SPMT 304 EXAM 2 Study Questions with Answers|
2024-25 Version
Yogi Berra - ✔✔- head of surgery at Harvard Medical School
-On his way to ten World Series rings and a place in the baseball Hall of Fame, Yogi was thinking
about nothing.
-"living in his own world"
Michael Dell - ✔✔- dropped out of college
- fifteen years later Dell Computer was the number-one seller of PCs in the world.
--against all odds
---confident enough about their abilities to start their businesses as kids
Richard Branson - ✔✔- founded Virgin Music and Virgin Atlantic Airways, had not yet learned
how to read.
-- dsylexic
--- "not the world's best businessman, or the most successful, or the wealthiest—he simply has
the most fun."
----doing things business strategists suggest he shouldn't." A
Deion Sanders - ✔✔--the only player to hit a home run and score a touchdown in the same
week. He's the only person to have suited up for a professional baseball and a professional
football game on the same day.
---high-wattage personality, and daily confidence level that seemed to be stuck at "irrational,"
nettled management
Muhammad Ali - ✔✔- supremely confident thinker
-- used his rhymes to call the round in which he would knock out his opponent
, Donny Deutsch - ✔✔- successful New York advertising agency with his name on the door
--think like superstars long before the fans or the press anoint them. What comes first is the
confidence
Louis Gerstner - ✔✔- asked to be running the company, the former CEO of RJR Nabisco and
ex-president of American Express passed
-- Ignoring critics, proceeded to slash prices on the company's core
Robert Johnson - ✔✔-- zero probability of becoming a billionare.
---- he wasn't trying to control his destiny, but to explore it.not hung up on how things work out
because the challenge is what excited them
John and Lynn Katen - ✔✔-- work for Andersen Consulting
--- created his own IT company
---- Lynn was too hung up on the probabilities
-----without the confidence to act on them I wouldn't be able to help people who had real
needs,"
Carney Lansford - ✔✔--close enough to the mountaintop to see .400 within his reach.
--- constantly evaluating himself
---- keep trusting his eyes and hands
Phillip Humber - ✔✔-- scheduled to pitch the final game
--- first College World Series pitcher to complete a game in a decade
---- icy attitude toward evaluation rubbed off on his teammates
Franz Klammer - ✔✔-- took home gold with a final run that skiers
2024-25 Version
Yogi Berra - ✔✔- head of surgery at Harvard Medical School
-On his way to ten World Series rings and a place in the baseball Hall of Fame, Yogi was thinking
about nothing.
-"living in his own world"
Michael Dell - ✔✔- dropped out of college
- fifteen years later Dell Computer was the number-one seller of PCs in the world.
--against all odds
---confident enough about their abilities to start their businesses as kids
Richard Branson - ✔✔- founded Virgin Music and Virgin Atlantic Airways, had not yet learned
how to read.
-- dsylexic
--- "not the world's best businessman, or the most successful, or the wealthiest—he simply has
the most fun."
----doing things business strategists suggest he shouldn't." A
Deion Sanders - ✔✔--the only player to hit a home run and score a touchdown in the same
week. He's the only person to have suited up for a professional baseball and a professional
football game on the same day.
---high-wattage personality, and daily confidence level that seemed to be stuck at "irrational,"
nettled management
Muhammad Ali - ✔✔- supremely confident thinker
-- used his rhymes to call the round in which he would knock out his opponent
, Donny Deutsch - ✔✔- successful New York advertising agency with his name on the door
--think like superstars long before the fans or the press anoint them. What comes first is the
confidence
Louis Gerstner - ✔✔- asked to be running the company, the former CEO of RJR Nabisco and
ex-president of American Express passed
-- Ignoring critics, proceeded to slash prices on the company's core
Robert Johnson - ✔✔-- zero probability of becoming a billionare.
---- he wasn't trying to control his destiny, but to explore it.not hung up on how things work out
because the challenge is what excited them
John and Lynn Katen - ✔✔-- work for Andersen Consulting
--- created his own IT company
---- Lynn was too hung up on the probabilities
-----without the confidence to act on them I wouldn't be able to help people who had real
needs,"
Carney Lansford - ✔✔--close enough to the mountaintop to see .400 within his reach.
--- constantly evaluating himself
---- keep trusting his eyes and hands
Phillip Humber - ✔✔-- scheduled to pitch the final game
--- first College World Series pitcher to complete a game in a decade
---- icy attitude toward evaluation rubbed off on his teammates
Franz Klammer - ✔✔-- took home gold with a final run that skiers
