...Communication failure happens more often than a person would believe it does. Most of the time it is due from not listening or interrupting what the person is trying to relay to another person. When this happens many times it will cause an argument or a disappointment from one of the parties involved in the communication failure. Many of these communication failures could be prevented by using better listening skills. Many times when a person believes he or she is listening, most of the time the person is day dreaming or thinking about something else than what the person is actually trying to say. A person listening might not be paying attention to non verbal cues, which would help portray the message better. In this video a married man and women are trying to celebrate their anniversary. The husband comes home with a some beautiful jewelry for his wife, and the wife is ecstatic. When the wife tries to give her husband her gift that she got him he misinterpreted it, and that is where the communication failure begun. There were several cues that went wrong in this video. One cue is before she brought out the baby sitter the wife was telling her husband that she has been saving up for this for awhile now, and she is really excited that she can finally give her husband what he wants. She then explains to him about how their sex life has went down hill ever since they had kids. After all this building up and she brings out the baby sitter, and the husband believes that...
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...classify human errors and other factors contributing to aviation incidents. HFACS combines features from Heinrich’s “Domino Theory” and Edward’s “SHEL Model” as well as Reason’s model to uncover factors that contribute to accidents (Schmidt, J. Lawson, D., n.d.). The Maintenance Extension of HFACS termed HFACE-ME was created to address aviation maintenance related incidents and facilitates the recognition of defective or absent defenses at four levels namely, Unsafe: Management Conditions, Maintainer Conditions, Working Conditions, and Maintainer Acts (Watson, J. Kanki, B., n.d.). For the most part HFACS-ME function very much like HFACS does for aircrew factors. Active failures and Latent conditions are segregated into one of three categories. These categories allows an analyst to identify failures at three levels namely, supervisory conditions, operator conditions, and operator acts. By doing so, these classifications can...
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...Hardware Failure Transient faults, intermittent faults and Permanent faults are the three types of component errors. A transient deficiency happens once and then vanishes. In the event that the operation has repeated then the system will function typically. An irregular fault emerges, then goes away, surfaces again and the cycle repeats. A typical reason for an irregular interruption is a faulty or loose contact on a connector. These issues are frustrating and hard to maintain due to their intermittent behavior. Finally there are permanent faults created by faulty parts. The system will not function until the part is swapped. Worn out chips, programming bugs and processor errors are all patterns of undying flaws. Byzantine Failure The processor is special component, and it can fail in three ways, fail quietly, Byzantine and break. All lead to an alternate type of malfunction. A fail-stop, shortcoming happens when a processor quits working. It generally will not acknowledge inputs and will not output anything, with the exception of maybe to say it is no longer working. Byzantine liabilities happen when a flawed processor keeps on running, giving wrong answers and perhaps working with other defective processors to give the notion that they are working as they should. Compared with fail-silent errors, Byzantine issues are complex to diagnose and more complicated to manage. A slow-down fault happens when a certain processor executes slowly but surely. That processor may be named...
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...In the provided scenario, executive “A” exhibits level 5 leadership skills. The individuals’ strong personality and drive for success is directed specifically on the company. A level-5 leader is someone who easily praises other employees and factors, rather than themselves for the success of a company. They also promptly assume responsibility for employee shortcomings and failures. This kind of leader conducts business quietly and believes in inspired standards rather than a charismatic approach. They strive to produce the very best results. In this case, executive A’s efforts yielded a significant raise in company stock. Leader “B” exhibits the transactional leadership style. “B” believes that employees should be solely responsible for their work and actions while taking full responsibility for any down falls. At the same time, “B” believes employees should be rewarded when they yield success within their projects. Leader “B” is just as passionate as executive “A “and believes in the same ideas and long term goals. But leader “B” has a more of a “cut and dry” leadership concept, as “B” strictly believes in following the rules set forth by the company, making sure that subordinates do not deviate. Leader “C” exhibits the transformational leadership style. “C” believes in inspiring subordinates to aim high and achieve goals. “C” not only believes in executive “A’s” values and ideas, but also believes in being personal with the employees around him. ”C” believes in engaging...
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...(Oppenheimer, 2011, p. 13) By doing this you will determine what areas of Riordan’s network and services are critical to their business operations and where they are specifically located at, and how better to protect them to ensure operationally ability in case of physical disaster’s such as. Physical Vulnerabilities * Weather * Environmental disaster – Earthquake, flood, tornado * Fire or other preventable disasters * Political instability in foreign countries * Satellite used for communication between China and San Jose, satellite could fail, be destroyed, or lose communication based on orbit and location Once these physical vulnerabilities have been assessed and determined Riordan can then start the process of providing a continuity plan in case of one of these situations arise. By identifying and planning for this emergency’s Riordan will be better prepared to handle these vulnerabilities and protect against them so to minimize their threat to continued communications. Another aspect of assessing Riordan’s vulnerabilities and weaknesses is to conduct a security assessment. “The network is examined from within by professionals, trained in the vulnerabilities exploited by network invaders.” (Oppenheimer, 2011, p. 13) This process would provide an exceptional technical vulnerabilities/weakness assessment. That Riordan could have, some examples of what they could find are. Technical Vulnerabilities * San Jose used as central location for network, to access...
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...helping people you come in contact with. It’s about making other people’s lives better for having been a part of it. It’s about making a positive difference, no matter how small. Success has a lot more to do with what isn’t immediately visible than it does with trophies, awards, wealth, or material things. Every person is thinking different about being prosperous in life and is defining success in another way, so there can´t exist a definition that is suitable for all. It is somewhat like how we mean success based on our own goal and objective. The bottom line is that we should know exactly how to define success in life. There should be an awareness of what success and accomplishment in general means. I define success as the opposite of failure, the status of having achieved and accomplished a goal or objective. Being successful means the achievement of desired visions and planned goals. To some and is more common success can be a certain social status that describes a prosperous person that could also have gained fame for its favorable outcome. The dictionary describes success as the following: “attaining wealth, prosperity and/or fame”. Other people define success as having luxurious cars and a huge mansion, whereas others consider a life full of joy and happiness with their family, fulfilling their passion or simply by inspiring others as the true meaning of success. Once you have figured out what is important for you personally, then you are able to focus on your visions and...
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...the article titled “Read –Only Participants: A Case For a Student Communication in Online Classes” is about the value of communication in online modules as well as the success a scholar experiences when they pass an online module. The purpose of this article is to explain what the researchers conducted in an eight-week analysis of students from the online module. The analysis used the strategy to observe online communication and classroom activity used by the student’s primary dynamics like diversity, geography, and maturity. Additionally, the data gathered by Nagel et al (2009) about the scholar’s success and failures were documented. When they had a completed online module they concluded that the modules that had the discussion forums invited the student’s to be proactive in interaction with fellow students and the instructor. By writing quality responses, a student’s sense of community is established and communication is improved. Students having inquiries formulated by the instructor or fellow students that have been commented on by the instructor or the other students, have enhanced the online modules. Without the communication between the instructor and the students the online module would fail. When a student is not successful with their goal to complete the module it is because of lack of communication with the students and the instructor. The purpose of the article is to encourage communication within the online module environment. The reasons for this behavior...
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...Effective Leadership Literature Review Patrick Carter Dr. Dale Mancini Solutions Leadership August 10, 2009 Effective Leadership Effective leadership is crucial to an organization’s success. There are several common characteristics that effective organizational leaders share. Without these characteristics, initiatives and change can fail. Leaders can take many different steps to help keep projects from failing. Leaders need to be self-aware of how their actions are perceived by those they manage (Moment, 2007). Employees will sometimes mirror the behavior of managers. Aghdaei (2008) talks about the philosophy of “shadow of a leader,” where the leader demonstrates the wanted behavior (p. 16). Leaders should model hard work for employees (Weiss, 2000). Aghdaei (2008) states that “when you repeatedly demonstrate meaningful, positive behavior, people are motivated to follow” (p. 16). Leaders must have enthusiasm for their work so that it spreads to those whom they supervise. That involves leaders believing in the company in which they work. “The ability to inspire loyalty and build relationships is a key component of leadership” (Newcomb, 2005, p. 35). “The CEO who wants to be a true leader must be the most vivid example of the culture at work. Only then can the CEO inspire passion in the rest of the team” (Hesselbein, Goldsmith, & Somerville, 2002, p. 124). To get the best out of workers, leaders need to be able to motivate them (Moment, 2007). Leaders should...
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...Week Five Failure Analysis/Change Strategy Deirdre Martin-Banks, Claudia K. Elizondo, Hana Habbal, Aisha Lawson, Elizabeth Walton, and Erika Williams MGT/521 August 9th, 2015 Dr. Arny Bereson Introduction Analyzing and comparing the organizational strategies of different businesses operating under the same circumstances can help in understanding the factors that affect the success or failure of a business. Team A indentified as an organization that managed to succeed, and Borders Books as a business that failed during the past few years. This paper examines each company by analyzing each of their structure, culture, strategies, and behavioral theories, and creates a change strategy for Borders Book to save the company assuming the failure did not take place yet. Part One A- Southwest Airlines Objective, Mission, and Vision Southwest Airlines was founded in March 15, 1967 by Rollin King and Herb Kelleher, ("About Southwest"). They wanted to start a different airline that advocated for the people. Their objectives were to get passengers to their destinations when they wanted to be there and for the lowest fare possible. From these objectives grew a successful company that passengers and employees alike will agree, advocates for them. The mission to customers then aligned with these objectives and became, “dedication to the highest quality of customer service delivered with a sense of warmth, friendliness, individual pride, and company spirit, ("About...
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...During the design and implementation of a reliable distributed system is a very important. The failure of this system can result in easily repairable errors, such as hardware, software, or catastrophic meltdowns where hardware overloads, hardware crashes that were not protected. Faults can occur in any of the components of a distributed system. There are four types of failures more commonly known as compute cluster which allows applications to run on more than one computer (node). Data centric systems that involve high volumes of access are more difficult to make fault tolerant. They require failure monitoring software and a special configuration. These types of systems are high availability clusters that allow two or more computers and a set of shared disks. Any application can be installed on the shared disk which allows all other computers access, with certain restrictions designated for each user or pc. The running application's node has exclusive access to the application's data on disk. Specific applications may run very well from this type of system. The application may fail on the shared disk and the nodes exclusive access is terminated and is granted to another node in the cluster. The application is restarted on a new node, which the user will notice a slight interrupt and lose of some data. Design issues are very important in utilizing the multiplicity of processors and storage devices transparent to users. In a conventional, centralized system the user interface...
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...Business Failure Analysis LDR 531/Organizational Leadership Business Failure Analysis Businesses are created with the intention to be successful, achieve goals, and create profits. The continuity of business success depends on the capability to forecast changes on markets and economies, and create a plan to adapt to change, if management failure to forecast changes, the business welfare will be unstable. Blockbuster was a leader on the movies rental business, and failure to reinvent as company, leading to failure. Business Failure Analysis determined Blockbuster’s vision and mission, indicators of the business failure and success from research, how organizational behaviors lead company’s failure, and how the role of leadership, management and culture of the organization in business failure. Business Failure Analysis explained techniques that Blockbuster must used to prevent the impending failure, identified potential barriers during the change process, evaluated the power and political issues within the organization, and described the steps followed to implement the organizational change based on John Kotter’s 8-step plan for implementing change. BUSINESS FAILURE ANALYSIS Blockbuster Inc. was an American-based home movie rental provider, and at its peak in the 2000’s had up to 60,000 employees and more than 9,000 stores. Companies objectives were achieved, become number one movie rental provider in United States of America, and spread their branch thru the world with...
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...POS/355 March 11, 2013 Bhupinder Singh Failures Paper The distributed systems are unique in that it’s executions of the application of the protocols are to coordinate on multiple processes on the network, they have their own local memory and it communicates in entities with each of them using a massage passing mechanism. They also have their own personal users to them that they can use for personal uses. What are shared across the distributed systems are the data, processor, and the memory that can achieve those tasks when processing information. The distributed system has features to help achieve in in solving problems and issues with software and programs, when being useful with the distributed system is not very easy; its capabilities are the components, than just the stand alone systems that are sometimes not as reliable. Because of the complexities of interactions between running the distributed systems, it must have special characteristics like the fault tolerant; this can recover from component failures without performing incorrect actions. Recoverable is where failed components can restart and then rejoin the system after the cause failure has been repaired. The failure on a distributed system can result in anything from easily repairable errors to a catastrophic meltdown. Fault tolerance deals with making the system function in the presence of defaults. Faults can occur in any one of components. In this paper we will look at the different...
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...1 - What are the failure factors for the first NIKE-i2 ERP-SCM implementation? The following factors contributed to the failure if the ERP-SCM implementation for Nike which then resulted in a loss of $48 million for the year: • i2 Inexperience: Nike although were aware that i2 was unable to provide all the required functionalities initially, requested i2, who were already inexperienced with the footwear industry, to adjust and provide high level of complex customization. • Integration: Nike failed to hire a Third Party Integrator which could have assisted them in overlooking the entire implementation. The integrator could have advised on any issues as well as act as a means of communication between Nike and i2. Instead, i2 was not even integrated with the current SAP ERP, and was rather set up to perform in complete isolation • Customization: Nike underestimated the complexity of the implementation by demanding i2 high level of customization by having an extremely high level of detailed forecasting in addition to trying to forecast too far ahead. i2 was unable to keep up with the quick changes in the market and seasonal trends and thus creating several delays and inaccurate forecasts. • Pilot Test: Nike underestimated the potential risk of failure in implementing i2 and did not conduct any pilot testing. Having done so, could have prevented or at least minimized their losses. A pilot test would have enabled them to be better equipped and deal with...
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...1) Who should ThoughtWorks’ primary target audience be? Why? PRIMARY TARGET AUDIENCE IT project-managers with direct responsibility over the success of large-scale systems integration projects which are facing a compelling event, such as having no margin for error, being very complex or at-risk of failure. RATIONALE FOR TARGET AUDIENCE These IT project-managers are referred to as “buyers or “heavy influencers” in the case, though they may be managers, CIOs, or technical decision makers. The systems integration projects these IT heavy influencers manage can be either custom applications or a combination of that and package software implementation. These projects feature a compelling event – such as having no margin for error or having already experienced problems in finishing it – and thus they require an IT consultant that can successfully complete the project regardless of extenuating circumstances. In the context of Gartner’s segmentation of IT enterprise types (ThoughtWorks A, pg. 8), these heavy influencers would come primarily from Type A organizations, though they could also be from Type B, so long as they embrace using advanced, innovative technology. This target audience of IT heavy influencers is ideal for ThoughtWorks because – The presence of a compelling event was a consistent factor among nearly all of ThoughtWorks’ major projects to date, regardless of other factors – such as the awareness about Agile or Martin Fowler. These major clients chose...
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..."A 'successful failure' describes exactly what 13 was - because it was a failure in its initial mission -- nothing had really been accomplished," Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 told Reuters Television in an exclusive interview. But he claimed the mission, which had taken hold the world in April 1970, as "a great success in the ability of people to take an almost certain catastrophe and turn it into a successful recovery." At the time of the oxygen-tank explosion two days into the mission, Lovell, Haise and fellow astronaut Jack Swigert were not fully aware of the seriousness of their situation. "Well, when the explosion occurred and we sort of found out and assessed on our own that we weren't going to land on the moon, the first thoughts were one of disappointment," said Lovell. "We didn't realize the significance or the danger." But soon Lovell realized that so much of the spacecraft was totally useless and he spoke to mission control at the Johnson Space Center in Texas those now-famous words: "Houston, we've had a problem." "The two fuel cells, or the three fuel cells, failed," Lovell said. "The two oxygen tanks failed. We lost communication. We lost the use of our computer for a while. And consequently we had never really practiced for that." For five days, the crew of Apollo 13 and mission specialists on the ground dealt with problem upon problem, shorting of food and water, dealing with a loss of heat and even using the Lunar Module as a so-called "life boat"...
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