...AM FL Y TE Team-Fly® 29 Leadership Secrets from Jack Welch Abridged from Get Better or Get Beaten, SECOND EDITION Robert Slater McGraw-Hill New York Chicago San Francisco Lisbon London Madrid Mexico City Milan New Delhi San Juan Seoul Singapore Sydney Toronto Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the United States of America. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. 0-07-141684-6 The material in this eBook also appears in the print version of this title: 0-07-140937-8 All trademarks are trademarks of their respective owners. Rather than put a trademark symbol after every occurrence of a trademarked name, we use names in an editorial fashion only, and to the benefit of the trademark owner, with no intention of infringement of the trademark. Where such designations appear in this book, they have been printed with initial caps. McGraw-Hill eBooks are available at special quantity discounts to use as premiums and sales promotions, or for use in corporate training programs. For more information, please contact George Hoare, Special Sales, at george_hoare@mcgraw-hill.com or (212) 904-4069. TERMS OF USE This is a copyrighted work and The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. (“McGraw-Hill”) and its licensors reserve all rights...
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...Six Disciplines and Secrets to Successful Strategy Execution | Book Review | | Introduction: Gary Harpst was one of the founder and CEO of The Lord’s Business Inc.(TLB), aka Solomon Software, very popular software back in the 80's and early 90's when the PC industry was very young. He grew his business from startup to achieve great success, finally selling the company to Great Plains Software (since purchased by Microsoft) for a hefty sum (Bergin Tim, An Interview with GARY HARPST). Gary’s book, “Six Disciplines Execution Revolution: Solving the One Business Problem That Makes Solving All Other Problems Easier” was published in July 2008. In Six Disciplines Execution Revolution, Harpst details the elements of a complete strategy execution program, explains why it could only have happened now, and clarifies why such a program will become a mainstream requirement for successful small and midsized businesses in the future. Summary: According to Harpst, excellence is the enduring pursuit of balanced strategy and execution. Strategy requires choosing what promises to make to all stakeholders and a roadmap for delivering on those promises. Execution requires getting there, while overcoming unending surprises. Excellence is a journey – not a destination. A business excellence model tells organizations as to how they should operate relative to the two dimensions of strategy and execution. (See figure 1, Exhibit 1) Quadrant I: Strong Strategy/Weak Execution: In this quadrant...
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...THE SECRET by Rhonda Byrne - Reaction Paper The Secret is a book written by Rhonda Byrne, which is known as the best-selling book in 2006. I was amazed when I entered the classroom and found out that we’ll be viewing/watching the DVD about The Secret. I have heard about this documentary since I was in 3rd year college and by this time I finally got the chance to watch a masterpiece. I wanted to watch this since but I never had the chance to because I got so busy with school activities but right now I think I am lucky that I am a part who knows The Secret and I am thankful to know it. To begin with, The Secret is a life changing, it makes you financially independent, it let your mind powerful and lastly, it will make you successful. The Secret is kept hidden from thousands of people and they let their ignorance spread to people; it was buried, coveted, suppressed and it was never revealed to the public. According to Bob Proctor, a philosopher, the secret gives you anything you want; happiness, health, and wealth. He also said that “we become what we think”, which means whatever we think it predict our future. The law of Attraction is The Secret; what we see, hold, or even our thoughts are equivalent to what we need, want or even demand and it attracts to you. Like what I watched and jotted down, an optimistic thought is a thousand’s more powerful than pessimistic thought. The more you think, the more it will happen because the universe is reacting to what you want; which...
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...Rienz Tolentino ELX101 Blessed Jacinta and Francisco Marto Shepherds of Fatima Jacinta, a six year old girl, and his brother Francisco, who is almost two years older than her, the son and daughter of Peter and Olympia Marto. Lucia dos Santos is their cousin who is nine-years-old. The three were always together. They carried their lunches with them in a pasture land. The three shepherds always pray the Our Father, the Hail Mary, and the Angel of God. After lunch they would recite the rosary together. Jacinta invented that instead of saying the complete prayers, one of the three would call, “Hail Mary!” and the other would answer, “Holy Mary!” They would simply end each decade with the two words “Our Father” One Evening, as they were leading the flocks home, Jacinta dropped behind Lucia and Francisco. “What are you doing?” Lucia asked in surprise as she noticed Jacinta walking in the middle of the sheep. “I want to be like Jesus in that holy picture they gave me”, Jacinta explained, “The picture has Jesus right in the middle of all the sheep. And he`s carrying one of them in his arms”. “No lamp is as beautiful as the Lord`s!” Francisco would declare to Lucia and Jacinta. “I like our Lady`s lamp better,” Jacinta would answer, (This was her name for the moon). “It`s not hot like our Lord`s. It doesn`t burn us,” One day after the three had eaten their lunch, a strong gust of wind rattled the trees and above the olive orchard at the foot of the hill, they saw a white figure...
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...slaves would rise up without an advanced warning and had faith in his plan. John Brown was able to act out his plan, only because of the Massachusetts- Kansas Committee and the Secret Six. The Massachusetts-Kansas Committee gave Brown support and financial aid, he desperately needed. The Massachusetts-Kansas Committee was a committee that was formed in 1856 to gather groups and collect supplies for the abolitionist movement. The Committee confirmed that the groups were formed and run efficiently, in both the battle field of Kansas and the background of Massachusetts. It was their job to collect finds and keep the lines at Kansas well supplied. The most important thing that the Massachusetts-Kansas Committee did for John Brown was supply him with 200 Sharpe’s rifles. This gave Brown a strong foundation to start establishing his abolitionist agenda. The Secret Six provided Brown with the final pieces he needed to go along with his plan to raid an arsenal and stir an uprising with the slaves following behind him. The Secret Six was a group of six men: Theodore Parker, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Samuel Gridley Howe, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, George Luther Stearns, and Gerrit Smith, who originated in the Massachusetts-Kansas Committee. They knew of Brown’s destructive ways, and supported the change he was striving towards. Theodore Parker, the first member, was a minister, who supported the Transcendentalist movement. He believed all men should “expose evil, encourage...
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...Victoria secret 1977: Founding[edit] Victoria's Secret was founded by Tufts University and Stanford Graduate School of Business alumnus Roy Raymond, and his wife Gaye,[8] in San Francisco, California on June 12, 1977.[9] Eight years prior to founding Victoria's Secret, Raymond had been embarrassed when purchasing lingerie for his wife at a department store. Newsweek reported him looking back on the incident from the vantage of 1981: "When I tried to buy lingerie for my wife," he recalls, "I was faced with racks of terry-cloth robes and ugly floral-print nylon nightgowns, and I always had the feeling the department-store saleswomen thought I was an unwelcome intruder."[10] During the 1970s and 1980s most women in America purchased "dowdy", "pragmatic" "foundation garments" by Fruit of the Loom, Hanes, and Jockey in packs of three from department stores and saved "fancier items" for "special occasions" like honeymoons.[11] "Lacy thongs and padded push-up bras" were niche products during this period found "alongside feathered boas and provocative pirate costumes at Frederick's of Hollywood" outside of the main stream product offerings available at department stores.[11] Raymond studied the lingerie market for eight years[12] before borrowing $40,000 from his parents and $40,000 from a bank to establish Victoria's Secret: a store men could feel comfortable buying lingerie.[9][13] The company's first store was located in Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto, California.[14][15] ...
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...Value Chain and Six Sigma Requirement Lanita Douglas Bus Strategy and Innovation for Competitive Advantage 13 May 2015 Supply chain management is defined as “the design and management of a supply chain network that delivers high-quality products to the right customers at the right time at minimum cost”. On the other hand, six sigma tools are powerful processes used by managers to identify and thus aid in solving the problems evidenced in the supply chain. Six sigma helps in continuous improvement to ensure variation and quality control while improving production and eliminating waste. This way, the six sigma helps in improving the efficiency of the supply chain. Using the six sigma, the supply chain managers have in mind what customers want. They ensure that the define value, deliver it, and maintain accountability for everything they do towards realizing the goals of the customers (Bentley & Davis, 2009). Six sigma ensure value for customers. Value for customers means what customers are willing to pay the company to deliver. Value is effectively measured through increasing quality while minimizing waste. Six sigma helps in “measuring the processes involved in increasing quality while decreasing waste, and establishing variation-reducing controls to ensure a consistent output” (Martin, 2014, p. 37). Using six sigma in the supply chain, supply chain managers ensure that they adhere to the established processes, comply to the requirements, which are based on customer’s...
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...corporation is dishonest Professional Values and Ethics Sexual Harassment “Professional values are the principles that guide your decisions and actions in your career.” According to Chrissy Scivicque, there are some universal values that should be and usually are held and practiced in all of them and they are: “first, do no harm; keep it simple; honesty is the best policy; we’re all in this together and stay balanced.” Professional ethics concerns the moral issues that arise because of the specialist knowledge that professionals attain, and how the use of this knowledge should be governed when providing a service to the public. Professional values and ethics are usually a standard in many corporations. As time changes professional values and ethics also change with new State and Federal Regulations applying to every corporation in America. With each new generation and new corporation forming what was once...
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...Week Five: In-N-Out Burger Final Marketing Plan MKT/421 March 20, 2013 Professor Learning Team Final Marketing Plan: Paper Resources: Marketing Plan: Phase I Paper, Marketing Plan: Phase II, Paper, Marketing Plan: Phase III Paper Refer to the Marketing Plan Outline listed on the student website for a broad general outline of a Marketing Plan. However, you must use the specific marketing plan Pegasus template as provided by your instructor for the Final Marketing Plan Paper. [See Kotler 14th ed., Chapter 2, pages 60 – 64] Write a 6,300 to 7,000 word paper integrating your previous Learning Team assignments into a final Marketing Plan Paper using the Pegasus Template provided by your instructor. In addition to the Marketing Plan Phases I through III mentioned above, address and include the following information in your paper: For the bullet points below, each team member, as assigned by the team leader, should write specifically about your product or service with the final marketing plan in mind - approximately 250 to 350 words per bullet/team member to be embodied in the final marketing plan paper using the Pegasus template. The team leader has ultimate authority for managing this effort. • Identify the appropriate place and promotional strategy that should be used in developing the strategic marketing plan. • Develop an initial sales promotion schedule. • Create an advertising plan. • Identify public relations opportunities for the product...
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...Coca Cola Report Introduction Coca Cola is a multinational company. The Coca Cola Company is the world’s leading manufacturer, marketer and distributor of non-alcoholic beverages. Coca Cola is Private Limited Company (Ltd). A Ltd company is a type of business ownership which determines many operations of how the business is run. In this report I will identify how the business is affected by ICT and how the company is run. This will include organisational structures and how different department communicate. Background Information Coca Cola was established in 1886 by a pharmacist, John Styth Pemberton from Atlanta, Georgia. Coca Cola has its head quarters still in Atlanta. Employing 49000 people worldwide, with operations in over 200 countries. When Pemberton died the rights of the business were transferred to Atlanta businessman Asa Griggs Candler, who later became the first president of the company. In 1894 Coca Cola was bottled for the very first time. Coca Cola used many different promotion schemes to try and get the business up and running. However it wasn’t until the Olympic Games in 1928, where the business suddenly took off. It even grew during WWll. By the 60’s the overseas market had double and Coca Cola was the talk off America. In the late 90’s the company was selling 1 billion servings a day. Their Mission “To refresh the world in body, mind and spirit” “To inspire moments of optimism through our brands and our actions” “To create value and make a...
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.......... 11 2.4 Your Workouts Need Both Consistency and Variability for Max Results...................... 13 2.5 The Ultimate Hard-Body Exercise ......................................................................................... 15 2.6 Barbell, Kettlebell, and Dumbbell Complexes - a Different Style of Weight Training for a Ripped Body ................................................................................................................................... 18 2.7 Top 15 Non-Traditional, Muscle-Building, Fat Blasting Workouts!................................. 22 3.0 NUTRITION STRATEGIES ............................................................................................................ 31 3.1 Post-Workout Nutrition: Secrets to a Hard, Lean Body .................................................... 32 3.2 Don’t be Afraid of Dietary Fat! Even Some Saturated Fats are Healthy for You......... 34 3.3 Healthy Trans Fats vs. Unhealthy Trans Fats...
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...Reading/Response Journal: Interpreting Literature, English 102, Fall 2014 Name: Dong Nguyen Entry topic: Week Six Journal Date: Oct 04, 2014 I. Initial responses to pre-reading journal assignment 1. When you read or hear the phrase, “our secrets,” what comes to mind? Write a sentence or two in the space below that reflects on the phrase and what the speaker or writer might be referring to? If you were to use the phrase, what might you be referring to? The thing come in my mind is the author is going to tell us some of her secrets. The writer might be referring to her family members. If I were to use the phrase, I might be referring to the secret of myself. 2. In the space below, list two or more scientific discoveries and/or technological advances which you believe have affected your quality of life in some way. What is it you already know about them? What else would you like to know? Two technological advances which I believe have affected my quality of life in some way are Internet and cell phone. I alrealy know about the useful of them. For example, you do not take time go to visit your friends; the thing you can do nowadays is skyping or calling them. I would like to know about how and when they are created. 3. In the space below, list two or more historical figures, events and/or places in which you have an interest. What is it you already know about them? What else would you like to know? Two historical places in which a have an...
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...October 4, 2012 Daniel Ellsberg, was the person who released the Pentagon Papers to the public because the United States involvement of the Vietnam War and also there were many secrets that government officials were not allowing the public to know. Ellsberg’s career began when he entered the marines in 1954 and he started to deliver lectures at Harvard as a junior member board; during that particular time Henry Kissinger took notice to Ellsberg rational lectures. Ellsberg soon began to work as a strategic analyst in the Santa Monica office of the RAND Corporation. The RAND Corporation was the beginning of an opportunity, unbeknown to Ellsberg having clearances to top secret information – would eventually lead him to the release of the Pentagon Papers. Ellsberg became involved in the Vietnam War in 1965. “ I had accepted the official answer,….namely that there was a civil war going on, that we had a right to intervene and pick one side or the other.” Ellsberg, like many Americans in the U.S had trusted and believe that their government would guide them right for the U.S involvement in Vietnam. In 1967, Ellsberg became more concerned by the continuing violence of the war and how the U.S continued to brainwash the public through the media that the war was for the right cause. “The programs we were pursuing had no chance of succeeding. We’re not in any way proceeding as people thought they were back in Washington.” At this point Ellsberg felt the U.S should end the brutal war...
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...Robert Horn Professor Ball Children’s Literature 10 December 2013 The Mysterious Disappearance of Locke and Demosthenes Ender’s Game is a well known science-fiction genre book that is most popular with the young-adult reader demographic. The novel was published in 1985 and written by the American author Orson Scott Card (Card). The official website of Orson Scott Card states that Ender’s Game was the winner of both the Nebula and Hugo awards for best novel in 1985 and 1986, respectively (OSC). In November of 2013 the movie adaption was released to the public with a runtime of one hour and fifty-four minutes and was met with mixed reviews garnishing only a “74% fresh” on the movie critics site rottentomatoes.com (Rotten). Like many books that are adapted into movies, fans and critics usually side with the book being a better portrayal of the story than the movie version. Dennis Schwartz, a movie critic from Ozus' World Movie Reviews, expresses his views on the comparison between the movie and book by writing, “Might have worked as a clever thought-provoking read, on film it's a drag” (Schwartz). This common occurrence of the book being better than the movie can be easily explained by remembering that a movie should usually stay around the two hour time mark and that money is a big factor in adapting a book. The major differences between the book and the movie are that Ender’s timeline is completely changed, Ender is portrayed to be a more likable character, and that the cutaways...
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...along with additional legal issues that may also affect BUG. The six different issues will reveal several torts violated and damages that may be awarded from BUG. Introduction The purpose of this paper is to explain specific, hypothetical scenarios dealing with several legal issues. Bug Inc. electronic products are assembled in foreign countries, currently the products are only distributed in U.S. mainly for the use in surveillance. BUG Inc. is planning to expand the electronic device distribution to international markets. Team C has provided detailed answers and feedback to the six scenarios and different types of legal protections BUG must have for its intellectual property, employment laws, international laws, imprisonment rights, internet law, responsibilities, and manufacturing problems associated with the company’s business dealing in domestic and international courts. These protections are elemental strategic plans allowing the organization to minimize any risks in the international distribution. The Trade Secrets Act has been adopted by many states to protect company’s trade secrets or intellectual property. BUG’s company as designer and manufacturer of electronic devices and own software is protected under the law. However, “severe precautions are necessary to avoid misuse of a trade secret crime. In addition to state law, the Economic Espionage was created to address the ease of stealing trade secrets through computer espionage and internet sources (Cheeseman, 2007)...
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