...fit for the company. I wouldn’t use impression management at a family reunion or an event where there’s family and friends who knows me well. The difference in the two situations is that one is with relatives and the other one isn’t. * Provide an example of when you used impression management successfully. What was the outcome and why? Everyone knows that employment is very important and it’s important to impress the hiring managers. I read the entire job duties associated with the position and knew exactly what to say and how to say it. I was able to impress them enough to get the Out of 20 people who were interviewed I was the one who received the job. * Now provide an example in which you attempted to use impression management and it failed. Why did it fail, and what was that outcome? School has always been hard for me and a struggle although I know education is important and that’s why I refuse to give up. I tried impress a teacher one time and it didn’t work she still gave me a failing grade. I believe it failed because I tried to hard to impress her. * In this last situation would the outcome have felt better if you had used a self-handicapping strategy? What type of self-handicapping strategy could you have used? Finally,...
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...one of the “newly” rich people, chooses to spend his money recklessly; throwing large, extravagant parties every weekend of the summer. Fitzgerald paints a picture of modern society by writing about these crazy parties that Gatsby hosts; and using wealth to impress, lack of morals in modern society and The American Dream. All factors of how Gatsby uses parties for support and how the American Dream can be portrayed in the “Roaring Twenties.” Gatsby’s parties were huge, they brought great numbers of people from all over New York, the people who came were all unknown to each other, not many people were actually invited, and they just came, not knowing Gatsby, they did not care about him. When Nick Carraway describes what he has seen before Gatsby’s party, “At least once a fortnight a corps of caterers came down....On the buffet tables, garnished with glistening hors d’ oeuvre, spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs...In the main hall a bar with a real brass rail....By seven o’clock the orchestra has arrived” (44), he tells of the luxuries provided by Gatsby in order to accommodate and impress his guests. Fitzgerald is mocking the way people in modern society try to impress each other, in this case with wealth and materialism. Gatsby’s careless spending represents the amount of unpractical spending that when on in many peoples lives before the stock market crash in the Roaring...
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...and explain why we have the competitive edge. The plan to use equity financing for our medical device company will simply allow us to share ownership of our business in exchange for money. Venture capitalists and angel investors are our target, as this will allow us to pay back the loan through a fixed duration of time so that we may focus on making the medical devices for the greater good of medical communities and their patients. (Go4Funding, 2010) With the help of an experienced and accredited professional legal consultant or accountant, we can obtain the necessary paperwork for developing the entire business plan. This will likely impress investors and increase our chances of effectively raising capital. The best tool we can use in our presentation is our product. Showing the improvements made in patient health records will impress investors to ensure they become interested. There must be substantial capital for our life saving medical device to reach all patients in all medical...
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...Dismuke 1 Charles Dismuke Ms. Lopez English II 5 April 2016 Disillusionment and failure in The Great Gatsby In the book The Great Gatsby, author F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the theme of disillusionment, love, lust and failure in order to portray the “American dream”. The American dream is the ideal that every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative. Many believe that the American dream is “earned”, but what they don't know is that there is a lot of “behind the scenes” money making deals that occur. And these deals put you at the top without even asking. For example Gatsby wasn't the perfect man that he was imagined to be. Jay Gatsby's real name was, James Gatz and the change seemed right when he “reinvented” himself. Gatsby didn't like being the son of farmers and was embarrassed about where he was from. “His imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all.” He changed it at the age of 17 because of his transformation when he met Dan Cody. This one of the main reasons he hid his background from people. The other was that in reality Gatsby was indeed an unrepentant criminal, who bootlegged his way through the Prohibition to create his wealth and pursue his dream. The prohibition was a nationwide constitutional ban on the sale, production, importation, and transportation of alcoholic beverages that remained in place from 1920 to 1933...
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...customers were satisfied in more than an 80% with the quality, the cost and the convenience of the service given. (MinuteClinic Case Study) Are MinuteClinic’s services customized or standardized for patients? Do they incorporate any elements of mass customization? The services provided by MinuteClinic are not neither customized nor standardized because each patient does not have the same illness but the MinuteClinic is equipped to treat each patient. There are some viruses that are common in every person so MinuteClinic can do mass customization with the vaccines using the technology to deliver a customized service. In what way did MinuteClinic demonstrate reliability and responsiveness during the flu outbreak in Minnesota? How did it impress customers with tangible physical...
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...America was a prideful place and was aware of its growing strength. The fair was to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the new world, it fair ran for 6 months and had 30 million visitors, it was also the 15th world’s fair to date and Americas second world’s fair. The fair had an effect on the architecture, Chicago’s self-image and the American industrial optimism. The goal of the world’s fair in Chicago was to beat the one in France when the revealed the Eiffel Tower. There were many errors along the way due to the cost of more money and the poor planning. The fairs influence on American culture included products and inventions that were then introduced in a festive atmosphere, it also was a success to American...
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...one of the biggest publicly listed companies in the US, up there with the likes of Exxon Mobil. Dr Brent Coker from the University of Melbourne's management and marketing faculty describes Jobs as “one of the greatest business strategists of all times”. “There are a lot of people out there claiming to be futurists,” Dr Coker said. “Most of them are keynote speakers or public speakers - it is rare to have a futurist that demonstrated his ability to almost predict the future in a real live business setting.” But Jobs's rise to the top was hardly textbook perfect. A university dropout, he worked at Atari and travelled through India before seeing a commercial opportunity in the computer (the original Apple I) Wozniak had built to impress some friends. They started the company with an investment of $US1300 of their own money, making it into the Fortune 500 list by 1983. That year Jobs recruited former Pepsi executive John Sculley to take the chief executive position, only to be stripped of all his power by him in 1985. According to author Steven Levy, this was prompted by the Macintosh computer not selling as well as expected, as well as Jobs's demanding management style. As Harry McCracken writes in Time...
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...big shots and nerds on the spot, and tells their incredible true stories from his own Silicon Valley garage. Bob speaks about the emergence of the Personal Computer (PC), stimulating the “PC Revolution”. And it was all started by nerds. It happened more or less by accident; the people who made it happened were amateurs; and for the most part still are. Part 1 is entitled: IMPRESSING THEIR FRIENDS-They did it because they were geniuses; they did it because they were addicted to the mental challenge. But mostly they just invented personal computing to impress their friends. From the Homebrew Computer Club and the first PC—the Altair 8800—they went from being hobbyists to holding court to IBM. The video is more than an entertaining look at the PC industry. Part I: Impressing their Friends, documents how a bunch of high school and college “nerds” created the microcomputer, not as a means to great wealth, but simply as a hobby to impress their friends. Only Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Microsoft co-founders, Bill Gates and Paul Allen seemed to sense at this point in time the business potential at this early stage of the industry. The computer industry might not have taken off, if it were not for the Hippies. They caused the development of the PC industry. And in the “Homebrew Club”, a PC computer called Apple was founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Apple had a shaky beginning, but Steve Jobs turned to venture capital for funding. The result is the “Apple II”. The “Apple II”...
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...side, you can impress the customers by composing a powerful identity design. Secondly, if you don’t succeed in creating an influential design, it might result in less customer interactions and conversions. For big brands, it is not a big concern as these already gained strong positions in the market and only working for making...
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...One rainy afternoon while waiting for Daisy and Gatsby to come over for tea (unbeknownst to Daisy), Nick says, “The flowers were unnecessary, for at two o'clock a greenhouse arrived from Gatsby's, with innumerable receptacles to contain it. An hour later the front door opened nervously, and Gatsby in a white flannel suit, silver shirt and gold-colored tie hurried in. He was pale and there were dark signs of sleeplessness beneath his eyes” (84). Jay is making great strides to impress Daisy. He is doing everything he can to show her how wealthy he is and how lavish he lives. The poetic devices here really show just how extravagant this array of flowers is by referring to it as a “greenhouse,” giving the image that the entire house is filled with flowers. Not only that, but all of these flowers are brought in by Jay’s excessive amount of butlers. Everything Gatsby says and does ostentatious. His house is said to be “colossal,” and he throws these over the top parties filled with strangers, with the hopes that Daisy would wander in one night. Jay’s clothing shows a lot about his wealth and aspirations. The gold tie and silver shirt are flashy and exemplify wealth. Similarly, the fact that wears all white conveys that money...
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...During the revival of the Renaissance, European literature started to show a transition of values into a more individualistic manner. Authors such as Baldassare Castiglione and Geoffrey Chaucer emphasized on, “... how individuals act and how their actions may impress their peers, rather than with the intrinsic moral values of those actions,”(388) through their works, “The Book of the Courtier” and “The Canterbury Tales.” In “The Book of the Courtier,” Castiglione speaks about the qualities that make the well-rounded person. Castiglione created a shift from feudal and Christian educational ideals and created a program for the development of the mind and body, also emphasizing manners rather than morals to impress your peers. The first attribute...
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...THE PATTERNS OF SUCCESS IN PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT KIVANC UNCU Applied Business Research And Communication Skills Dr. Peggy Bilbruck June 21, 2014 ABSTRACT Getting a successful result in product development can be considered a typical purpose for any R&D business. The purpose of the paper is to make a good solution the differences of success at R&D project levels. Using the verification from industrial example, the paper shows that the sophistication of the concept of achievement in product development. The paper finalizes that there is often just an indefinite correlation between aspects of R&D success –financial, technical and project management. The main idea of the paper is on the development of investment products for the paper industry. Keywords: R&D success, product development, Performance measurement INTRODUCTION Industrial research and development (R&D) uses science and technology to create new things or it improves products or processes for profit making companies. Product development, which is a very important part of R&D, can see the situations that are expected to improve a company’s competitive advantage and increase future success in periods. R&D management has been an essential point with the increase in investments. At the same time, performance measurement also has been an important contribution to increase of product development. Comparably, the research usually has been used a theory by companies instead...
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...Introduction Today, sports play an important role in the culture of the United States. The local cultures like social systems, religion, manners and traditional practices, values and attitudes, language, and personal interaction are considered as the important factors when expanding the sports franchise across the borders. The U.S. sports franchises must provide good quality products and services in order to gain popularity in international market. Anyhow, this paper will focus on the importance of cultural factors in U.S. sports franchises and their products in international market, and government role in protecting sports industries. Cultural Factors There are some cultural factors that the U.S. sports franchises must overcome to increase popularity abroad such as management strength, indigent foreign policy and indigent relationship with Middle East nations, and fun supporting cultural practice. Management strength, most of the United States sports franchises failed due to indigent financial management and misappropriation of management capital. Indigent foreign policy and indigent relationship with Middle East nations, U.S. has even boycotted Olympic Games that were held in one the nations because of indigent diplomatic relationship with those nations. Fun supporting cultural practice, most of the Americans had developed a culture of supporting European football teams and providing huge fan base for such teams and therefore the franchise have a great...
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...Success is a word that has a definition written in the dictionary, but no one truly knows that version. Everyone that has used the word success created their own meaning that rings true to themselves and what reaching success means and requires to them. To me, success is not the amount of money or the grade given, but the rank of joy and accomplishment felt inside afterwards. When I feel like I accomplished a goal or achieved something that brought me great joy, success is the word that crosses my mind. Then again, I am not the person who always believes I have succeeded in everything I do, just because I am proud. The things I must accomplish are things that involved effort and time to achieve. When people get a good grade on a test without...
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...How to get the perfect job Raynelle Hugley Iit-tech of NC Robbin- Sevel EN1320: composition 1 When we were kids we all wanted every toy we seen on TV; which at some point or another we were told we could not get it due to insufficient funds. I say that to say that at a very young age we realize the importance of a job and money. To get the job that you want you must first realize what do you like to do, the pay you desire , and what steps you have to take to acquire the job, “100% of jobs are hiring 100% of the time it just depends on if you qualify or not”. When picking a job you must first know what you like to do. “all you need to know is what you genuinely enjoy doing”Mathew,J. (2012) . If you get a job doing something you have no interest in it will make you not want to go to work. “Most career problems stem from the fact that we are terrible at picking jobs” Trunk,P.(2000) When you do something you love your more eager to learn and you will have more energy though-out the day because you’re not dwelling on when you’re getting off. Take a self-assessment test if you don’t know what exactly you want to do. You may not like your first choice but there is always room for improvement. At the end of the day having a job all boils down to making money. When considering the career of your choice you should set a desired pay rate for the life you plan to live. ‘Determine what would constitute a fair offer for a suitable job with a stable company’ Martin, Y.( 2006)...
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