Murphy’s Law: What Can Go Wrong, WillYou come into the office in the morning to find a message from the executive sponsor of your project asking you to come see her urgently. The meeting begins with the usual pleasantries; ‘How’s your family? How’s the weather? How’s the team doing? How’s the project going?’ but you […]

Movies About the (Coming) End of the World – Donnie DarkoLike its cousin film Rebel Without a Cause (1955), Donnie Darko is a teen film that is also about the end of the world. The end of the world is imagined in a setting more familiar to us than alien invasion: American high school! Bullying. […]

MotivationThe economic models of competitive, monopolistic, and oligopolistic markets are powerful tools. But they are of little use if we cannot apply them in context. This assignment asks you to do just that—apply the economic models to a policy debate, preparing a brief for a decision maker.But economic theory in the absence of contextualizing data […]

Motivating Employees Overview Imagine that you have been appointed the director of health at the Kaluyu Memorial Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya—a for-profit hospital. The facility is also a referral hospital and receives severe cases of accidents and chronicle and communicable diseases, and it houses an HIV/AIDS ward. As you settle into your position, you realize […]

Most of us are familiar with the role of a manager and that of a leader. We also know the functions each is expected to perform. However, there is a trend in the UK that puts managers in a different role. This trend is a manager as a coach. (MAC) and will be the focus […]