And I'd like to begin my speech with the saying that practice, experience and theory – they are the key factors that make management.
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Management as a profession
At one level, dealing with a big crowd of people might feel distracting, but at another level it can be humbling to realize that many of those people may well be in the midst of the most amazing experience of their lives.
Even if you do find yourself in the midst of a huge crowd when visiting the Acropolis or Uluru or Iguazu Falls, it's good to be respectful of the individuals around you, since a given tourist crowd can hold its own dynamic and diversity.
? Ex. 8. Writing. Using the active vocabulary of this unit describe your dream destination. Read it to your partner and listen to their descriptions. Do your dream destinations have anything in common?
My topic is about management as a profession & in my speech I'll mention such aspects as the criteria necessary for professional status, characteristics of a good manager, the functions that managers perfome and their role in a modern world. I'll also define what the difference is between managers and leaders. And I can't but mention critical qualities of international managers and characteristics they need to operate effectively across cultures.
They say no school, professor or book can make you a manager. Everything depends on you, and you can become a manager only by managing. Experience is considered to be the only teacher. Most of you are practical people; certainly most managers are. You are concerned about doing things than about thinking about them. You are more concerned with action than with contemplation. Of course, learning is not automatic. It is abstract and difficult, too unrelated to real problems, it seems, ‘too academic' and just ‘too theoretical'. But theory is very important because no matter how pragmatic you consider yourself, no matter how rooted in reality a manager views himself, you and he operate on theories. You all possess your own theories about motivation, authority, objectives and change. You will need them – and you will have them whether you know it or not. You will be a better manager if you are aware of your assumptions and you examine them periodically and modify them when necessary. And in this sense nothing is as practical as a good theory.