Week 10 — Readings & Resources

Your primary reading is Chapter 10 (in this module). Everything below is the optional, go-deeper layer — pick what helps, skip the rest.

How to use this page

This page has 10 items (4 readings and 6 videos). Allow 65–73 minutes for everything. Each group links back to the matching chapter section and class-session segment, so use the full menu when you want more, or take the quick path below.

Every video here has captions: turn them on with the CC button in the player. The chapter covers the same ideas in text.

Pick-one quick path (18–20 min total)

• Introduction to Management: A Look Into the Management Process — Alanis Business Academy
• Leadership Styles — Patricia Jenkinson
• Develop an emergency management plan — business.gov.au

① Planning the work, from years ahead to what if

Chapter 10, Section “Plan ahead: four types of planning, a mission, and objectives” · Session 1, Segment 2, “Plans come in sizes” · Remember: a plan is sorted by how far ahead it looks and how much of the business it covers, and every plan serves the mission.

• Introduction to Management: A Look Into the Management Process — Alanis Business Academy — a short free explainer that defines management as getting work done through others and walks through its four functions, planning, organizing, leading, and controlling; as you watch, attach one coffee-cart task to each function. (video, 6 min) (captions: creator)
• Business strategy — business.govt.nz — a national government business site's article on strategy, with short parts on vision and mission; read the mission part and compare its idea of a mission you can break down and measure with the chapter's mission statement and objectives. (reading, 5–7 min)
• How to Set and Achieve SMART Goals: Crash Course Business - Soft Skills #9 — CrashCourse — an episode on setting goals that are specific and can be checked by a set time; as you watch, rewrite one of the cart's objectives so a cart lead could check it later. (video, 11 min) (captions: creator)
• Develop an emergency management plan — business.gov.au — a national government business site's guide to a plan for before, during, and after an emergency; read why a business needs one and the tips for writing it, and skip the template download. Use it with the Week-10 module overview's goal of sorting a plan by its type. (reading, 4–6 min)
• Ready.gov - Business Continuity Training Part 1: What is Business Continuity Planning? — FEMA — the federal emergency agency's short training segment on what a business continuity plan is and what it takes to build one; notice how it plans ahead for a disruption before it happens. (video, 2 min) (captions: creator)

② Leading people, and telling leading from managing

Chapter 10, Section “Lead the people: three leadership styles” · Session 1, Segment 4, “Three ways to lead” · Remember: no one leadership style is right everywhere, and managing the work is not the same job as leading the people.

• How to Find Your Leadership Style: Crash Course Business - Soft Skills #14 — CrashCourse — an episode on what leaders are, what they are not, and how leadership skills can be developed rather than inborn; it describes six styles, more than this course's three, so as you watch, match its commanding and democratic styles to autocratic and participative leadership, and decide which of the others comes closest to free-rein. (video, 10 min) (captions: creator)
• Managing and leading in a small business — Business Queensland — a state government's small-business guide to the difference between management and leadership roles and to several management styles; read those two parts and note that it names more styles than the three this course keys, and that its view of one style as often the most successful is the page's own; this course treats no style as best everywhere. Stop at its section on organisational structure; next week takes up hiring the people who fill that structure. (reading, 8–10 min)
• Leadership Styles — Patricia Jenkinson — a short explainer on the three styles that trace to the 1939 study the chapter cites, authoritarian or autocratic, democratic or participative, and laissez-faire, which the chapter calls free-rein, with the situations where each one fits; as you watch, match each style to a decision at the two carts, and notice that no style fits every situation. (video, 8 min) (captions: creator)

③ Matching skills to a manager's level

Chapter 10, Section “Match the skills to the level: technical, human, and conceptual” · Session 2, Segment 7, “Skills by level” · Remember: technical skills matter most near the work, and conceptual skills matter most at the top.

• Levels, Roles, and Skills of Managers — David Hensley II — a business educator's lecture on the levels of management and the technical, human, and conceptual skills managers need; watch the levels and skills parts, and skip the managerial roles it adds, which this course does not test. This builds on Week 8's organization chart, whose levels now get their managers. (video, 8 min) (captions: automatic)

Optional one-stop reference (free online reference)

• Manage your business: prepare for emergencies — U.S. Small Business Administration — the federal small-business agency's guide, which this course returns to; read the part on preparing for emergencies as a real-world contingency plan, and skip the disaster-recovery and fraud sections around it. (reading, 3–5 min)

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