Taught by two former Hartford television news reporters, the class taught managers how, and why, reporters act the way they do, advised its students how to avoid being "ambushed," Mr. Caliendo said, and even included mock on-the-spot television interviews in which the managers fielded Mike Wallace-type questions.
But the credit crisis taught managers the perils of growing too quickly.
Meanwhile, ever since the 1960s, civil "class-action suits" have taught managers the wisdom of seeking rapid, discreet settlements to avoid long, expensive and embarrassing trials.The drawbacks of America's civil tort system are well known.
HOW do you teach managers to manage? Henry Mintzberg, a professor of management at McGill University in Montreal, has long held a contrary view to that proposed by most business schools.
With Managing Inclusion, the idea is to teach managers about the issues marginalized and underrepresented people may face.
Virtual Leader, corporate training software from SimuLearn, is designed to teach managers how to run a business meeting.
"Our intention is not simply to teach managers and students to be 'better networkers,"' said Cliff Oswick, who heads the school's management faculty.
Mr Sutton, they hope, will teach managers to steer clear of biased hunches and performance-sapping habits.Mr Sutton's coaching insights range from the mundane 12-hour days offer dimundane 12-hourns—to the arresting: he daysofferdiminishingtreturns to his mostherofitarrestingsions outside the office, making him the rare employee who couldiscoveredy claim thate adding value onetraderlf course.
The point is to teach managers how to make decisions under stress.
Though the only casualty has been a case of Lyme disease, the point is to teach managers how to make decisions under stress.
