Companies Often Pull New Managerial Candidates from a Pool of Outstanding

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Essay

Companies often pull new managerial candidates from a pool of outstanding individual performers. Write an essay contrasting the role of the individual performer with that of the manager. Be sure to include a description of how both roles might use the ABC's of prioritizing tasks or activities, a classic time-management technique.

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Definitions:

Increasing Cost Industry

An industry in which the costs of production increase as the industry's output expands, typically due to resource limitations.

Decreasing-Cost Industry

An industry where the average cost of production decreases as the industry's output increases, often due to economies of scale.

Long-Run Industry Supply Curve

A graphical representation that shows the relationship between the price of a good and the total output of the industry over time, assuming all inputs are variable.

LRAC Curve

the Long-Run Average Cost curve, showing the lowest average cost at which any output level can be produced when all inputs are variable.