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abandonment

action conclusions

action(s)

alternative

in crisis management

for implementation

inaction vs.

in problem situations

and seizing the initiative

timing of

advertising

AIG

aircraft

Albrecht, Paul

American Idol (television show)

anger

ant farms

Apple Computer

Arthur Andersen

Ash, Mary Kay

Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railroad

attention, productivity and

Auchinleck, General

automobile industry

Avery, Jonathan

 

bailouts

B&O railroad

Bardem, Javier

Basic Marketing (E. Jerome McCarthy)

Bell, California

Bennis, Warren

Blanchard, Kenneth

Bloomingdale's

The Bluebird (movie)

Boeing

Boston Consulting Company

boundary conditions

breadwinners

bribes

and business ethics

to “buy customers,”

Bridey Murphy

Brutus (Marcus Junius Brutus)

budgeting

Buffett, Warren

Burma-Shave signs

Burns, James MacGregor

Bush, George W.

business

basic functions of, see also innovation; marketing

causes of failures in

defining your

purpose of

business ethics

business risk

Buskirk, Richard

 

California Institute of Advanced Management (CIAM)

Carnegie, Andrew

casuistry

CEOs

responsibilities abdicated by

salaries of, see also executive salaries

certainties

chain costing

Chamberlain, Neville

change

adapting to

anticipation of

in costs

of economic characteristics

predicting results of

change management

charging what the market will bear

Chevrolet

Chigurh, Anton

Christie, Chris

Chrysler

Churchill, Winston

CIAM (California Institute of Advanced Management)

Claremont Graduate School

clemency

Clinton, Hillary

Collins, Jim, on Drucker

command and control leadership

common knowledge

competitive advantage

Conan Doyle, see Doyle

Confucian ethics

congruent pricing

continuous improvement

continuous learning

control(s)

in implementation

in leadership

Corzine, Jon

Cossman, E. Joseph “Joe”

cost-driven pricing

cost(s)

in chain costing

future changes in

profit as

crisis management

Cunningham, Randy “Duke,”

Curtis, Glenn

customers

“buying,”

creating

“irrational,”

product use defined by

quality from perspective of

value from perspective of

Cyrus the Great

Cyrus the Younger

 

decision making

boundary conditions in

in problem situations

decision(s)

to become a leader

considering the future in

inevitable impacts of

people

staffing

demand-side innovation

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

DePree, Max

Deupree, Richard

diversity

doing the right thing

dominance, market

“do no harm,”

Douglas, Michael

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

Drucker, Doris

Drucker Societies

DuPont

 

ecological niches

Ecstasy (movie)

Edison, Thomas

effectiveness

efficiency

80/20 rule

Einhorn, Alfred

Eisenhower, Dwight

emissions-reduction devices

employee satisfaction

employees

encouraging

importance of

promotion and placement of

responsibility for welfare of

engagement

Enron

entrepreneurial marketing

entrepreneurship

envy

errors, controls and

ethics

business

Confucian

and doing the right thing

failure of

for leaders

of social responsibility

universal

Ethics of Interdependence

events, measurable and nonmeasurable

executive salaries

extortion

 

fact, opinion expressed as

failure

avoiding

of ethics

expecting

fear of

and the Peter Principle

and profit maximization

to use controls

Fannie Mae

fashion industry

Fastow, Andrew

fax machines

FedEx (Federal Express)

feedback analysis

financial crisis (2008), see also Great Recession

5-Day Deodorant Pads

five deadly sins of marketing

Florida Power and Light Company

Foch, Ferdinand

focus, determinants of

Ford, Henry

Ford Motor Company

Forrest, Nathan Bedford

four-celled matrix

4-H Clubs

“the 4 Ps,”

Freddie Mac

the future

anticipating

creating

predicting

and timing of decisions

 

Garfield, Charles

Garland, Judy

Gates, Bill

Gates, Robert

Gatz, Jean, on recognition

General Electric (GE)

General Motors

Gerstner, Lou

Gillette, King

gluttony

goals

golden parachutes

government social programs

Grant, Ulysses S.

Great Depression

Great Recession

automobile company bailouts during

and executive salaries

greed

profit maximization as

and subprime mortgages

Grove, Andy, on Drucker

 

Harrelson, Woody

Hart, B. H. Liddell

Hawthorne effect

Hawthorne Works

Heim, Jacques

Herman Miller, Inc.

heroic leadership

Herzberg, Frederick

Hines, Duncan

Hippocrates

Hodgson, Peter

home mortgages

How to Be the Person Successful Companies Fight to Keep (Connie Podesta and Jean Gatz)

HUD (Department of Housing and Urban Development)

Hull, Raymond

hygiene needs

Hyundai

 

Iacocca, Lee

IBM

ignorance

Immaculate Conception

implementation, controls in

inaction

incentives

incompetence

indirect competition

information, providing workers with

initiative

innovation

as basic business function

by changing economic characteristics

definition of

demand-side

profits paying for

sources of

supply-side

Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Peter Drucker)

integrity

intentions

ranking programs/activities according to

and social responsibility

unintended consequences of

interdependence, ethics of

Invent Radium or I'll Pull Your Hair (Doris Drucker)

“irrational” customers

Iverson, Ken

 

job candidates

job loss

fear of

preparing for

job requirements

job search

Jobs, Steve

Johnson, Spencer

Johnson & Johnson

Juran, Joseph

 

Kaiser, Henry

Keeler, Wee Willie

Kennedy, Caroline

Kennedy, John F.

Keurig K-Cup

Kevlar

Keynes, John Maynard

KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken)

knowledge, erroneous

knowledge workers

Kotler, Philip

Kyropaidaia (Xenophon)

 

laissez-faire leadership

Lamarr, Hedy

Langley, Samuel

Lao-tzu

Lay, Kenneth

laziness

leaders

bribery by

encouragement of employees by

extraordinary

responsibility of

well-rounded

leadership

in crises

Drucker”s definition of

heroic

laissez-faire

learning

management vs.

as a marketing job

most important decision in

servant

seven deadly sins of

transactional

transformational

Xenophon's example/instruction in

Leadership (James MacGregor Burns)

learning, continuous

Least Effort, Principle of

Lehman Brothers

Lincoln, Abraham

lust

 

MacArthur, Douglas

Maciariello, Joe

Macy, Rowland, see also R.H. Macy & Co.

Maginot, Andre

Maginot Line

management

leadership vs.

and office politics

of others

self-

Management Challenges for the 21st Century (Peter Drucker)

Management, Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (Peter Drucker)

managerial vision

Managing by Results (Peter Drucker)

manners

Marchiony, Italo

market, specialty

market dominance

marketing

as basic business function

entrepreneurial

five deadly sins of

and “irrational” customers

leadership as

selling vs.

marketing plans

marketing research

marketing strategy

Marshall, Alfred

Mary Kay Cosmetics Corporation

McCarthy, E. Jerome

McGregor, Douglas

McKinsey Company

McMahon, Vince

Merrill Lynch

metric(s)

for control

profit as

MGM

military clubs

Millan, Cesar

mirror test

missing ingredients, supplying

mission

leader's belief in

and performance quality

and social responsibility

mistakes, learning from

Montgomery, Bernard L.

morality, see also ethics

most valuable lesson

motivators

“My Son, the Musician,”

 

NASA

NBC

needs

unfulfilled

of workers

Nelson, Bob

New Jersey School Boards Association

niches

No Country for Old Men (movie)

Nostradamus

Novocain

Nucor

 

Obama, Barack

Obama administration

objectives

in abandonment plans

indirect routes to

and pricing

in strategy development

obligations, in Confucian ethics

office politics

Of the Epidemics (Hippocrates)

The One-Minute Manager (Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson)

1001 Ways to Reward Employees (Bob Nelson)

1501 Ways to Reward Employees (Bob Nelson)

opportunities

abandonments as

priority of problems over

in social responsibility

the unexpected as source of

optimal profit

optimism

outstanding performance

 

pain, sharing

P&G (Procter & Gamble)

“Panic on the New York Stock Exchange” (Peter Drucker)

Pareto, Vilfredo

past winners, focusing on

Patton, George

PCs, see personal computers

peak performance individuals

penetration pricing

people decisions

perception, as source of innovation

performance

engagement and

and fear of job loss

outstanding

quality of

responsibility for

standards of

in weak areas

Pershing, John J.

The Persian Expedition (Xenophon)

personal computers (PCs)

persuasion

Peter, Laurence J.

Peter F. Drucker Academies (China and Hong Kong)

Peter Principle

Peters, Tom, on Drucker

Petraeus, David

place, in 4Ps of marketing

placement, employee

plans

actions vs.

marketing

for solving problems

Plymouth

Podesta, Connie, on recognition

politics, office

pollution

positive thinking

postheroic leadership

power

and greed

from integrity

prediction(s)

of Drucker

of the future

of the results of change

premium pricing

price, in 4Ps of marketing

price-driven costing

pricing

as bribery

to “buy” customers

charging what the market will bear in

congruent

cost-driven

and “irrational” customers

low

penetration

premium

by Walmart

pride

primary research

Principle of Least Effort

problems

defining

priority of opportunities and

taking responsibility for solving

value of ignorance in approaching

Procter & Gamble (P&G)

product development

productivity

and the Hawthorne effect

quality of

product(s)

customer-defined uses of

in 4Ps of marketing

obsolescence of

quality of

reality testing of

profit

ethics of

innovation paid for by

as metric

metrics indicating

optimal

as purpose of business

and seeking high profit margins

and social contribution

as social responsibility

total

profit maximization

profit motive

promotion (marketing)

promotions (job)

and employee engagement

making decisions about

prudence, ethics of

purpose of business

push priorities

 

quality

quantity, quality vs.

 

Rathbone, Basil

rationalization

Reagan, Ronald

reality testing

reallocation of resources

“Really Reinventing Government” (Peter Drucker)

Réard, Louis

recognition

relationships, in Confucian ethics

research

marketing

primary and secondary

resources

freed by abandonment

massing

misallocation of

reallocation of

in solving problems

respect

responsibility

of leaders

in problem solving

social

“responsible worker,”

résumé

rethinking

R.H. Macy & Co.

risk

business

with new offerings

and peak performance

and reality testing

and success

Robbins, Tony

Rommel, General

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Rosenwald, Julius

RSQ

Rule of the Vital Few

Rules of Engagement

 

Sanders, Harland

Sanhedrin

satisfaction, employee

Say, Jean-Baptiste

Schlieffen, Alfred von

Schmidt, Frank L.

schools, quality of

Schultz, Howard

Sears, Roebuck and Company

secondary research

self-confidence

self-management

selling

and marketing strategy

marketing vs.

promotion in

Sergeant York (movie)

servant leadership

Seven Deadly Sins

sexual behavior

Shakespeare, William

on being true to yourself

and Julius Caesar,

shipbuilding

shortcomings, remedying

Silly Putty

simplicity (of strategy)

skills

development of

specialty

sleepers (“Cinderellas”)

Sloan, Alfred P.

sloth

social proof

social responsibility

ethics of

forms of

requirements for

as win-win situation

solar cells

Solyndra

space flights

specialty skills/specialty markets

staffing

Starbucks

stock market crash (1929)

strategic positioning

strategy

development of

formulas for

information underlying

marketing

tactics determined by

tactics vs.

strengths

action conclusions for

identifying

and staffing

weaknesses accompanying

success

controls needed for

exploiting

profitability crucial for

and profit maximization

repetition of factors leading to

risk and

supply-side innovation

synergistic (term)

 

tactics

determined by strategy

for innovation

strategy vs.

taking responsibility

Tallent, Hamlin “Ham,”

tasks, accurate definitions of

technologies

changes in

introducing

and obsolescence of products

Temple, Shirley

Theory X

Theory Y

thinking

encouraging workers in

in job searches

prior to abandonment

for yourself

timing

toll-gate position

total profit

Total Quality Management (TQM)

transactional leadership

transformational leadership

trends

Truman, Harry, on Senate Committees

Tuskegee Airmen

Tuskegee Institute

Tylenol

 

the unexpected

doing

as richest source of innovation

in supply-side innovation

unintended consequences

Union Pacific railroad

Universidad del Rosario (Bogotá, Colombia)

unlimited liability clause

U.S. Air Force Academy

U.S. Post Office

utils

 

value

from customer”s perspective

in ignorance

from manufacturer's perspective

quality as part of

Vandenberg, Hoyt S.

vision, managerial

the Vital Few, Rule of

Volkswagen

volunteerism

von Schlieffen, Alfred

 

Wallace Company

Wall Street (movie)

Walmart

Walton, Sam

Washington, George

Washington Mutual

water-saving toilets

Watson, Thomas

Webern, Anton

Welch, Jack

Welles, Carson, on Anton Chigurh

Whistler, James

Whistler, Thomas

“whole man concept,”

wisdom

The Wizard of Oz (movie)

Wood, Robert E., on business

Wozniak, Steve

Wright brothers

 

Xenophon

Xerox

XFL football league

 

York, Alvin C.

Yoshida, Shigeru

Young, Cliff

 

Zapmail

Zipf, George K.