Word: tangney
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...executives must also adjust to being away from their companies and families. Joseph G. Tangney, a participant in the fall 1982 AMP program and currently Vice President and General Claims Manager for Liberty Mutual Insurance Company of Boston, explains that, for most executives, "the first couple of weeks were sort of a withdrawal," from the job and from the process of being involved in the daily decisions of one's company. The last few weeks, he adds, found many executives anxious to get back to their jobs. Only in the middle weeks of the program did most of the executives...
...There's a camaraderie that develops somewhat like the army, but it's a positive experience," says Tangney, explaining that the participants develop "a pretty close core--especially among members of the can groups because they live together." For Tangney, both "the rigor of the content and the relationship of the people to each other" made the program special. Despite the rigor, the AMP was still fun because it created a setting where "people with real world experience were getting back into an academic setting," able to study how the business world should ideally work and compare it with knowledge...
Having a large foreign contingent leads to "a lot of diverse points of view," says Tangney. For example, Perry says that his study of "corporate ethics took on a totally different perspective" when he discussed the isssues with classmates from South Africa...
...Tangney the case study method did not address specific problems he deals with on the job, but instead helped him to develop "a frame of reference of how to approach issues...
Gerald A. Tangney, General Manager Video Products Division NEC Home Electronics (U.S.A.) Inc. Elk Grove Village...