...The Heart of Change Latesha Tillman The Heart of Change Introduction First of all, in the scope of this paper it is essential to refer to the fact that the core motivating factor for the changes, done by people, is the fact that they are provided with a truth, which makes an impact on their feelings. This trend may be considered as especially significant one in terms of the large-scale organizational change, where the individual faces with the set of new changes, e-business, cultural transformation and globalization. It is possible to make a statement that in the age of turbulence, if such reality is handled by an individual in a proper manner, one wins. In order to understand the core reason of success in one organisation and lack of success in another one, it is essential to refer to the flow of large-scale and effective change efforts. In accordance with the classification, offered by Kotter and Cohen's in The Heart of Change, there are eight steps, incorporated into the change. They are the following: 1. Creating the sense of urgency in order to motivate smart people to tell other participants of the process that here is a need to go and to change the things; 2. Pulling together a guiding team, which is powerful enough for guiding a big change. 3. Creating simple, clear and uplifting visions and the setting the strategies. 4. Introducing the vision through heartfelt and simple...
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...Andrew Lambiase Research Review Assignment Heartburn and Hair March 14, 2014 DiPetro, J., Costigan, K., & Sipsma, H. (2006). Pregnancy folklore revisited: The case of heartburn and hair. Journal Complication, 33(4), 311-314. This study done by these three female doctors, Kathleen Costigan, Heather Sipsma and Janet DiPetro wanted to look into more depth about a folklore that has been told about heartburn relating to the amount of hair a baby has when he or she is born. The study asked 98 women, 64 of which participated who was having a singleton fetus and was a non-smoker. This was a self-reported test that was observational, which watched for results of heartburn in mothers having children. The result of the test showed that 23 of 28 women who said they had heartburn reportedly had babies with a lot of hair. The other 10 of 12 women who reported they didn’t have heartburn showed their babies had little to no hair at all at birth. This reports accurately measures that 70% of women reported they had heartburn, had children with a lot of hair. Using a self-report method in this research test was a strong point by the designers. The self-reports allows for consistent and accurate validity in the subject being tested. The one weakness to this self reported test is that the test although it sampled 98 women only two thirds decided to be part of the research. With more women it may have shown higher statistical data and it may have allowed for a wider range of...
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...Book Review 1/3/13 Heart of the Matter Emily Giffin Heart of the Matter takes place in Boston and in a suburb outside of Boston. It is a modern, realistic novel that is about two women, brought into each others’ lives based on a tragedy. In the novel, there are two main characters. This is because the point of view changes between the two characters. The first person is Valerie Anderson. She is a single mother and a lawyer, recently settles into the area. I really liked Valerie because she initially came off as an independent and successful single woman. The other character is Tessa Russo. She recently quit her job as an English professor and is the mother of two children. She is also the wife of a plastic surgeon. Tessa was a very reserved character and I could instantly tell of the frustrations she had being a stay at home mother with prestigious friends. A supporting character in the novel was Tessa’s doctor husband, Nick. He is a man all about his profession, as a plastic surgeon for burn victims at Shriner’s Hospital. He is connected with Valerie as well. When her son got into an accident at a sleepover, Nick became involved in her life in more ways than imaginable. Valerie’s son, Charlie, is also an important, supporting character in the novel. He is the reason his mother met Dr. Russo. Also, Nick Russo became somewhat of a father figure to Charlie during his recovery and surgeries. Throughout the book, Valerie and Charlie start to struggle with the...
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...Hailee Hennessy Peoples & Cultures of African Dr. Kate Grillo 31 October 2015 Book Review A Heart for the Work: Journey through an African Medical School By: Claire Wendland University of Chicago Press, 2010. 352 pp., US $27.50 (paperback) The author, Dr. Claire Wendland, Is also an anthropologist and a physician. Dr. Wendland maneuvers her way through the medical training scene of Malawi. Having originally traveled Malawi as a medical student herself in the early 1990s, she returns in 2002 to study others starting their own medical career. With an ethnographic approach Dr. Wendland studies the value of medicine through a Malawian context as well as the medical training for those learning at Malawi's College of medicine. Her unique perspective...
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...Book Review The first thing that comes to mind when the average college freshman picks up a copy of The Invisible Heart An Economic Romance is, “What is an economic romance, and why am I purchasing one right now?” Though the idea of an economic romance sounds both boring and absurd, the author, Roberts, combines introductory economics with slow-developing but touching romance, in a way that is exciting and thought-provoking. Roberts is currently a research fellow at Stanford University previously teaching at George Mason University, Washington University, University of Rochester, and the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also a notable author with several published works from credible sources, such as “The New York Times” and “The Wallstreet Journal”. The book itself is published by the MIT Press, a very credible source. In order for the novel to be published by MIT, the sources used in it would have to be credible and upon further inspection they are. Most if not all of the sources are used only for the specific statistics mentioned in the book and all of the sources are reliable names such as the National Highway Traffic Administration and the Princeton University Press. The above information proves that Roberts is qualified both intelligently and as a writer but does this novel live up to his qualifications? The novel starts out introducing the two main characters, Sam Gordon and Laura Silver. Sam is a free market worshipping economics teacher who works at...
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...Open Heart Surgery at Cabarrus Memorial Hospital Strategic Management for Healthcare Organizations EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This analysis serves as an evaluation of the current strategic plan being developed by Cabarrus Memorial Hospital. It will highlight the recommended strategies in three different categories that will aid a guide in effort to successfully implement the strategies to bring the organization to the forefront of its market. Outlined throughout the analysis is the organization’s history, the suggested Directional Strategies, the Expansion of Scope strategies, and the Implementation strategies along with other key elements that are necessary for the plan to be a success. It will provide an inside look at why new alternatives are not needed and the why the focus should be placed on the products and services already offered and the introduction of the new cardiac care unit to maintain its position in the healthcare market. The purpose is to initiate a strategic plan which makes recommendations to leadership based on the results of the study and to maintain an overall setting of patient and family satification. Key Issues The lack of open heart surgery program at Cabarrus Medical Center results in requiring patients who require open heart surgery or coronary angioplasty services to transfer to another hospital, delaying necessary treatment and causing anxiety and hassle to the patient and their family. Should the current mix of cardiac services be...
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...Compliance Program / Annual Procedure Review Rule 206(4)-7 of the Investment Advisers Act creates a fiduciary responsibility for investment advisers to review annually their policies and procedures to determine their adequacy and the effectiveness of their implementation. As part of this review, all policies, procedures and responsibilities of an adviser must be reviewed, and the findings documented. The review should consider all factors that might suggest a need to revise the policies and procedures including any compliance matters that occurred during the year, any changes in the adviser’s or its affiliates business activities, or changes to applicable regulations. Reviews should be conducted by independent individuals (e.g., the department manager) not immediately responsible for implementation of a particular procedure. An overall review and approval of the adviser’s policies and procedures should be completed by the Chief Compliance Officer and should be submitted to the adviser’s Management Committee or Executive Officers for Final Action. |Procedure | |Summary & |Recommended |Reviewer & | |Completion Date & | |Reviewed |Findings |Conclusions |Change/Update |Date of Review |Review by CCO |Final Actions ...
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...Riverside Casino and Golf Resort / Stacy Benson Topic Title Performance Reviews NO. This title won’t work. What about performance reviews? If you were doing a simple research paper you could write about performance reviews based on research alone. In this Sr Paper you must determine the state of the art based on your Literature Review. Then you will give the background of the problem and discuss it. This must all lead to two Courses of Action (COAs; solutions) that are tied to your title and problem. You need a “product” such as a process, a plan, a strategy, a program – something that can be recommended and implemented. Problem Statement (if not finalized post a draft – focus on the "pain.") The problem is that after initial training employees are not being reviewed for current performance. Suggest that after this initial statement you add something more about the problem. Brief Topic Overview The casino is experiencing a high turnover rate of employees because after their initial training they are put on the floor without any further review. In the handbook employees are supposed to have a review after 90 days but they are not being implemented. This leaves the casino with under qualified employees that eventually terminate their employment due to not feeling able to meet the high demands. The solution to this problem, if it is the problem, is simple. Just IMPLEMENT PERFORMANCE REVIEWS. You can see...
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...Peer Evaluation for MKT 420 Your Name: KYRIA AHO Fill in the blanks for each team member (but not yourself) as if you were writing an evaluation or recommendation for that person. ONLY ONE TEAM MEMBER MAY BE RECOMMENDED FOR PROMOTION. Consider if you were assigned to another team, which team member you would want to be your boss. Consider who you’d like to work with again. Consider who you’d go to extremes to avoid working with if you had a say. Here is the format for peer evaluations. Include the team member’s full name (1), and be specific about (2) what the team member did or did not do. At the end, if you were employed with this person, (3) would you recommend (a) Promoting, (b) Retaining (Keep in position), (c) Retaining with counseling to improve performance or (d) firing/replacing. Please keep in mind that in most business situations, only one person in a group would likely be promoted. Thus a recommendation to promote would be reserved for the truly exceptional team member Team Member 1: LEXA CREAMER As a team member with Lexa Creamer on the team marketing plan project, I feel qualified to speak about his/her job performance. Lexa’s contribution to the project was timely and significant. She accepts correction easily and is always willing to assist in any way that she can. I believe Lexa’s strengths are enthusiasm and timely submission of her work. I believe her weakness is the lack of flexibility. Lexa had to miss some of the meetings due to time conflicts...
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...Elijah Heart Center Financial Review Elijah Heart Center is encountering a financial cash flow hardship, which is familiar for specialized health care businesses. This is a complex situation, which will require a number of strategies to assist in minimizing cost while increasing revenue and patient care, obtaining the newest technology, and expanding the facility without going further into the red. With this review, there will be decisions and measures implemented to improve the declining cash flow distress. There will be a three part review; cost cutting measures that will have minimum impact on the patients, improve the inventory of equipment, and the appropriate choice to expand. The initial requirement in this situation is to save the organization $900.00 for the first year and improving the cash flow problem immediately, while waiting to receive $2,300,000.00 from Medicare and other organizations. There are a number of cost cutting options, but depending on the combination chosen it can have a severe effect on the patients and organization. The options included downsizing (permanent) staff, changing the skill mix and a few areas (benefits, agency staff, and length-of-stay) of reduction. Therefore, as the individual in charge to make these decisions, I have chosen to reducing agency staff and altering or changing the skill mix. This will slightly affect the patients and will help alleviate the cash flow difficulties, along with having an annual savings for the organization...
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...Why did we choose that particular topic or article to be reviewed? As for this assignment, our group has all agreed to choose the article titled ‘Stress Management’ as the article that we need to review. Why we chose this article is absolutely because it is easy to be reviewed. This article has much points and ideas in it. Besides, we chose this article because it is exactly and definitely related to our life as university students. So, we can easily put some ideas as our experiences to review this article. This article teaches us much about stress; what stress actually is and what do make us stressed. This article also gives us knowledge about some stress-management techniques as to overcome this particular problem. As students, we cannot run away from this problem, and we need to face it throughout our whole life as a human. Not only students, all human beings will face any kind of stress either teachers, farmers and also ministers. This article also tells us that stress is not always bad, but sometimes stress can be beneficial to us when it makes our work better and done energetically. We deeply think about how we will think to review this article so we will not face too much obstacle in order to finish this group assignment. Making notes on the article read The five articles that we choose is only about two pages each and these articles have many points and ideas to be taken and used. We need to take notes on these articles to determine which article is the best to be...
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...com/product/engl-135-entire-course/ Contact us at: SUPPORT@ACTIVITYMODE.COM ENGL 135 ENTIRE COURSE 1. ENGL 135 Week 1-7 All Discussion Questions 2. ENGL 135 Week 1 – Restaurant Evaluation 3. ENGL 135 Week 2 – Omnivore’s Dilemma Book Review 4. ENGL 135 Week 3 – Position Paper 5. ENGL 135 Week 4 – Research Proposal 6. ENGL 135 Week 5 – Annotated Bibliography 7. ENGL 135 Week 6 – Research Paper Draft ENGL 135 ENTIRE COURSE To purchase this visit following link: http://www.activitymode.com/product/engl-135-entire-course/ Contact us at: SUPPORT@ACTIVITYMODE.COM ENGL 135 ENTIRE COURSE 1. ENGL 135 Week 1-7 All Discussion Questions 2. ENGL 135 Week 1 – Restaurant Evaluation 3. ENGL 135 Week 2 – Omnivore’s Dilemma Book Review 4. ENGL 135 Week 3 – Position Paper 5. ENGL 135 Week 4 – Research Proposal 6. ENGL 135 Week 5 – Annotated Bibliography 7. ENGL 135 Week 6 – Research Paper Draft ENGL 135 ENTIRE COURSE To purchase this visit following link: http://www.activitymode.com/product/engl-135-entire-course/ Contact us at: SUPPORT@ACTIVITYMODE.COM ENGL 135 ENTIRE COURSE 1. ENGL 135 Week 1-7 All Discussion Questions 2. ENGL 135 Week 1 – Restaurant Evaluation 3. ENGL 135 Week 2 – Omnivore’s Dilemma Book Review 4. ENGL 135 Week 3 – Position Paper 5. ENGL 135 Week 4 – Research Proposal 6. ENGL 135 Week 5 – Annotated Bibliography 7. ENGL 135 Week 6 – Research Paper Draft ENGL 135 ENTIRE COURSE To purchase this visit following link: http://www...
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...technology discussion forum . It provides its readers with detailed specs for thousands of computer hardware products, reviews, expert analysis and comparisons. Take the Asus X99 Rampage V Extreme motherboard for example, it belongs to a well know product line known as the Republic of Gamers (ROG). Overclock3D takes this motherboard and breaks it down piece by piece, they go into details of each aspect of this motherboard, from new features that was not available in previous Rampage motherboard models, to over clocking options, and even enhance their review with videos, screen shots, and bench testing results to verify motherboards' specs and capabilities. For the computer enthusiast, this website with an easy to navigate layout, and attractive format, brings all the new hardware to one place, and provides a tremendous amount of information regarding computer hardware. Additionally, the site has several tools that gives its readers the opportunity to discuss, ask questions, and expand on hardware uses through comments, forum, frequently asked questions and other threads in the Community section. Overclock3D was initially dependant on users input through the forum platform. Their enthusiasm however turned into a full scale professional publication, the website became a registered company in the UK and expanded its operations into other websites as well. Reviews done to hardware such as the Rampage V are now handled by professionals like Tom Logan their Director and Chief Editor...
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...Butterfly leaked just 24 hours before its official release date, March 15, and that most major music websites published their reviews of the album within three days of the leak. On such an immediate deadline for filing a feature-length album review, it’s nearly impossible for a young critic to stunt. At Jezebel, Clover Hope just wrote the truth. With bits of personal and political context interspersed, Hope framed her review as a first-take impression of the “overwhelming blackness” of an album about funk and self-destruction. “This initial feeling is suffocating,” Hope wrote. “It’s the essence of Dis Tew Much.” I think most fans and critics would agree that Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly is, indeed, overwhelming. I reviewed To Pimp a Butterfly in about 72 hours. In that narrow band of time, I "got" the album's messages and themes but couldn’t grasp the motivations for the album’s sound. Why, in. You’ll recall that To Pimp a Butterfly leaked just 24 hours before its official release date, March 15, and that most major music websites published their reviews of the album within three days of the leak. On such an immediate deadline for filing a feature-length album review, it’s nearly impossible for a young critic to stunt. At Jezebel, Clover Hope just wrote the truth. With bits of personal and political context interspersed, Hope framed her review as a first-take impression of the “overwhelming blackness” of an album about funk and self-destruction. “This initial feeling...
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...1.You must take the Blackboard Basics for Students Course. Then take the Blackboard 101 quiz and receive a “2” as a score. 2.You must complete the Advanced Leader Course Common Core (ALC CC) DL Student Letter of Agreement. You must also fill out all required information. You must recieve a total score of "6". 3.You must fill out all required contact information, including your NCO Support Channel and personal information using the spreadsheet that is provided and receive a "1" as a score. 4.You must read and review the ALC Course Syllabus. Once you understand all items covered in the Syllabus you must click the "Mark Reviewed" button at the bottom left corner. The Syllabus status will then change to "Reviewed." 5.You must read and review the ALC ALARACT 232/2010. Once you understand all items covered in the ALARACT 232/2010 you must click the "Mark Reviewed" button at the bottom left corner. The ALARACT status will then change to "Reviewed https://ncoes.ellc.learn.army.mil. Navigation Instructions You must access the course in accordance with these directions to successfully begin your course. To begin your course you will access www.train.army.mil. On the top right hand side you will click the login button, use your AKO user name and password. Click on the “My Courses” tab, then “My Active Enrollments”. The Advanced Leaders Course Common Core (ALC-CC) link will appear; linking you to your course. After this initial login, you will then use https://ncoes.ellc.learn.army...
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