...Slocum, J. W., Jr. 2011). Leaders and leadership styles vary by industry, cultural upbringing, educational background and experiences gained throughout ones employment journey, but the ultimate goal for all leaders remains unchanged and that is to be successful. As a good leader, one needs to be flexible enough to be able to react accordingly depending on the issues and challenges at hand. Looking at our current fleet of global leaders, one can’t help but name Richard Branson as one of the most successful global leaders of our time. Richard Branson’s main characteristics are finding the right people for the right job, inspiring them to lead and be successful, drawing out the best things out of them. He likes leaders who love learning and have an inquisitive mind and also see life as one learning process. I consider Richard Branson to be a transformational leader, a leader with vision, confident, motivation, passion and determination. Richard Branson founded Virgin Group Ltd. “Born July 18, 1950, in Surrey, England, Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson struggled in school and dropped out at age 16, a decision that ultimately lead to the creation of Virgin Records in 1973. His entrepreneurial projects started in the music industry and expanded into other sectors making Branson a billionaire. His Virgin Group holds more than 200 companies, including the recent...
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...“We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.” This quote by Louisa May Alcott is a perfect description of her life. Although her family was engulfed in poverty, Alcott was determined to make an example of herself to others. On November 29,1832, Louisa May Alcott was born to Amos Bronson Alcott and Abigail May Alcott, in Germantown, Pennsylvania. Along with her sisters, Anna, Elizabeth, and May, Alcott was educated by her father, while their mother taught them the basics of Christianity. Bronson was a philosopher and teacher, and Abigail was a social worker. However, because of Bronson’s inability to provide for his family, Alcott and her sisters started working at a young age....
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...The Life of a Little Woman Louisa May Alcott was a 19th century writer whose work has continued to grace the homes of many over the years. Much of her writing was influenced by the events of her life and her experiences. Her career as a writer started at a young age and continued to grow until the end of her life. Alcott wrote a variety of pieces and for a wide audience. She was a multitalented woman whose writing was one of few steady aspects of her life. Louisa May Alcott was a talented writer who led an interesting life. Louisa May Alcott was born on November 29, 1832 (Durbin). She was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania to Amos Bronson Alcott and Abigail May Alcott (Durbin). Louisa was one of four daughters born to the Alcotts. She had an older sister, named Anna, and two younger sisters, named Lizzie and May (Durbin). The Alcotts moved somewhat frequently throughout Louisa’s life, and many of their moves were due to her father’s job or other familial needs. They first moved to Boston for her father’s career as an educator and then to Concord (Durbin). Louisa May Alcott received the beginnings of her education in Boston and Concord, although she never received any formal education. Most of Alcott’s learning came from her father who was an “idealistic philosopher” and teacher (Louisa May Alcott). “Her father believed strongly in the values of high moral principles, self-reliance, reading, and philosophical discussion”, and he taught many of these things to his daughters...
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...Essay #3 December 3, 2015 Living Comes With a Price There is a price every person must pay in order to be successful. Becoming rich comes with a price. Building a family comes with a price. Even your dreams need to be paid for. In order to achieve your goals or in this case, become filthy rich in rising Asia, you must work hard. In the book “How To Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia” by Mohsin Hamid, the protagonist of the novel, whom remains anonymous narrates his journey of becoming successful. The narrator’s lack of a stable relationship, no family support and bankrupt business; are the prices he must paid for being successful. The narrator after working part-time at a DVD’s shop after school, and falling in love with “the pretty girl”, he starts to think about his future. Being the youngest of the family, the protagonist is able to further his education obtaining a scholarship for the university. Joining a political organization became the only way he was able to secure his safety. The “pretty girl” becomes successful, being advertised on billboards around the city. Thinking about his future becomes crucial, thus he starts selling expired cans of food to small street vendors. During that time he is able to learn about the business and soon he is able to set up his own bottling water business. Although his business grows his lack of a stable relationship is tested. The narrator get married and has a son. The price he pays is not having a stable relationship. He got married...
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...Resarch Paper Virgin Group Jonas Rosario-Lora Table of Contents Executive Summary3-4 Literature Review4 Bullets A-C4-12 Discussion 12-17 Conclusion17-18 Reference18-22 Executive Summary The matter of this company is to observer there recent change, and how we can identify the change the organizational change. Using the company’s management models, leadership styles and strategic management change, to figure out if the change is making the company profitable. Can the company sustain the change process and fit best with the condition without having resistance in change to hurt the company. Virgin America is in the verge of losing it’s shareholders and investor, since the day it lunch in 2007 and the following four years the company has been losing over 395million dollars. There Expenses are lower than the main airline carriers, primarily, it’s not inexpensive sufficiently to participate rivalry against competitors like JetBlue or Spirit. Virgin America has been embraced to create a honest low- cost structure, While it’s competitors have reduced their cost structure significantly, customers are not eager to pay a high premium to have the ability to enjoy TV on there flights and have a free checked bag “which is why JetBlue will likely be charging for the first bag soon”. There mission statement is to rethinking what it means to fly economy, by producing the leading low-cost luxury airline. The company established an impressive goal, to create the procedure...
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...Heat Wave - Richard Castle file:///C:/Users/zainab/Downloads/Richard.Castle_Nikki.Heat.01_Hea... 1 of 110 05-05-2013 19:50 Heat Wave - Richard Castle file:///C:/Users/zainab/Downloads/Richard.Castle_Nikki.Heat.01_Hea... Heat Wave Richard Castle 2 of 110 05-05-2013 19:50 Heat Wave - Richard Castle file:///C:/Users/zainab/Downloads/Richard.Castle_Nikki.Heat.01_Hea... To the extraordinary KB and all my friends at the 12th 3 of 110 05-05-2013 19:50 Heat Wave - Richard Castle file:///C:/Users/zainab/Downloads/Richard.Castle_Nikki.Heat.01_Hea... Contents One It was always the same for her when she arrived… Two Nikki Heat’s footsteps echoed back at her off the concrete… Three Heat and Rook trailed two steps behind Noah Paxton as… Four Nikki didn’t go home following the movie after all. She… Five There is very little chance of a high-speed pursuit on… Six Nikki stepped into the rooftop bar of the Soho House… Seven Even as she stood frozen in her hallway, Nikki’s first… Eight When Detective Heat nosed the Crown Vic out of underground… Nine Nikki Heat’s apartment building was not the Guilford. It was… Ten Nikki led him wordlessly into her bedroom and set the… Eleven Thirty minutes later, Detective Heat stepped off the Guilford’s elevator… Twelve The three detectives and Rook maintained a tense silence as… Thirteen In the precinct interrogation room, the biker, Brian Daniels, seemed… Fourteen Raley came back into the bullpen dangling...
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...Lincoln Hospital Case Study Introduction This case describes a crisis situation that unfolds at the Lincoln Hospital, a 400-bed for-profit facility. At the root of the crisis is a dysfunctional relationship between the newly elected chief of surgery, Don, and the Operating Room (OR) director of 13-years, Mary. As a result of their discord, multiple exacerbated issues are occurring throughout the hospital. These issues are impacting the ability of the hospital to successfully perform the planned surgeries without incurring significant issues. The hospital has lost forty percent of the experienced OR nursing staff during the previous eight months, lessor experienced OR nurses are inefficiently replacing the more experienced nurses, physicians are threatening to conduct their surgeries in different hospitals, physicians are arriving late for scheduled surgeries, the staff is divided, and the necessary equipment is either not available or not the correct size resulting in delays and impacts to performing the surgeries. The president of the hospital is facing a daunting dilemma in trying to figure out how to bring this discord to closure and remedy the perturbating effects of this hostile relationship. He believes the discord is responsible for the other systematic issues seen throughout the hospital. He considers firing Mary but quickly realizes she is an invaluable asset that he cannot afford to let go. At the same time, he realizes he needs to be accommodating...
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...JKF assassination. After military force service as the leader of the speed Torpedo Boats during the Second World War in the south pacific, John Kennedy stood for Massachusetts eleventh congressional district in the United States House of the legislature from 1947 to 1953 as a democrat. Later, he served in the United States council from 1953 to 1960. John Kennedy crushed the deputy President and Republican aspirant Richard in the 1960 United States presidential voting. At forty three years, he was the most young to have been nominated to the presidential office, the second-youngest President following Theodore Roosevelt, and the foremost person born in the 20th century to become the president. As a Roman catholic, John Kennedy was the only non-protestant president, and was the only president who won a Pulitzer award. Events all through his presidency incorporated the Cuban missile emergency, Bay of Pigs attack, the construction of the Berlin wall, the African American national rights group, the space race, and early phases of the Vietnam warfare. Therein, John Kennedy added the number of military force advisers, helicopters and the special operation services in an attempt to curb the increase of Marxism in South East of Asia. Kennedy’s administration approved the policy of the tactical hamlet program which was executed by the South Vietnamese administration. The policy involved certain compulsory relocation, segregation and village internment of country South Vietnamese from...
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...Compare and Contrast Paper It has long been said that the redneck sport of the United States is the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing more formerly known as NASCAR. Some people may not know about the other auto racing series that occasionally comes to the United States to compete. That series is known as Formula 1. NASCAR and Formula 1 have stark differences in where they race, how they race. Did you know that both series average speed is faster than the speed needed for a Boeing 747? A Boeing 747 requires between 150 to 200 miles per hour to take off. Right off the bat, the differences start. One of the biggest differences is the locations that these two series race. NASCAR primary races in the United States but does occasionally race in Mexico and Canada, although they did not during this past year’s season. NASCAR races in 23 cities around the country hitting many of them twice a season (2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series TV Broadcast Schedule). Formula 1 currently races in 19 different countries, spanning four continents and hitting each track only once during the season. NASCAR has an average of 36 races a season, while Formula 1 currently has 20 races a season. The next comparison is the vehicles that are used to provide all of the entertainment value that we see on television on a weekly basis. NASCAR drivers race in a closed wheel, closed driver compartment car. Due to NASCAR’s ongoing commitment to safety and entertainment NASCAR recently developed a brand...
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...Albert Einstein recognized, “It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.” Richard Louv, writer of Last Child in the Woods conveys a sarcastic tone and imagery to address the idea of “why do so many people no longer consider the physical world worth watching?” He also ponders, “Why do so many Americans say they want their children to watch less TV, yet continue to expand the opportunities for them to watch it?” Louv visualizes explaining the nineteenth century to a younger generation and how they will not understand what they hear. Louv assumes, “’You did what?’ they’ll ask. ‘Yes,’ we’ll say, ‘it’s true. We actually looked out the car window.’” He is sarcastic because he is in disbelief at how oblivious adolescence is becoming. Louv finds it humorous that children are becoming so dependent on technology and are becoming so detached from nature. He mocks our future generation and their foolhardiness that is arising within them. Richard Louv reminisces his days in the back seat of a driving car, and vividly explains his experience through imagery. He remembers when he “started with a kind of reverence at the horizon, as thunderheads and dancing rain moved with” him. He also personifies the “dancing rain” to portray his full image. Louv understands technology is going to expand and become more broad; however he can understand the intellectual details of nature that he remembers and realizes that technology is distracting people from visualizing...
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...|Accomplishments |Major Life Events |Family Life | |1. Mao Zedong was a great man in human history. He was Chinese |He was graduated in Hunan first normal School. He met with the President|Mao Zedong married with Luo Yixiu in 1907.Mao Zedong had four wives and | |revolutionist, strategist, theoretician, poet, communist, the people's |of United States Richard Nixon on February 21,1972. He attended The |five children. | |liberation army. And he was the main founder of the people's republic of|communist party of China the first national congress on July, 1921. | | |China. | | | | | | | |2. Deng Xiaoping was Marxist, Proletarian Revolutionist, politician, |He was graduated in Moscow eastern university. He put forward the |Deng Xiaoping had three wives...
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...science can conclude that there are improvements in the population of England after the ban smoking has taken place. One of the effects of ban smoking is that, it has become illegal to smoke in all enclosed public places, workplaces and owners/ managers of pubs, clubs and cafés fines up to 2500 pound if they allow customers to smoke their premises. The Europeans Commission has found that UK has the highest percentage of Europeans trying to quit smoking and 46 per cent are trying to stop and even more say they want to give it up. A UK epidemiologist Sir Richard Peto thinks that there are good news and bad news of smoking. The bad news is that non- smokers who breathe in second- hand smoke face a increased risk of getting lung cancer or heart disease. He also says that no matter how much ban smoking is taking place, that there will still be smokers and a lot of early deaths in the coming years. The good news of smoking which Sir Richard Peto points out that the situation of smoking is better than it use to be. Text two “Is this the end of English literature?” by a British novelist and biographer, A.N. Wilson has a negative respond to ban smoking and that ban smoking has effects on the English literature. Wilson also says that he does not know a writher who does not smoke, and he points out great writhers as Henry James, Joseph Conrad and Virginia Woolf etc. Wilson also writes that smoking is a creative phases which is not allowed in restaurants,...
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...Describe and Evaluate the Multi-Store Model of Memory. Atkinson and Shiffrin proposed the Multi-store model of memory in 1968. The model had two distinct stores known as a Short-term store and a Long term store. The model also unravelled a stimulus from the environment known as the sensory register. The memory model elaborates three stages that take place from information passing to the sensory register then to the short-term memory and eventually stored in the long-term memory. The main features of the sensory register is its modality specific, therefore information is held in the same sense it is registered e.g a visual image is held as a picture in the person’s memory and taste is held as a taste. The capacity of the sensory register is quite large however it has a very brief duration of approximately half a second. A series of experiments have been conducted by Sperling in 1960 which discovered that the sensory register can hold at least nine items of modality specific information for a brief period of time. From the sensory register information can be lost or can be passed onto the short-term memory. The research was developed by Miller in 1956 called ‘The Magic Number Seven’ in which he discovered that the short-term memory can hold 5-9 items of information, with a capacity that can be extended by ‘chunking information’, e.g broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts and peas can be chunked as one item known as vegetables. In 1959 Peterson and Peterson discovered the...
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...Impact of US Foreign Policy on the Vietnam War The Vietnam War is one of the most talked about wars in history. It began in 1959 and did not end until 1975. These years saw protests, conflicts, casualties, and confusion for the United States, as well as the terms of three presidents: John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard Nixon. When U.S. involvement in the war began under Kennedy, it was originally put out as a plan for the United States to only aid the South Vietnamese, but, after his assassination, Johnson was put in charge. The path that the war took under Johnson was filled with controversy and large numbers of casualties. When Johnson did not run for a second term, Nixon was left in charge to ultimately turn things around. Soon, all of the American troops were removed from Vietnam, and the war slowly began to come to a close. But what was it about Nixon’s foreign policy that was so much more successful than Johnson’s? Was Nixon’s policy more closely related to Kennedy’s successful strategy than Johnson’s was, and, if so, why didn’t Johnson do a better job modeling his policy after Kennedy? These are all questions that political scientists still look at today as a way to solve the many questions that are still being posed about the war. I have looked deeply into these questions, and found answers through researching the history of Vietnam as well as the three presidents. As I read about each event that unfolded, it became clear to me why there were such...
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...order for anything in the world to succeed there must be leaders to lead and followers to follow. For example, when working on a group project in order for the project to succeed someone must step up and be a leader. Someone must delegate the responsibilities that each person in the group will need to complete. If this is not completed the project may have no direction and will fail. The most effective leaders must understand their audience and determine their leadership styles. Some employees need more development then others, while some employees are able to work with no assistance or guidance. In order for one to be an effective leader one must have the appropriate leadership style. Sir Richard Branson (Branson) accurately discusses his leadership styles in his case study “Sir Richard Branson, Chairman, Virgin Group, Ltd”. Throughout this paper, we will discuss the leadership stylings of Branson and the effectiveness of that style in United States today. How using different leadership stylings could make Branson a more effective leader. Also, how Branson will lead a global team while working on a major project, and how one can incorporate some of Branson’s leadership qualities into a role at a workplace. Delegating Leadership In this case study it is clearly evident that the leadership style that is being used for Branson is delegating style. Delegating style is when the leader turns over tasks for creation and implementing resolutions to followers (Hellriegl and Slocum...
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