...First Break All the Rules: Review Managers have nothing in common. They come from different races. They are of different age groups, and they employ vastly different styles. The only one thing that seems to be common in them is that, they tend to defy, challenge and if possible break the rules that govern our conventional wisdom. The author doesn’t recommend one to change their style of leadership, with the one recommended in this book, because the book encourages managers to challenge the standardized layout of rules. Great managers know that there is a certain boundary to how much a person can be molded. And they don’t try and push/thrust the change they desire into the recipient. They try to make people better at what they are already good at. A manager needs to be able to be good at selecting a person, setting up prospect, encouraging the person and the overall development of the employee. As a manager some people may fail as a good leader and vice versa. Good managers are those who are also exceptional leaders. The book is a result of two mammoth surveys that was conducted over a period of 25 years, by surveying close to 1 million people. The surveys gave way to some valuable insights which are as follows: * Talented people need great managers * The relationship that an employee shares with his immediate supervisor will determine the employee’s tenure and how productive the employee is going to be. Conventional wisdom is easier to follow, since it works on the...
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...MGT320 Leadership Book Paper Book Review of The Way of the SEAL Think like an Elite Warrior to Lead and Succeed By Mark Divine With Allyson Edelhertz Machate In this book, Retired Navy Commander, Mark Divine, presents leadership from a military standpoint. He breaks down his training from the Navy Seal training school into 8 basic principles. Each principle is supported with exercises, meditations, and focusing techniques that will prepare your mind for the challenges in any situation. His personal influences of the martial arts are littered throughout the text. These eight principles are part of one’s “integral training” which encompasses the five human capacities, or to use the author’s term, “five mountains”. These five capacities are interwoven throughout the exercises needed to adapt the author’s eight principles. They are: 1. Physical 2. Mental 3. Emotional 4. Intuitional 5. Spiritual Principle One His first principle is to “Establish Your Set Point”. This is the “inner sense” of every person – i.e. what makes us different. To do this we must exercise the emotional and mental capacities we all have by accessing four key elements. First, “Make a Stand” by defining our own beliefs by answering the question “what do we stand for?”. Second, we must “Find Your Purpose”. This will answer “why we are here”. The third element is “What’s Your “Why”? Why we do things have either an intrinsic or extrinsic motivation...
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...Everything is going wonderfully, until a green knight barges in the castle, and interupts the festivites. The bizarre site of a completely man renders all of the bold and courageos knights Immobile; this includes agawin. Following his entrance, the green knight offers a challenge to anyone coragous enough to try, and when now one attemps, he insults the entire court. "What, is this Arthor's house,... whose fame is so fair in far realms and wide? Where is now your arrogance and your awesome deeds,... Now are the revel and renown of ther Round Table... For all cower and quake, and no cut Felt!" Here, all of arthur's knights fail to uphold rule number 2, live for honor and glory, as the allow the green knight to insult them. In fact, nobody offers any sort of retort the green knight. Instead they just sit and wait for something to happen. The next rule the knights break is rule number 1, they must always serve the king in valor. UNcharacteristicly, it is arthor who trys to restore his courts honor, not his knights who are suppose to pertect him. It is only when arthor picks up the green knights acts, then gawain rushes to his aid. Sadly Gawain efforts to mend his disobediance are to little too late. Already gawain has failed to porove that he is an ideal knight because he broke the first two rules. But all hope is not yet lost for sir gawain, for there is four more...
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...evil? During World War II, there were mass killings all over the world at the hands of humans. This lead to the idea that people are destructive because they were born corrupted instead of being born with morality and being taught imorality. William Golding, a officer in the Navy during World War II, wrote the book Lord of the Flies about the end of innocence and the beginnings of primal instinct for some young boys trapped on a island. The boys live in this paradise until human nature takes over and democracy fails turning many into savages and leading to multiple deaths. This depicts defects in society are traced back to defects in individuals. People can be taught to be acceptable, but our nature of hatred is always there and order will not stand. Regardless of the rules in society, deformity and chaos is always led to the decisions of the people inside it. The political system on the island in Lord of the Flies was corrupt. The rules were not the dilemma, it was the individuals in it. At first they had voted a leader, Ralph, had meeting and jobs, and had rules on behavior. Jack even says,“‘We'll have lots of rules!’ he cried...
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...The rules of relationship impose all actions taken in the play. Yet, relationships drastically differ depending on what type of relationship they are. Their is a stark difference between hetrosexcual and homosexcual romatic relationships in this world. With in Annie and Peter’s relationship the idea of the nuclear family drives them throughout the show, their relationship and actions are guided by the hope to be seen as the perfect family with a baby. Though they both have issues with aspects of this ideal they don’t talk about their issues, if they break this rule it goes to such a heated point the relationship it almost breaks. In hetrosexcual couples in this world, they despratly need to stay on the path of what a hetrosexcual couple does,...
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...FIRST, BREAK ALL THE RULES What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently By Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman THE SUMMARY IN BRIEF Based on in-depth interviews with more than 80,000 managers at all levels (and in companies of all sizes), the Gallup Organization’s Buckingham and Coffman reveal in this summary what great managers do differently from ordinary managers to coax world class performance out of their workers. Great managers, write the authors, routinely break all the rules. They take the conventional wisdom about human nature and managing people and turn it upside down. In this summary you will learn which conventional wisdoms to ignore. First, you will find a simple list of twelve questions that will help you assess whether your workplace is the kind of place that will attract and keep the best employees. You will then learn the four keys for unlocking the potential of each and every one of your employees. The first key is to select employees based on talent rather than experience o intelligence. This r summary will help you learn what talent is and why you can’t create it from scratch. The second key is to evaluate performance based on desired outcomes rather than direct control over the way a worker performs his or her job. You will learn how to define outcomes so performance can be measured and tracked. The third key to great management is to reject the conventional wisdom that people can be fixed. Focus on strength, the authors...
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...FIRST, BREAK ALL THE RULES What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently By Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman THE SUMMARY IN BRIEF Based on in-depth interviews with more than 80,000 managers at all levels (and in companies of all sizes), the Gallup Organization’s Buckingham and Coffman reveal in this summary what great managers do differently from ordinary managers to coax world class performance out of their workers. Great managers, write the authors, routinely break all the rules. They take the conventional wisdom about human nature and managing people and turn it upside down. In this summary you will learn which conventional wisdoms to ignore. First, you will find a simple list of twelve questions that will help you assess whether your workplace is the kind of place that will attract and keep the best employees. You will then learn the four keys for unlocking the potential of each and every one of your employees. The first key is to select employees based on talent rather than experience o intelligence. This r summary will help you learn what talent is and why you can’t create it from scratch. The second key is to evaluate performance based on desired outcomes rather than direct control over the way a worker performs his or her job. You will learn how to define outcomes so performance can be measured and tracked. The third key to great management is to reject the conventional wisdom that people can be fixed. Focus on strength, the authors urge, not on weaknesses. You...
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...address & Subnet Mask, finding original network range (reverse engineering a subnet problem) Subnetting Examples document created by Jeremy D. Cioara. Please do not change this document without first contacting me! Thank you! If you have any questions, please email me at Jeremy@CBTNuggets.com Subnetting, Style 1 - Subnetting when given a required number of networks Example 1: A service provider has given you the Class C network range 209.50.1.0. Your company must break the network into 20 separate subnets. Step 1) Determine the number of subnets and convert to binary - In this example, the binary representation of 20 = 00010100. Step 2) Reserve required bits in subnet mask and find incremental value - The binary value of 20 subnets tells us that we need at least 5 network bits to satisfy this requirement (since you cannot get the number 20 with any less than 5 bits – 10100) Our original subnet mask is 255.255.255.0 (Class C subnet) The full binary representation of the subnet mask is as follows: 255.255.255.0 = 11111111.11111111.11111111.00000000 - We must “convert” 5 of the client bits (0) to network bits (1) in order to satisfy the requirements: New Mask = 11111111.11111111.11111111.11111000 - If we convert the mask back to decimal, we now have the subnet mask that will be used on all the new networks – 255.255.255.248 Our increment bit is the last possible network bit, converted back to a binary number: New Mask = 11111111.11111111.11111111.1111(1)000 – bit with the parenthesis...
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...take to create an environment that supports and facilitates both academic and social emotional learning.” This simple means that classroom management is a set of rules, words, and deeds that you, the classroom teacher, use to keep your classroom running smoothly so that you and your students can work, teach, and learn safely and efficiently. I will first take into consideration the physical environment of my classroom. Since my students spend most of their time in the classroom, I have to make sure that they are in an environment where they are comfortable and safe. As a class we will come up with ideas and suggestion as to how we would like our classroom to look and be. According to Charles and Senter (2011), there are six facets of the physical environment of a classroom which teachers have to consider in providing a pleasant place for learning. These include floor space, wall space, shelf space, cupboard space, countertop space and closet space. By utilizing the limited space provided to us in our schools today, I will be able to have proper control over how I organised the set up of my classroom. I will design my classroom seating arrangements so that it can have an impact on the students also. I can remember being in standard four, the seating arrangement in the class were placed horizontally causing us to break out heads to see on the blackboard. This often cause arguments and it was very difficult for us to stay motivated and work happily in the classroom. On entering...
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...6/27/2015 First break all the rules | The Economist × Our cookie policy has changed. Review our cookies policy for more details and to change your cookie preference. By continuing to browse this site you are agreeing to our use of cookies. More from The Economist My Subscription World politics Business & finance Subscribe Economics Science & technology Culture Log in or register Blogs Debate Multimedia Print edition Special report: Innovation in emerging markets Comment (9) Timekeeper reading list First break all the rules Email Reprints & permissions Print The charms of frugal innovation Apr 15th 2010 | From the print edition Like 263 Tweet 173 Follow The Economist GENERAL ELECTRIC'S healthcare laboratory in Bangalore contains some of the company's most sophisticated products— from giant body scanners that can Latest updates » accommodate the bulkiest American football players to stateoftheart intensivecare units that can nurse the tiniest premature Nina Simone: Don't let her be misunderstood babies. But the device that has captured the Prospero | 2 hours 55 mins ago heart of the centre's boss, Ashish Shah, is much less fancy: a handheld June 26th 2015 edition: Pick of our week, in audio electrocardiogram (ECG) called the Mac 400. International | Jun 26th, 16:15 The device is a masterpiece of simplification. Terror in the Middle East: A bloody day ...
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...The Executive Summary The product line of chocolate has been around for more than couple of decades. Still for all, the market is far from becoming saturated as the chocolate can lose its 1st preference since the consumer try to consume other products like toffees and sweets etc. Usual slogan for every chocolate is promising the taste of the product. Some go far as to offer consumer a situation for the consumption of chocolate. Competing on these lines therefore will only add to the clutter. And how have we decided to position KKrunch? KKrunch offers the attitude to go ahead and consume KKrunch with an attitude that the product is positioned with and simply tells you that the product is there to help you on experiencing something that you dream of doing every day. The campaign slogan “Break the Rule” has been the modeled on inspirational themes which brings the pressure and temptation for to consume the product. In addition to this, the campaign will have the humor and the slogan links to that appeal which provides an attractive attitude positioning the product and provide the unique taste of KKrunch is focusing on to the target market. Three types of individual have been identified as the audience of KKrunch • Firstly, the advertisement targets fun and challenging excitement. The advertisements used are attractive and they show the fun and the coolness of reaching beyond boundaries (challenge). The ambiguity allows us to convey the message to abroad spectrum of fun seekers...
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...are, you’ll be better able to decide what is best for you – the first time around.” Unfortunately, this is much easier said than done. Every individual has their own perspectives on romantic relationships and every couple establishes their own set of rules. The question is: which rules are the right ones? What is the secret to getting it right the first time, and is it healthy to go for round two if you don’t? Cosmo experts seem to disagree with Oprah and give their readers a list of steps to follow that will supposedly allow a second time around to be successful. DESCRIPTION: Cosmopolitan Magazine offers their advice on whether or not getting back into a relationship with your ex is a good idea with an article called, “Can a Relationship Work the Second Time Around?” The writer mentions that when a couple decides to go for round two, people usually respond with negative feedback like, “yeah, that’ll last” (Miller). This is true, however, experts say that as long as three main rules are followed, it has the potential to work. These three rules are to (1) go slow, (2) touch on the past, and (3) ultimately move on. The first step consists of making sure a second chance is what you want and what is best, not what you think you need because you don’t want to be lonely. Specialists say that it should be looked at as a “brand-new relationship” (Miller). Second, the couple needs to face what went wrong the first time in order to improve their mistakes and move forward. Past...
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...explanation, the theory ultimately lacks in its overall evaluation. Philosopher Thomas Hobbes’s argued in favor for the theory saying morality should be defined as “the solution to a practical problem that arises for self-interested human beings” (Rachels, EMP, 83). The problem he is referring to is a society without government institutions also known as “the state of nature”. Hobbes believed the state of nature would be undesirable for everyone because all humans have the same needs. There are basic needs...
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...Role and Functions of Law Latryia Beavers Eth/321 Charles (C.J) Hughes 07/20/15 Roles and Functions of Law Paper Laws have several functions and roles in society and business today. According to The Watch (1981), laws have been around for “more than 350 years and first established in Boston”. In my mind laws help try to retain people from doing things that they should not do. Many people feel that they can do things and get away with them or do things the way they want to do them. If the world was, free of laws, there would be no order and without order, there would be up roar throughout the world. According to Reference.com (2007), law is “rules of conduct of any organized society, which is enforced by threat of punishment if the law is violated.” Laws started out simple but moved to becoming bigger and started to have levels to them. Laws that were broken went through a system called court that helped punish those who broke laws. The following paragraphs will discuss the roles of laws and the courts involving them in today’s business environment. Laws Functions of laws are important and are important to understand, as there are functions that make laws important the roles are important also. Functions of laws can start at making sure that there is peace, making sure...
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...In the thirteenth century, the rule of a king was frequent and churchly beliefs on virtue dominated life. Rule by the demos was seen as an unacceptable form of government. Aquinas argues in favor of kingship, divinely ordained; of the common good, heralded by the king; and for law which is based upon Christian virtues and the common good. After laying out each of Thomas Aquinas’s arguments, I plan to discuss how a rule by many is the best form of rule, law is created for order and, sometimes, the interest of the legislator, and how the common good does not exist. First, Aquinas claims that a community is best ruled by a king. The first reason he gives for this is that a king creates unity and a government less susceptible to faction. Aquinas...
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