... ON GOOD TO GREAT JIM COLINS PRESENTED BY VICTOR TANNO LESSONS 1: No matter how long you have been down in obscurity, with the application of Timeless and Universal Principles of Success, you can rise to Lime light. Walgreens for over forty years had bumped along as a very average company but in 1975 seemingly out of nowhere-bang-it began to climb and climb…and kept climbing until it surpassed its rivals and contemporary companies-some of the best-led organizations in the world. ---pages 3-4 PROOF OF LESSON 1 I currently own a cleaning organization which has only gotten one job since established in 2004. I decided to close down since 2011 because of lack of success in moving forward. APPLICATION OF LESSON 1 I will pick up the papers of that company, dust it and start up again putting principle of perseverance, strategic and massive marketing into play etc because if Walgreens for over forty years had bumped along as a very average company but in 1975 seemingly out of nowhere-bang-it began to climb and climb until it became a strong unrivaled brand. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. LESSONS 2 Success or Greatness does not only come by focusing on what to do, rather it also comes by focusing on what not to do and on what to stop doing. ---Page 11 paragraph 1 PROOF OF LESSON 2 I have always desired to be motivational in my approach to things and when I talk, Though a passion burning in me, I have not deliberately taken steps to study voraciously...
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...Mill’s Utilitarianism. John Stuart Mill Higher and lower pleasures Mill rejects a purely quantitative measurement of utility and says: It is quite compatible with the principle of utility to recognise the fact, that some kinds of pleasure are more desirable and more valuable than others. It would be absurd that while, in estimating all other things, quality is considered as well as quantity, the estimation of pleasures should be supposed to depend on quantity alone. Mill notes that, contrary to what its critics might say, there is "no known Epicurean theory of life which does not assign to the pleasures of the intellect… a much higher value as pleasures than to those of mere sensation." However, he accepts that this is usually because the intellectual pleasures are thought to have circumstantial advantages, i.e. "greater permanency, safety, uncostliness, &c." Instead, Mill will argue that some pleasures are intrinsically better than others. The accusation that hedonism is "doctrine worthy only of swine" has a long history. In Nicomachean Ethics (Book 1 Chapter 5), Aristotle says that identifying the good with pleasure is to prefer a life suitable for beasts. The theological utilitarians had the option of grounding their pursuit of happiness in the will of God; the hedonistic utilitarians needed a different defense. Mill's approach is to argue that the pleasures of the intellect are intrinsically superior to physical pleasures. Few human creatures would consent to...
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...providing to the principles of the rule of law it should be shown that this system of law is better served for Australia. In Australia everyone is to be subjected to the law. The Rule of Law is the legal principle that governs Australia, it implies that all persons including the law makers are subject to the law, the law should...
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...PROOF Contents List of figures Preface xiii x Part I Structures for Family and Business: Family Business Governance 1 Chapter 1 Maximizing Success through Professional Family Business Governance 3 Alexander Koeberle-Schmid Interview: Dr. Jürgen Heraeus, chairman, Heraeus Holding, Germany 3 Family enterprises are special 7 Sound family business governance 9 Best-practice recommendations 16 Important definitions 17 Chapter 2 Challenges to the Governance of the Family Enterprise 20 Ernesto J. Poza Interview: Mr. Bruce T. Halle, chairman, Discount Tire, USA 20 Family business governance is critically important 25 Challenges to family business governance 25 Which hat to wear: parent, owner, or CEO? 32 Simultaneous optimization of family-ownership and business 33 Best-practice recommendations 35 v PROOF Contents Chapter 3 Evolution of Governance Structures and Systems Ernesto J. Poza Interview: Julio Cazorla, managing director, family office, Grupo Landon, Spain 36 Evolution and sustainability 42 Effective governance is more than just structures 43 The long term 45 Evolution by design 48 The founder exits; a family office is started 50 The family assembly 52 The annual general meeting 52 Best-practice recommendations 54 Chapter 4 Responsible Ownership in Family Enterprises 56 Denise Kenyon-Rouvinez Interview: Franz M. Haniel, chairman of the board of directors, Haniel, Germany 56 Interview: Karl-Erivan W. Haub, chief executive officer, and Christian Haub, chief...
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...2011 Assignment 2 Persuasion, Science of influence Kunal Nagar,W0782056 MSIS ,Santa Clara university , 3/10/2011 Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion Persuasion is a form of social influence. It is the process of guiding oneself or another toward the adoption of an idea, attitude, or action by rational and symbolic (though not always logical) means.1Persuasion is often referred to as an art and influencing others isn’ luck or magic –its science. t Persuasion and Influence is big part of any consumer behavior, this goes in line with self-actualization theory and projected self or a corporation. There are proven ways to help make you more successful as a marketer and an office politician. In a world where every e-mail, every request and every event we plan competes against other compelling demands, the skill of persuasion is essential ,The ability to persuade others is critical to success, whether you are selling cars or a new corporate strategy. Psychology and marketing Professor Robert Cialdini has examined the component parts of influence, in the lab and on the street. He has learned that persuasion is a science as well as an art. So why do you want to know it? To communicate with your customers so that they become your raving fans ,they like you ,they like to read your message ,they give positive response ,cialdini ‘ techniques are used to increase sales ,to have s more responsiveness for customers, in case you want to research for requirement ,to make customers...
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...the precautionary principle assume significance in UK environmental law? In the last few decades the Precautionary Principle has gained significance within the realm of modern environmentalism. It appears, although not always explicitly, in national legislation, international statements of policy, treaties etc. Despite its development, there is no commonly agreed definition of the Precautionary Principle nor is there any guidance on how to implement it. Its central role is to guide administrators and regulators who make decisions or develop policy in circumstances where there is no conclusive scientific proof of a clear link between the relevant action or substance and the harm“on the grounds that it is better to be roughly right in due time, bearing in mind the consequences of being very wrong, than to be precisely right too late.” The first detailed reference to the Precautionary Principle in the UK was featured in the government's White Paper on the Environment, entitled "This Common Inheritance”. It put forward a weaker formulation of the Precautionary principle on the basis that you have to ensure that you balance the costs and benefits in order to dismiss any lack of scientific certainty when taking action against significant risks. It was weakened further in a sub-section of the White paper where it was made clear that all decisions relating to the environment had to “…look at all the facts and likely consequences of actions of the basis of the best scientific evidence...
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...Philosophy Paper 2 Mill claims that proving happiness is an end for all people requires an atypical form of proof for it is an atypical principle in academic writing. Declared by Mill: Ends, not means to an end, are desirable and things that are desirable are to be desired. Just as the physical senses of things being viewed are seen and things being audible are heard. The ONLY proof that happiness is an end, is if people desire it. And EVERYONE desires his or her own happiness. Therefore happiness is an end for all people. Though how this happiness is attained is different from individual to individual, the feeling is fundamentally the same. An issue presents itself with the first premises of this argument. The first “desirable” has the meaning of something we should want or the decision that is expected out of us from an external being. This form could be clearly presented as when parents list “desirable” traits of the mate their offspring brings home (i.e smart, philosophical, hardworking, attractive etc). In other words it is a desirable derived from the status quo or groundwork laid out by others, sculpting our conscience, morals, and ethics. The second desirable is a (maybe add internal) pleasure, or anything related, that is capable of being wanted. This form could be related to the cake on the window seal, numerous girls frolicking on a beach in their two-piece bikinis, the pursuit of inquiry, or just laying in bed an extra five minutes after one’s alarm. This desirable...
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...SACHS.DOCX (DO NOT DELETE) 8/1/2011 2:07 PM RESCUING THE STRONG PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE FROM ITS CRITICS Noah M. Sachs* The Strong Precautionary Principle, an approach to risk regulation that shifts the burden of proof on safety, can provide a valuable framework for preventing harm to human health and the environment. Cass Sunstein and other scholars, however, have consistently criticized the Principle, rejecting it as paralyzing, inflexible, and extreme. In this reassessment of the Strong Precautionary Principle, I highlight the significant benefits of the Principle for risk decision making, with the aim of rescuing the Principle from its dismissive critics. The Principle sends a clear message that firms must research the health and environmental risks of their products, before harm occurs. It does not call for the elimination of all risk, nor does it ignore tradeoffs, as Sunstein has alleged. Rather, through burden shifting, the Principle legitimately requires risk creators to research and justify the risks they impose on society. By exploring where the Principle already operates successfully in U.S. law—examples often overlooked by the critics—I highlight the Principle’s flexibility and utility in regulatory law. This Article uses chemical regulation as a case study in how the Principle can guide Congress in an ongoing controversy. Congress is considering a major overhaul of the flawed Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 (TSCA), and this change could be one of the most significant...
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...because it is when the NRDC and other public interest groups began their campaign in protest against the EPA's decision to not ban Alar. My analysis of the events surrounding Alar will take shape around a critique of Michael Fumento's article "Environmental Hysteria: The Alar Scare," in which he paints the NRDC as "fanatics" launching a "smear campaign" not founded in any rational decision-making. This is an important argument to counter, because it has not only been taken up by many to condemn citizen-group action in the case of Alar, but to criticize their activities in many other regulatory processes. The chief framework used to devalue public action in these cases is the technocratic model, wherein it is believed that decisions can be best made by objective, rational experts acting based upon scientific knowledge. In this case, we can see a perfect example of when a decision was decided by scientific experts, in accordance with the technocratic model. Fumento and other supporters of the technocratic mode privilege the scientific knowledge of bodies such as the Scientific Advisory Panel in this case over other forms of knowledge. He denounces NRDC as fanatics based on his claim that they acted in spite of, and in contradiction to scientific declarations and reports which indicated that their "Alar alarm" did not correspond to the evidence at hand (423). However, the Alar saga is typical of many regulatory decision-making processes in that the scientists and administrators...
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...1. Getting started It is a matter of some interest that logic and the law should share so many of their foundational concepts – concepts such as proof, evidence, truth, inference, probability, plausibility, presumption and reasonableness – and yet should have had very little to say to one another within living memory. It is not especially surprising that logic and the law should have suffered (I use the word in its Latin sense) this alienation. With regard to its foundational concepts – for example, the concept of proof beyond a reasonable doubt, the concept of the balance of probabilities, the concept of the reasonable person – the law embeds am implied epistemology of implicity. There exists among practitioners, especially judges, the view that definitions and formalizations of such notions are both unnecessary and is liable to conceptual distortion. But definitions and formalizations are mother’s milk to logicians. Where the law favours approximation and contextually sensitive nuance, logicians thrive on exactitude and rigour. So why wouldn’t the lawyers and logicians go about their business without the regard of the one for the other? It would be wrong to leave the impression that there is no analytical exactitude in the law. It would also be a mistake to suggest that there has been no contact with the formal disciplines. Trials are often complex and judgements often embed exhaustive and detailed analyses of relevant points of law. In recent years probability theorists have...
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...The focus of this book is exploring the seven different weapons of influence, or motives to convince or persuade people. But before it gets into the actual weapons, it introduces a concept called “Click Whirr,” which is an automated fixed-action pattern that causes animals and even humans to have an automatic reaction to certain behaviors without thinking about it. In humans, this automatic response can be beneficial when trying to save time and or the energy it would take to make the decision. However, it can be detrimental in certain cases and cause one to make mistakes especially when one makes the decision based on just a small part of the information, without taking it all in. The first weapon of influence discussed in the book is the weapon of reciprocation. Essentially the concept that it is normal in human culture for one to try and repay another after being provided with kind acts, goods or services, even when it is not explicitly needed. Eventually this rule of reciprocation can cause relationships and transactions to carry on for long periods of time because one person always feels they owe another. This chapter covered the fact that the way the reciprocity rule is often used is by giving someone something before asking for a favor. The book gives 3 reasons why this works, the first being that the rule is very powerful and often takes the place of other decision making factors. Second, the rule is used even when the first favor was uninvited. Third, the rule can...
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...facts, such as my genetic makeup, and so on.”) On the other hand some facts are necessarily and not contingently. This is based on the idea of the Principle of Sufficient Reason that states that every truth is either necessary or contingent, but the principle it follows is neither. The idea is that God is the only being that necessarily exists. (26) Sophie stated it the best by saying “A necessary truth couldn’t conceivably be false. It is, in that sense, self-evident.” (27) There must be a reason for the truth of every fact. It is either based on the idea of the facts it lies upon itself or based on some other true facts. Oscar did not buy into any of this. He felt as though everything seemed to good to be true. How can all these facts just depend on each other but do not explain anything? David added that either God exists or the universe is inexplicable (28), which Oscar then agreed upon. However if the universe is not inexplicable, then God exists. Therefore, is the universe explicable? David made a good point by saying, “The belief in God is irrational, but now it looks as if the universe itself is irrational if God doesn’t exist.” Sophie consulted and realized that there is no definite answer to this question. If God does not exist then the universe is indifferent to our sense of order and intelligence. If the Principle of Sufficient Reason is true, then God exists. Sophie concluded and said, “The Greeks gave us the idea of cosmos, which things happen for a reason...
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...com/shop/phil-447n-final-exam-mcqs/ Question 1.1. (TCO 1) "Thinking about thinking" is the definition of what? (Points : 4) Development of arguments Measure of good sense Development of critical skills Writing for clarity Critical thinking Question 2.2. (TCO 1, 2, 4) In Chapter 1, we learned the definition of the term issue. The principle concern when handling an issue is whether or not (Points : 4) a given claim is true or not. a claim attaches to the conclusion or not. the majority has a position on the debate. key experts have a position on the debate. Question 3.3. (TCOs 1, 2, 3) In Chapter 1, we learned the definition of the term argument. The purpose of an argument is to (Points : 4) explain complex ideas. win adherents to a position. refute the positions of other people. support or prove conclusions. Question 4.4. (TCOs 2, 3) In Chapter 2, we learned the meaning of inductive arguments. The support that the premises provide for the conclusion of an inductive argument is best described in terms of (Points : 4) valid or invalid. sound or unsound. provable or unprovable. strong or weak. Question 5.5. (TCO 1, 2) In Chapter 2, we learned the meaning of the three modes of persuasion, as defined by Aristotle. Logos refers to arguments based on (Points : 4) ethics and moral character. experiment and observations...
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...that were presented by the theists, which he calls “proofs," saying that it isn't enough to justify that God does exist. Even though there is one proof that doesn’t show God existing, if you put them all together they do provide strong evidence that God does exist although they don’t have many logical answers. But if God does exist it is based on such proofs or objections are arguable. McCloskey first suggests that proofs don’t ultimately state that God exists, so they should be forgotten. Only problem is that he doesn’t make efforts on defining evil and to help it he doesn’t explain it either. He even tries to disgrace everybody’s belief in God, by attacking the origin of the belief but didn’t address why your faith isn’t valid even if they look at all of the evidence before accepting to be Christian. To better understand his argument, you must understand relativism stating that all points of view are all valid and true to the individual, but this does not prove there is or is not God. For Christians, the truth is found the words Jesus spoke in John 14:6 “I am the way, the truth and the life…” He describes God as tired, harsh, belligerent, heartless, unskilled, hard and disciplinary. McCloskey puts into view a cause and effect dispute vague costs. He states that the best evidence that God doesn’t exist is all of the evil acts of the men and women and that he evades ethics and stresses on evil because principles are tougher proof that a smart creator planned the world. This results...
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...philosophers is not something that is done on a regular basis. Philosophy is a discipline that studies and researches different topics like justice, morality, religion and reality. There are three branches of philosophy that are accepted, natural philosophy, moral philosophy and metaphysical philosophy. Philosophy is a system of principles for guidance. So how do philosophy and the Christian life intersect? One of the ways to understand that is to look at the early church philosophers that have shaped our knowledge and understanding of the scriptures. In the following paragraphs we will examine the philosopher Thomas Aquinas. Thomas had a way of understanding God that you may or may not agree with but hopefully will learn about him in the paragraphs ahead. Thomas Aquinas was an Italian Dominican theologian and philosopher that is believed by many to be one of the most influential thinkers of Scholasticism and is also know as the father of the Thomistic school of theology. Thomas Aquinas was born in the year 1225 in Roccasecca, in the Kingdom of Sicily also know as present day Italy. He combined the theological principles with the principles of reason and he is ranked by many as one of the most influential thinkers of medieval Scholasticism. Thomas was the son Landulf of Aquino and is believed to be born in his father’s castle. At the age of five Thomas began his education at Monte Cassino to train among Benedictine monks. He remained there until he was around...
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