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Carol A. Bartz (born August 29, 1948, in Winona, Minnesota) is the current CEO of Yahoo! and was previously Chairman, President, and CEO at Autodesk, the world’s fourth largest PC software company from 1992 until 2009. Autodesk net revenue increased from $285 million to more than $534 million during her tenure.

Career

After college, Bartz worked at 3M, but left after a request to transfer to the headquarters was denied, being told that “women don’t do these jobs”. She moved on to the computer industry, including stints at Digital Equipment Corporation and Sun Microsystems.

Bartz became CEO of Autodesk in 1992. According to Forbes, “Since 1992, Bartz, 56, has transformed Autodesk from an aimless maker of PC software into a leader of computer-aided design software, targeting architects and builders.” She is credited with instituting and promoting Autodesk’s “3F” or “fail fast-forward” concept — the idea that you engineer a company to fail in certain missions, to be resilient to failure, and to respond to it by overcoming quickly. She stepped down as CEO on May 1, 2006 and became the executive chairman of the board. Carl Bass replaced her as CEO. Read the rest of this entry »

Howard Schultz (born July 19, 1953) is an American businessman, and entrepreneur best known as the chairman and CEO of Starbucks and a former owner of the Seattle SuperSonics. Schultz co-founded Maveron, an investment group, in 1998 with Dan Levitan.

Early years

Schultz grew up in a subsidized public housing project (Bay View Houses) in the Canarsie section of Brooklyn, New York. He attended Canarsie High School and is the eldest of three children. He is of English descent. He has a sister, Ronnie (b. 1956) and a brother Michael (b. 1961), who both live in New York. His mother lives in New Jersey and his father, of whom he often speaks in interviews, has passed away. He is a father of two children and currently lives in Seattle with his wife. He owns an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and a house in East Hampton, N.Y. .

Schultz attended Northern Michigan University on a football scholarship. In 1975, he became the first of his family to graduate from college when he earned his bachelor’s degree in the arts and sciences. He is a member of the Theta Iota chapter of Tau Kappa Epsilon.

Career

In 1982, he joined Starbucks Coffee Company in Seattle as the Director of Marketing. After a business trip to Milan, Italy, he tried to persuade the owners (including Jerry Baldwin) to offer traditional espresso beverages in addition to the whole bean coffee, leaf teas and spices they had long offered. After a successful pilot of the cafe concept, the owners refused to roll it out company-wide and Howard Schultz started his own coffee shop named Il Giornale in 1985. Two years later, the original Starbucks management decided to focus on Peet’s Coffee & Tea and sold its Starbucks retail unit to Schultz and Il Giornale. Read the rest of this entry »

Job in about 50 words:

Assistant managers have a lot of responsibility, and this job requires great leadership skills. Whether you’re managing a group of sales people in retail or dishing out orders to servers in a restaurant, you’ll need to keep a level head, be able to multitask and have excellent people skills.

Job skills/requirements:

The good news is that your training will teach you everything you need to know to succeed on the job. But here are a few skills you should have from the get-go:

• Leadership: You will have several people you need to supervise in addition to handling general complaints, last-minute schedule changes, kitchen mess-ups and inventory problems. Assistant managers are leaders and should represent their company and themselves well by acting as a role model to the people reporting to them.
• Organization: There will be a million and one things going on as an assistant manager and everyone will assume that you have it all worked out for them. You should be able to stay focused during busy times and delegate tasks to employees to keep business running smoothly.
• Recruiting and training: Assistant managers are usually the ones responsible for recruiting and interviewing quality people to staff your location, as well as making sure these new employees transition as smoothly as possibly into their jobs. You should be a good teacher who tries to help employees who are having difficulty picking up new skills.

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Description of a job

A general manager directs and coordinates the operations of a small business or a department in a company. Medium-sized and large companies are divided into production, sales, promotion, purchasing, and other departments, and a general manager is typically in charge of each of these divisions. In a small company the general manager may be responsible for all operations. General managers usually report to the chief operating officer or to a vice president. They may report to the chief executive officer.

Each company has its own corporate ladder. Some companies give the title of general manager to those in charge of separate operating units. A department store chain might call the person in charge of each store a general manager. Sometimes the person in charge of a subsidiary company has that title. At some big, high-tech companies more than one general manager may be assigned to the same division. Despite these differences, the functions of all general managers are essentially the same.

General managers take direction from their top executives. They must first understand the executives’ overall plan for the company. Then they set specific goals for their own departments to fit in with the plan. The general manager of production, for instance, might have to increase certain product lines and phase out others. General managers must describe their goals clearly to their support staff. The supervisory managers see that the goals are met. Read the rest of this entry »