...enterprise risk management * Why did you choose the university that you go to and what process did you go through to make that decision? * Give me an example of a team project in which you encountered conflict, and how you overcame it. * Tell me about a time when you prevented a mistake from happening. * Tell me about a time when you accomplished something against the odds. * A time you took a risk * Why crowe and not the big four? Ample of opportunity to work in niche industries. * Tell me about a time where you had to be the bearer of bad news. * How do you handle a bad situation? * What are you afraid of? * Tell me about a time people were relying on you and things did not go as planned. What happened and how did you handle it? * Tell me of a time when you disagreed with team member and how you handled it. * Why do you want to do accounting? * Give me an example where you had to make a difficult decision which positively affected an outcome either in school or the workplace? * Tell me about yourself. Not school, not background, but you. What makes you you? * name a time you had to analyze a lot of data and make a decision * Name a time when you conducted research for a project, and how you applied it. * What is your biggest weakness? OR Why is Crowe your #1? Then when I answered the interviewer asked, well don't you tell that to all the firms you interview with? * Describe a time where you...
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...Taking Risks There come times in everyone's life when you're faced with a choice that involves risk. Perhaps you want to change careers, move to a different place, quit your job and start a business, begin a new relationship, have a child. Creatively, you may be faced with a choice of doing what you know is marketable or going out on a limb with your own vision, or giving up a steady job to follow your creative pursuits full-time. Risk is, by nature, scary. It's uncertain and unpredictable. You're heading off into uncharted territory. You may lose your life savings or lose face. You risk criticism and humiliation, or having to pick up the pieces and start all over again. You're giving up what you know for what might be. The rewards can be great, but so can the cost. So, why would anybody want to take a risk? ~ Risk gives you an opportunity to open up to your talents, interests, abilities and dreams. ~ Risk teaches you to set clear goals and follow through. ~ Risk allows you to feel powerful and proactive, making things happen rather than waiting for them to happen *to* you. ~ Risk opens you up to new ideas, skills, opportunities and experiences. ~ Risk allows you to grow and discover new things about yourself and the world, to develop your strengths and talents. ~ Risk allows you to conquer your fears. ~ Risk is exhilarating. It makes you come alive. When it comes to risk-taking, there are two extremes. Some people are afraid to take even reasonable risks, wanting...
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...What is the most interesting/appealing aspect of this program to you? I find the most appealing aspect of being a part of the BMW 2-year program is the opportunity to be able to dive into all three major components of the business: manufacturing, process and product engineering, and procurement and logistics. It is crucial to understand more than just your own field of knowledge, knowing how the product is being made, the details in the designing of it, and how to ensure its quality and safe delivery makes, in my opinion, a truly successful employee, and thus, a truly successful company. What have you learned in your academic and work experience that you think will benefit you most in an accelerated development program? Combined, my academic and work experience have provided me with the skills to understand the importance of promptness, organization, hard work, and the ability to interact with customers and the desire to fulfill THEIR needs. Beyond those crucial traits, both school and work have planted in me a fire to be successful, and I believe this accelerated development program will be the perfect fuel to the flame. Leadership Competencies * a. Give us an example of your ability to be a self-starter. In my internship program at a technology company, it was very difficult for me to understand the “tech lingo” that was passed around during important development meetings. Knowing that in order to be of any asset to this company I HAD to be able to understand...
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...Human Sexuality Assignment At its core, Great By Choice is a deep exploration of what distinguishes top performers from their peers during times of chaos, crisis, instability and uncertainty. Rigorous in its approach but practical in its presentation, Great By Choice to me seems like the perfect handbook for college seniors such as myself. In tackling the question of what distinguishes top performers in times of uncertainty, the authors first define what exactly a top performer is and then highlights the three key ingredients that these individuals were discovered to possess. 10Xers are leaders who built companies that started from a position of vulnerability, rose to beat their respective industries by at least 10 times, and did so in the midst of instability, crisis, and uncertainty. They are characterized by three behaviors: fanatic discipline, empirical creativity and productive paranoia. Towards the end of the book, the authors also explore luck and how much of an influence it has on successful or unsuccessful outcomes. They hone in on the notion of return on luck, arguing that fortune is but one variable in the equation of success. “Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.” –George Edward Woodberry What is success? And more importantly how does one obtain it? Some would be surprised to know that some of the greatest success stories came only after a myriad of failures. But it is no surprise that the recipe for success is a complicated...
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... Abstract In this paper I discuss how holding patients in the Emergency Department (ED) has a negative effect on patients. To many patients in the ED , medication errors and patients lingering in the ED instead of being in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) are the main cause of mortality and morbidity. For this assignment, I gathered information to figure out if the increased number of patients in the ED, medication errors, and the length of time ICU patients are held in the ED at Ohio Valley Medical Center (OVMC) is an actual issue that is effecting our patients. After doing a complete assessment and gathering the needed information, a plan will be put together to cut back on the issues that are causing the morbidity and mortality. Overcrowding in the Emergency Department seems to be an issue that is rising. To many patients are being held in the ED and this is affecting the care of our patients. Overcrowding in the ED and medication errors are occurring because patients are being held in the ED for prolonged periods of time. When these patients are held and the ED has more patients than it should, their is not enough staff and the patients are not getting the care they should. Most of these patient’s are critically ill and need one on one care which is not the option in an overcrowded ED. When a department is to crowded, it leads to delayed care and poorer health outcomes. Overcrowding in the emergency department not only affects...
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...Hurricane Katrina changed the way United States viewed floodplain management and flood risk management. The Great Mississippi River Flood of 1993 produced the highest economic damages of the century, killing over 130 people, costing over $20 billion dollars in flood damages. Hurricane Katrina caused over a million people to lose homes, jobs, and took over 1300 lives. It has been estimated the restoration of the communities and some level of flood protections will exceed over $100 billion dollars when it’s all done. Before the twin towers were hit on September 11, 2001, it seem like the United States was headed in the right directions with floodplain and risked management. Due to the terrorist attacks on that day, change the way America took their approach on homeland security. All the focus and money shifted to US Department of Defense, and the natural hazard management was kind of put on the back burner and basically forgot about until Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Hurricane Katrina changed the game for how America planned for flooding and risk management. When Hurricane Katrina hit, it was a slap in the face on the response to flooding that took place in New Orleans. Up to this point there was not a single inventory of levees and flood damage structures in United States. America became a reactive force instead of an active force. The Secretary of Defense got involved and requested the US National Academics to establish...
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...Air Force was a tough decision for me. At the time I didn’t use the same decision-making process as in the text, but I did input many of the ideas to help me make the tough decisions. I had to plan out what the future would bring me in the Military. I had to decide the benefits and the down falls, and also where it would take me in life, along with other alternatives I could take. Some of the tougher choices I had to think about were leaving my family and friends, starting a whole new life and not knowing the outcome of my decision. It wasn’t an over night choice, it took a lot of contemplation, a few pro’s and con charts & talking with my family. As the text described, I did have certainty about knowing what I had to do to join and what my job would be once I was in. I had a lot more uncertainties as to where I would be stationed, where I might deploy to or the risks I would be undertaking by joining in my career field. By comparing the good and bad, I “accepted the fact that decisions have consequences entailing risk,” and I chose to explore life and see where it would bring me. The easier choices were getting to travel for free, being able to go to school for free, serving my country, and exploring and starting a new life with new people and surroundings. My maximizing decision was very simply because I had plenty of positive consequences and only one negative, (leaving my family and friends). The alternate solution that I had was easy to overpass because it was to just stay...
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...However in the novel The Odyssey by Homer an epic hero is a character with great bravery and courage to do the tasks that might not be very easy. Odysseus definitely defines these requirements. He is on a long quest to get back home and faces many monsters and deadly situations. Throughout the Odyssey, while facing many obstacles and distractions, Odysseus must be brave and make courageous choices to make it home. A example of a great monster Odysseus comes upon was the Cyclops Polyphemus. Odysseus was trapped in the...
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...examples that feature Kennedy’s ability to take risks, create and articulate a vision, identify the needs of followers and be responsible for his decisions. The paper will outline a leadership discussion with my mentor in which the traits of JFK and how they apply to my style are discussed. Table of Contents Introduction4 The Leadership Style of JFK4 Bay of Pigs4 The Cuban Missile Crisis5 Man on the Moon5 Personal Leadership evaluation6 Conclusion6 References8 Leadership Style Introduction There are several different theories for understanding leaders and what enables them to be successful. The theories: leader-member exchange, transformational leadership, charismatic leadership, trait theory, contingency theory and behavioral theory (Robbins & Judge, 2013), are interdependent and most leaders will exhibit characteristics of all of these theories at different times in their roles. John F. Kennedy was a great political leader that I admire and his leadership style showcases the need for leaders to be born with some attributes while able to learn new qualities. The Leadership Style of JFK John F. Kennedy (JFK) has several leadership qualities that I would like to improve and incorporate into my own style. I believe that leaders can be made, however, it is necessary for some leadership traits to be present in the person first. JFK is considered a charismatic leader. He had a vision for a better future and was able to...
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...win-win situation where both parties can both find a suitable solution to a difficult problem and can be creative where solutions also can be invented to meet intentions of the parties involved. When negotiations are dependable on both parties to achieve their own preferred outcome it is referred to as interdependent and has potential consequences resulting in conflict. Negotiation happens on many levels and other factors play an important role when setting the scene for a negotiation. The important factors that shape a negotiation happen before the actual act of negotiating. Different types of perception and emotions have an effect on individuals and can be based on stereotyping, culture, selective perception, and projection. It is important to be aware of those types of barriers when negotiating to set the tone of the negotiating process. One particular situation that I had to use my negotiating skills occurred when I was employed as a store manager for a very popular shoe store. I had been promoted as a store manager and had worked two years managing a store in need of considerable attention and help increasing profit and performance. I spent the first year hiring and training new employees and ended the year with a 15% increase in sales from the prior year. On the second year of employment I had also increased the stores performance by 10% and developed a few...
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...Pediatrician What I Thought I Wanted Doctors are portrayed as one of the most successful professionals in the world. Growing up I was always told that I should become a doctor because they are successful and well off financially. I saw doctors on television, whenever I had an appointment with one and heard about them in school all the time. Becoming a doctor sounded amazing as a child and my parents encouraged me to become a doctor to be successful. I never saw all the work hard that was involved with becoming a doctor, the years of schooling and the tasks that would take place throughout the profession. All I was ever saw and told was doctors were amazing and extremely successful. At the age of eight, I decided I wanted to become a pediatrician just like my doctor, at the time. My mind was set on becoming a pediatrician, so I applied to various universities to become a doctor. I decided to go to California State University of Long Beach to receive a bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Development. Realization However, two years after attending college I decided I did not want to become a doctor anymore. I learned that after undergraduate school that I still had to attending medical school and would most likely not be out of school until I was approximately thirty years old. I also learned that I did not like blood or needles, so that would not work well with the profession I was trying to pursue. Finally, I realized that my decision to become a pediatrician was not my decision...
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...In that part, it was more focused on the battle of ideas between John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich von Hayek, two of the most well-known economists of their time. Keynes could see the faults of free market in the time after the war and that all of those errors could be fixed if the government regulated the economy. However, Hayek thought that the free market would fix itself, with no government control. World War I laid a whole continent to waste and drew attention to the problems of political organization. People were looking for something better during this time and that something came in the form of socialism and communism. Western civilization was fascinated by this idea and started owning or regulating the so-called ‘commanding heights’ of the economy. During the period between two World Wars, the world experienced the collapse of capitalism and each part of the world tried to manage through by adopting either socialism or communism. Socialism promised a more just society, Hayek was more concerned for the poor and equity. He believed that people needed to be free from government interference and that markets work and governments don’t. His ideas were based on a fully functioning function free market system without regulations, which were also the ideas of Ludwig Von Mises. Mises was a libertarian who believed that markets always needed to be free from government meddling and he argued that socialist states cannot be successful because they lack a functioning price...
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...level positions . .I have always had the attitude the four year degree was unnecessary .My mind has changed . To understand the present we must always examine the past . I graduated nursing school in 2003 It was the midst of the nursing shortage .I had every prestigious hospital in Philadelphia and the surrounding areas just about begging for my employment . It was a great time in nursing history for new grads . I had one hospital offer me 25,000 dollars upfront if I agreed to stay employed with them for three years .I had another hospital offer me 10,000 dollars , pay my tuition ,and my paid college for my future children { I was single and had no children at the time .}There were so many incentive programs thrown at our graduating class. Our heads were spinning . It was graduation day .May 2003 the majority of the students and I decided to be employed at Northeastern Hospital . It was the hospital that our nursing school was apart of . We all felt very comfortable , our clinicals were done there , we knew the majority of the staff . It was tradition for the newly graduated nurses that attended at Northeastern school Of Nursing to be employed at Northeastern Hospital . In 2003 the demand was so high for nurses. as new grads we had the choice of department we wanted . I choose the Emergency Room .I was on top of the world ! This is where I met my preceptor .Her name was Bev . She was a diploma nurse,and practiced nursing for over forty years .She was smart ,competent...
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...and continue my exercise regimen. I chose this particular behavior to change due to my increased weight gain. I currently weigh 106 lbs at the start of this class. I was up to 110 lbs which may not sound overweight to many but at 5’0 tall and it going straight to my thighs and stomach I felt I needed to do better. Plus I had to squeeze into my clothes and others just would not fit, I went from a double zero in size to a size 1. When you are use to weighing a certain weight and your body looking a certain way it is hard to see it change. With exercise and eating healthier I know I can get my body back in shape and toned. Treatment Plan Goal: To improve my cardiovascular fitness by eating healthier and maintain an exercise regimen. Objective 1: Continue workout regimen of 3-4 days a week for 1-2 hours a day. Objective 2: To maintain a diet of increased fruits and vegetables and decrease consumption of unhealthy foods 5-10 Action Steps – Objective 1: 1. On off days continue going to the gym for 8 am group classes 2. Switch exercises to provide variety and continue motivation. Such as working on lower body one day in the gym and upper body the next day. As well as use he different machines in the gym for increased cv output such as the treadmill, stair master and elliptical. 3. If unable to go to the gym, workout at home doing various exercises. I have 3 lb dumbbell’s at home I can use to work on my upper body and I have an exercise ball as well. I can also so sit ups at home...
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...PSC 403: Public Policy Final Exam April 13, 2011 Causes of the Great Recession The Great Recession was something terrible and ugly in the making. This creature had been brewing since the late 70’s and was as fierce as ever by 2007. The Great Recession of 2008-09 has not one cause but several that were clearly underestimated by those in charge as well as average citizens of this country. The left will argue that there was a complete lack of regulation put in place to observe what was happening with mortgage lending. Robert J. Samuelson believes that “there was enough oversight that alert regulators should have spotted problems and intervened to stop dubious lending” (Samuelson, 19). They also say that there were numerous incentives for regulators and investors to ignore the risks that were being taking, which entails a tremendous amount of greed on their part of the matter. The left also states that there was a ‘mindless devotion to free markets’. Now their opponents on the right side of the fence will argue that interest rates had been too low for too long, and that the housing bubble had to pop eventually. They also insisted that the government’s housing policy was to get as many citizens to purchase a house as possible. They used tax incentives, rebates, and low interest rates to get homebuyers to act. I felt it was important to mention what the left and the right believed caused the Great Recession of 2008-09. Once we look at this disaster from afar and under...
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