Mack Truck Theory?
300
An unrecoverable cost which should be written off for analysis purposes in planning future resource commitments.
What is Sunk Cost?
300
A flow-chart which breaks down the communication process from "A" to "B", into a series of eight steps.
What is the Communication Cyber-Chart
300
Two key questions to be used in testing and reviewing management activity.
What is So What? What If?
300
The management style in which major and minor items are treated with seemingly equal weight.
What is Flyspeck Management?
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 idea that a plan is developed by making three types of decisions.
What is the Planning Fusion Triangle?
400
The model of an individual's information processing system.
What is the Stimulus Fraction?
400
A standardized approach to problem analysis which is based on the use of six questions.
What is the Six Honest Servingmen?
400
A supportive management approach in which subordinates view their manager as the person who can help them achieve the objectives set for them.
What is Help Philosophy?
500
Five kinds of decisions that managers must make in taking action.
What is the Main Event Compass?
500
A plan is made up of six parts.
What is the Planning Path?
500
The question and answer approach to communicating information.
What is the Socratic Method?
500
The idea that an individual's collection of knowledge, attitudes, skills, and habits limits perception and acts as a restriction on objective though and creative expression.
What is the Logic Box?
500
The idea that there are seven sources of power to be considered in every superior-subordinate (A-B) relationship.