Don G. Schley- PhD
- Project Manager at Colorado Technical University
Don G. Schley
- PhD
- Project Manager at Colorado Technical University
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Introduction
Outside the USA I have done project work in Jordan, Russia, Central Asia and China. In the USA my work is mostly in property acquisition and rehabilitation, for the purpose of holding to rent, with some successful work in environmental cleanup (a good field, and under-addressed).
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December 1999 - present
Position
- Professor of Management and Project Management
Description
- I built the project management program at CTU during the summer of 1999 and was made, on that grounds, a full professor, full-time on 27 December 1999. From 1999 to 2007 I managed the program and have continued to teach in it as senior faculty since then.
Publications
Publications (20)
This paper is at its inception and was presented at the International Conference for Advances in Management in Jacksonville, Florida, 19 July 2016. The paper looks primarily at two Dept of Defense projects, the F-22 Raptor and the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and their exorbitant costs, and compares them with successful weapons systems projects of an...
This article was delivered before the Global Conference on advances in Management (GCAM) at Jacksonville University, 18 July 2016. It provides an overview of the history of government economic intervention and regulation in the US, along with the philosophical justifications, and considers the viability of regulatory and interventionist policies ag...
Abstract
In the light of recent corporate scandals company failure is usually explained based on agency theory, leading to the conclusion that corporate boards and regulators must use agency theory to control management better.
The authors use institutional theory to problematize this advice. We identify the role of accounting as to give predictab...
Traces the development of Realpolitik in 19th-century Germany to biblical leadership models, and argues that the genesis of leaders such as Moshe Dayan and Golda Meir can only be understood from the realism of their own foundational texts.
Paper enumerates the legal and ethical violations by the USBOR representatives and operatives of Colorado Springs Utilities in promoting the Southern Delivery System, aimed at expanding Pueblo Reservoir, building a new (and now stopped) reservoir project in the Jimmy Camp Creek Basin, and the pipeline between the two.
This article draws on the works of Dr. Kenneth Mackenzie and others to trace the development of cellular organizations, from as far back as imperial Rome and the subsequent Benedictine monastic system, up to the present in the form of guerrilla armies (Tito's Yugoslav Partisans and the Viet Cong, for example) and even business structures (franchise...
[Eight] published responses to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBOR) on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the proposed Southern Delivery System (SDS). 13 June 2008. http://www.sdseis.com/com_index.html#Com351: Items #362 & #379 as found in http://www.sdseis.com/files/documents/ComDoc00362.PDF; and in http://www.sdseis.com/files/d...
This paper treats management trends concerning the assumed dichotomy between spirituality and religion in the workplace, and raises basic questions. (1) Are proposed nebulous definitions of spirituality realistic? (2) Does spirituality contrast to religion as a purely private, internal matter or does it carry necessary external implications? (3) Is...
paper covers the issues of project risk associated with the proposed Southern Delivery System, including environmental risks, logistical risks, geological risks (earthquakes and fault lines) and economic risks.
The paper addresses the negative impacts of Green ideology on business and the environment, specifically with respect to the starvation of production industries of power, and the ultimate consequences this policy has for the environment.
The ethics of business in modern Western civilization have devolved into treating issues ad hoc, with respect to practical issues only. The deeper, meta-ethical considerations, that is, not whether this or that act is ethical or not, but what constitutes the ethical basis of our decision-making in the first place, have been lost. In fact, the ethic...
This paper focuses on building organizations that promote and reward creative thinking. The thesis posited runs as follows. Before a paradigm shift away from traditional organizational and managerial models can take place, managers must first recognize the impediments to creative thinking within our present organizational culture. In the United Sta...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Emory University, 1986. Includes bibliographical references (p. 411-424). Microfiche. s
