Managers' Role

The classical view says that the manager organizes, coordinates,

plans, and ------------------; the facts suggest otherwise.

• controls

• budgets

• reports

• reviews

Henry Fayol was a(n) -------------------- industrialist

• American

• French

• German

• European

Great ------------ have always managed themselves

• leaders

• managers

• achievers

• influencers

A person can perform only from ---------------.

• knowledge

• intelligence

• talent

• strength

The only way to discover your strengths is through ------------- analysis.

• feedback

• result

• outcome

• success

Feedback analysis was invented sometime in the ------------ century by an otherwise totally obscure ------------ theologian

• thirteenth, French

• fourteenth, German

• twelfth, American

• thirteenth, English

First and foremost, concentrate on your -------------------. Put yourself where your strengths can produce ------------- .

• strengths, results

• talents, outcomes

• skills, success

• duty, wins

Energy, resources, and ----------- should go instead to making a --------------- person into a star performer.

• time, competent

• talent, incompetent

• treasure, uninspired

• money, inapired

It takes far more energy to improve from ---------------- to mediocrity than to improve from -------------performance to excellence.

• incompetence, first-rate

• low competence, high competence

• dull, bright

• foolish, intelligent

Eisenhower apparently did not know that he was a ------------, not a

• reader, listener

• listener, reader

• doer, observer

• observer, doer