...opportunities for collaboration and integration but in the short to medium term austerity is set to continue and may even accelerate. With constant change becoming the new norm in terms of our service delivery there has become a need to ensure we have an effective management structure to support this. Following the appointment of a new Director felt it appropriate to review the most senior management in the organisation, resulting in the reduction of the senior team from nine to seven. Out of the seven a total of four of the senior team are relatively new in post and with all this change there has been an obvious shift change in the leadership style. Whilst styles are obviously forming along with adapting to new team dynamics there has been more of a focus around engaging more effectively within the workforce and bringing people along with the changes rather than these feeling forced. The previous Director approached things completely different taking a more directive / consultative style. An example of this would be his blog. This was made available on our internal intranet and was updated regularly but this only informed us of what he wanted to say and his thoughts about what was going on in the organisation, it didn’t really provide an opportunity to comment or influence any of the decisions being made. The new Director has a completely different style that is more around a consultative/participative style. For instance his ‘weekly blog’ no longer exists in its old form...
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...accountable, responsible, and trustworthy all on the premise of who you are, yourself. For some of us it begins with the experience of college, some it may happen a little sooner or perhaps a little later. For me, it was later. I had just recently completed a college program in downtown Chicago and landed my first real job. It was acquired not through any linkage to any work study program from school or helping out friends of relatives or anyone I personally knew. This was the real deal. I was working for a huge international insurance company by the name of INA. They were known for their property and casualty underwriting business. Soon after I came on board, INA was merged to form a new and bigger company, CIGNA. I had hit the big time! I was hired to assist a gentleman by the name of John Anderson who lived in Elmhurst, Illinois. I bonded with him immediately upon interviewing with him, and I was offered the job before I left the interview. I was elated. The pay was great and it afforded me to become even more independent by getting my own apartment. I enjoyed my position. Life was great, for a while. I respected my boss and had a great rapport with him and others within the office. My boss, on the other hand, was not liked by many in our office. He was a high producer and others were...
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...while Jobs focused on fighting the health problems that ultimately took his life on October 5. Many are watching to see how this unique leadership transition will work out for Apple, but it is not the first unique leadership transition they have faced. Jobs, of course, was the cofounder of Apple, but organizational infighting led to his ouster when John Sculley took over in the mid-1980s. Sculley oversaw the growth of the Macintosh and thus the company, but when that growth slowed and new internal issues arose, a series of CEOs failed to get the company back on track. In 1997, a more experienced Jobs returned and drove tremendous growth. The leadership history of Apple is a good reminder that a leadership transition–particularly one involving the founder– presents both risk and opportunity to any organization. If done poorly, it spawns uncertainty, conflict, and stress, stalling growth and exacerbating misalignment that may or may not have already been there. If done well, it brings new vision and strategic clarity to the organization. Indeed, success for an organization begins with the leader and the culture he or she creates and nurtures. Much has been written about how to manage effective transition, but most of it focuses on the outgoing founder or CEO. Our work as advisors to midmarket companies has enabled us to closely observe numerous transitions,...
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...While a journey might mean different thing to different people, it means an exploration and discovery for me. It has meant joy and happiness that result from exploration. It is a discovery. It is the discovery of a beautiful and blissful world where the soul remains blissfully forgetful of the real world that I am in. It remains so till suddenly and against my wishes I am brought back. The mind runs to this beautiful world. It wants to go back again and again there …till accidentally and suddenly the flight of soul brings me again over there. This journey is never planned, never prepared in advance even as mind and soul thirst for that journey again. The journey takes me to a dream world. In my dream I often meet fairies and angels. That I should partake of this journey often surprises me. I was raised on rock ‘n’ roll, fast food and subways. I have never ever been to any other culture or learnt any tribal techniques. My daily routine is nothing different from the others – read the papers, take your breakfast, go to work, come back, watch TV, eat dinner, and finally go to sleep. This leaves for no other activity including journey. Nevertheless, the journey I have spoken of just happens any time. There is no fixed time interval after which my journey takes place, nor is there any frequency of the journey that can be detected. It may be several times in a month or once in a month after an interval of several moths. But whenever I take this journey it brings me to an ecstatic...
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...underworld; and leaving his old life behind to begin a new one, and to discover who he truly is. These are the different steps to be taken by the hero and Dunstan follows his path by completing each step. One way that Dunstan’s personality/character changes is by going on a search for little Madonna. His journey begins when he gets his call for adventure. The call for adventure lets the him know that his life is about to change. Dunstan’s call for adventure comes when he leaves for Europe for the second time to search for the little Madonna. The little Madonna was what called him to come back to Europe. “The little Madonna was a bee in my bonnet; I wanted to see her again, and quite unreasonably (like a man I knew who lost a treasured walking -stick in the London Blitz and still looks hopefully in every curiosity shop in case it might turn up) I kept hoping to find her” (pg. 123). Dunstan had to leave the life he was living in order to begin his journey. Even though he knew he might never find the little Madonna again, he had to keep looking. While searching for the little Madonna, Dunstan reaches the second part of his journey, which is the underworld. The underworld is a part of the journey which Dunstan will not be able to complete alone. When he meets with Paul, who is now known as Faustus Legrand, Dunstan realizes that Paul had stolen his pocket-book. “Because somebody at Le grand Cirque forain de St. Vite had stolen my pocket-book, and everything pointed to...
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...Good morning/afternoon ladies and gentlemen of the Tweed Heads Art Exhibition. My name is Ashlea Wharley, and I would like to take this opportunity and thank you for having me today. This morning/afternoon I will be explaining my interpretation of what a hero’s journey truly is. Along with that I will be showing you this extraordinary but yet, so very time consuming work of art I have created. As you see Ladies and Gentlemen in my opinion or understanding of what a hero’s journey is; it’s best described as a typical adventure of a hero, the person who sets out an adventure and accomplishes countless endeavours on behalf of a group, tribe or civilisation. The model I have created that you see before your eyes Ladies and Gentlemen is my understanding and explanation of a hero’s journey within my idea for my related text, The Vampire Diaries. I have intentionally created a 3D construction with using a white tree metal jewellery frame. I constructed it this way because the white metal tree itself symbolises a tree of life. A tree of life ladies and gentlemen have been used in the notion in science, religion, philosophy and mythology. In this case, the tree of life can be related back to my related text on how Elena in… The Vampire Diaries gets introduced into the mythological world. You will also see there is a silver necklace with an oval shaped locket in a pink jewellery box. This necklace symbolises a locket that Elena is given in the Vampire Diaries by Stefan her Vampire boyfriend...
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...JOURNEY TO SEPA ISLAND By Clarissa budiman 11.1/6 Journey is enlightenment in its highest form. Each and every culture, no matter how remote, stands for an immeasurable of experience. Learning a new language or a new culture is a part of journey since both are new experiences. There are stages where adapting to a whole new environment feels so difficult. Anxiety, confusion or even anger might be overwhelming and so we might stop in the middle of it. Journey includes of both the physical place a person travels to and the emotions that wander with them. My journey to Sepa Island on 3rd of August would be a great example of how a journey can be on two different levels. When I first arrived on Sepa, the scenic view was already made a huge difference on what’s in Jakarta. People there talking in different timbre and their looks were also a bit different. They prefer to say ‘teh’, which means I in English, and ‘saya’ in Jakarta. The price of foods and drinks at Sepa Island were also surprised me, since they set the price much higher than in Jakarta. For example would be, the price of fried potatoes that I ordered for pleasure on my free time cost seventy one thousand and five hundred rupiah, which is three-times more expensive than the fried potatoes that I ordered in Jakarta. From my experience in Sepa, I realized, that as emotionally, it’s really hard to overcome the ‘language barrier’, and to adapt to the culture that is in Sepa. In addition, it’s also hard...
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...Experiences Journey to Cox’sbazar Our life is full of many experiences. Every day we got new kinds of experiences. It was 14 September 2010. I with some of my friends and senior brothers arranged a journey to cox’sbazar from Pabna. 14 September at 8.00 pm we started our journey from pabna. I was excited. Because I never went cox’sbazar and didn’t see the longest beach of the world. So all of us make a great fun on the bus. Suddenly one of our buses wheel is blasted. Driver somehow controls the bus and save us. Then driver and helper changed the wheel and we started our journey again. After that three times our bus’s wheel blasted in different location. But none of us was injured for those accidents. All of us were so much afraid because of those incidents .We had passed the whole day on the way. We also got some new experiences and make a great fun on that time. Then we started our journey again to cox’sbazar. When we cross Chittagong town, we met with rain. I enjoyed those lovely moments. At the night about 1.00 A.M when some of us was sleeping, suddenly our bus clashed with another truck near about cox’sbazar. Everything was happened in darkness. Two of friends were seriously injured for this accident. After a long journey of 31 hours we reached cox’sbazar and hospitalized those friends who were injured. Then we take rest in the hotel room. I with some of my friends went to see the sea beach in very morning. It was a memorable day of my life. Because, when I saw the beauty...
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...the job! You got the job!’ were the words that joyfully rang out from the fast stuttering mouth of my closest neighbor, Maggie. She brought the good news that her boss, Regina Dumas, had agreed to employ me as a secretary for the non-government organization ‘Agency For Rural Transformation’. I couldn’t contained myself and exclaimed ‘Yes, I did it! Finally I can work and earn my own money!’ All too soon the day came for me to head off for my first day of work. I woke at 4:30 a.m., too excited to sleep anymore but anxious to start the journey to my workplace. ‘Make sure to drink at least a cup of tea’ was the forceful sound of my mother’s voice. She was happy for me, and wanted to ensure that I had a good start before beginning the workday. By 7:00 a.m., I was fully dressed in my long sleeve blue pant suit, paired with a florescent blouse and accessorized with my black shoes and brown leather bag. I kissed my mom goodbye and waited outside the house on the verandah for the sound of the blaring horn from the hired bus to take us to the workplace, a full seventeen miles from home. For the most part, the journey from St. Andrew’s to the parish of St. George’s was a smooth and uneventful ride. I travelled through the main winding mountainous road which took me through the rain forest, with its luscious pine trees. With the windows open, the fresh morning breeze smoothly bathed my face, giving it a refreshing feeling. The scent of the morning glory flowers filled the air with a...
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...It hit me as I sat excitedly at Cole Field House in the midst of thousands at the Muslim Interscholastic Tournament that “life is a difficult journey made straightforward with the help of others”. In the immense space, amongst my peers and in an atmosphere of academic excellence, I felt amazed at the process I had just transited through. My transition from childhood to adulthood happened at this nationally recognized event when I was a freshman in high school. I participated in a fascinating business venture aspect of the competition. I realized I could apply the tenets of what I was learning to my dream of medicine. Challenged by my comfort zone, I learned that trial and error within my fairly large group yielded amazing results!...
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...taken will not lead to the same destination This thesis is important to me. It is a commentary on our humanity and both our common and disparate journeys. In our collective sojourns not everyone will arrive at the same destination even though the same path was taken. Is this statement altruistic or naïve? I think this comment is about humanity at its best. Conformity is not an answer but a compromise. Mediocrity is another outcome of taking the same path with the expectation of arriving at the same destination. The same path will not lead to the same destination, and for one, I am thankful. My perspective about the path. The metaphor here is life. We often compare and contrast life with being a journey. In his essay “The World as I see it” by Einstein (1931) he stated,”How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn, for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it.” (This is a marvelous essay by the way!) Even a short sojourn is still a life. Life for each person is an experience unto itself. I shall not be another person and they shall not be me. Even though the path I tread on stones worn smooth by the passage of time, I shall not reach the same destination as those many others who came along this way headed for the same destination. The Path. As a journey or by definition: “an act of traveling from one place to another”. This analogy merits comment. Going from one point to another. Life is that,...
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...Writing an essay is not as much about the end product as it is the journey to get there. You may possess the most expansive vocabulary, but the one variable that shows through your writing is time. Time is the one factor that shows improvement, effort, and persistence. Without time, the journey would not exist. Step one in the journey is throwing ideas on to paper. Throwing refers to the chaos of that first step. In my case, the throwing of ideas was evident in the lack of cohesion and argument. This action of throwing is only able to happen if the topic is of meaning to the writer. The topic I chose, the benefits of immersion programs to help learn a language, is something I am very passionate about. I've been lucky enough to experience it...
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...Journeys Defined In the article, “A Practical Guide to Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, Christopher Vogler argues that every type of journey has a cycle, “that is universal, occurring in every culture, in every time; it is as infinitely varied as the human race itself; and yet its basic form remains the same, an incredibly tenacious set of elements repetition from the deepest reaches of the mind of man” (Vogler 1). The idea of, “a Hero with a Thousand Faces” is based off of perspective and an individual relating to a book or movie to their own lives. The complexity of Vogler’s journey cycle doesn’t seem to describe a mental journey but only the physical journey a Hero in story would take. Even though his “formula” of journey can vary, there are certain steps that always occur. Every journey needs to have a purpose or starting point, such as wanting to succeed in...
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...A hero's journey is not only in movies and books, A hero's journey is the embarkment of life. We cannot be afraid to deploy on our journey, we need to face it head on. One of the biggest challenges we face is to face graduation, graduate, and then life after graduation. Belief will motivate us. You need to learn to go out and try new thing, be adventurous. My key point and belief in life is to go out and learn new things, try new things. This belief is essential to me because you can't never not be afraid. We go out and make mistakes, and we learn from them. I grew into this belief because that's how I lived my life so far, the people around me pushed me to this belief. I came to this belief as my mom has taught me this way. She always told me to go out and learn on my own. She pushed me to never be afraid, and to try. We will never learn unless we make mistakes that we learn from. And I plan on maintaining this way of life by...
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...Title Name Institution Date My life journey They say that life is a journey and that we are all headed somewhere. I wish I knew where my starting point was. It is however said that we begin to live when we begin to feel and with this, I can say my point of departure is where I started be conscious of my personality. When I started feeling and seeing things in a different perspective. It commenced on the day when nothing that made sense started making sense. I am not certain where my destination is but one day I would wish to wake up when I am old and fragile and say to myself, “I did not miss a thing”. My life journey is a crowded one. I am a people’s person and, therefore, tend to pick people along the way. I interact with people of all ages and races and when I discover a common trait in them that is in me, I take them along. The biggest players in my life journey are however my family. They say that the waters are sweet, but blood is still thicker. I value my family a lot. I share my life with my friends but when it comes to being personal and sentimental, I turn to my family. My family has played an important role in appreciating me for who I am. With friends, I fake my feelings at times for the sake of peace but with my family, there is nothing that I get to hide. One of the greatest things in my life is the fact that along the way I have grown. Life has reshaped me into an strong person who can stand for himself or herself. Most of the challenges that life has...
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