Management Skills 101
Ken Daugherty
Ronald Sprague
MGT 330
University of Phoenix Online
Monday, May 05, 2008
Management Skills 101
Pastor Causey was mortified by what he was hearing. Max’s explanations on why the church was over budget on the bathroom remodeling project rumbled on and on like a single engine plane using cheap gas. Pastor Causey glanced over at Boudreaux who was calling Mr. Burns a mugwump and began to shake his head in disbelief. Boudreaux was supposed to provide everyone involved in the project a list of the contractors and their scheduled time and day of arrival to do their portion of the remodeling. He forgot, so, everyone showed up at the same time on the same day and it was like watching WWF Saturday night wrestling as to who had rights to the area first. The other board members were reminded how Max influenced the board to agree to spend ten thousand dollars since he assured everyone ten grand was more than enough. Now, back paddling, Max was unraveling about how the price of fuel had driven the cost of construction materials up and because the timing fiasco with the contractors, caused by Boudreaux, the church was being hit with back-charges. Mr. Burns was hot and furious! How did a budget of ten thousand magically turn into twenty-two thousand and the painters were not even finished painting yet? Mr. Green secretly grinned and thought to himself, “If only the pastor had listened to me…” Pastor Causey knew he had dropped the ball on this one. A post mortem meeting after this mess would definitely conjure a psalm of imprecation rather than a psalm of praise for any unity of the brotherhood.
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