Larry Ellison
Posted by admin in Champion Managers on 31. Oct, 2009 | 0 Comments
Larry J. Ellison is the co-founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation, one of the biggest software companies. He was born in 1944 in Bronx, New York and grown up by his adaptive parents. His adaptive father was a real estate businessman and an auditor for the public housing authority. Ellison was a bright but inattentive [...]
Dhirubhai Ambani
Posted by admin in Champion Managers on 26. Oct, 2009 | 0 Comments
Dhirubai Ambani was born on 28 December in a Modh family of modest means. He was the second son of a schoolteacher and was a high school graduate. When he was 16 years old, he moved to Aden, Yemen. He worked with A. Besse & Co. for a salary of Rs.300. Two years later, A. [...]
William Henry “Bill” Gates III
Posted by admin in Champion Managers on 20. Oct, 2009 | 0 Comments
Bill Gates, the Founder and Chairman of Microsoft. He was born in Seattle in 1955, to an upper middle class family. His father was a lawyer; his mother was a member of the board of directors for First Interstate Banc System. At 13 he enrolled in the Lakeside School, an exclusive preparatory school where he [...]
Mark Hurd
Posted by admin in Champion Managers on 12. Oct, 2009 | 0 Comments
Mark Hurd is the chairman, chief executive officer, and president of Hewlett-Packard, the largest IT Company in the world. He is known as one of the best managers in the United States for turning around HP. Mark Hurd born in New York City in 1957. He has done his Bachelors degree in Business Administration from [...]
Managerial Roles And Functions
Posted by admin in Featured Articles on 09. Oct, 2009 | 0 Comments
The dictionary meaning of Manager is, a person who has control or direction of an institution, business, etc., or of a part, division, or phase of it. A Manager is a person who plans and directs the work of a group of individuals and also monitors their work to take-up corrective actions when necessary. To [...]
Alfred P.Sloan
Posted by admin in Champion Managers on 06. Oct, 2009 | 0 Comments
Alfred P. Sloan, known as President and CEO of General Motors was born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1875. His father was a prosperous businessman. Sloan is an electrical engineer and graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1895. While attending MIT he joined the Delta Upsilon fraternity. Sloan joined as a draftsman in [...]
How Professional Are You?
Posted by admin in Featured Articles on 05. Oct, 2009 | 0 Comments
The word that is very often used in the world of management is ‘Professionalism’ or ‘professional’. When we question ourselves, “Am I professional?”, although most of us answer ourselves with a reflexive “yes”, we should truly know what is ‘True Professionalism”. As given by David H. Maister in his book “True professionalism”, True professionalism means [...]
