...legal degree quench this ongoing thirst for knowledge that I have always had; I don't want it to. I constantly need to be in pursuit of challenging goals that that require considerable mind expansion and personal reflection. The experiences and knowledge that I will acquire in attending law school will stretch my mind to think in ways that I never have, allowing me to face future intellectual, professional, and academic goals with confidence and enthusiasm. Mid way through my senior year, the University of Arizona choose me to be their undergraduate representative at the "Arizona First" town hall meeting, a three day, bipartisan conference focus on shaping legislation that will bring economic growth and prosperity to AZ. During this three day conference I worked closely with Arizona state representatives and senators, the majority of whom where lawyers, in proposing new legislation with the potential of bringing new job opportunities, more commerce, and an overall better standard of living to the state. It was one of the first time in my life when textbooks no longer mattered, and the weight of reality stared face to face with idealism and hope for a better tomorrow. As the conference progressed, I began to notice the group who's knowledge seemed to fair the stormy debates and arguments the best where the lawyers, but not because of superior information or inside knowledge. As each new issue emerged, the lawyers...
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...Richard Spight WRIT 20100 APU February 13, 2016 Homework Week Two Reflection Paper on: How Junk Food Can End Obesity (Freedman, D. 2013) We are introduced to the author David H. Freedman as he makes a comparison between two equally wholesome smoothies. The first drink is from a Los Angeles health-food eatery, a 16 ounce of blended apple-blueberry-kale-carrot juice totaling some 300 calories for a supersized price tag of $9.00. Freedman ordered up a like smoothie a few weeks later outside Chicago with only 220 calories that tasted in a word “delicious” for a mere $3.00; he thanked McDonald’s for the tasty treat. There was a courtroom like parade, of writers whose ink pen had protested the food industry complex and directed their readers toward natural and local sourced food purveyors, avoiding the highly processed and fast-food industry. Health food evangelists cried out against America’s health obesity crisis resulting from sugar, salt, and fat intake. Michael Moss’s “Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giant Hooked Us” was a #1 best seller on the New York Time and Melanie Warner’s “Pandora’s Lunchbox: How Processed Food Took Over the American Meal” and host of other voices for reform in...
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...TOOL KIT Is Yours a Learning Organization? Using this assessment tool, companies can pinpoint areas where they need to foster knowledge sharing, idea development, learning from mistakes, and holistic thinking. by David A. Garvin, Amy C. Edmondson, and Francesca Gino Daniel Chang L EADERS MAY THINK that getting their organizations to learn is only a matter of articulating a clear vision, giving employees the right incentives, and providing lots of training. This assumption is not merely flawed – it’s risky in the face of intensifying competition, advances in technology, and shifts in customer preferences. Organizations need to learn more than ever as they confront these mounting forces. Each company must become a learning organization. The concept is not a new one. It flourished in the 1990s, stimulated by Peter M. Senge’s The Fifth Discipline and countless other publications, workshops, and websites. The result was a compelling vision of an organization made up of employees skilled at creating, acquiring, and transferring knowledge. These people could help their firms cultivate tolerance, foster open discussion, and think holistically and systemically. Such learning organizations would be able to adapt to the unpredictable more quickly than their competitors could. hbr.org 1010 Garvin.indd 109 | March 2008 | Harvard Business Review 109 1/30/08 12:13:45 PM TOOL KIT | Is Yours a Learning Organization? Unpredictability...
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...on the battlefield. In this position I am a political soldier and ... I must become an expert in a whole new set of skills. General George Marshall, Army Chief of Staff Reflection Paper on Strategic Leadership Seminar, block 1 On the verge of block two of Strategic leadership seminar, I am pondering over my own leadership experience gained last two decades at the tactical level. As an infantry officer for 20 years, most of my time was spent in the field with the troops, in spite of attending...
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...Ethics reflection paper Introduction Ethics is the fundamental principles of an individual or a group. Business ethics refers to the study of business policies and practices. Social responsibility refers to how a business performs its activities to meet its wider obligations toward the society and environment. Strategic planning in the corporate world is considered to be a very important step. Social responsibility as well as ethical values in the strategic plan process are deemed to serve as an important role. The paper will explore the role of social responsibility and ethics in the business world. The role of ethics According to www.investopedia business ethics refers to the study of proper business policies and practices. There are several important issues to be aware of, such as corporate governance, insider trading, bribery, discrimination, corporate social responsibility and fiduciary responsibilities. (4) Business ethical principles are no difference than general ethical principles that is judged with the same right and wrong standards that are judged in society. Ethical factors have a great impact in the way businesses are ran today. The role of ethics may differ depending on which point of view is used. Ehow.com states that the ethics role and purpose is to control the human ego. Simply put, ethics is a system of thought that has as its end the process of organizing the aspects of personality such as drives, attitudes and aims into a balanced whole within the...
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...News reporters should be focused on broadcasting Presidential Election current news to inform, not persuaded their viewers to support their biases political opinions and beliefs. Many of the news reporters have allowed biases thoughts overcome their task to bring the new reports to the general public; in many cases, opinionated ideology surpassed what their ultimate assignment is to accomplish. Even though there are still many voters undecided, it’s not the media outlet responsibility to help make their decisions. Even though news reporters should share unbiased reports concerning the Presidential Election Coverage because the biases reports will impact viewers voting decision-making. According to PBS.org, Sarah Childress, a senior digital reporter for Frontline Enterprises Journalism Group study on Election Coverage Skewed by Journalism Bias and she expresses, “An analysis of news coverage from the 2016 primary races found that mainstream media...
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...www.hbr.org Today’s central managerial challenge is to inspire and enable knowledge workers to solve, day in and day out, problems that cannot be anticipated. The Competitive Imperative of Learning by Amy C. Edmondson Included with this full-text Harvard Business Review article: 1 Article Summary The Idea in Brief—the core idea The Idea in Practice—putting the idea to work 2 The Competitive Imperative of Learning 10 Further Reading A list of related materials, with annotations to guide further exploration of the article’s ideas and applications This document is authorized for use only by Suzi Tack (ST@STRATHSPEYCROWN.COM). Copying or posting is an infringement of copyright. Please contact customerservice@harvardbusiness.org or 800-988-0886 for additional copies. Reprint R0807E The Competitive Imperative of Learning The Idea in Brief Most managers believe that relentless execution—the efficient, timely production and delivery of offerings—is vital to corporate performance. Execution-as-efficiency is important. But focusing too narrowly on it can prevent your company from adapting effectively to change. Consider General Motors: Managers’ confidence in GM’s famously efficient control systems blinded them to big shifts in the market, including customers’ preferences for fuel-efficient cars. GM posted a $38.7 billion loss in 2007. Edmondson recommends widening your lens to include execution-as-learning. Companies that use this approach focus not just on carrying...
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...Ethos, Pathos, and Logos Whenever you read an argument you must ask yourself, "is this persuasive? And if so, to whom?" There are several ways to appeal to an audience. Among them are appealing to logos, ethos and pathos. These appeals are prevalent in almost all arguments. To Appeal to Logic (logos) | To Develop Ethos | To Appeal to Emotion (pathos) | Theoretical, abstract language Literal and historical analogies Definitions Factual data and statistics Quotations Citations from experts and authorities Informed opinions | Language appropriate to audience and subject Restrained, sincere, fair minded presentation Appropriate level of vocabulary Correct grammar | Vivid, concrete language Emotionally loaded language Connotative meanings Emotional examples Vivid descriptions Narratives of emotional events Emotional tone Figurative language | | Effect | | Evokes a cognitive, rationale response | Demonstrates author's reliability, competence, and respect for the audience's ideas and values through reliable and appropriate use of support and general accuracy | Evokes an emotional response | Definitions Logos: The Greek word logos is the basis for the English word logic. Logos is a broader idea than formal logic--the highly symbolic and mathematical logic that you might study in a philosophy course. Logos refers to any attempt to appeal to the intellect, the general meaning of "logical argument." Everyday arguments rely heavily...
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...is to enable every protein to have a standard set of monoclonal antibodies optimal for all possible applications. With SEAL™ technology, developed in 2011 and a scalable monoclonal antibody development process, Abmart will deliver even lower cost and faster discovery time for monoclonal antibodies to more than 1000 customers worldwide. Meeting Style There are basically three different styles of Abmart’s meetings: ‘information share,’ ‘creative discussion,’ and ‘consensus decision.’ The first two are the dominant forms. An ‘information share’ style of meeting consists of information flowing in one direction only, either ‘up’ to leadership from employees, or ‘down’ from senior management to employees. Requests for clarification can be entertained during this type of meeting, but there’s no real debate or discussion. In Abmart, every weekday afternoon, there will be a different department having its weekly information share meeting. For example, Monday, Sales Department will have their internal meeting. Each sales man needs to give report to the manager of department. Tuesday, Customer Service Department will discuss their last week’s task and assignments of this week. As the same, Wednesday will be Operation Department’s time. And then, Production Department, Research and Development Department are on Thursday and Friday. At the end of every month, every department will directly report to Abmart’s CEO and COO. Every two months, there will be a general meeting of all the staffs...
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...(DSS), and to systems designed to provide updated, often real-time, relevant information to senior and middle managers (EIS). These systems each contributed to individual and organizational improvements in varying degrees and continue to be important components of an organization’s information technology investment. An emerging line of systems targets professional and managerial activities by focusing on creating, gathering, organizing, and disseminating an organization’s "knowledge" as opposed to "information" or "data." These systems are referred to as Knowledge Management Systems (KMS). The concept of coding and transmitting knowledge in organizations is not new: training and employee development programs, organizational policies, routines, procedures, reports, and manuals have served this function for years. For example, the McDonald’s restaurant’s operating manual captures almost every aspect of the restaurant management including cooking, nutrition, hygiene, marketing, food production, and accounting. By capturing, codifying, and disseminating this knowledge, the company reduces the level of required know-how for its managers while improving the effectiveness and efficiency of its Communications of AIS . To define KMS, it is necessary first to define knowledge and knowledge management. Knowledge is a broad and abstract notion that has defined epistemological debates in western philosophy since the classical Greek era .1 Action in...
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...www.ccsenet.org/ies International Education Studies Vol. 5, No. 2; April 2012 Group Dynamics and Peer-Tutoring a Pedagogical Tool for Learning in Higher Education Muhammad Azeem Qureshi Associate Professor School of Business Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Oslo, Norway E-mail: muhammad-azeem.qureshi@hioa.no Even Stormyhr Senior Lecturer Department of Film and TV, School of Communication, WSoC University College of Communication, Oslo, Norway E-mail: even@westerdals.no Received: October 19, 2011 doi:10.5539/ies.v5n2p118 Accepted: November 3, 2011 Published: April 1, 2012 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ies.v5n2p118 Abstract The increasing diversity in students’ enrolment in higher education in Norway offers an opportunity to use collaborative learning and teamwork as a learning vehicle to exploit the synergy in the community to have formal and informal agoras. Theoretical and empirical observation of the value of team processes provides the framework to personify our understanding of learning and present a model for teaching in higher education in Norway. We consider learning as a holistic process and one must appreciate its dynamics and be flexible and responsive to it. Moreover, such a view of the entire process necessitates an active communication with all stakeholders of the system and to make an integrative and coordinated effort to ensure availability of the required institutional resources, equitable distribution...
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...of a survey and how HR needs to be able to use analytics to prove its own value to the business ------------------------------------------------- Transcript Philippa Lamb: According to a recent CIPD survey two in every three HR leaders believe they play an integral role in strategy making at the organisations where they work. The bad news is that only one in three business leaders agrees with them. So what’s causing that perception gap? Is HR overestimating the value it adds or is the profession just failing to demonstrate that value to senior management in a convincing way? I asked Peter Cheese Chief Executive of the CIPD why he thinks so many business leaders still don’t see HR as integral to strategy. Peter Cheese: It’s still therefore a reflection of the concern we’ve talked about for many years in the world of HR about how do we get the proverbial seat at the table, seen to be integral. It clearly has to be still a reflection that whatever business leaders feel is on their agenda HR is not either able to engage with that agenda or use the language that makes business leaders understand why, what HR people worry about should be part of the agenda but we still clearly haven’t fully closed that loop and I think in the context of this conversation part of it is still being able to talk in more quantitative terms about what we mean and many environments of course such as engineering and finance and so forth the culture is very, very numbers and analytical driven and we...
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...Chapter 2 While a freshman pre-med student at the University of Texas, Dell started an informal business putting together and selling upgrade kits for personal computers[10] in Room 2713 of the Dobie Center residential building. He then applied for a vendor license to bid on contracts for the State of Texas, winning bids by not having the overhead of a computer store.[11][12][13] In January 1984, Dell banked on his conviction that the potential cost savings of a manufacturer selling PCs directly had enormous advantages over the conventional indirect retail channel. In January 1984, Dell registered his company as "PC's Limited". Operating out of a condominium, the business sold between $50,000 and $80,000 in upgraded PCs, kits, and add-on components. In May, Dell incorporated the company as "Dell Computer Corporation" and relocated it to a business center in North Austin. The company employed a few order takers, a few more people to fulfill them, and, as Dell recalled, a manufacturing staff "consisting of three guys with screwdrivers sitting at six-foot tables". The venture's capitalization cost was $1,000.[14][15] In 1992, aged 27, he became the youngest CEO of a company ranked in Fortune magazine's list of the top 500 corporations.[16] In 1996, Dell started selling computers over the Web, the same year his company launched its first servers. Dell Inc. soon reported about $1 million in sales per day from dell.com.[17] In the first quarter of 2001, Dell Inc. reached a...
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...Teaching Leadership; can it be done? David Ward Everglades University MAN 2435 Thesis When managing a complex entity in any industry, developing strong leaders is one of the most important assets to the longevity and success of that entity. Can this highly complex experience based social skill be passed down to younger generations through education? Developing strong leadership is a common focus in all industries, the argument that teaching the basics of leadership is merely a single step in developing the strong moral and ethical character defined in a good leader. Currently there are many programs in place with the sole intention of training new leaders and improving current leadership skills. However the debate remains, Is leadership a skill, or a trait? Whereas most management educators agree that is both a skill and a behavior, This mutual agreement has only widened the gap in defining whether or not leadership is something that can be taught. Is leadership based upon character, or is it something that can be developed like a skill? Leadership is deeply rooted in management research and development. Many top business schools are reported as such based upon by their publication of leadership coursework. Leading us to the presumption that leadership is widely viewed as an important skill set and our business education institutions are giving the education needed to develop competent leaders. Asking whether or not leadership can be learned is another way of approaching...
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...|1a. Module Title: |1b. Module Code: | |Crisis, Change and Creativity in Contemporary Business |BP1BS313 | |2a. Module Scheme: |2b. Name of Programme(s): | |Undergraduate |BSc(Hons) in Business and Management | |3a. Module Leader: |3b. Location: | |Ioannis Doukas (Ph.D Candidate) |Business School | |4a. Module Status: |4b. Module Credit Rating: |4c. Module Type: | |Dedicated |20 |Core Module (Compulsory Module) | |5. Programme Stage in which module is offered: | |Year 3, Semester A | |6. Total learning hours: ...
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