1.
“Ask most older people to identify the key to success, and they are likely to reply ‘hard work.’ Yet, I would tell people
starting off in a career that work in itself is not the key. In fact, you have to approach work cautiously—too much or
too little can be self-defeating.”
To what extent do you agree or disagree with this view of work? Develop your position by using reasons and/or
examples from your reading, experience, or observations.
2.
“How far should a supervisor go in criticizing the performance of a subordinate? Some highly successful managers
have been known to rely on verbal abuse and intimidation. Do you think that this is an effective means of
communicating expectations? If not, what alternative should a manager use in dealing with someone whose work is
less than satisfactory?”
Explain your views on this issue. Be sure to support your position with reasons and/or examples from your own
experience, observations, or reading.
3.
“The presence of a competitor is always beneficial to a company. Competition forces a company to change itself in
ways that improve its practices.”
Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons
and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.
4.
“Successful individuals typically set their next goal somewhat—but not too much—above their last achievement. In
this way, they steadily raise their level of aspiration.”
In your opinion, how accurate is this statement? Explain, using specific reasons and examples from your reading,
your own experience, or your observation of others.
5.
“The term ‘user friendly’ is usually applied to the trouble-free way that computer software moves people from screen
to screen, function to function. However, the term can also refer to a government office, a library, public
transportation, or anything designed to provide information or services in an easy, friendly way. Just as all societies
have many striking examples of user-friendly services, so do they abound in examples of user-unfriendly systems.”
Identify a system or service that you have found to be either “user-friendly” or “user-unfriendly.” Discuss, from the
user’s perspective, in what way the system either is or is not easy to use and explain the consequences or effect of
such a system.
6.
“Popular entertainment is overly influenced by commercial interests. Superficiality, obscenity, and violence
characterize films and television today because those qualities are commercially successful.”
Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with this opinion. To support your position, use reasons and/or
examples from your reading, your observations, or your experiences as a consumer of popular entertainment.
7.
“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”
To what extent do you agree or disagree with the opinion expressed above?
Explain your point of view by giving reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.
8.
“The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.”
Explain what you think the above quotation means and discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with it.
Support your position with relevant reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.
9.
“Everywhere, it seems, there are clear and positive signs that people are becoming more respectful of one another’s
differences.”
In your opinion, how accurate is the view expressed above? Use reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading to develop your position.
10.
“What is the final objective of business? It is to make the obtaining of a living—the obtaining of food, clothing, shelter,and a minimum of luxuries—so mechanical and so little time-consuming that people shall have time for other things.”
— A business leader, circa 1930
Explain what you think the quotation above means and discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the view of business it expresses. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience,observations, or reading.
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