will object; most will be impressed.
3 ) Directors
The company's directors are supposed to manage the top managers. The directors, in turn, answer to the stockholders, who
technically own the company.
Directors are paid well for being stockholder advocates and overseeing top management, but there's also a risk. Directors
who rubber-stamp top management's requests without weighing all the facts and issues have been sued for malpractice by
stockholders. Nevertheless, a corporate director has lots of status and plenty of perks, which makes the job worthwhile.
Some of the directors may themselves be accomplished self promototers and salesmen in theirselves for you to learn from .
That is how they got to be directors.
4) Chairman of the Board
The chairman of the board is probably the most adroit bluffer in the boardroom. In addition, he or she has an above-average
chance of getting publicly flayed if the company gets into trouble.
The chairman writes a letter to stockholders that usually appears on the first page of the company's annual report. It's not
generally realized that this letter (which patronizingly refers to the business as "your company") isn't audited or critiqued.
Consequently, it may contain several outrageous statements about the company's past, present, or future condition.
As a future management candiate you need to remember is that the chairman has a vote when directors cast their ballots, so
the time spent briefing or buddying up to the chairman can pay off if you want to get pet projects approved.
5) Marketing People
Marketing people are concerned with advertising, publicity, public relations, personal selling, customer service, distribution,
and other things that are supposed to entice customers to buy and to keep 'em happy afterward.
Marketing, like politics, is an inexact science. Companies have trouble knowing which parts of marketing work and which ones
don't. If you want to be quotable in a marketing crisis, you might repeat Sir Thomas Lipton's comment about advertising: "Half the
money we spend on advertising is wasted, but we don't know which half." The idea applies to marketing in general. All potential
marketing management candidates should memorize the buzz phrase "consumer orientation" because that's the point of view that
most companies have (or claim they have) today. Every activity in the company is intended to satisfy consumer wants and needs,
including those grueling top management strategy retreats in Hawaii, Cancun , or the Grand Cayman Islands. Good future
managers master the ability to defend these junkets with a straight face. In the immortal words of Malcolm Forbes, "There are more fakers in business than in jail."
6) Analysts
The title 'Analyst" is confusing. To neurotic New Yorkers and Hollywood residents, it means psychiatrist. To a few people in the
real (nonbusiness) world, it can mean chemist. In business, however, it's likely to refer to the sharper end of the accounting or
finance department. This includes accountants who want to be something else and MBAs and others who are passing through the
finance department on their way up the corporate ladder. In major multinational corporations people are often given the title of
analyst when they're doing a good job but have run out of promotional opportunities. Analysts tend to be perceptive, ambitious,
and perhaps a tad insecure.
Nowhere is this more true than with bright people who work for major brokerage firms. These people assume that they'll make it
to the top because they're sharper than the partners. Unfortunately, there'll come when their day of reconing will come when the odds which like a Las Vegas casino are agains them come into play.
Observe and watch these management types in order that you can imitate and follow them into the land of perks
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Art FellonManagement Team AssociateAce Employment Services WinnipegExperience in the Employment , self help as well as employment document preperation .artfellon@yahoo.comwww.aceemploymentservices.net
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