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Bruce R is the Operations Manager for Dakota Hotels. He is responsible for the guest experience and the construction and design of new hotels. All managers report to him. He combines his engineering degree with a love of the hotel industry.

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Career Advice on becoming an Operations Manager by Bruce R (Full Version)

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From partnering with retail industries to produce special offers for consumers, to offering financial advice based upon real-time transnational data and behaviors, this video explores the opportunities for Banks to partner with new, non-traditional financial service and banking industries.
Open Banking offers an opportunity to help consumers understand the value of their data and Banks have the unique opportunity to help them get the value from that data.

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Data sharing: how fostering new relationships across brands benefits us all

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Sure, the most successful people don't get there because of a degree, but they are the top 0.00001% who worked hard and got lucky. Unless you are one of those people, I guarantee you that you will make more money with a degree than without one. These people speak down on it after their lucky break. Take that success away from them and they'll wish they had one. If a degree is a possible option for you, don't miss the opportunity because of stuff like this.

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The Most Successful People Explain Why a College Degree is USELESS

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Our education system is supposed to be getting us ready for the work place, yet they don't teach this kind of stuff in it unless you take specialized college courses (ops management, or specialized statistics classes). They should be pushing this sort of thinking onto teens when they hit high school. Now that you know basic algebra and other skills, we're going to teach you how to be an effective process manager. You know why? Because processes need to be managed. People can manage themselves. They just need a leader. But, if you can manage a process effectively, then anything in life will be much easier, because everything in life is a process, and people are part of processes. You don't have to pound on the table or yell at people are motivate them with fluffy talk. When you show them a process, then show them changes, then show them results on a new graph that show how the change in the process has increased control, or increased output, the results speak for themselves.

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Doing is not always empowering.. I think everyone has some ideas on leadership, but like diets.. most of them only work in certain situations.  Learned leadership is taking empathetic skills with experience and empowering those beneath you to succeed in their goals, hopefully lifting you to yours.. it's not easy it's not a simple talk.. it's an ability to recognize what works,and the ability to adapt when it stops working.

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The rarest commodity is leadership without ego: Bob Davids at TEDxESCP

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This video was very intriguing. The speaker highlights how important a fundamental approach to efficient management. He specified his own experience as he climbed the ladder of management himself. He clarified how stepping down from authority and learning how to manage beforehand will enhance an individual's success within the management role.

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Stop Managing, Start Leading | Hamza Khan | TEDxRyersonU

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This image highlights the primary fundamentals of management in a simple, clear and precise manner. I found this image to be very informative.

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This picture peeked my interest because it divided the essentials of good management into three subcategories and clarified home each category can be implemented.

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Ms. Goyette has an interesting outlook on motivation. In her speech she emphasized there not being a necessity to motivate employees. She feels as though motivation is within. The key of managing is learning how to awaken the motivation within our employees. I have mixed feelings about this view. Some people need a push. It would depend on the individual.

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Stop Trying to Motivate Your Employees | Kerry Goyette | TEDxCosmoPark

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Now, this video was very controversial. Human resource is viewed with such prestige. This video exposed the dark side and/or the faults associated with human resource management. Quackery and pseudoscience can be very dangerous. Not only in medicine but also in human resources. Alarmed by the nonsensical ideas of Transactional Analysis, Patrick Vermeren set out on a mission to reveal the truth about the many HR theories, models and questionnaires. The academic literature revealed that most HR practices (in recruitment, assessment, development, coaching…) are very problematic and some even dangerous. In this Talk valid alternatives are presented.

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The (uncomfortable) truth of HR and leadership development | Patrick Vermeren | TEDxKMA

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It was interesting to listen to Mr. Nadella's take on Cloud Computing. It's a fairly new embraced technology. It has it's advantages and disadvantages but his take on the new software and its future was and interesting discussion. Microsoft frames the computerizing world massively.

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella On The Cloud Computing Industry And The Future Of Microsoft | CNBC

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Jeff Bezos had a very interesting take on his perception of success. I never really learned or took the time out to research the background of Amazon's climb to success. It is worth a watch.

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Managing is a hard task within itself. Dealing with various personalities while trying to stay within the objective of an given organization is very trying. Managing is a skill. This video explains techniques that can utilized to learn how to manage without authority. People tend to response positively when the don't feel like they are being directed but encouraged.

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RSA ANIMATE: Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us

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The delegation process is multifaceted. It begins with decisions made at the administrative level of the organization and extends to the staff responsible for delegating, overseeing the process, and performing the responsibilities. It involves effective communication, empowering staff to make decisions based on their judgment and support from all levels of the health care setting. The image below gives an exemplary description of what the process would entail within the nursing field. https://www.ncsbn.org/1625.htm

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This article surpassed the explanation of Vertical and Horizontal structures. This article explained to advantages, disadvantages and the benefits that each one structure add to organizations.

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Small businesses usually implement horizontal structure.

organizer image by Anton Gvozdikov from Fotolia.com

How you organize the management of your small business has a tremendous effect on future growth, how you interact with your customers and the overall culture of your small business. Most small businesses start off with a horizontal structure, but they should consider implementing vertical structure if they hope to compete on the global market, according to LearnManagement2.com.

Identification

Vertically structured, or "tall" companies have a chain of management, usually with a CEO at the top making decisions and then delegating authority to lower-level managers, according to AllBusiness.com.

Horizontal, also called flat, companies have almost no middle managers--meaning that high-level managers handle day-to-day tasks and usually interact with customers and front-line employees personally.

Significance

Most new companies and small businesses opt for a horizontally arranged company because they have a limited amount of employees, according to Purdue University Department of Agricultural Economics. Small businesses tend to be more intimate, and the lack of a large workforce means management styles are more informal than formal. In addition, small businesses may not even have the resources to hire any middle management.

Benefits

Companies with a tall organizational structure are better at designating tasks to employees or departments within the company, have well-defined responsibilities for employees, and are generally easier to manage, according to Practical Management.

Horizontally structured businesses tend to have the best employee morale because there is less red tape when dealing with problems. Also, it costs less to run a horizontal company because managers cost more than rank-and-file employees.

Disadvantages

Vertical companies are dependent on a strong leader at the top. Weak upper management means that each successive hierarchical structure will get frustrated by poor decision making by the superior. In addition, tall companies lack the transparency of a horizontal company because each layer muddles information more and more.

Horizontal companies are much harder to implement than vertical companies, especially as the business grows, because the business must foster a culture of teamwork. Employees may be less sure about their roles and responsibilities within the company, and project managers can be frustrated by their lack of authority.

Potential

Frank Ostroff, author of "The Horizontal Organization," believes that companies will become more horizontal than vertical as the world globalizes, because customers will demand fast response times and better service--two things at which horizontal companies excel. No business, however, should have a strictly horizontal or vertical structure, but rather should implement the best of both worlds.

About the Author

Russell Huebsch has written freelance articles covering a range of topics from basketball to politics in print and online publications. He graduated from Baylor University in 2009 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science.

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The Vertical Structure Vs. the Horizontal Structure in an Organization

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This video was very explanatory. The visual depiction on the the Vertical and Horizontal structure enhanced my understanding. The reference to common business illuminated the understanding as well.

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Vertical and Horizontal Differentiation | Organizational Design | MeanThat

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This image appealed to me for some apparent reason. It includes simple concepts that are affiliated with decision making. Its bright precise and enlightening. Sometimes that's all that is needed. We can be aware of these simple processes and still resort to this little guides for decision making.

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Robbins is known for his infomercials, seminars, and self-help books including Unlimited Power and Awaken the Giant Within. Robbins is the founder of several companies that earn approximately $6 billion in annual sales. He is very intelligent and skilled at what he does. In this video, he discusses the importance of establishing and maintaining rapport in business endeavors.

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The Art Of Effective Communication - Tony Robbins

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We are aware of the basic management process within organizations. Another major component to this aspect is conflict. Understanding the conflict process is a good initiative for combating employee conflict while managing. This video was excellent!

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Conflict Process - Stages I and II | Organisational Behavior | MeanThat

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This article highlights the increasing popularity of U.S. companies withholding monies overseas to avoid U.S. Tariffs and taxes. In return, I think this will help companies enhance capitalism within their most promising markets.

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U.S. companies have brought home only a sliver of their more than $2 trillion in profits stashed overseas, a sign that this year's corporate spending spree on things like buybacks and new equipment is only just beginning. Companies have built up billions of dollars in overseas profit stashes over the past decade in order to [...]

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The Repatriation Frenzy is Just Getting Started

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U.S. companies have brought home only a sliver of their more than $2 trillion in profits stashed overseas, a sign that this year's corporate spending spree on things like buybacks and new equipment is only just beginning.

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This video provides different perspectives around what is available and what other organizations are implementing.

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Emerging Trends in Organizational Structure

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Multinational Organizations are viewed as bold yet risky endeavors. The benefits of growth and advancement are known. Many lucrative businesses are nationwide. This article highlights the pros and the cons or multinational business ventures. It gives you a parallel description of the given factors that should be considered prior to engaging in multinational business relations.

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Multinational corporations provide the developing countries around the world with the necessary financial infrastructure to achieve economic and social development. But though they bring about several benefits to such nations, they also come with ethical conducts that happen to exploit the neediness of these countries. So, are multinational corporations really good for both the country of origin and the country of operation? Let us take a closer look at their pros and cons.

List of Pros of Multinational Corporations

1. Their size benefits consumers.
The operational size and scale of these corporations can give them the chance of taking advantage of the economies of scale, which paves the way for lower average costs and prices for consumers. This is particularly important to industries that carry extremely high fixed costs, such as car manufacturers and airlines.

2. They can help a country in many ways.
Multinational corporations have the ability to bring advanced technology to poorer countries, while bringing low-cost products to the wealthier ones.

3. They are cost-effective.
By utilizing labor in parts of the world where the low cost of living does not require high wages for production, these companies can keep consumer costs down. As a result, many industries can also benefit.

4. They can create jobs and wealth.
These global companies' inward investments offer the much needed foreign currency for developing economies, which in turn help with creating jobs and increasing expectations of things that will likely happen.

5. They help other companies.
Through merger and acquisition, multinational companies can help other commercial organizations with achieving economies of scale in distribution and marketing, allowing well-managed businesses to take over those that are poorly managed.

6. They adhere to the best brand standards.
This is one of the best qualities of these corporations. For example, McDonalds is still McDonalds wherever it is operating in the world. There is a standard that this restaurant chain is expected to adhere to. The same goes to the manufacturing sector, where standards are set and are expected to be adhered to. This builds trust and confidence among consumers, which is then converted to consumer loyalty.

7. They ensure minimum standards.
Somehow connected to the previous pro, the main reason for the success of multinationals is that consumers would usually purchase products and services on which they can go for minimum standards.

8. They help improve standard of living.
Multinational corporations have the capability to improve the world's standard of living, providing people with access of quality products regardless of the place.

9. Their large profits are consumed for development and research.
Taking into consideration pharmaceutical companies, they can easily afford to pour millions of dollars into their research and development efforts. The same goes for automobile manufacturers and other large corporate entities. Without their global presence and large profit margins, they will not be able to do this. Another good example is oil exploration, which is both costly and risky. As such, only large firms can undertake it by using significant amount of money and other resources.

10. They allow for a wider market.
With these big businesses, huge markets have been created both domestically and internationally.

List of Cons of Multinational Corporations

1. They might unfavorably dominate the market.
Remember that the market dominance of multinational corporations would make it hard for smaller local companies to thrive and succeed. For example, arguments state that the larger supermarkets can squeeze out local corner stores' notable margin, leading to lesser diversity.

2. They might exploit the workforce.
These corporations are not well-known for treating people fairly and are instead known for ignoring rules and regulations, as well as turning a blind eye to injustice in the workplace. They are put into the spotlight for outsourcing to the lowest bidders and for skimping on quality. They are not known for having what smaller businesses have-the "human" touch. Many of them are even found exploiting workers and natural resources without considering the economic well- being of any country. In fact, some of them are criticized for using slave labor, where workers are paid with very small wages.

3. They take advantage of consumer expense.
Usually, companies are interested at consumers' expense, but multinational companies, with more power, is taking this to another level.

4. They can push local firms out of business.
Giant multinationals use the scale of developing economies to push the local firms out of their business.

5. They are willing to gain ridiculous profits at any cost.
These companies are able to realize tremendous profits and do not share their wealth. For example, these organizations that have manufacturing plants in China, where wages are very low, do not increase worker salaries when actually they have very huge amounts of extra revenues.

6. They strive for a monopolized business.
Naturally, many of the largest corporations are monopolizing their industries. They are very powerful, which makes it very difficult, if not impossible, for start-ups and smaller businesses to compete. By monopolizing, they cut out the competition, which eventually stunts economic growth. Plus, authorities might put power in the hands of these global corporations, so they will be able to set the rules.

7. They a great environmental threat.
In the name of profit, multinational corporations commonly contribute to pollution and make use of non-renewable resources, which can pose a threat to the environment. They often abuse the environment and are typically not very careful when using their resources. Moreover, they are well known for leaving an environmental mess in their wake and even have a strong reputation for dumping waste and utilizing natural resources until they are depleted. In general, they are not being very good as keepers of the earth.

Conclusion

While it is a fact that multinational corporations bring a lot of benefits, we cannot also deny that they can cause of some major issues in the economy. On your end, do you think they are beneficial or a big threat in countries, based on the pros and cons listed above?

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17 Main Pros and Cons of Multinational Corporations

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Multinational corporations provide the developing countries around the world with the necessary financial infrastructure to achieve economic and social development. But though they bring about several benefits to such nations, they also come with ethical conducts that happen to exploit the neediness of these countries.

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Collectivists always fall victim to tyrannical indoctrination. Those without the ability to think for themselves will always be taken advantage of by rulers. Contrary, it's the individualist that has moved society forward out of its cycle of repeating the same mistakes over and over and getting the same outcome - Nothing. In retrospect, people today look back in history and acknowledge that those who were perceived to be insane in their time for speaking out against the collective, mainstream narrative at the time were actually geniuses, including many scientists who pushed the envelope in scientific discovery. Unfortunately, a lot of those very same people mock and ridicule those today who speak out against the current system because it's outside of their perceived norm - The downloaded perception of norm from their rulers. Luckily, we have great minds today who I believe will repeat this revolutionary way of thinking.

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Conceptual skills set the baseline for success within a business. A manager must know how to utilize soft skills. This factor is a very important attribute within employer and employee relationships. This video is a very informative medium with respect to this topic. Many examples are highlighted also. Visual imagery is a attention grabbing method to relay information.

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Conceptual Skills: Definition

It's hard to get the big picture when you have such a small screen. This anonymous quote can be stingingly true. Have you ever had a manager reluctant to give up hands-on work? Maybe you've had managers who spend most of their life handling office politics? They are so deeply involved in the interpersonal relationships of the office that it's almost like working in a soap opera. It's important for managers to understand the work of the company and to navigate interpersonal relationships deftly.

Without the big picture, though, managers can efficiently knockout the to-do list only to find out later that the tasks aren't linked to meaningful goals and a coherent strategy. Becoming familiar with conceptual skills puts you on guard against such aimlessness as you move through your career. Managers who have conceptual skills have the ability to think creatively and understand complicated or abstract ideas. But before we dive into conceptual skills, though, let's get an overview of all three required management skills as well as the layers of management.

Managerial Skills

Classical management theory structures organizational management into tiers, like a pyramid. At the base of the pyramid are supervisors, or lower-level managers, working directly with workers to coordinate the daily tasks of the organization. In the middle are, you guessed it, middle managers. They oversee longer-term goals with the supervisors that align with strategic objectives of the organization. Who sets these strategic objectives? That's right; it's the folks at the tip of the pyramid, the top-level managers.

Regardless of the level of management, theorist and psychologist Daniel Katz identified three skills common to every manager. These are conceptual skills, human skills, and technical skills.

Conceptual skills allow a manager to visualize the entire organization and work with ideas and the relationships between abstract concepts.

Human skills, also called human relation skills, require communication and attention to relationships with others.

Technical skills are needed to actually get the work done; they are the techniques, practices, tools, and processes needed by front-line employees in the manager's functional area.

While all managers have these skills, the ratio of each skill to the others varies based on the industry and level of management. Let's say Michelle and Michael are both supervisors for accounting companies. Michelle's team are all remote contractors, while Michael's accounting staff are working nine to five in a specific building.

Both are on the same management tier, but Michael may need more human skills than Michelle to manage interactions among team members. Michelle's team interacts directly with her, but not with each other, so she'll use human skills differently and less often then Michael will. Each job requires the same amount of conceptual skills to ensure their team is meeting organizational objectives. They'll also use equivalent technical skills (generally accepted accounting principles) to ensure the quality of the work.

So, you can see how the mix of managerial skills might differ by industry, but let's take a closer look how conceptual skills change with each successive step up the pyramid.

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You know what a concept is, but what are conceptual skills and who uses them? After this lesson, you'll be able to identify conceptual managerial...

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The “Key Stakeholder Relationships” diagram highlights social and environmental issues. Six business drivers that are affected by non-financial stakeholder relationships were identified by Corner Stone Capital Group. The core of this model is board management. The types of stakeholder’s categories that are specified in the model include Demand, Financial, Supply and Contextual Stakeholders. This diagram advocates the suggested nature of company and shareholder collaboration by specifying shareholder interest within the company.

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Cornerstone Capital Group utilized this diagram as a baseline of incorporating shareholder engagement within their company. The “Shareholder Engagement Frontier” sets guidelines that aids a company’s understanding of how a stakeholder’s interaction influences a company’s operating and financial performance. This diagram develops a medium between the importance of the stakeholders and the company that they share engagement with.

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Oprah Winfrey is definitely a pillar of success. Her empowering words and intelligent mindset is very engaging. As a female, she has endured a trying path to success yet she has prevailed.

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THE Greatest Speech Ever by Oprah Winfrey [YOU NEED TO WATCH THIS]

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This video was very intriguing to me. Steve Jobs explained how his logical perception of live and opportunity paved the way for hi success. He didn't live to attain the liking of everyone. He utilized the resources he had. He had a vision, initiative, fearless nature and trust in himself.

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Optimism would be an EXPRESSION that METAPHORICALLY RHYMES with the essence of my existence. I gravitate toward individuals whom attain a pleasant COMPOSITION of character. My thought process relates to the LYRICS of a rock BALLAD. My mind is sporadic yet steadfast. My thoughts are very imaginative. I am continuously thinking, exploring, implementing and gravitating towards my goals.

Hello everyone. My name is Chaquanna. Welcome to my imagination, interests, aspirations and input. Enjoy