...Lafayette Curry Baker was born on the thirteenth of October 1868 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His family later moved to Michigan, but in 1848 Baker moved west in pursuit of the gold rush. He found no luck with prospecting, so he turned to other means of work. In 1856 Lafayette joined the Vigilance Command in San Francisco. The San Francisco Vigilance Command was a group of self-appointed police-like figures that took care of the crime and corruption around them. It is believed during this time Baker took place in many lynchings. After the committee dissipated he was asked to take a spot in the San Francisco police force. Over the next four years before the Civil War began it is said he was, " often employed in an undercover capacity and became adept at techniques of...
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...time span on how much time was spent initially analysing the situation, we incur from certain references such as how they just briefly discussed the matter among themselves and the chief operating officer, they were able to reach very critical decisions regarding the task force, the time frame and the general process. However, it is known that it is of utmost importance to understand the problem thoroughly in order to define the appropriate roadmap to finding a solution, assigning the right members to the task force, scheduling an appropriate deadline, and finding an appropriate leader to spearhead the operation. Keene and Ryan demonstrated lack of competency in all of the above mentioned points. To begin with, they decided to appoint Baker as the task force leader. Based on what though? Based on the mere fact that they both viewed him as a promising individual who had a lot of future prospect and a promising career in the company? Or was it based on the fact that he was...
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...Tom White Advanced Organizational Behaviour Road to Hell Description John Baker is the Chief Engineer of the Caribbean Bauxite Company of Barracania in the West Indies, he has been with the company for 23 years, in many different countries. John Baker is being promoted and he needs to prepare his successor, known as Rennalls. Rennalls is a fairly young and new to the company; Baker suspects he has a repressed racial consciousness. Baker wants to sort this issue out and get to the bottom of it. However, during the interview Rennalls gets offended and decides to put in his resignation. Diagnosis Renalls resigned due to the verbiage in the interview by Baker. Baker offended Rennall’s country and culture. Baker received word from expartriate that Rennall’s was rude. Baker has noticed a difference of actions when Rennalls is involved with Barracanians and Europeans. Baker told Rennalls about the incident and how great it would be if he could get past it. Rennalls immediately denied the claim. Instead of letting it go, Baker decided to give one last shot at getting the point across to Rennalls. Baker said Europeans have had 200 to 300 years experience in the commercial world while the Barracanians had only had 50 years. Baker states, ‘In your case, the situation is different because you and your forebears have only had some 50 or 60 years in this commercial environment’. Theory The conflict theory is a great evaluator for this case. The Conflict theory...
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...1-What were the mistakes made by Ryan and Keene during the whole process? The mistakes made by Ryan and Keen during the whole progress are fourfold: 1. Formation Baker is enlisted by commissioning executive Ryan and Keen to do an impossible job, both time and resource wise. Following an initial insight from Acton, the company’s chairman, Baker takes the lead to a newly created, cross functional task force. The idea is cascaded from top to down to him, across two layers of hierarchy. Very little is as well said about Acton’ and Herd’ ideas, except that they ‘feel’ that forecasting is an issue following significant loses in Q1 1975. Subsequently, Ryan and Keen appoint a task force on behalf of Baker. That Baker had no influence on the appointment of the members will have further knock on effects on Baker’s effective leadership later on (see points 2.1 relative to Baker). Another issue with both Ryan and Keene commissioning the taskforce to Baker is the multiple objectives incompatibility. Leading the taskforce may prove a good training ground for a tenderfoot like Baker, but at the expense of the success of this taskforce. 2. Selection a. of the team The taskforce is appointed with no respect to people’ preferences, level of relationship, experience and personal affinities. The taskforce is hand picking a great variety of employees from eight teams. Each team members has a separate line of reporting, level of seniority, age, experience and personal background...
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...is written by Matt Baker on the 5th of January 2014. The letter is published on National Collective. It was written fourteen days before the Scottish referendum to clear things out between England and Scotland. Matt baker is a presenter and a supporter of the independence for Scotland. Therefore he will vote yes when the Scottish referendum comes. Baker writes in a formal language throughout his letter. His way of writing gives the letter a more serious touch, which makes the letter serious. In the letter Baker’s argues that the situation not only affects the Scottish people. But also people living in Britain in general. Baker says that if Scotland votes yes for the referendum and becomes independent, then Wales will probably do the same and start a national debate about splitting from England which makes England the only country left in Great Britain. If the Scottish people decide to vote yes for independence and therefore separates from England, then it will have an influence on the English government resources. It will have an affect on the resources because then they will loose the North Sea Oil. According to Matt the independence is not an issue regarding income and rank. It also includes human lives, which puts it all in different perspective. The human needs should always come first and be above everything else. No human beings should feel helpless and dependent to a government that does not care for the people and their needs. Baker writes in the letter...
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...Realism and Naturalism Old Grannis and Miss Baker - Necessary or Needless? June 17, 2013 In "Frank Norris' "Drama of a Broken Teacup": The Old Grannis - Miss Baker Plot in McTeague", Donna M. Campbell disagrees with the critics that have argued that the Old Grannis - Miss Baker storyline in McTeague, is out of place and unnecessary. Rather, Campbell claims that the storyline is not deserving of the abuse heaped on it, and argues the alternate, that it is essential to the plot of McTeague, helping us both with the storytelling itself, and also with advancing the naturalistic nature and style of the stories of the other two couples in McTeague, Trina and McTeague as well as Zerkow and Maria Macapa. Campbell's main argument is that based on the two types of stories in the text, naturalistic stories as well as commonplace, "local color fiction", embodied in the actions of all three couples in McTeague, Norris is able to fully examine and explore what naturalistic writing is meant to entail. Using Norris' own words in his letter to Isaac Marcosson, Norris claims that he is writing a novel of "straight naturalism with all the guts I can get into it" (P. 48). According to Campbell, "Thus each pair of lovers functions on several levels: as representatives of varying social levels and codes of manners; as unwitting victims of the world of forces; as "owners" in several senses - of money, of passions, of restraint; and finally as characters in plots suitable to the differing...
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...Summery of “On Becoming a Writer” “On Becoming a Writer” is an essay by Russell Baker, who was born in Virginia in 1925. It is an excerpt taken from the Pulitzer Prize - winning memoir Growing Up. Baker shares his inspirational story and reminds students and young adults not to be afraid to explore their desires. The excerpt centers around the pivotal moment, when Baker explores his desires and realizes that he wants to be a writer. In the first part of the story, Baker describes how writing interested him, but there were so many other unattractive things about English. He talked about how boring Grammar was and that writing papers were like a chore and robotic. He even said that reading the classics were “deadening as chloroform” (Baker, 1982). Baker touches on a good point in this section. School, for a lot of students, ends up being dull and repetitious due to boring subject matter. When teachers put a little thought and effort into the subject matter and allow students to be creative, it can make subjects more appealing and help keep students interest. Baker then takes us to his junior year, with Mr. Feagles. Baker describes Mr. Feagles as a pristine, out of touch teacher, that was “prim to a fault” (Baker, 1982). For the first part of the year, Mr. Feagles class fails to spark any interest in Baker. That is, until Mr. Feagles gives the class an informal essay assignment. Baker, like a typical highs school student, procrastinates until the night before the...
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...resident of Shelby County, Tennessee who filed suit against Joe Carr, the Secretary of State of Tennessee. Baker’s complaint was that the Tennessee legislature had not redrawn its legislative districts since 1901. This was perceived as a conflict to a Baker since he lived in an urban part of the state. He had made it clear that the demographics of the state had changed meaning this should shift a greater proportion of the population to the cities, thereby reducing the value of his vote. By Baker's lawsuit, there was a major change in the population of his district in Shelby County. The urban district had approximately ten times as many residents of the rural districts. This angered Baker even more now being that the votes of those who lived in rural districts were being represented in numbers that were disproportionately high compared to those of urban...
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...something to be sought after. Being a member of a club is usually a matter of prestige. However, to get into this exclusive club, you must be ejected from a plane in a Martin-Baker ejection seat, thus saving your life. The founder of the company, Sir James Martin, was invested at a very young age with assembling and inventing mechanics. Starting out selling small oil engines, Martin was approached by his friend, Captain Valentine Baker, who soon became his business partner in “Martin-Baker Aircraft Company Ltd.” Being a trained pilot, Baker took to testing out the prototypes of planes and engines built by Martin. However, upon testing the MB-3 fighter plane--intended for the British Royal Air Force—a tragedy occurred. Immediately after taking off, the plane lost power and Baker was forced to make an emergency landing in a nearby field. Skidding across the ground, a wing of the plane caught a tree stump, combusting into flames. Captain Baker perished in the fire. Distraught with grief over his friend, Sir James Martin shifted his primary focus to aircraft safety. Within 2 years, after being asked to do so by the Ministry of Aircraft Production, Martin designed a means of escaping a fighter aircraft by a pilot. The process would be a forced ejection with the pilot still sitting in the seat, propelled by an explosive or pressurized charge. From here, a drogue gun would fire a drogue parachute, safely easing the occupant to the ground. And thus the Martin-Baker ejection seat was born...
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... The most important point that author Russell Baker, made in his title essay, “On Becoming a Writer”, was he wanted to become a writer at the age of sixteen. He said, “that coming out of high school most sixteen year’s old didn’t think about becoming a writer”. But being a writer was the only thing he had interest in. In some obvious ways of thinking he perceived writing was done by the rich but, he considered writing not to be a job that you can make a good earning from. The notion of him becoming a writer was self-explanatory because, he already thought of himself as a writer where it gives him a sense of identity. Being that he was a skillful, and talented great writer. In his thoughts of becoming a writer he was unsure that could be a passion of his. It wasn’t until his third year that the possibility of becoming a writer took hold. By then he was bored with English, and everything associated with it. Why is that? He thought the English grammar was dull, and buffing because of the assignments he did. He felt his assignments turned out to be compositions. Meaning they was leaden with lackluster paragraphs that was not appealing to the teachers once they read them. Except for one teacher Mr. Fleagle, it was an essay that he read, “The Art of Eating Spaghetti.”, that he took interest in his essays. Mr. Fleagle was describe by Mr. Baker, as a teacher who was dull and didn’t have the ability to insight his classroom. He was...
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...methodical record of public events” where memory is defined as “the faculty by which events are recalled or kept in mind”. Thus history and memory interrelate as history can be seen as the contextual justification for memory. “The Fiftieth Gate” is a poignant interweaving of history and memory. The text follows protagonist, Mark Baker an historian, son of Holocaust survivors Genia and Yossl (Joe), on an historical journey through memory, to uncover the origins of his past and act as a catalyst for future generations to also connect with their history. Mark Baker’s journey through history and memory is also executed through his conventional ideas that memory is biased and less valid than history. There are numerous references to the discrepancies between the personal memories of his parents and the documented history Mark as an historian believes. In this way it is apparent that Mark is on a quest for verification, “my facts from the past are different”. This displays the flaw Mark traditionally notes in memory and his need for historical evidence. As responders accompany Mark on his journey, they also encounter the complexity of simultaneously being a son and an historian. This attested via the following when Mark collates his parent’s memories with documented historical evidence “His was a past written on a page…mother couldn’t point to anyone”. This quote represents the way Mark requires documented evidence, history. This is because he believed his father’s memories only...
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...the final forecast and product demand forecast that the four marketing managers created. The task force found many problems some being systematic bias and that it seemed information was being withheld. In the end at the presentation it becomes obvious that the problems were poorly done incorrect forecasting and a collaboration to prevent people from becoming aware of it, by withholding information and having an aggressive negative manner when discussing the topic. 2. How appropriate was the selection of task force members? What criteria were used/should have been used for member selection? What would have been the effect of having Hunneus head it instead of Baker? Keene and Ryan began formatting the selection of task members by appointing the main focus, which was the market division. They started out by identifying the key groups. However, they decided not to include the marketing managers but their product managers whom reported to them. However, failure to concluded or contribute them in the forecasting task group may have been reason to the results of significant lost of information, influence and lack of decision making. Secondly, they appointed higher titled individual employees to assign someone to contribute into the group, rather then including these higher titled individuals. The final team included: three project managers, David Baker, Cynthia Schraftt, Ezra Bowe, and Jason Cassis but these individuals did not represent the key functions; instead the chosen group...
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...Hostess VS Bakers Union Alexandria Allen HUM/114 November 21, 2012 Dr. Jake Golden Hostess VS Bakers Union The news story of Hostess going bankrupt and the Bakers union going on strike was very clear, but it was not completely accurate with sufficient depth and breadth. It is known why Hostess filed for bankruptcy, but there was not sufficient information as to what the Bakers union was expecting. From all of the news stories that I have read, it seems as if all of the facts are present except for the ignored fact of what the Bakers Union was demanding. The story did not consider alternative perspectives and worldviews. There were not any views debuted to the public, but the views of the company and a judge. A judge ordered mediation between Hostess and the Bakers union because the judge did not feel that all alternatives were taken into consideration. There is a questionable assumption that the company was holding back and not being 100 percent truthful and negotiating in good faith with the Bakers union. The implications that were being ignored were that of the company finally deciding to go bankrupt. The implications that were empathized were that of the 18, 500 Bakers union workers losing their jobs. It is important to make distinctions when undertaking a critical evaluation because not everyone involved knows all of the facts to make concrete decisions. If the Bakers union took the time to completely evaluate the predicament, they would have just taken cutbacks...
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...“On Becoming a Writer” is written by Russell Baker, an author born in 1925, in Virgina. The excerpt is taken from the article “Growing Up”. “Growing Up” is a Pulitzer-prize winning memoir. The article describes the thoughts and emotions surrounding the moment that he realized his interest in writing. At the beginning of the story, Russell Bakers speaks about the art of writing and how it intrigues him. He also describes what was uninteresting about the English language, as well. He told how he found grammar to be boring and writing papers were much like completing a chore. Russell stated that reading classic novels were “deadening as chloroform” (Baker, 1982). He explained in the except that he did care to write essays because they seemed tedious to complete and difficult for others to read and comprehend in the manner that the author wrote it. I agree with this feeling because the content is usually presented in a dull manner, which causes students to lose interest in the topic. If teachers allow students to be more creative with their writing, such as writing about personal interests, I think it would make the subject more appealing. Further along in the story, Baker describes his junior year of high with his English teacher, Mr. Feagles. He tells us that Mr. Feagles was “prim to a fault” (Baker, 1982) and removed from reality with his expectations for the class. One of the course assignments was an informal essay, in which Baker procrastinated on due to his lack of interest...
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...of 1975 to their handling of the meeting during which the members of the task-force made their presentations? 30% It was clear that Baker had little to no control over the task force. Baker had not created the team and had no real authority (aside from being designated as the head) over the task force. The task force was a formality in the Keene & Baker’s eyes, thus they concluded the area that needed to be studied was marketing division (market managers made final forecasts based on info from prod mgrs, VP of sales, VP of manufacturing, & econ forecasts from VP of econ). At this point Keene & Baker never gave much thought or importance to the task force therefore they were just content to “formally” state that the situation was being analyzed. In reality neither of the VP’s actually gave much importance to the two losing quarters situation. This in turn showed when the task force report meeting had gotten out of control and they were headed to a break, Keene told Baker “…you better figure out what you’re going to do at 3:00 (when they returned from the break)”. This statement from Keene showed that he had little authority or control over the situation, he was placing the blame on Baker instead of backing him up. The following is a broken down analysis of the mistakes that Keene & Ryan committed: Greenhorn choice (assigning David Baker to be in charge of the task force - taking it likely to not deal with it themselves - initial analysis and diagnosis of the problem): ...
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