Business 111 Principles of Supervision I, syllabus
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BUS 111 - Principles of Supervision I

John Wesley Yoest, Jr. (Jack)
Adjunct Professor of Management Science, Technology and Business

Principles of Supervision 1 (Lecture)

Mondays and Wednesdays
11:30 am to 12:45 pm
August 23 to December 13, 2010

Classroom location to be announced

Main Campus:
Northern Virginia Community College
3001 North Beauregard Street
Alexandria, VA 22311

NVCC phone: 703 845-6200
Fax: 703-845-6009
Jack@Yoest.org
or,
JYoest@NVCC.edu
Cell: 202.215.2434

Education:
M.B.A., George Mason University
B.S., Old Dominion University
Graduate Course Work, Oxford University

1) Principles of Supervision 1:

Prerequisites: Each student must be able to:

1) Read and write English fluently. A satisfactory placement score for ENG 111 is strongly recommended, and

2) Have the desire to understand the work of the first line supervisor.

Course Objectives:

Teaches the fundamentals of supervision, including the primary responsibilities of the supervisor. Introduces factors relating to the work of supervisor and subordinates. Covers aspects of leadership, job management, work improvement, training and orientation, performance evaluation, and effective employee/ supervisor relationships.

When you do well in this course, you will be able to:

1. Understand the operating roles of the supervisor.
2. Formulate objectives, make action plans, and assign tasks.
3. Understand motivation and effective leadership.
4. Set standards and evaluate performance.
5. Recognize the need for training and organize on-the-job training as appropriate.
6. Understand techniques for communicating, managing conflict, and administering discipline.

This course teaches the principles, skills, and techniques necessary to manage resources at the operational or front-line level. This course is introductory in that it assumes no previous managerial knowledge or experience.

Text: Supervision; Concepts & Skill-Building, 7th edition; Samuel C. Certo; McGraw-Hill Irwin, 2010.

2) Academic Requirements:

Homework: There will be reading assignments from the text for every class.

Find a friend: Exchange contact information with at least three class members to keep current on any missed classes. This is a course requirement for points. Your Business Professor is not the student's first point of contact for gathering routine information.

Establish a domain & social media name. The student will reserve and claim a URL address, for example: www.yoest.com. This is a course requirement for points toward final grade.

Quizzes: Expect a short quiz in the first ten minutes of every class period. Questions may be very short answer, or fill-in-the-blank.

Class Participation: The Student is expected to volunteer and help move the class discussions.

Supervision in Current Events: To be presented in person and turned in on paper. Details below.

Examinations: There will be a Mid-Term and Final Exam; multiple choice and short answer. The Final Exam will be given on 13 December, the last day of class. The Final will be comprehensive.

3) Attendance:

Regular attendance of this course is expected. Failure to do so could have an adverse effect on the student's course grade. Any class material and assignments missed are the student's responsibility. Success will depend upon showing up.

Attendance will be taken at each class. Attendance at scheduled tests and presentations is mandatory. No make-ups will be given -- there are no exceptions from Your Business Professor.

If a student misses the first two weeks of class s/he will be dropped from the class.

Canceled Classes: If class is canceled for any reason, the student is still responsible for the material due. Any quiz on that material might be given at the next class, in addition to the regularly scheduled quiz.

Supervision Current Events Presentations will not be accepted late and must be delivered in person.

Special Needs and Accommodations--Please address with the instructor any special problems or needs at the beginning of the semester/session. If the student is seeking accommodations based on disability, then s/he should provide a disability data sheet, which can be obtained from the Counselor for Special Needs.

In the event of an emergency cancellation of class, please check Blackboard for further instructions.

Excessive absences, as defined in the college catalog, could result in the student receiving the grade 'F' for the course.

The Successful Student will devote two hours of class preparation for each hour of class room instruction.

The student will be asked to grade the effectiveness of each test.

Withdrawals: Any student can withdraw from this course without academic penalty under certain conditions. Initiation of the withdrawal is the student's responsibility and the grade of 'W' will be awarded.

Last day to drop with tuition refund or change to audit (Census Date) is ______________.

The last day for withdrawal, without academic penalty, for this semester/session is _______________.

Beyond this date dropping a course or failure to attend will result in the grade of 'F' except under mitigating circumstances. Documentation of these circumstances is required AND a grade of 'W' implies that the student was making satisfactory progress (passing) in the course at the time of the withdrawal.

Campus classes are closed by division, day or evening. Sometimes day classes will meet and evening classes will be canceled or vice versa. The evening division starts with 4:30 p.m. classes.

4) Testing and Grading:

Normally this instructor will assign only the grades of A, B, C, D, or F. Special grades such as W, I, and R will be assigned only in those circumstances prescribed in the college catalog.

The grade of X (audit) must be initiated by the student and will be assigned only when the student has attended class regularly. Failure to do so will result in the instructor issuing the grade of 'F'.

Course Grading System:

A = 90-100
B = 80-89
C = 70-79
D = 60-69
F = 0-59

Grade Point Allocation:

Exams: Two each, 15 points each; 30 points total
Quizzes: Fifteen (15) @ 2 points each; 30 points total
Supervision Current Events Presentation: 20 points
Class Participation 10
Text Book: 1 points
Exchange contact info: 1
Claim Domain Name: 1
Claim Facebook/Twitter Name: 1
Extra Credit as assigned: 6
Total = 100 points/percent

Class Participation: This will be a subjective measure at the discretion of the instructor. Even with the grade structure following, making your voice heard and preparedness are important - they could make the difference in a borderline grade. The only way to begin to earn Class Participation points is to show up.

Supervision Current Event:

Each student will be required to give a brief five minute oral presentation on a supervision related current-event newspaper article. This current-event/internet assignment will be turned in with student notes.

This presentation should be organized:

1) Provide the source of the article.

2) Deliver a brief overview of the topic, and, most important,

3) Your opinion/reaction to the article.

At the beginning of the presentation you will turn in a print-out of the article, being sure to include the newspaper source, date, and website.

Supervision Current Event grading scale:

2 -- Choice of article

4 -- Follow Directions

4 -- Organization

4 -- Overview/Reaction/Opinion

4 -- Presentation

2 -- Turn In

=

20 Total Points

Cheating. The following will be considered cheating in this course:

1. The giving or receiving of aid on any graded assignments or test without specific permission of this instructor.
2. The use of any material on a graded assignment or test other than those authorized by this instructor.
3. Talking or discussion of any kind during a graded test without specific permission of this instructor.

5) Notes and suggestions and hints:

Check the course catalog first for questions.

Be sure to log onto Blackboard to follow assignments and current grade.

Expect to be asked to contribute to each class session.

Do not text-message during class.

When Your Business Professor says "Tomorrow" he means the next class meeting - not the next day.

It is normal and customary to wait for any late Professor for 20 minutes.

Draft Your Own Reference Letter.

Additional information and public speaking helps.

Job Search Tips

Refer your friends to take this business class.

Attention to Detail: No points or credit will be awarded for any project that does not have the student's name on the work.

BUS 111 Semester Outline; There will be thirty (30) class sessions over sixteen (16) weeks.

COURSE OUTLINE

August 23
Introduction and Expectations

August 25
Ch. 1 What is a Supervisor?

August 30
Ch. 2 Ensuring High Quality

Sept 1
Ch. 3 Groups

September 6
No Class Labor Day

September 8
Ch. 4 Ethics
Ch. 5 Managing Diversity

September 13
Ch. 6 Goals

September 15
Ch. 7 Organizing

September 20
Ch. 8 Leadership

September 22
Ch. 9 Problem Solving

September 27
Exam Review

September 29
Mid-Term Exam____________________________________

October 4
Ch. 10 Communication

October 6
Ch. 10 Con't

October 11
No Class

October 13
Ch. 11 Motivating

October 18
Ch. 11 Con't

October 20
Ch. 12 Problem Employees

October 25
Ch. 12 Con't

October 27
Supervision Current Event DUE; Presentation

November 1
Presentations Con't

November 3
Ch. 13 Managing Time

November 8
Ch. 13 Con't

November 10
Ch. 14 Leadership

November 15
Ch. 14 Con't

November 17
Ch. 15 Selecting Employees

November 22
Ch. 15 Con't

November 24
No Class

November 29
Management Training class suggested reading:
Do You Have An Incompetent Manager? From The Washington Post

December 1
Ch. 16 Appraising Performance

December 6
Ch. 16 Con't

December 8
Exam review

December 13
Final Exam ______________________________________

If the student would like his/her graded final exam returned, please submit a stamped-self-addressed-envelope to Your Business Professor before the examination on December 13.
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Jack Yoest

John Wesley (Jack) Yoest Jr., is a senior business mentor in high-technology, medicine, non-profit and new media consulting. His expertise is in management training and development, operations, sales, and marketing. He has worked with clients in across the USA, India and East Asia.

Mr. Yoest is an adjunct professor of management in the Science, Technology and Business Division of the Northern Virginia Community College. He is also the president of Management Training of DC, LLC.

He has been published by Scripps-Howard, National Review Online, The Business Monthly, The Women's Quarterly and other outlets. He was a columnist for Small Business Trends, and was a finalist in the annual 2006 Weblog Awards in the Best Business Blog category for Reasoned Audacity which covers the intersection of business, culture and politics. The blog has grown to receive over a million unique visitors in five years.

Mr. Yoest served as a gubernatorial appointee in the Commonwealth of Virginia. During his tenure in state government, he acted as the Chief Technology Officer for the Secretary of Health and Human Resources where he was responsible for the successful Year 2000 (Y2K) conversion for the 16,000-employee unit. He also served as the Assistant Secretary for Health and Human Resources, acting as the Chief Operating Officer of the $5 billion budget.

Prior to this post, Mr. Yoest managed entrepreneurial, start-up ventures, which included medical device companies, high technology, software manufacturers, and business consulting companies. His experience includes managing the transfer of patented biotechnology from the National Institutes of Health to his client, which enabled the company to raise $25 million in venture capital funding.

He served as Vice President of Certified Marketing Services International, an ISO 9000 business-consulting firm, where he assisted international companies in human resource certification.

And he also served as President of Computer Applications Development and Integration (CADI), the premier provider of software solutions for the criminal justice market. During his tenure, Mr. Yoest negotiated a strategic partnership with Behring Diagnostics, a $300 million division of Hoechst Celanese, the company's largest contract.

Mr. Yoest served as a manager with Menlo Care, a medical device manufacturer. While at Menlo, Mr. Yoest was a part of the team that moved sales from zero to over $12 million that resulted in a buy-out by a medical division of Johnson & Johnson.

Mr. Yoest is a former Captain in the United States Army having served in Combat Arms. He earned an MBA from George Mason University and completed graduate work in the International Operations Management Program at Oxford University.

He has been active on a number of Boards and competes in 26.2-mile marathon runs.

Mr. Yoest and his wife, Charmaine Yoest, Ph.D., who is president and CEO of a public interest law firm, live in the Washington, DC area with their five children.
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Consider these other exciting Business Division courses:

ACC 211 Accounting
BUS 165 Small Business Management
AST 107 Editing and Proofreading
BUS 200 Principles of Management
AST 236 Software Applications or IST 117
BUS 241-1 Business Law I and II
BUS 280 International Business
BUS 100 Introduction to Business
FIN 215 Financial Management
BUS 125 Applied Business Math
ITE 115 Intro to Computer Applications and Concepts

Last day to drop with tuition refund or change to audit (Census Date): September 9, 2010.

Last day to withdraw without grade penalty: November 1, 2010.

Also linked on Management Training of DC, LLC.

See Real Management Training.

Be sure to follow Your Business Blogger(R) and Charmaine on Twitter: @JackYoest and @CharmaineYoest

Jack and Charmaine also blog at Reasoned Audacity and at Management Training of DC, LLC.

Thank you (foot)notes,

This introductory management course is offered through the Northern Virginia Community College

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Charmaine Yoest, Ph.D.,
Happy Warrior; Winsome Argument Charmaine appeared on FOX today, Friday 16 July to debate against tax payer funding for abortion.

Charmaine taped this morning and the piece aired throughout the day. (Normally, ProLife talent should not tape - liberal media will use editorial-editing to win a debate. But FOX is, well, fair and balanced.)

Please let us know what you think.

Why you should watch.

No, not to check out Charmaine's new hair cut and make-up. FOX in DC is expanding their make-up room next to the green room and the surface preparation was a bit rushed.

No. A viewer -- especially those leaning toward abortion -- should watch to learn why the ProLife position is winning in America; where 51 percent now self identify with Life.

Why?

Three reasons:

1) A compelling argument.
2) A winsome argument.
3) A healthy argument.

A compelling argument. Every picture tells a story, as Rod Stewart would say and every gif-jpg file is worth a thousand words. The science of the sono-gram has shifted the debate from the mother to the child. 85 percent of women who see Baby's First Picture choose to let the baby live.

This is why Cecile Richards at Planned Parenthood fights this scientific advancement. Too much information would change a woman's choice. Science has not been good for abortion.

ProChoiceGal tweets "fetuses are humans. However, that doesn't mean that pregnant women shouldn't get basic human rights." Re: abortion choice. Which brings us to,

Charmaine and Senator Orrin Hatch
A winsome argument. We in the Pro-Life movement are in the persuasion business. The Alert Reader knows that Your Business Blogger(R) teaches Sales and Marketing at the local college and has researched and taught how Pro-Life sells.

Over the years, we have shaken hands with nearly every pro-choice leader from Betty Friedan to Gloria Steinem to Margaret Sanger's grandson, Alexander Sanger. They were not the happy people as one might expect and did not advance a positive, enjoyable debate. They do not smile. (Steinem has now married; I think she may have smiled since the honeymoon.) That's why Charmaine's Pro-Life message is selling so well: She smiles. A Happy Warrior. Who Wins.

The unfortunate Twitterer MsFetus makes as bitter a presentation as Eleanor Smeal (understand the subjective evaluation-not the person: the presentation). The first rule in debating is "whoever shouts or goes ad hominem loses." The pro-abortion advocates are reduced to cussing in Caps Lock. They have lost.

UK Pro-Choice QueenCatherinex tweets, "In my personal opinion I wouldn't call a zygote, embryo, then fetus a baby. So it's not a case of dehumanising, it's biology." No, it's not biology--it's marketing: See your Baby; the Baby lives. Word descriptors-pictures are powerful.

Finally, the picture of health,

A healthy argument. Charmaine runs Americans United for Life, a public interest law firm. Her team of legal eagles has noted that the debate has moved from Roe v Wade. The Burger court wrote that the state has a compelling interest in the baby in the third trimester, but this was soon superseded by the health of the mother "exceptions." Subsequent rulings have now asserted that abortion must remain legal on the "reliance" interpretation, where the mother's financial health must be preserved as well as the perceived physical well-being.

(Charmaine Yoest, Ph.D., as a case study, would refute this. She didn't need abortion to become a President and CEO.)

But we have come back full circle to the mother's health. Science is now telling us that abortion is a crushing psychological burden where women are now stating--in public--that they now regret.

Studies also demonstrate that abortion removes protections allowing women to have a higher risk of breast cancer.

Women are regretting and re-thinking thinking their abortions. Harms to women will be the next foundation in the future of the abortion debate.

Be sure to follow Your Business Blogger(R) and Charmaine on Twitter: @JackYoest and @CharmaineYoest

Jack and Charmaine also blog at Reasoned Audacity and at Management Training of DC, LLC.

Thank you (foot)notes,

Watch Charmaine's Expert Testimony to the Judiciary Committee on the Kagan Nomination

Watch Charmaine's Expert Testimony to the Judiciary Committee on the Sotomayor Nomination

Posted at 11:21 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Charmaine will be appearing on FOX today, Friday 16 July to debate against tax payer funding for abortion.

The tax and abort position will be argued by National Partnership for Women and Family.

Charmaine Yoest

Charmaine taped this morning and the piece will be aired throughout the day. (Normally, ProLife talent should not tape - liberal media will use editorial-editing to win a debate. But FOX is, well, fair and balanced.)

Please let us know what you think.

Why you should watch.

No, not to check out Charmaine's new hair cut and make-up. FOX in DC is expanding their make-up room next to the green room and the surface preparation was a bit rushed.

No. A viewer -- especially those leaning toward abortion -- should watch to learn why the ProLife position is winning in America; where 51 percent now self identify with Life.

Why?

Three reasons:

1) A compelling argument.

2) A winsome argument.

3) A healthy argument.

A compelling argument. Every picture tells a story, as Rod Stewart would say and every gif file is worth a thousand words. The science of the sono-gram has shifted the debate from the mother to the child. 85 percent of women who see Baby's First Picture choose to let the baby live. This is why Cecile Richards at Planned Parenthood fights this scientific advancement. Too much information would change a woman's choice. Science has not been good for abortion.

ProChoiceGal tweets "fetuses are humans. However, that doesn't mean that pregnant women shouldn't get basic human rights." Re: abortion choice. Which brings us to,

Charmaine and Senator Orrin Hatch
A winsome argument. We in the Pro-Life movement are in the persuasion business. The Alert Reader knows that Your Business Blogger(R) teaches Sales and Marketing at the local college. Pro-Life sells. Over the years, we have shaken hands with nearly every pro-choice leader from Betty Friedan to Gloria Steinem to Margaret Sanger's grandson, Alexander Sanger. They were not happy people as one might expect and did not advance a positive, enjoyable debate. They do not smile. (Steinem has now married; I think she may have smiled since the honeymoon.) That's why Charmaine's Pro-Life message is selling so well: She smiles.

The unfortunate Twitterer MsFetus makes as bitter a presentation as Eleanor Smeal (understand the subjective evaluation-not the person: the presentation). The first rule in debating is "whoever shouts or goes ad hominem loses." The pro-abortion advocates are reduced to cussing in Caps Lock. They have lost.

UK Pro-Choice QueenCatherinex tweets, "In my personal opinion I wouldn't call a zygote, embryo, then fetus a baby. So it's not a case of dehumanising, it's biology." No, it's not biology--it's marketing: See your Baby; the Baby lives. Word pictures are powerful.

Finally, the picture of health,

A healthy argument. Charmaine runs Americans United for Life, a public interest law firm. Her team of legal eagles knows well that the debate has moved from Roe v Wade. The Burger court wrote that the state has a compelling interest in the baby in the third trimester, but this was soon superseded by the health of the mother "exceptions." Subsequent rulings have now asserted that abortion must remain legal on the "reliance" interpretation, where the mother's financial health must be preserved as well as the perceived physical well-being.

(Charmaine Yoest, Ph.D., as a case study, would refute this. She didn't need abortion to become a President and CEO.)

But we have come back to the mother's health. Science is now telling us that abortion is a crushing psychological burden where women are now stating--in public--that they regret.

New studies demonstrate that abortion removes protections making women at higher risk of breast cancer.

Women are regretting and re-thinking thinking their abortions. Harms to women will be the next foundation in the future of the abortion debate.

Be sure to follow Your Business Blogger(R) and Charmaine on Twitter: @JackYoest and @CharmaineYoest

Jack and Charmaine also blog at Reasoned Audacity and at Management Training of DC, LLC.

Thank you (foot)notes,

Watch Charmaine's Expert Testimony to the Judiciary Committee on the Kagan Nomination

Watch Charmaine's Expert Testimony to the Judiciary Committee on the Sotomayor Nomination

Posted at 12:08 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Charmaine Yoest, Ph.D.Charmaine will be giving expert testimony in the Kagan hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The link to her written testimony is here.

Following is the Americans United for Life press release.

Contact: Matthew Faraci
202-556-1994
press@aul.org

YOEST TO TESTIFY TOMORROW IN KAGAN HEARINGS: AMERICANS
DO NOT WANT AGENDA-DRIVEN JUDGES

WASHINGTON, D.C. - (06/30/2010) - Americans United for Life President and CEO Dr. Charmaine Yoest will add her voice to the distinguished panel of experts testifying on the nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court, calling on the Senate to reject another agenda-driven justice. When she testifies on July 1st, it will be the second time since 2009 that Dr. Yoest has been invited to illustrate concerns with a nominee to the nation's high court.

What: Dr. Charmaine Yoest, President and CEO of Americans United for Life, to give testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the nomination of Elena Kagan to the U.S. Supreme Court.

When: July 1st - afternoon - exact time to be determined.

Where: Hart Senate Office Building, Hearing Room 216

To read Dr. Yoest's written testimony as submitted to the Committee, click here. For analysis of Kagan's political and legal record, go to www.aul.org. And contact the AUL media office for interviews and analysis of the impact of this highly political nominee.

Charmaine's tesitmony at the
Sotomayor hearingsAlert Readers know that this is not Charmaine's first rodeo. She has delivered congressional testimony on a number of occasions - most recently in the Sotomayor confirmation hearings.

Please watch and leave us a comment on Facebook or email.

Charmaine on an earlier interview
on agenda driven judges

Join Fight FOCA

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Thank you (foot)notes:

What Makes An Expert Witness?: The 5 C's; Charmaine Giving Testimony At The Sotomayor Hearings.

Americans United for Life (AUL) is a nonprofit, public-interest law and policy organization whose vision is a nation in which everyone is welcomed in life and protected in law. The first national pro-life organization in America, AUL has been committed to defending human life through vigorous judicial, legislative, and educational efforts at both the federal and state levels since 1971.

AUL's legal team has been involved in every pro-life case before the U.S. Supreme Court including the successful defense of the Hyde Amendment. AUL also publishes Defending Life, the most comprehensive state-by-state legal guide of its kind, which is distributed annually to legislators across the nation.

Recently, Americans United for Life detailed the facts on taxpayer-funding of abortion during the debate over federal health care legislation, provided legal assistance to states working to opt out of abortion provisions created by federal health care law, and has played a major role in educating policymakers on the record of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan.

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Charmaine Yoest, Ph.D., President & CEO, Americans United for Life will be sworn in to provide expert testimony on the Kagan nomination. Charmaine is scheduled to testify sometime this Thursday.

In 44 Politics and Policy in Obama's Washington, By Garance Franke-Ruta published,

Kagan hearings witness list released

The Senate Judiciary Committee has announced the witness list for Elena Kagan's Supreme Court confirmation hearings, which are scheduled to begin Monday at 12:30 p.m.

American Bar Association Witnesses
Kim Askew, Chair of Standing Committee
William J. Kayatta, Jr., First Circuit Representative

Majority Witnesses
Professor Robert C. Clark, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor, Austin Wakeman Scott Professor of Law, and former Dean, Harvard Law School
Justice Fernande "Nan" Duffly, Associate Justice, Massachusetts Court of Appeals, on behalf of the National Association of Women Judges
Greg Garre, Partner, Lathan & Watkins, former Solicitor General of the United States
Jennifer Gibbins, Executive Director, Prince William Soundkeeper
Professor Jack Goldsmith, Professor of Law, Harvard University
Marcia Greenberger, Founder and Co-President, National Women's Law Center
Jack Gross, plaintiff, Gross v. FBL Financial Services Inc.
Lilly Ledbetter, plaintiff, Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire
Professor Ronald Sullivan, Edward R. Johnston Lecturer on Law, Director of the Criminal Justice Institute, Harvard law School
Kurt White, President, Harvard Law Armed Forces Association


Charmaine Yoest meets with Senator Orrin Hatch

Minority Witnesses
Robert Alt, Senior Fellow and Deputy Director, Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, The Heritage Foundation
Lt. Gen. William "Jerry" Boykin, United States Army (ret.)
Capt. Pete Hegseth, Army National Guard
Commissioner Peter Kirsanow, Benesch Law Firm
David Kopel, Esq., Research Director, Independence Institute
Colonel Thomas N. Moe, United States Air Force (ret.)
David Norcross, Esq., Blank Rome
William J. Olson, Esq., William J. Olson, P.C.
Tony Perkins, President, Family Research Council
Stephen Presser, Raoul Berger Professor of Legal History, Northwestern University School of Law
Ronald Rotunda, The Doy & Dee Henley Chair and Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence, Chapman University School of Law
Ed Whelan, President, Ethics and Public Policy Center
Dr. Charmaine Yoest, President & CEO, Americans United for Life
Capt. Flagg Youngblood, United States Army

June 25, 2010; 5:26 PM ET

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Thank you (foot)notes:

Be sure to follow Your Business Blogger(R) and Charmaine on Twitter: @JackYoest and @CharmaineYoest

Jack and Charmaine also blog at Reasoned Audacity and at Management Training of DC, LLC.

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This is a guest post by John, The Dude. It was my Father's Day gift. Better than a tie.

Two points:

1) His self-confidence and self-esteem does not surprise anyone, and

2) John is the only teenager in our neighborhood who knows how to handle a lawnmower, leaf-blower and edger.

Somehow the two are related.

I can't sleep. It is the night before my big tryout and I cannot sleep. I have thrown and hit today, so I feel exhausted. Yet I cannot find the comfort of sleep. My mind keeps racing! Baseball, it is all I can think about. Will I do well? Will I make it? What if, what if, what if? I can't sleep.

Yorktown High School has a peculiar policy on certain sports, which allows 8th graders to try out for Freshmen/JV teams. Since Arlington Middle Schools don't offer certain sports like baseball or football, Yorktown allows 8th graders to participate in High School sports. JV baseball has the highest competition. Over 60 people try out for a team that might take 22. Generally, the JV team takes one, maybe two eighth graders. My odds of making it were slim at best.

Despite the odds, I began my preparation for the tryouts with complete dedication. I got cut from the Middle School basketball team. So instead of dribbling and shooting lay-ups I took ground balls and hit soft-toss. I began in early November. Six days a week for the next five months I practiced baseball. Anything and everything: if it involved a baseball, I practiced it. My dad and I developed a little motto: "A little bit every day, makes you better and better, in every way." It might sound a little corny; but it worked for me.

When it began to snow, I took practice indoors. This was not easy to do at all. My dad would toss ground balls to me inside our living room! I can't even count how many lamps, glasses and cups we broke that winter. Eventually my mom kicked me out of the house. Determined to get better, I threw the baseball with my dad in the snow. My neighbors thought we were crazy. But I was on a mission.

The largest thing that kept me going through these tough practices was my dad. Every day he would remind me to do some drills. Some days I felt awful. I didn't want to practice, or I was just plain tired. My dad didn't want to hear any of that nonsense. Rain or shine, feeling good or bad, we found some way to keep working.

I got sick after practicing out in the rain and cold. It was just a little coughing and sneezing, but I felt really bad. All I wanted to do was sit in bed and sleep. I remember getting in bed with chicken noodle soup, and feeling like I never wanted to get out ever again. Instead of going out and doing the drills, my dad brought the drills to me. I sat in bed and tossed the baseball against the wall. I did this for hours. When I couldn't run and jump, I practiced my hand quickness. Just simply tossing the ball around in my glove. It might seem a little silly and repetitive, but I've seen countless routine plays messed up by a bad glove to hand transition.

Basics are the most fundamental parts of baseball. That's what I practiced the most. I didn't practice the diving plays in the outfield, or the ridiculous backhand catches. I practiced fielding ground balls and catching easy pop-ups. Those simple, easy fundamentals will make you a great player. With time, those ESPN highlight tape plays will appear, but if you can't field a normal ground ball, I realized I'd never become great. Or even make the team.

Without even realizing it, February came around. I kept getting better and better, stronger and faster. But on Valentine's Day, it all turned around. My mom was diagnosed with cancer on February 14. This was only a few short weeks before my tryout. The pain and devastation I felt when I was told nearly ruined me. For the first time, I did not want to keep on practicing. I felt weak and destroyed. But my parents were still there for me.

My mom sat with me and talked with me. I was certainly sad and I couldn't imagine the thought of her losing her hair. She told me not to worry. She said she would be fine. The biggest thing she said to me however, was that she wanted me to keep on practicing, and to make the JV team. . . for her.

The very next day, you can imagine I was working as hard as ever. I ran, I hit, I ran even more. I did not stop. I could not afford to be cut. I threw every single day with my dad. On Sundays, we went to the track to run. The intensity picked up, until the day before the tryout.

The Sunday before the tryout my dad talked with me. The tryout was in less than 24 hours. I remember it so clearly in my mind. My dad told me he was proud of me. He told me he loved me and always would. But he looked pained. He told me that today was the last day he could be my coach. I almost cried because I knew it was true. I had grown up. I was trying out for High School Baseball. My dad said he couldn't keep up with me, and that whether or not I made the cut, I had grown up beyond his level of expertise. He said we could still do drills and such, but today was the last day. At that moment, I knew I was ready.

I shined my cleats, I oiled my glove, and I bought loads of sunflower seeds. I stashed my glove underneath my bed for good luck, and I laid out all of my gear in my room. I had all of my sets of baseball pants with belts set out in a row, with baseball shirts corresponding to each. You know what they say: An ounce of appearance is worth a pound of performance. In order to play your best, you have to look the best.

The week of tryouts that ensued flew by me in such a flash. To be honest, I can't tell you a single thing that happened that week. All I knew was that I was competing for a spot, and I would try my hardest to show that I deserved it. And so I did. I competed. The week flew by me right before my eyes. I saw some of my closest friends get cut from the team. There were now 15 8th graders, and only two would make it. I was very sad, but I only strove harder.

The second to the last day was killer. We worked outside in the batting cages, and we ran quite a few miles. After doing the running for about an hour, everyone was dead tired. Every single person was sweating profusely. But instead of letting us take a break, we went down to the track, and ran even more. I logged so many laps at the track prior to the tryouts. Even though I was pretty much dead, I found a way to keep afloat. Did the coaches notice my hustle? Would my stamina hold? I could only hope and wait for the answer.

Sooner or later, there were only a few select people left. There were about 30 people left trying out for the team. All 30 were good enough to play in All-Stars. 15 of the 30 were 8th graders; only two would make it. While 10 or 11 of the other 15 Freshmen and Sophomores would make it. Most of them were my best friends. But the last day of tryouts had finally come. I would soon know if my hard work would pay off.

The last tryout was at an indoor training facility. I was excited because all of my practicing had been indoors. Indeed, I played quite well that last day. But was it good enough? We hit in batting cages, we took ground balls, we did everything for about two hours. Finally, the coach called us in. The moment of truth had finally come.

The first thing I remember was being in a room with the 30 players and the coach. The coach asked for all the returning JV players to leave the room. They left the room and waited outside. To this day, I do not think my heart has pounded as hard as it did then. I was quite literally shaking, from the anxiety. The coach was being slow and careful. He looked around, deliberately making eye contact with every player.

He then called a few names and asked them to join the others who had left: . . . Young, Mellin, Fallon, Herold, Marshall, Yoest. I did not even know what to think. I left the room with the players and walked outside. . . to the smiling and happy faces of our new teammates.

High fives were exchanged, and everyone was just happy. I made the team! I could hardly believe it. All my hard work had finally reached fruition. I was officially a member of the JV squad. Everyone laughed and joked about "initiations," but that is a whole different story.

I'll never forget making JV baseball as an 8th grader. It was hard. But I loved every second of the preparation, the toil and the reward. I went home and told my folks. I think my mom cried she was so happy. During the tryouts she had gone through surgery, and her future was looking bright. My dad was so proud of me he didn't know what to say.

I go to bed happy, yet nervous. Will I play well during the season, if I play at all? Will the coach like me? What if he changes his mind? What if, what if, what if? I can't sleep...

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The Wonder Crew, The Untold Story of a Coach, Navy Rowing, and Olympic Immortality, written by Susan Saint Sing published in 2008 is the story of Coach Richard Glendon at the Naval Academy winning the Olympic Gold Medal in 1920 in crew.

The tale is set, "In a time when when admirals thanked rowing coaches for helping to win world wars." p. 6.

Sing quotes Admiral Cyde Whitlock King, 1920 Navy stroke man,

Of all sports, I think rowing is the greatest...because it is a man's game in every sense of the word." p. 21

Rowing is the oldest intercollegiate sport in the USA as well as the oldest international collegiate sport in the world. It uses an eight-oared shell that is some 58' long, weights 200 pounds, with a top speed of 18 knots. To power the small boat, Coach Glendon, "Was in pursuit of the ancient, elusive arete, the ancient Greek pinnacle of perfection, strength in grace of physical, mental and spiritual balance." p. 22.

Glendon was building team, not nine individuals,

It wasn't just a matter of who among them was the best. The individuals were less important than the whole - the [Naval Academy] brigade was the focus, not any one standout. No war was ever won with only one man. Though a brigade would follow the leader of one, that one needed a brigade to follow him. So, too, in rowing. The fundamental question was always "How did the crew look? And the crew was not just each man in seat; it was eight men rowing as one. The boat and the crew at large were a unit, the gestalt was the final equation, not the individual parts. In rowing truly the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

Author Sing further explains rowing and Coach Glendon's philosophy,

A good man on a rowing machine, in training on land or in a weight room, might not help a boat go fast. p. 26

The rowers respected Coach Glendon, "He was the orderer of their chaos." p. 26.

Appearances matter. Sing quotes Glendon, "You can tell a good oarsman sometimes just by the way he sits up straight in the shell." p. 82.

A crew will pull some 200 strokes over a 2,000 meter course. "The shell capable of accelerating to 18 knots generates the most horsepower of any human-powered watercraft." p. 88.

Sing quotes Brad Brinegar, from Dartmouth, p. 115,

The oarsman is not a man alone. If his crew is to suceed he must become perfectly synchronized with the other men in the boat. Sometimes, for thirty or forty strokes--more if the crew is really good and well matched--all men in the boat will move together. Every move the stroke makes will be mirrored by the men behind him. all the catches will hit hard and clean...when that happens the boat begins the lift up off the water, air bubbles running under the bow, and there is an exhileration like nothing else I have ever experienced...literally like flying.

The personalities of each seat position are reviewed,

Bow should be neat and easy with his movements, above all a good waterman.
Two [seat] is ditto, but slightly heavier and stronger.
Three, four, and five the most powerful available.
Six seat should be a cleaver oarsman as well as being powerful, and of course...reliable.
Seven should be the most finished oar in the boat.
Stroke (eight) is the most difficult man to find, as he must combine so many qualities, but first and foremost he must be a man of the right personality, a real leader who will not be discouraged by adversity. His weight is immaterial. p. 162.

"A clean boat is a fast boat!" p. 187.

The 1920 USA Men's Olympic crew was a barrier breaking performance, "Akin to what philosopher Michael Novak describes as the power of athletic achievement in revealing moments of perfect form." p. 218.

"Rowing is not a game, it is much more akin to riding, skating, or dancing, or any other form of locomotion developed into an art." Gilbert C. Bourne, A Textbook on Oarsmanship, p. 71

Chester Nimitz was the Fleet Admiral of the American Navy in the Pacific in WWII. He commanded over two million men, 5,000 ships and 20,000 aircraft. p. 23. Nimitz had said, "Dick Glendon, by what he put into successive generations of Navy midshipmen, undoubtedly helped us win the naval battles of World War I and World War II." p. 242

Susan Saint Sing includes among the photographs a picture that hung in Coach Richard Glendon's house. It shows Admiral Chester Nimitz signing the Japanese surrender documents on the deck of the USS Missouri ending WWII. It is inscribed, "To Dick Glendon with best wishes and warmest regards."

The photograph is signed, "Nimitz--Fleet Admiral, stroke 1905." It is not clear of which Nimitz might be more proud: 'Admiral' or 'stroke.'

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Hannah Yoest, Rowing Four Seat, Yorktown High School First Varsity Crew, 2010

Photo Credit: Charmaine Yoest, Ph.D.
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HANNAH YOEST
Yorktown High School
5201 N. 28th Street
Arlington, Virginia 22207
Class of 2011
Coach: Carol Dinion
Personal 5'6" 142 lbs.

Selection Camp, Junior Women's National Team, 2010: Guenter Beutter


Thompsons Boat Club, Washington, DC: Kirk Shipley
Old Dominion Boat Club, Alexandria, Virginia: Nick Johnson
Jr. B National Development Sculling: Bill Randall, Bob Spousta

ROWING ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Power/Weight - 1.6; Max Watts - 459; One minute erg - 1:38; 2,000 meter time (2K):

7:26.3 with a 1:51.5 split; April 27, 2010; Team Practice
7:33.1 March 7th; U.S. Rowing Junior National I.D. Camp
7:38.1 March 2nd; Team Practice
7:39:0 January 10th; Placed 2nd among Juniors, overall 8th of 54 rowers,
2010 MidAtlantic Erg Sprints.

+ Invited: one of 25 selected to compete for a seat on the USRowing Junior National Team 4X
+ All Met Honorable Mention, The Washington Post June 9, 2010. (Carol Dinion named Coach of the year.)
+ Elected Captain Varsity Crew for 2010-2011

Junior Year, 2010

Spring 2010

Named Outstanding Rower for women's crew, Yorktown High School, 2010
8th Place, 76th Scholastic Nationals Regatta, Saratoga Springs, NY, 1st Varsity, rowed stroke.
Stotesbury: 4th in semi-finals, 8th overall by time, 6 seat
Charlie Butt: 2nd place in Finals, 6 seat
Darrell Winslow: 1st place in Finals, 2 seat

Hannah Yoest, Left, Gold Medalist
Mid-Atlantic Erg Sprints
Junior Mixed 2K Relay
Jan 10, 2010
photo credit: Helena YoestWinter 2010

Placed 2nd among Juniors, overall 8th of 54 rowers, 2010 Mid-Atlantic Erg Sprints.
Gold medal, mixed relay, Mid-Atlantic Erg Sprints

Fall 2009

12th Place, Head of the Charles, Old Dominion Boat Club, 4 seat
1st place, Head of the Potomac
2nd place, Head of the Christina (due to time penalty)

Summer 2009

US Rowing, Junior B Sculling camp

Hannah Yoest
Rower of the Year 2007Sophomore Year, 2009

Varsity Eight: Advanced to semifinals at SRAA Nationals, 1st Varsity; 4 seat
2nd at VASRA State Championship, 4 seat
15th at Stotesbury

Freshman Year, 2008

Freshman Eight: Bronze at Ted Phoenix Championship, qualifying for Nationals, rowed stroke Rowed stroke at SRAA Nationals
Awarded "Most Valuable Rower"

8th Grade, 2007

Novice Eight
Silver, Women's 4th Eight, Ted Phoenix Championship; 6th seat

Member The United States Rowing Association, USRowing, 996536

ACADEMIC and Extracurricular Highlights


Hannah Yoest completes Suntrust Marathon
HANNAH YOEST

GPA: 3.4
Recognized as an Advanced Placement (AP) Scholar by the CollegeBoard

Virginia Standards of Learning Program (SOL), Spring 2010, Writing, Pass/Advanced (Highest Category)
SAT: Scheduled

Spring 2010, Received Principal's Award
Spring 2009, Received Principal's Award

Student Government,
Junior Class Vice President, 2010;
Executive Board, Sophomore Class,
Student Representative, 2009

Visual Arts Gifted Program, Yorktown High School

Principal's Award, 2009-10, presented to 7 per cent of student body. Her teachers write,

Hannah is one of her class' leaders...Lively, involved and vivacious. Hannah is the first to help a fellow art student and even her teacher! She volunteers for any task...and can be counted on to follow through to completion. Her enthusiasm and love of life is infectious...

Principal's Award, 2008-09, for Distinctly Positive Contribution to School Community

Voted "Most Friendly" by the student body, 2009 and 2010.
Voted "Most Spirited" by the student body, 2008.

Completed the 2009 Suntrust Marathon, Richmond, Virginia, November 14, 2009
Completed the 2007 Marine Corps Marathon, Washington, DC; October 28, 2007
Gold Medal, 16-19 women's age group for the 2009 OBX Triathlon

Hannah Yoest rowing stroke
Novice year, copyright protected
Triathlon, Outer Banks, North Carolina

-Swim, Run, Bike Fall; Fall 2004
-Swimming Leg .9 mile; Fall 2003

Self-Defense Yellow Belt, 2nd Degree, April 23, 2004

Intern, Press Office, Senator Lamar Alexander, Spring, 2008

Intern, Production Assistant, Robert Wickers, Huckabee for President Campaign, December, 2008

Jack Yoest, dad; Hannah Yoest, 14, center;
Charmaine Yoest, mom
Marine Corps Marathon, 26.2 miles, October 2007Traveled to Peru as part of a construction team re-building a house, 2007.

Traveled to Dominican Republic to perform with a drama troupe at an orphanage, 2006.

Hannah Yoest with brother John Yoest
Gold Medals, OBX Triathlon, 2009

Hannah Yoest, Freshman Volleyball

Hannah Yoest state track finalist, 400 meters, 2003

Hannah Yoest Triathlon interview



Hannah Yoest at tennis lessons

Gil Crouse, Ph.D., grandfather, Hannah Yoest
OBX Triathlon, 2004


Hannah Yoest first interview

Hannah Yoest with mom

Hannah Yoest studies with mom

Letter from Ronald Reagan

Hannah Yoest, Right, in the Dominican Republic

Hannah Yoest, washing feet in the Dominican Republic

Hannah Yoest, painting an orphanage in Peru

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Syllabus Principles of Management
BUSiness 200 040A

John Wesley Yoest, Jr. (Jack)
Adjunct Professor of Management
Science, Technology and Business, Principles of Management (Lecture)

Main Campus:

Tuesdays and Thursdays 6:00pm - 9:20pm

A-Bisdorf/AA- Room 360

May 18, 2010 to June 24, 2010

Northern Virginia Community College

3001 North Beauregard Street

Alexandria, VA 22311

NVCC phone: 703 845-6200

Fax: 703-845-6009

Jack@Yoest.org

or,

JYoest@NVCC.edu

Cell: 202.215.2434

Education:

M.B.A., George Mason University

B.S., Old Dominion University

Graduate Course Work, Oxford University

1) Course Objective:

Prerequisites: Each student must be able to

1) Read and write English fluently, and

2) Have the desire to understand the practice of management.

Course Objectives:

To enable students to acquire knowledge concerning the basic principles and functioning of management -- including the ability to plan, organize, lead, motivate and control.

The Alert Student will review how to problem solve, reason, and communicate at the course completion.

A satisfactory placement score for ENG 111 is strongly recommended.

Text: MGMT2, 2009-2010 edition; Chuck Williams; South-Western Centage Learning, 2010.

2) Academic Requirements:

ASSIGNMENTS:

Homework: There will be reading assignments from the text for every class.

Find a friend. Exchange contact information with at least one class member to keep current on any missed classes. This is a course requirement for points. Your Business Professor is not the student's first point of contact.

Establish a domain & social media name. The student will reserve and claim a URL address, for example: www.yoest.com, www.yoest.org, www.twitter.com/JackYoest This is a course requirement for points toward final grade.

Quizzes: Expect a short quiz in the first ten minutes of every class period. Questions may be true/false, very short answer, or fill-in-the-blank.

Class Participation: The Student is expected to volunteer and help move the class discussions.

Examinations: There will be a Mid-Term and Final Exam; multiple choice and short answer. The Final Exam will be given on 24 June, the last day of class. The Final will be comprehensive.

3) Attendance:

Regular attendance of this course is expected. Failure to do so could have an adverse effect on the student's course grade. Any class material and assignments missed are the student's responsibility. Success will depend upon showing up.

If a student misses the first two weeks of class s/he will be dropped from the class.

Canceled Classes: If class is canceled for any reason, the student is still responsible for the material due. Any quiz on that material might be given at the next class, in addition to the regularly scheduled quiz.

Last Day for Schedule Adjustments with Tuition Refund is ____________.

Last Day to Withdraw Without Grade Penalty or Change to Audit is _________.

Attendance will be taken at each class.

Attendance at scheduled tests and presentations is mandatory. No make-ups will be given -- there are no exceptions from Your Business Professor.

Case Study Presentations will not be accepted late and must be delivered in person.

Special Needs and Accommodations: Please address with the instructor any special problems or needs at the beginning of the semester/session. If the student is seeking accommodations based on disability, then s/he should provide a disability data sheet, which can be obtained from the Counselor for Special Needs.

In the event of an emergency cancellation of class, please check Blackboard for further instructions. See http://tac.nvcc.edu/blackboard/student/ .

It is a requirement that the student exchange names and contact information with at least one classmate.

Excessive absences, as defined in the college catalog, could result in the student receiving the grade 'F' for the course.

The Successful Student will devote two hours of class preparation for each hour of class room instruction.

The student will be asked to grade the effectiveness of each test.

Withdrawals: Any student may withdraw from this course without academic penalty within the first 60% of the session. Initiation of the withdrawal is the student's responsibility and the grade of 'W' will be awarded.

Last day to drop with tuition refund (Census Date) is ______________.

The last day for withdrawal, without academic penalty, for this semester/session is _______________.

Beyond this date dropping a course or failure to attend will result in the grade of 'F' except under mitigating circumstances. Documentation of these circumstances is required AND a grade of 'W' implies that the student was making satisfactory progress (passing) in the course at the time of the withdrawal.

Campus classes are closed by division, day or evening. Sometimes day classes will meet and evening classes will be canceled or vice versa. The evening division starts with 4:30 p.m. classes.

Cheating. The following will be considered cheating in this course:

1. The giving or receiving of aid on any graded assignments or test without specific permission of this instructor.

2. The use of any material on a graded assignment or test other than those authorized by this instructor.

3. Talking or discussion of any kind during a graded test without specific permission of this instructor.

4) Testing and Grading:

Normally this instructor will assign only the grades of A, B, C, D, or F. Special grades such as W, I, and R will be assigned only in those circumstances prescribed in the college catalog. The grade of X (audit) must be initiated by the student and will be assigned only when the student has attended class regularly.

Failure to do so will result in the instructor issuing the grade of 'F'.

Course Grading System:

A = 90-100

B = 80-89

C = 70-79

D = 60-69

F = 0-59

Grade Point Allocation:

Exams: Two each, 15 points each; 30 points total

Quizzes: ten (5) @ 2 points each; 20 points total

Case Study: 30 points

Class Participation 10

Text Book: 1 points

Exchange contact info: 1

Claim Domain Name: 1

Claim Facebook/Twitter Name: 1

Extra Credit as assigned: 6

Total = 100 points/percent

Class Participation: This will be a subjective measure at the discretion of the instructor. Even with the grade structure following, making your voice heard and preparedness are important -- they could make the difference in a borderline grade.

The only way to begin to earn Class Participation points is to show up.

Case Study: One case study will be solved in writing (Typed, 12 pt type, double-spaced with a cover sheet) and returned to the instructor on -- or before -- the date due. Practice cases will be covered in class and sample questions will be given as a uideline (800 words in length). The student should be prepared to deliver a Two Minute Review of the Case Study. See How to Write a Business Case Study.

TIPS:

Be sure to include a cover sheet.

Use headings of "Problem, Solution, Results."

Have your study partner review, 1 point, include your partner's name on the cover sheet.

Avoid cliches.

Spell out proper names before using an acronym: Major League Baseball, MLB.

Don't bury your lead.

Consider starting with a quote or a question.

Case Study grading scale:

Points Topic

3 content

3 supporting statements

2 grammar

1 appearance/delivery

1 follow directions

==

10 total

5) Notes and suggestions and hints:

Check the course catalog first for questions.

Be sure to log onto Blackboard to follow assignments and current grade.

Expect to be asked to contribute to each class session.

Do not text-message during class.

When Your Business Professor says "Tomorrow" he means the next class meeting -- not the next day.

It is normal and customary to wait for any late Professor for 20 minutes.

Draft Your Own Reference Letter.

Additional information and public speaking helps.

JobSearch Tips http://www.yoest.com/2009/03/30/looking-for-a-job-pass-this-test/

Refer your friends to take this business class.

Attention to Detail: No points or credit will be awarded for any project that does not have the student's name on the work.

BUS 200 Semester Outline; There will be only twelve (12) class sessions over six (6) weeks.

COURSE OUTLINE

May 18

Introduction and Expectations

Ch. 1 Management

May 20

Ch. 2 History

Ch. 3 Organization & Culture

May 25

Ch. 4 Ethics & Social Responsibility

Ch. 5 Planning & Decision Making

May 27

Ch. 6 Organization Strategy

Ch. 7 Innovation & Change

June 1

Ch. 8 Global Management

Ch. 9 Designing Adaptive Organizations

June 3

Mid-Term _______________________________________________

June 8

Ch. 10 Managing Teams

Ch. 11 Managing Human Resource Systems

Ch. 12 Managing Individuals & a Diverse Work Force

June 10

Ch. 13 Motivation

Ch. 14 Leadership

Ch. 15 Managing Communication

June 15

Case Study DUE; Presentation

June 17

Ch. 16 Control

Ch. 17 Managing Information

Ch. 18 Managing Services & Manufacturing Operations

June 22

Exam review

June 24

Final Exam ______________________________________

If the student would like his/her graded final exam returned, please submit a stamped-self-addressed-envelope to Your Business Professor before the examination on June 24.

Jack Yoest

John Wesley (Jack) Yoest Jr., is a senior business mentor in high-technology, medicine, non-profit and new media consulting. His expertise is in management training and development, operations, sales, and marketing.

He has worked with clients in across the USA, India and East Asia. Mr. Yoest is an adjunct professor of management in the Science, Technology and Business Division of the Northern Virginia Community College.

He is also the president of Management Training of DC, LLC.

He has been published by Scripps-Howard, National Review Online, The Business Monthly, The Women's Quarterly and other outlets. He was a columnist for Small Business Trends, and was a finalist in the annual 2006 Weblog Awards in the Best Business Blog category for Reasoned Audacity at www.yoest.org covers the intersection of business, culture and politics. The blog has grown to receive over a million unique visitors in five years.

Mr. Yoest served as a gubernatorial appointee in the Administration of Governor James Gilmore in the Commonwealth of Virginia. During his tenure in state government, he acted as the Chief Technology Officer for the Secretary of Health and Human Resources where he was responsible for the successful Year 2000 (Y2K) conversion for the 16,000-employee unit.

He also served as the Assistant Secretary for Health and Human Resources, acting as the Chief Operating Officer of the $5 billion budget.

Prior to this post, Mr. Yoest managed entrepreneurial, start-up ventures, which included medical device companies, high technology, software manufacturers, and business consulting companies.

His experience includes managing the transfer of patented biotechnology from the National Institutes of Health to his client, which enabled the company to raise $25 million in venture capital funding.

He served as Vice President of Certified Marketing Services International, an ISO 9000 business-consulting firm, where he assisted international companies in human resource certification. And he also served as President of Computer Applications Development and Integration (CADI), the premier provider of software solutions for the criminal justice market. During his tenure, Mr. Yoest negotiated a strategic partnership with Behring Diagnostics, a $300 million division of Hoechst Celanese, the company's largest contract.

Mr. Yoest served as a manager with Menlo Care, a medical device manufacturer. While at Menlo, Mr. Yoest was a part of the team that moved sales from zero to over $12 million that resulted in a buy-out by a medical division of Johnson & Johnson.

Mr. Yoest is a former Captain in the United States Army having served in Combat Arms. He earned an MBA from George Mason University and completed graduate work in the International Operations Management Program at Oxford University.

He has been active on a number of Boards and competes in 26.2-mile marathon runs.

Mr. Yoest and his wife, Charmaine Yoest, Ph.D., who is president and CEO of a public interest law firm, live in the Washington, DC area with their five children.

Be sure to grade Your Business Professor at www.RateMyProfessors.com Key word search 'Yoest.'

Last day to drop with tuition refund (Census Date): May 24

Last day to withdraw without grade penalty or change to audit June 11

Also linked on Management Training of DC, LLC.

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BUS100 take home assignment.docx

BUS100 take home assignment; due 3 May 2010
Please complete in your own handwriting. Open book. You may collaborate with anyone.
Chapters 12 to 20. Fifteen points total.
Define
1. Marketing
2. CRM
3. Customer lifetime value
4. Utility
5. Target market
6. Market segment
7. SWOT
8. Discretionary income
9. Product
10. Product line
11. Brand
12. Trademark
13. Supply
14. Demand
15. Breakeven
16. Price Strategy
17. Channel of distribution
18. Retailer
19. Wholesaler
20. Supply-chain management
21. Materials handling
22. Promotion
23. Advertising
24. Public relations
25. Personal Selling
26. Order getter
27. Premium
28. Point-of-purchase
29. Trade show
30. Data
31. MIS
32. IT
33. Statistic
34. ISP
35. Internet
36. Outsourcing
37. B2B
38. Accounting
39. GAAP
40. Accounting equation
41. CPA
42. Income statement
43. Statement of Cash Flows
44. Balance Sheet
45. Intangible assets
46. Functions of money
47. Characteristics of money
48. FED
49. Discount rate
50. Check
51. Line of credit
52. Letter of credit
53. Cash flow
54. CFO
55. Equity capital
56. Liquidity
57. Rate of return
58. Account executive
59. Market value
60. Nasdaq

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Margaret Sanger has become a parody
of feminism and Planned Parenthood,
"I accepted an invitation to talk
to the women's branch
of the Ku Klux Klan" from her Autobiography
not included in Frank's work Margaret Sanger's Eugenic Legacy by Angela Franks published in 2005 is one of the very best scholarly works on The Control of Female Fertility. Feminists who hold Margaret Sanger as the patroness saint of the modern woman will not be pleased with this exhaustive study of Sanger's "Genuine commitment to the eugenic ideology." p. 1.

This book benefits from the rigorous academic accountability of Franks' dissertation committee (on her non-dissertation topic) at Boston College.

The book is a must read for both the Planned Parenthood historian and the pro-life anti-abortionist.

On page 5 Franks begins with a quote from Margaret Sanger in 1955,

I see no wider meaning of family planning than control...[T]here...are some families...where restriction should be an order for the betterment of the...race.

Sanger was able to implement her ideal of Utopian control because she was, "A most capable administrator and detail-person...and held her own in a male-dominated world." p. 5-6.

[H]er organizational genius effectively [determined] the contours of the...population control [movement]. This ideology of Sanger's I call "the ideology of control." p. 8

Franks frames the debate asking, "[C]an the liberation of women be built on the control of their bodies? Emphasis in original, p. 6. She continues,

How could a feminist advocate forced sterilization? Why did Sanger participate so extensively in the eugenics movement?

Sanger of course assumed her views to be rational, evening claiming their scientific necessity.

[Sanger must be taken] seriously precisely because she has been so influential and, I believe, dangerous. p. 7.

Sanger was-and her philosophy is- "dangerous" because "Sanger believed that...[controlling] reproduction...was a matter of power. [And] certain classes of people should not be parents." p. 7.

Franks makes a compelling argument that Margaret Sanger is an ideologue, "I use the term "ideology" to indicate a worldview that obfuscates reality to such a degree that the person holding these beliefs is simply unable to recognize what is really the case." p. 8-9.

Ideology obscures reality...of control...[woman as] an "at-risk reproducer..." p.9.

Heiress of Margaret Sanger,
Cecile Richards of Planned Parenthood,
in Vogue tells of her aborted child
[not pictured]
not included in Frank's work Franks presents a diplomatic analysis of research of Sanger's life because there seems to be conflicting documentation on the motives of the founder of Planned Parenthood. But Franks has solved this contradiction in the Margaret Sanger historical record.

Franks notes, "Sanger [would be] saying one thing in public while confiding quite a different belief in private letters to her friends." p.11.

Franks calls this "equivocation." p. 11. Perhaps the more accurate description of Margaret Sanger and her Planned Parenthood offspring would be "duplicitous."

Sanger "equates abortion with... birth control" p. 11.

Sanger "promoted a sexuality on the phallocentric model: pleasure without commitment." p. 14.

"Race" for Sanger meant the "human race." p. 15.

Franks depicts Sanger's reasoning, "A large family is the sign of being unfit. In Sanger's worldview, the poor are poor because the are unfit, and they have large families because they are unfit." p. 16.

Franks quotes Sanger where she insisted,

[T]hat eugenics must target whole classes: I am frank to say that I do not see how it is possible to 'sort out individual values within each class' and make an 'individual selection' of those fit to reproduce, nor am I at all sure that such selection would be really eugenic. p. 17, footnoted, Margaret Sanger to Frederick Osborn, 12/29/39.

"The organizations that Sanger founded echo her fundamental aim: "To contribute directly and effectively to the raising the quality of our people in every walk of life..."..."Quality, not Quantity." p. 22

"Mabel Dodge, in a famous story, reminisced that Sanger was "the first person I ever knew who was openly an ardent propagandist for the joys of the flesh."" p.23. footnoted, Quoted in Chesler, 96.

Sanger's vision was-is-to "control female fertility instead of male desire." p. 25

"Eugenics is advocated by members of a self-anointed elite...who know better than the rest and who ought to have the power to control society." p. 26

"Neo-Malthusianism insisted on the eugenic and economic necessity of getting the poor to limit their fertility..." p. 28

"Sanger clearly supported the assassination of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who, ironically would become her greatest financial supporter...A criminal charge of inciting assassination was brought against her..." p. 29. A reverse Stockholm Syndrome?

"Brooklyn [was]...inhabited by immigrant Jews and Italians...in 1916. Planned Parenthood dates its founding from from the establishment of this clinic [in Brooklyn]." p. 33.

Franks cites a recurring theme of Sanger and Planned Parenthood complaining of, "those who should never have been born." p 33-34. footnoted, American Birth Control League, "What We Stand For."

Sanger, "[N]ever worked well with others in the birth-control movement unless it was understood that she was in charge." p. 35. Margaret Sanger had to be in control of, well, everything.

Sanger organized lobbying efforts to persuade legislators, but "[U]ltimately her goal was achieved not through the legislature but through the courts." p. 35. Culminating in Roe v Wade.

"Sanger shared...the belief that male leadership was important for the birth-control movement's fund-raising and general success." p. 36 (!)

"Sanger's eugenic ideas were...attractive to the rich, who often perceived their wealth as a demonstration of their innate genetic superiority." p. 37.

John D. Rockefller, Jr. donated to the American Eugenics Society -- he agreed with the philosophy and mission of AES that, "moral people are born, not made; the criminal is a defective..." p.38. This should not be confused with the Calvinistic tenet of the Total Depravity of the human condition.

The upper-class ladies of Mahattan wrote, "Margaret was rather like a lion tamer. She kept us each on our boxes until she needed us--and then we jumped and jumped fast." p. 39.

Margaret Sanger and the Eugenics movement defined "unfit" as "poor, disabled, sickly, alcoholics, impaired mental capacity, feeble-minded [whatever that is] idiots, imbeciles, morons...she was a committed negative eugenicist." p. 40-41. Meaning that negative human qualities-as she defined them-were to be breeded out or eliminated. Positive eugenics was the encouraging of the "good" qualities to be expanded in the human gene pool. Usually seen in rich white people, like Margaret Sanger. "A self-anointed elite..." p. 41.

Margaret Sanger giving a speech to the KKK.
Note the "salute" to Sanger. "Sanger does not seem to have been an overt racist." p. 43. She merely enjoyed the company and patronage and donations of people who were racists. And the occasional speech to the KKK. Sanger is never pictured wearing a white hood. Sanger simply divided mankind into the "fit" and unfit using, "Such eugenic criteria as poverty, intelligence and disability..." p. 43. The "Negro" was grouped with the "unfit."

Some might consider Margaret Sanger a racist because of her "Negro Project." This was her Planned Parenthood program "to promote contraceptive use among Southern blacks, arguing that there is a need to recruit African-American doctors and ministers to carry out the [Birth Control Federation of America's] plan." Here is her letter to Clarence Gamble whose fortune came from the Proctor and Gamble soap company,

It seems to me from my experience where I have been in North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and Texas, that while the colored Negroes have great respect for white doctors they can get closer to their own members and more or less lay their cards on the table which means their ignorance, superstitions and doubts...The ministers [sic] work is also important and also he should be trained, perhaps by the Federation as to our ideals and the goal that we hope to reach. p. 43.

Here is the quote of most concern to the Margaret Sanger defender,

"We do not want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population," writes Sanger, "[A]nd the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members." p. 43. Margaret Sanger does not use the phrase, "Uppity Negros." Not quite.

To create a race of thoroughbreds

"Banner on the cover of the November 1921 issue of the Birth Control Review..." p. 49.

So how does Margaret Sanger sell her utopia? Angela Franks tells us, "The whole process would require a huge propaganda system mobilizing the hegemonic forces of ideological dissemination, from academia to Madison Avenue: "But to motivate people, mass education...you need psychologists, you need people who've been in the advertising business, you need all types of businessmen, all kinds of people putting this puzzle together to make it effective." " p. 48.

Sanger was a master of "[T]he new public-relation situation," selling "Quality, not quantity..." p. 51.

"To the end of her life, Sanger persisted in a eugenically compromised conception of freedom, which could not rid itself of the impulse to manipulate the marginalized." And, "In the last years of her life...her growing loneliness led to greater dependence on Demerol and alcohol...At...her last public appearance, the toll that her addictions had taken was reportedly evident." p. 54.

So how did Planned Parenthood and Margaret Sanger get funded? "[W]ealthly businessmen were becoming interested in the supposed connection between population and economic stability." p. 55.

William Vogt served as national director in 1951 and made famous with the best seller, Road to Survival (1948) liked to shock physicians. Franks quotes Vogt, "Why are you trying to save the lives of children, when you'll doom them to starvation?" p. 55.

"[Alan Guttmacher] was a longtime advocate of eugenic sterilization for the mentally disabled." p.56.

Franks quotes Guttmacher, "The fecundity suddenly bestowed upon the diabetic in 1922 by the boon of insulin is not a pure blessing, certainly not a genetic blessing." p. 56.

Guttmacher "[B]elieved in aborting a disabled fetus for "eugenic reasons."" p. 58.

It is the contention of this book that the lens through which Planned Parenthood views female fertility is largely eugenic... p. 60.

Planned Parenthood wants, "the option of aborting fetuses with disabilities...reducing human persons to a utilitarian calculus..." p. 63.

"BABIES ARE LOUD, SMELLY, AND EXPENSIVE. UNLESS YOU WANT ONE." A Planned Parenthood ad. p 63.

"Sanger solved [selling eugenics] by proposing propaganda for the many and coercion for the resisting few." p. 71.

"Planned Parenthood frequently egage[d] in million-dollar ad campaigns to sway public opinion." p. 87.

"Guttmacher was never a friend of the eugenic targets, the disabled and the poor." p. 88.

"[Planned Parenthood views the] disabled people as diseases, first and foremost, reducing their humanity and personhood to an afterthought." p.89.

Not cited but reflecting the movie Minority Report and echoing C. Everett Koop, MD, Franks writes of ""search and destroy" abortions..."genetic discrimination."" p. 90.

"The basic eugenic attitude could thus confuse the prevention of a disability with the elimination of the disabled." p. 92.

"Walter Glannon has recently argued that "genetically defective" fetuses should be aborted...eerily echoing the Nazi condemnation of "life unworthy of life."" p.92.

"Sir Douglas Black, past president of the Royal College of Physicians in Great Britain, said, "[I]t would be ethical to put a rejected child upon a course of management that would end in its death...I say that it is ethical that a child suffering from Down's syndrome...should not survive." p. 93.

"As we saw in Sanger's groundbreaking account of the relation of "woman" to "the new race" (and as in Nazi Germany), the burden of eugenic responsibility falls squarely on the shoulders of women, and thus they become the target of both propaganda and direct coercion." p. 93.

"A 1991 study reported that 85 percent of genetic counselors in training were willing to participate in fetal sex-selection tests upon requests." p.94.

"The eugenics movement has used arguments based on cost-effectiveness with great success..." p. 94.

"On the January 15, 2001, episode of Politically Incorrect, Host Bill Maher equated his two dogs with mentally disabled children. "I've often said if I had two retarded children, I'd be a hero, and yet the dogs, which are pretty much the same thing--what?" quipped Maher. Children with disabilities are "sweet," "loving," and "kind, but they don't mentally advance at all...Dogs are like retarded children." p. 94.

"Persons with disabilities threaten to disrupt a...social economy [of consumerist values]" p. 97.

"Mary Steichen Calderone, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America's medical director from 1953 to 1964, recalled that... "Sanger...disliked physicians."" p. 109.

"Clarence James Gamble (1894-1966)...heir to some of the Procter and Gamble fortune...did not need to work for a living and was able to dedicate...full-time...[to] eugenics work." p. 112.

"Sanger was so supportive of Gamble's efforts that she hoped he would take over her position as president of IPPF in 1953." p. 119.

"Research promoted by the population-control lobby...openly acknowledged...[surveys were] a tool that could be used in a way "similar to any market research project: to demonstrate the existence of a demand for goods and services"...[where] demographers ...were...salespeople..." p. 154.

"Eugenicist Frederick Osborn [held] the chief administrative position in the Population Council. ...Perhaps...chosen because his experience in propaganda as the head of the U.S. Army and Air Force Information and Education Division during World War II..." p. 159.

Eugenicists and Planned Parenthood wanted to destroy the family unit to advance their ideology, "Germaine Greer quotes demographer Kingsley Davis's testimony before the House Select Committee on Population in 1978: "If you want to adopt very extreme means of controlling fertility I can immediately think of some, such as breaking down the family system, for example, by not giving children the family name of the parents; in fact not letting them know who the parents are and vice versa. Soon the motivation for having children would be seriously reduced."" p. 176.

Franks quotes Margaret Sanger, 1926, "[A]sk the government to first take off the burdens of the insane and feebleminded from your backs. Sterilization for these is the remedy." p. 179

"When one group is designated inferior and stripped of its rights, all marginalized persons--and always women and girls--are thereby endangered; this is the vital lesson that the history of eugenics can teach feminism." p. 183.

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes pre-judges as in the theme of the movie Minority Report, and Franks quotes, "It is better for all the world if, instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crimes or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind...Three generations of imbeciles is enough." p. 183.

"Margaret Sanger demonstrated the depth of her allegiance to the eugenic party line by advocating the sterilization of all "defectives." p. 187.

Planned Parenthood's "Guttmacher believed being poor was a sufficient indication for the permanent removal of fertility." p. 190.

In chapter seven Franks begins Selling Out the Sisterhood, with a quote from Linda Beglio, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, "Screw the patients, spend your money on politics." Cited by Alfred F. Moran, PPFA Annual Meeting, October 31, 1981. p. 203.

"Poor women have come to be looked upon simply as "at-risk reproducers"...a flattening of female identify..." p. 204

Children reduce discretionary spending, "Which will you choose, progeny or purchasing power?" p. 236.

To Margaret Sanger, "Human beings (and, therefore, women) do not have an innate dignity. They are like a commodity that loses its value when the market is flooded. These worthless people in turn became the ignorant, idle, impoverished class. Thus, "woman has, through her reproductive ability, founded and perpetuated the tyrannies of the Earth." p. 241.

Margaret Sanger writes,

By all means there should be no children when mother (or father) suffers from such diseases as tuberculosis, gonorrhea...cancer...or mental disorders...no more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective. No matter how much they desire children, no man and woman have a right to bring into the world those who are sure to suffer from mental or physical affliction. It condemns the child to a life of misery and places upon the community the burden of caring for them, probably of their defective descendants for many generations. p. 242.

Angela Franks quotes Germaine Greer,

All the time women have been agitating for freedom and self-determination they have been coming more and more under a kind of control that they cannot even protest against. Feninists used to demand the right to to control by others.; what we got was the duty to submit our bodies to control by others. Much of what is done to women in the name of health has no rationale beyond control." p. 249

In the Chapter Notes Angela Franks writes about herself, "My perspective is that of a feminist (that is, one with a special commitment to furthering justice for women)..." p.259.

In addition to abandoning her children, Margaret Sanger may not have been much of a mother nor much of a cook, "she always burned the cocoa." p. 261.

"Sanger honestly states her distaste for the poor, a standard component of basic eugenic attitude: "I hated the wretchedness and hopelessness of the poor, and never experienced the satisfaction in working among them that so many noble women have found."" p. 263.

"It should be noted that Sanger never worked as a professional social worker." p. 273.

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Charmaine has an article in The Wall Street Journal today on taxpayer funding of abortion.


Charmaine Yoest, Ph.D.

By

CHARMAINE YOEST

It's now becoming clear that Barack Obama is willing to put everything on the table in order to be the president who passes health-care reform.

Everything, that is, except a ban on federal funding for abortion.

Abortion tax payer funding
flow chart by Americans United for Life
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Last September, the president promised that "no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions, and federal conscience laws will remain in place." Yet the legislation most likely to move forward in Congress would be the single greatest expansion of abortion since the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.

The White House knows how to turn Mr. Obama's September commitment into legislative action. I met with senior White House officials and told them that only adding a so-called Hyde Amendment to the health-care reform bills would fulfill the president's promise to protect Americans from subsidizing abortion.

The Hyde Amendment dates back to the 1970s, when congressional leaders discovered that Medicaid was paying for nearly 300,000 abortions a year. This had not been an intended outcome of the Medicaid program, which was created in 1965 with strong bipartisan support. So in 1976 Rep. Henry Hyde introduced an amendment to the Health and Human Services appropriations bill prohibiting taxpayer funds from paying for abortions.

Article here and at the jump. Be sure to read the comments at The WSJ.

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A number of Obama supporters are confusing Tax dollars for abortion and Tax payer funding for abortion. See Commonweal's misunderstanding and argument.

The Alert Reader will note that The Wall Street Journal uses a 'Ms.' honorific for Charmaine and not 'Dr.'. This is a WSJ style book issue and not a slight to holders of a terminal degree. The WSJ uses 'Dr.' to address only medical doctors and not mere Ph.D.'s.

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Following are the tests given in past classes. The Alert Student can expect similar questions.

Test #1; 1 - 6.doc

Test #2; 7,8,10,11- actual, no answers.doc

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Charmaine speaking at CPAC 2010Here's Charmaine's talk at CPAC 2010, the Conservative Political Action Committee annual meeting in Your Nation's Capital.

Listen to her brief update on Pro-Life strategies.

"We are winning."

Incremental legislative action at the state and local level works to reduce the numbers of abortion.

In those states that have two parent notification of a minor child's abortion -- the number of abortions goes down by 31 per cent.

If Obama really wants to reduce abortion, he will support parental notification legislation for the states.

Charmaine's PowerPoint slide presentation, CPAC_CY.ppt

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