Discussion Question 1
You have just been hired as a brand manager of toothpaste for a large consumer products company. Your job mainly involves encouraging the advertising and production groups to promote and manufacture your product more effectively.
These departments aren't under your direct authority, although company procedures indicate that they must complete certain tasks requested by brand managers.
Describe the sources of power you can use to ensure that the advertising and production departments will help you make and sell toothpaste more effectively.
Discussion Question 2
You are a special assistant to the commander-in-chief of a peacekeeping mission to a war-torn part of the world. The unit consists of a few thousand peacekeeping troops from the United States, France, India, and four other countries.
The troops will work together for approximately one year. What strategies would you recommend to improve mutual understanding and minimize conflict among these troops?
Discussion Question 3
Using Yahoo Finance or any credible source retrieve the annual data, namely, short income statement, and short balance sheet, for a major corporation during the past 20 years. Provide this data and construct the graph of the sales during these years.
Forecast sales in the future 3 years, and provide brief Performa statements based on best case, worst case, and normal case scenarios. Explain your work in detail, and cite all references used for development of the content.