While the job for top management fifty years ago was to look after and control their operations, today's task is not only to efficiently operate and control their existing businesses, but also to change the composition of their portfolio of businesses ant the pace and scale of the market which itself is changing five times faster than fifty years ago without losing control of the enterprise.
In fact, it's really easy to experience just the opposite: the sense of being looked after and also in control of what you're doing.
In our workshops with school children, for example, one of the boys stated «I'm happy not to have sisters, otherwise I'd have to look after them and control them»." (Participant 8 – government representative) "The school system perpetuates the social construction that is thousands of years old where the male figure is superior, even though she might think she's emancipated.
The Wednesday performance looked careful and controlled.
Responders reported that regular check-ups offered a feeling of safety, control, or being looked after, and were an important motivator for participation.
From the set of observations on the 13 passerine species (Table 1), we fitted general linear models to study the relationship between exposure to predation risk (specifically: degree of concealment, height of perch in tree, and distance from forested edges) and the time allocated to singing and looking, after controlling for variation accounted for by species.
The same professional therapists also looked after control patients.
I was a military police officer looking after traffic control and making sure people were in the places they were supposed to be.
The home side looked sharp and, having controlled possession and territory, went ahead after seven minutes.
He left his deputy to look after damage control in Turkey, and instead presented an unruffled face to the world, surveying guards of honour at airports through his sunglasses, laying wreaths and talking trade and business.
When you go to the doctor they're all about the diabetes, looking after your control there's nobody there to talk to say 'have you had enough of it?' That would be something that would really help.
