
If you’re believing this, you could not be more mistaken.

You may be an accounting or marketing major who is taking this class because it is required for completion of your degree requirements, but you don’t think that you will ever require what you learn in this class during your career since you don’t plan on applying for HR jobs upon graduation. You may have the impression (not an accurate one) that management is basically just common sense and that you really don’t need to take this course except that you must meet your degree requirement. You may have followed news reports on successful managers like Jeff Bezos of Amazon or Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook and want to learn what made them successful so you can emulate their practices in your business career.

You may have had a summer or part-time job where you had a manager whom you had to report to. You must manage your time, deciding on how much study time you will devote to your management and accounting classes, for instance. You probably have some preconceptions of what management is all about. So, you’re in this course and you may have pondered, or discussed with others, what this course will be about.
