...couple were sleeping. Sometimes, conflict may be a mutual problem, which may be best resolved through discussion and negotiation rather than through aggression. After communication the roommates managed to solve their conflict. If we are involved in the conflict, most of the time we are presenting our perception of the problem. If we use active listening skills to ensure we hear and understand other’s positions and perceptions, then we can find a solution to the conflict. From experience I can say that in times of conflict, we have to make sure that when we talk, we must use an adult assertive approach rather than a submissive or aggressive style. In times of conflict we have to gather information as much as we can We must try to get to the underlying interests, needs, and concerns of the other. We must ask for the other person’s viewpoint and confirm that we respect his or her opinion and need his or her cooperation to solve the problem. We must try to understand his or her motivations and goals, and see how my actions may be affecting these. Also, try to understand the conflict in objective terms: Is it affecting work performance? Damaging the delivery to the client? disrupting team work? hampering decision-making? or so on. We have to be sure to focus on work issues and leave personalities out of the discussion. Like one of our classmate...
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...things I am good at that I can eloquently put into words and give instructions for them. One thing I do really well; constantly dating the wrong person. Friends might think that after making the same mistakes over and over again, that I would have learned by now. Those friends are wrong. At least, they were. Finally admitting to myself what mistakes I’ve been making, and talking to my friends about it, I have learned to take more time in getting to know someone. It always starts the same way: a cute face. A physical attraction. Just go with it. I wait until the guy talks to me because I’m just a little too shy and awkward. When they do, I need to get a drink because it loosens me up and makes me less nervous. Maybe my friends are there, that always helps. So, we’re talking and the hormones are flying. Then there’s a light brushing of hands. Electric. Sparks are flying. Also, at this point, the drinks are flowing. Nothing really deep or important usually comes from these conversations. It’s basically just like two teenagers trying not to paw at each other in public. We arrange to hang out again. Great! First dates are awkward but I get that excited feeling in my stomach when I’m pulling up to meet them. Once, I was extra nervous as I wasn’t quite sure I’d recognize the person that I’d met at a bar and talked to for about five minutes before setting up a date. Fortunately, he was the only one sitting outside wearing an expectant look on his face. We talked some more, about general...
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...The Sociopath Next Door Author: Martha Stout Book Review By: Nicole Hanks April 8, 2013 “1 in 25 ordinary Americans secretly has no conscience and can do anything at all without feeling guilty. Who is the devil you know?” “A chilling accurate portrayal of evil—the decent person’s guide to indecency.” Jonathan Kellerman If a sociopath lives next door, don't go over for coffee. In fact, don't admit to them that you drink coffee, don't talk to them, and for the love of all that's holy, don't ever ask if you can borrow a cup of sugar. Not even if you're baking a cake that is guaranteed to find you true love, a promotion, and give you the winning lotto numbers. Do not make nice with a sociopath. Or so you'll think after reading Martha Stout's book. The Sociopath Next Door is an intriguing look at these devious, tricky people who live a life without a conscience. She describes the sociopath as a person who doesn't have guilt or remorse, or a sense of conscience. Literally they have no conscience. Their minds are such that the sociopath is free to run among us in the world, doing what they like without feeling bad or upset. They don't lie awake at night, wishing they could take back a nasty remark. They don't bite back and keep from saying nasty things to the clerk at Blockbuster when asked to check their backpacks at the store. If they say something awful, they're not going to feel sorry for it. That really seems to be the gist of sociopath, the total lack of remorse or regard...
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...thereafter you will wish you had done it differently. But eventually, you accept the experience as a lesson learned and you move on with your life. This is hardly the worst kind of regret. What could be worse? The chances you didn’t take. The relationships you were afraid to nurture. The decisions you waited too long to make. The things you didn’t even try when you had the chance. Those important words you left unspoken and deeds you left undone. The good news is, it’s not too late. You are here breathing, which means you still have a chance to do what you might have done, and be what you might have been. Right now you have an opportunity to write yourself a future free of regret. So take this opportunity and… 1. Take the first step. The greatest miracle of your success in life will not be that you finished, it will be that you had the courage to begin. The feeling you get from taking the first step is far better than the feeling you get from sitting around thinking about it. Get up and get moving. Take the first step today – just one small step forward on that goal you’ve been meaning to work on. Even if you don’t feel 100% prepared right now, your worst try will always be 100% more effective than the person who never did. It is so easy to get caughtup in planning and perfecting that before you know it, you have made taking the first step a bigger deal than it is. Sometimes you just have to go ahead and take things as they come, one step at a time. So give up...
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...persevere through difficult situations and challenge myself by undertaking complex tasks. If I am presented with a class that doesn’t meet my intellectual standards I have a habit of making things harder than they have to be in order to challenge myself. That’s why I was content in Business Management 3510, I found the team activities, fun, challenging, and stimulating. I will admit that the Business Simulation was far more entertaining to me than the Functional Presentation; however, I found each equally challenging. I believe my role in the functional presentation wasn’t as significant as the Simulation. I feel that there was groupthink (George & Jones, 2009, p. 171) occurring quite frequently. This was probably due to the fact that we presented at the end of the semester fresh off the coat-tails of the Simulation project. I made it a point to take on the role of a quasi-leader in the functional team, although everyone pulled their weight in the end. I made it a point to think outside of the proverbial box by taking the team away from the norm (George & Jones, 2009, p.53) of banking that Finance teams had brought to the table in the past. I brought in the investment perspective, which I hoped would be a fresh change. Since July of 2008, I have been invested in some mutual funds offered by American Funds and Southwestern Investment. Bill Zizzi has been a role-model to me ever since I met him and has been a wonderful source of knowledge. This proved incredibly...
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...Yabu: Hai! So, it’s soon to be the 5th Anniversary since we became JUMP, so today we’re looking back at the history of JUMP! To start off, who do you think changed the most since we became JUMP? Arioka: Keito! Takaki: He can now say more to members. Yamada: Just a total tengu（笑）(Note: Tengu is a Japanese expression of an over confident person.) Chinen: It just means that he’s more friendly with members now. Yaotome: Back then he never talked, and he even started crying in the middle of our choreography session. （笑） Yabu: Unfortunately he changed. Okamoto: Just say “He changed.” And leave it! It’s not unfortunate. （笑） Yabu: Back then he was all like, “I don’t wanna play the guitar…” Arioka: Oh, yeah yeah! He had absolutely no intention of playing it! Inoo: He changed. Chinen: He changed. Yabu: You’re suddenly like, a guitarist.（笑） Arioka: What happened? Okamoto: Well you know, I… Takaki: Fujirock. Nakajima: Hahahaha Summer Sonic? (translator’s note: they are both famous rock music festivals.) Okamoto: Fuhahahahaha! Well, you know our debut concert at Tokyo Dome? There Yuto was playing the drums. Nakajima: Jealousy? Okamoto: Yup. I wanted to play an instrument too. Yabu: So you were influenced by that? Okamoto: Yep. Takaki: So it’s not your dad. Okamoto: No…well, I wanted to play an instrument and I had a good teacher nearby… Arioka: Lessons? Did you go to lessons? Okamoto: Eh? No, I didn’t take lessons. （笑） Yabu: A teacher i.e. your dad. It’s not just nearby...
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...persevere through difficult situations and challenge myself by undertaking complex tasks. If I am presented with a class that doesn’t meet my intellectual standards I have a habit of making things harder than they have to be in order to challenge myself. That’s why I was content in Business Management 3510, I found the team activities, fun, challenging, and stimulating. I will admit that the Business Simulation was far more entertaining to me than the Functional Presentation; however, I found each equally challenging. I believe my role in the functional presentation wasn’t as significant as the Simulation. I feel that there was groupthink (George & Jones, 2009, p. 171) occurring quite frequently. This was probably due to the fact that we presented at the end of the semester fresh off the coat-tails of the Simulation project. I made it a point to take on the role of a quasi-leader in the functional team, although everyone pulled their weight in the end. I made it a point to think outside of the proverbial box by taking the team away from the norm (George & Jones, 2009, p.53) of banking that Finance teams had brought to the table in the past. I brought in the investment perspective, which I hoped would be a fresh change. Since July of 2008, I have been invested in some mutual funds offered by American Funds and Southwestern Investment. Bill Zizzi has been a role-model to me ever since I met him and has been a wonderful source of knowledge. This proved incredibly...
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...for our marketing strategy is a food franchise that’s based upon customer satisfaction and healthy foods. We decided to put it in NYC one of the best locations nation’ wide. Eat-smart will be located in 169 Broadway, New York, not too far away from McDonald’s which is located on 160 Broadway new York, the reason why we choose this specific area because Broadway is known for having a big variety of people that walks in and out every day, the portions of customers and consumers in Broadway makes up about 65-80 percent according to www.foxnews.com last but not least Broadway is also a generic term that has grown with popularity over the past decade. Customers in New York City sometimes want and need a meal late at night so we will be open 24 hours from Friday-Saturday and Monday-Thursdays it will open and close from 8 a.m. - 12 a.m. The facility when you walk inside will have a very nice set up, the walls are blue and black to match up with the logos colors so we have a unique appeal. The name of our franchise is called Eat-Smart it’s similar to McDonald’s and Burger King but healthier. We have plenty of food to choose from whether its burgers, french fries, chicken sandwiches, etc; we also have ice tea different juices and soda as well. The prices of eat-smart’s food menu are affordable we have dollar menus and food specials so you can spend within your budget. We will have about 12 employees that will work for us; the starting pay for our sales associates will be 8...
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...Unrequited Love: It Can And Will Hurt Ever feel your emotions grow so strongly for someone, it feels as if you have allowed your fantasy to develop a perfect picture of you and this person of interest? Did you ever feel your heart break from that person’s rejection just as bad as it would had you developed a relationship, or even an affair with them? If you are nodding your head right now, you have experienced what is called “unrequited love”; a love or desire for someone, which unfortunately is not mutual. Unrequited love is believed to be something quite common. Many fictional stories have been written around the theme, and many songs have been sung about it. However, in reality, you probably will not find many non-fiction books on the shelves about it. To my own knowledge, there has been only one book written on it as a whole, which deals with both sides of unrequited love; the point of view of the one who feels it, and the point of view of the one who receives it, and more than likely rejects it. Other than that, most of the time you will only find articles online giving you a step by step guide on how to deal with it and move on. While all the advice is valid and has merit, to someone going through all the difficulties and challenges it probably sounds like worn out clichés. You probably sit there and wonder how is it that they can make the process of getting over it sound so easy, when you spend your every waking moment thinking about that special someone who “stole”...
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...projects. Just because the “customer” works in the same building and has their paychecks signed by the same person as you doesn’t mean there won’t be communication problems. In fact, internally facing projects are often worse than projects for paying customers because internal customers don’t have to adhere to a contract, and no tangible value is placed upon the work. In these situations, there is little incentive for the customers to work well with you, and if communication breaks down, they complain about how “IT is stonewalling us.” The result is wasted time and money due to things being delivered late, delivered wrong, or not delivered at all. 2: Process issues To the rest of the company, internal IT is like the nephew you can order to come mow the lawn when needed. This is no way to run development projects. All too often, the IT department eventually tires of it, tries to establish some sort of process to put on the brakes, and gets initial buy-in from leadership. Then, when...
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...raise one or more later rounds to accelerate growth. Reality can be messier. Some companies raise money twice in phase 2. Others skip phase 1 and go straight to phase 2. And at Y Combinator we get an increasing number of companies that have already raised amounts in the hundreds of thousands. But the three phase path is at least the one about which individual startups' paths oscillate. This essay focuses on phase 2 fundraising. That's the type the startups we fund are doing on Demo Day, and this essay is the advice we give them. Forces Fundraising is hard in both senses: hard like lifting a heavy weight, and hard like solving a puzzle. It's hard like lifting a weight because it's intrinsically hard to convince people to part with large sums of money. That problem is irreducible; it should be hard. But much of the other kind of difficulty can be eliminated. Fundraising only seems a puzzle because it's an alien world to most founders, and I hope to fix that by supplying a map through it. To founders, the behavior of investors is often opaque—partly because their motivations are obscure, but partly because they deliberately mislead you. And the misleading ways of investors combine horribly with the wishful thinking of inexperienced founders. At YC we're always warning founders about this danger, and investors are probably more circumspect with YC startups than with other companies they talk to, and even so we witness a constant series of...
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...A Look at John Q HCS/235 History of Health Care Utilization in the US November 20, 2013 Brett Robinson A look at John Q Too poor to afford private health care insurance coverage, but lucky enough to qualify for Medicaid John Q faces yet another challenge. John’s father recently suffered a heart attack which brought into question his own mortality. John like many Americans is a working class man who works full time but still under the poverty level and into a substandard and overworked Medicaid system. He like many others has high blood pressure and with his father recent heart attack he would like to be checked out. Due to John’s low income he qualifies for Medicaid coverage, but also has work within his restraints. John lives in a rural community where there are local doctors however none accept Medicaid. The closest primary care physician who takes his insurance is a forty minute drive away. John also is without a car, he relies on a friend or public transportation. There are many mutable and un-mutable factors in this case. John could get a better job, which could result in better insurance coverage. “The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services states that one-quarter of America’s population lives in rural areas”(Jones, 2013). John Q lives in a rural area where his son has heart condition and is in need of a heart transplant and the closest primary care physicians is 40 miles away. John usually gets a ride to work from a friend or relies on public transportation...
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...changes might induce such a couple to consider their behavior irrational? -they will produce children for labor and to work and also until they bear 1 or more boy. It’s a cultural norm is for families to prefer boys and try until they get 1+, they will not pay attention to how irrational it really is until its already too late and their population take a toll on their already outstanding poverty. 2. Are there physical limits to population growth on earth? Explain. -No. Migration is something physical, literally; and unless the U.S. has a regulation that I am unaware of then no there is no physical limit. Also sex is physical too. Population increases because of the reproduction and the U.S. doesn’t regulate how much people have sex, therefore there is also no physical limit. 3. Are there social limits to population growth on the Earth? Explain. -No. I think socially we know population is increasing too high and that there is no one stopping or decreasing population growth. (If that’s what you’re asking prof.) 4. Explain why you agree or disagree with each of the following proposals: A. the number of legal immigrants and refugees allowed into the U.S. each year should be sharply reduced. - I both agree and disagree because although the US is where everyone wants to be and probably one of the safest countries to be, a lot more of the US resources are being used and the percentage of consumption increase with US citizens alone. Immigrants and...
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...divided as to whether he should let it to the judges that his father faces on two different occasions. In the first case, his father is taken to court and charged with burning Mr. Harry’s barn. Even though he is guilty, he walks away scot free and the bad thing about it is that it is not the first and is not going to be the last barn he burns as we see in the story later. It is an injustice and he wishes that he could stop it, but on the other hand, he should protect the family name. this brings out the basis upon which the story rotates. The stor’s main theme is a conflict in which Sarty has to find which one among his family and his community he should identify with. Abner Snopes, Sarty’s father keeps on reminding him that family relations are very important and that “he was getting to be a man. He got to learn to stick to his own blood or he wont have any blood to sticking to him” (Main story: p 3) the major theme in the book is about finding one’s identity, or choosing what to identify with. There is constant identity crisis. Sarty is caught off guard this time by his father’s intension to burn Mr. de Spain’s barn. He even tries to delay his plan by suggesting the sending of someone to warn Mr. de Spin that his barn will be burned but his father already knows what he stands for and won’t let his plan fail. Despite the mother’s effort to restrain him from going, he struggles with her and ensures that he defeats her. His aunt supports his course and even threatens to go if...
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...Listen up by Sierra A. Slinger "This world is so fucked up, son." Crap. He's awake, and that means you're probably in trouble. You close the front door quietly behind you, and move slowly towards the living room, pausing at the door. He's sitting in the armchair, the one that isn't facing you, and you can only see one of his arms hanging over the side. You hesitate because you don't really have enough gut to go any further. You were really late, and you thought for sure that he'd be asleep, because sane people were usually in bed by eleven, and it's 2 a.m. But no, the asshole had to sit around and wait up for you, probably drinking himself to all hell, and, yeah, that's alcohol you can smell in the air, which is great, just great. You guess it's pretty sad, though, because you can see two untouched boxes of pizza on the table, and there's Hitch, your favorite movie of all time, sitting right there on top of them. He probably planned out a whole evening of bonding, and suddenly you feel like the worst son on the entire planet, because you actually kind of are. You are the worst, it's you. Crap. "Shit, sorry, dad, I meant to get home sooner, but Daniel set all his clocks back four hours, because he's an jerk, and he said he wanted to know what it would be like to live in Hawaii, or some place. Okay, I forget what he said exactly, not like it matters, because all that comes out of his mouth most of the time is the most refined brand of diarrhea, which comes...
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