User talk:Gcouch

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Getting started in Wikipedia
As part of my (i.e. [Gcouch]) initial Wikipedia exploration, and in response to a kind welcome from [Nivus]the following notes outline where I am heading with my current project of interest.

My interests in Wikipedia were sparked by its innovative methods and organisation, and its role in contributing to development, collection, dissemination, and utilisation of [knowledge]in the course of business and other human endeavours. In this regard, the Wikipedia process can be done privately (e.g. within an enterprise) or publicly as with Wikipedia.

My professional interests in management arise from a peripatetic but broad career (as outlined in my user page). I am proposing to commit to writing some of the key conclusions I have drawn, and as I believe they represent something of a paradigm shift in the business of management, and may even prove to be of some (if narrow)interest a few others.

Part of this shift is to view management (including strategic management) as an everyday function of all people who are engaged in meaningful endeavours (commercial or otherwise). The function, to be performed well, involves a few simple principles. While simple, management in the real world is difficult and when managers become immersed in the difficulties, they tend to lose sight of the unarticulated principles and make error-prone decisions.

It is unfortunate that management (and strategic management) has developed as an elite activity. More so that its theoreticians have taken on a priestly role that is surrounded by unending specialisation and complication to what should and needs to be straightforward. There is nothing wrong with specialisation and complication per-se, except that these trends have made the art and science of management largely inaccessible. This inaccessibility affects all, ranging from

(a) ordinary people or workers who need to make day-to-day judgements and decisions (in context), and therefore need to better understand how to do so, and

(b) general or senior managers who, with their broad scope of responsibilities, are inhibited in seeking to understanding how the specialised techniques should be integrated into the total endeavour.

As a project, this is at an embryonic stage, but as it develops, I will look forward to criticism and discussion.

Help
Yes, what help do ya need?-- Tdxi a  ng  陈 鼎 翔  (Talk)  Contributions Contributions Chat with Tdxiang on IRC! 03:39, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

--Gcouch 03:06, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

User:Gcouch
I've added the "" template to your user page (User:Gcouch), suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy).

Please note that the purpose of a user page is not as a personal homepage or used as a general webhosting service, but as a way for active editors of Wikipedia to introduce themselves to other editors. If you disagree with the notice, discuss the issues here or on my user talk page. You may remove the deletion notice, and the page will not be deleted for the moment, but note that it may still be sent to Miscellany for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached, or if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria. Calton | Talk 16:18, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

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An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Gcouch_img.jpg, has been listed at Images and media for deletion. Please see the to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Calton | Talk 12:59, 7 August 2007 (UTC)