THE FEDERAL DIARY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400290008-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 14, 2000
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: August 10, 1959
• Content Type: NSPR

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The
Federal.
Diary
26 U. S. Executives
Wind Up Course In
Business Training
CPYRGHT By Jerry Kluttz
SAIL NAC LAKE, N. Y.,
Aug. 9 Twenty-six Federal
career executives had the op-
portunity during the past
weeks here to
do what Presi-
dent Eisenhow-
er believes they
should do more
of-think about
their jobs and
how to improve
them.
Their minds
were stimulat-
Kluttz ed by a man-
. . agement course
given at the academy here of
the non-profit American Man-
agement Association, world's
largest organization of its kind.
They were constantly chal-
lenged to solve management
problems of both industry and
Government.
The students liked best the
last week here, which was
called an "assimilation exer-
cise." In that period, the stu-
dents were broken up in teams
to operate for five years a
$20 million industrial concern
whose owner had died sud-
denly and whose widow exas
perated the executives with
irritating orders and com-
ments.
The make-believe corpora-
tion and its problems were
made as realistic as possible.
Profit and loss 'statements,
ased on actions taken by the
xecutives, were run off at
he end of each three-month
eriod by an IBM electronic
achine.
The career people found the
ressures, fears and frustra.
ions similar to those they en-
ounter in Government work.
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