Becoming a Master Manager is appropriate for management and organizational behavior courses that emphasize critical management skills that yield sound organizational results. Developed from both theory and empirical evidence, the text provides a compelling case for why managerial and leadership competencies are essential for employee engagement, effective communication, and sustainable organizational success. The competing values framework offers future managers a foundation for analyzing, understanding and executing the behavior that will achieve positive performance, productivity and profitability.

The task of training pilots to become and remain combat ready in modern fighter aircraft is an increasingly difficult endeavor. The U.S. Air Force's proliferation of high-tech simulators such as those found in the Mission Training Centers (MTC) present a viable solution to closing the gap in training created by the complexity of advanced fighter aircraft. However, this proliferation resulted from a desire to fill gaps in realistic combat environment training produced by peacetime safety constraints. The purpose of this research is to examine leveraging hi-tech simulation assets against the every growing gap in training caused by a systematic reduction in the average fighter pilot's flying hours, coincident with a massive increase in fighter aviation technology. The F-16 community in particular, experienced a quantum leap in software and hardware technology advancement over the past decade.