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Business management best practices including corporate strategy development, financial management, human resource management, information management, resource planning, marketing and sales.
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change agent
Business administration; Business management
A person who acts as a catalyst within an organization to assist the introduction, implementation or facilitation of changes as a result of an organizational development program ...
technocrat
Business administration; Business management
A person who climbs the hierarchy of a business organization by virtue of his or her technical expertise.
overachiever
Business administration; Business management
A person who exceeds the level of achievement expected of her or him. The term is sometimes used in the field of education to describe someone who tries too hard; that is, a ...
entrepreneur
Business administration; Business management
A person who risks his or her judgement – and often capital – in a search for profit from new business opportunities. Such a person is considered to have a high need for ...
home-worker
Business administration; Business management
A person who works for an organization at home. This form of working was very common at one time but declined markedly with the twentiethcentury growth of bureaucracy. But with ...
machiavellianism
Business administration; Business management
A personality characteristic in which a person manipulates others for his or her own gain. The term is named after the political theories of the fifteenth-century Italian ...
homeostasis
Business administration; Business management
A physiological term for the maintenance of balance or equilibrium within a complex system like the human body, or its subsystems like temperature and oxygen level. See also ...
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