Management is management is management—irrespective of setting. Do you agree?/What concept/idea in the assigned readings do you find most intriguing or useful? Why? How might you or others apply it?

–    This is management class discussions. You need to answer the two question below, each question about half page, two question in one page total. You HAVE to read the articles first then do the question.

– For question 2, you may pick one of four articles that I provide to answer. Indicate article(s) name first, for example: The concept of xxxx(name out the concept) is one of the concepts that I found to be most useful, it was found in the article xxxx(name of the article).
–     No need to re-copy the question, nor leave space for name, class, and title, just answer the question.
–    No need sources/references.

Questions:
1.    Management is management is management—irrespective of setting. Do you agree?
2.    What concept/idea in the assigned readings do you find most intriguing or useful? Why? How might you or others apply it?

Articles:
1.Hard Choices
2. We’re from Private Equity, and We’re Here to Help
3.A lesson or two from the spider, its tangled web
4.End of the story http://www.si.com/vault/2011/05/30/106073167/end-of-the-story
5.    Small is not beautiful http://www.economist.com/node/21548945