...Version 1.2 The Blue Sky Software Consulting Firm Case for Management and Leadership Program Assessment The Blue Sky is a fifteen-year old software-consulting firm. It was founded by Max Blue, who was until last year its CEO and Chairman of the Board. Blue has stepped down from the CEO role, but remains Board Chairman. The new CEO is Jim Willis, who joined the company as VP for the HR software division five years ago. Before coming to Blue Sky Willis was an executive with a major accounting/consulting firm. Blue Sky is divided into three divisions: Machine Tool Software—This division develops machine tool software used in the auto industry. Some of the software is utilized by the major manufacturing companies, but mostly they serve suppliers of parts and components. HR Software- This division has developed Human Resource Management software to be used in the retail industry. Their major client has been the Best Dollar Retail Chain, which sells upscale style, but affordable clothes for teenagers. They have retail locations in most parts of the country, except for the mid Atlantic and New England states. Most of their stores are in medium to small cities. Heath Payment Software- This division has developed software for state governments to help manage their Medicaid provider payment systems. They provide this software for 15 states scattered across the country. Each division is headed by a Vice President: Machine Tool—Michael James- was one of...
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...The Blue Sky Software Consulting Firm is a company that has many internal problems. Every business has internal problems and the best businesses are constantly in a problem solving mode. Susy Hubres is truly looking out for the best interest in the company to solve the issues. It takes team work to get the issues under control and solved. When companies try to solve problems, they have to figure out how to get to the core of the problem, then come up with a solution option, and implement the selected solution. In this case, it is in need of a consultant to solve majority of the matters internal and external. There are a few strategy plans they can follow to get the company back on track. The management team has to give a base to solve the problems the branches are having and improve systems for many years to come. The first issue stated was Max Blue think that meetings are a waste of time. How are problems going to be solved? A strategic plan is needed and Susy is willing to bring the management team to a retreat to develop a ten-year plan. The management team should all have some state in addressing solutions, but it can be peripheral. In reference to the inventory problem, the manager should meet the following departments to come up with their solution. The departments are Shipping, Manufacturing, Inventory Management, Purchasing, and Accounting because they deal the inventory one way or other. Speaking to all the heads in each of the departments can give the...
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...tale of a man named Jim Smiley who would bet on anything. He turned a frog into an animal and bet a stranger that his frog could jump higher than any other frog. The stranger cheated and Smiley lost the bet. Before he could figure out what happened, the stranger disappeared with the forty dollars in his hand. After a year, Twain was finally hired to report on the Sandwich Islands ( Which is now Hawaii). He became popular after this. Mark Twain marries Olivia Langdon who becomes an editor of this work. A year later his first born child is born (Langdon Clemens). In 1872, Twain moves his whole family to Hartford, Connecticut to focus on writing and his new family. This same year his son Langdon dies shortly after the have his fist daughter Susy Clemens. The death of his son brings a lot of pain and suffering to his family. Even in the middle of this tragic death Twain pours all of his emotions into his works. This leads to him publishing “The Gilded Age”. Mark Twains publishes a lot of book like “The Adventures of Tom sawyer,” and “Life on the Mississippi” in between the birth of his two daughters Clara and Jean...
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...her be. (Steinbeck 32) The views of the men on the ranch towards women are very harsh. They are rude and judgmental. The words they use to describe Curley’s wife and other women are hurtful and unacceptable. They think women are inferior and are able to be ordered around. Carlson even mentions that women have no place outside of the house and they would not be able to handle the work that the men do. There are many other women besides Curley’s wife that are treated poorly. Although they have names in the story, the women from the strip club are also given malicious remarks. Susy and Clara are both prostitutes who have their own strip clubs. The men are only concerned about the price and worthwhile of their services: Clara gets three bucks a crack and thirty-five cents a shot, and she don’t crack no jokes. But Susy’s place is clean and she got nice chairs. Don’t let no goo-goos in, neither. (Steinbeck 53) Susy and Clara’s names are always associated with negative connotation. The men who attend their strip clubs do not care about the women. They only care about having a good time and getting their money’s worth. Once again, the men think they are superior to females, so they do not treat females with the respect they deserve. Crooks, an African-American, is also an oppressed character in the book. Because of his skin color, Crooks does not have the same opportunities as the other men. He has to live in his own private room in the barn, far away from the other white men. He is also...
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...Career Plan Building: Competencies and Career Interests Profiler Susy Pereira BCOM/275 June 2, 2014 Pearl Maxwell Based on results from the Career Builder and Profiler being innovative and artistic, will help with critical thinking by being able to determine what information can be used as credible facts or that can be considered fallible information. Career matches would be something in an artistic, media, or social scene, where being persuasive, strategizing, and adhere to values will benefit having to recognize one of the most common mistakes, which is the reasoning. Believing in the person making the claim or believing the actual claim. There is some detective work involved, if there is a party of interest that will make a profit by spreading inconsistent information, it can involve risk taking but doing the research and finding a reliable source will make better critical decisions. Career competencies can help evaluate arguments by applying expertise theoretically and practical to distinguish from someone that is exaggerating the truth and trying to persuade them to accept they claim they are making without any relevant facts. Taking initiative and being responsible for one’s own actions, making clear and quick decision, doing the research to find the facts and not taking another’s word for it. The person may sound intelligent and their body and facial language plays a big part in persuading a person on to their side, as they mentioned in Chapter 5 euphemisms...
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...friends and family members. They learned many treks to keep them alive on the Andes, they learned how to stay warm, they melted the snow to drink and they ate the dead bodies flesh to survive from starvation. They tried desperately to climb the mountain, but their attempt failed. Nando Parrado did not want to die on the Andes like one of his friends, so he decided to climb. Even though he was afraid to face the Andes, but he made his destination to the west. Ten days after all the horrors, he and with two of his teammate found their way into the mountains. After they arrived home, Nando back to his normal life again, and he attained the promise that he made to himself that he will meet his father again, and he will enumerate how his Mom and Susy died on the Andes. Vocabulary P. 76 1. Claustrophobic: Uncomfortably closed or hemmed in. The reason: I wanted to know how was Nandos feeling P.78 2. Plight: a dangerous, difficult, or otherwise unfortunate situation. The reason: I wanted to know what Nando did not want to ignore. P.91 3. Agony: extreme physical or mental suffering. The reason: I wanted to know how they suffered from the cold. P.110 4. Virtuous: having or showing high moral standards....
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...loveless marriage. Both male characters in “Como aqua para chocolate”, along with Mama Elena, step away from the stereotypical characteristics associated with their gender. Unlike “Como aqua para chocolate”, “Danzon” tries not to define the feminine in opposition to the masculine. Men are virtually absent from the film and when they do appear, they are constructs of feminine discourse and imagination. Julia travels to Veracruz where she encounters various situations that force her to confront herself. She experiences life in two contrasting places; the first in Mexico City. The second place is the port of Veracruz, which functions as a place of openness, festivity and the unconventional. It is here that Julia forges new friendships, first with Susy, an artist and transvestite who helps her, then later with Ruben, her younger lover. In 'Danzon' the narrative and visual elements which traditionally characterize melodrama are expressed through the female body and emotions. This is achieved through the transvestite whose body is decorated and obsessed, through Ruben's body and through the romanticized feelings that Julia holds for the mysterious Carmelo. Julia is the one who takes the role of seductress, conqueror and the one who desires Ruben. This gaze is that which is traditionally ascribed to the male in traditional Mexican literature and cinema. Another way in which the film breaks with traditional forms of representation is that while it substitutes feminine figures and roles in place...
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...when he was very young and sold spiritual bouquets door-to-door at Christmastime to make money. When he was fifteen, Lyman got a job washing dishes in the Joliet Cafy, which he came to own just a year later. A tornado destroyed the cafy, and Lyman had just enough money remaining to buy his share of the red convertible. Both Henry and Lyman have all their money with them when they take a ride with a friend to Winnipeg and spot the convertible. Neither brother ever mentioned buying a car, but both knew immediately upon seeing it that they wanted to buy it. During that summer, Henry and Lyman drive all around the Dakotas and end up in Montana with no plan or need for an itinerary. Along the way, the brothers pick up a hitchhiker named Susy and take her home to Alaska. They spend the balance of the summer there, before returning home to North Dakota. Upon their return, Henry is called into the military and returns home for a Christmas visit before going overseas. The year is 1970, and Henry's letters home report only that...
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...As the years went on he did get into some financial trouble that caused him to get in debt. This forced him to write stories and tour the country to lecture until he was out of debt. Mark Twain was given various awards and public honors some from Oxford and Yale. In 1896, his daughter Susy, died from meningitis this started a long period of depression that deepened once his wife died, in 1904, and his other daughter, Jean, died in 1909. He died a year later from a heart attack in Redding, Connecticut, a few days after the Halley’s Comet came close to approaching the Earth. Twain predicted he would die when the comet comes back because he was born two weeks after the comet...
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...American Literature * Authors * Books * Short Stories * Christmas * For Children * Features * ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form Bottom of Form * Login/Signup The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen Although he is well noted for his fairy-tales, the poignant story of The Little Match Girl or The Little Matchstick Girl is a great example of Hans Christian Andersen's broad literary talent and ability. I personally like to read this story at least twice a year, once in Autumn as the holiday season comes into focus, and then again around the Christmas holiday. It's a gentle reminder of the value of compassion and charity. Most terribly cold it was; it snowed, and was nearly quite dark, and evening-- the last evening of the year. In this cold and darkness there went along the street a poor little girl, bareheaded, and with naked feet. When she left home she had slippers on, it is true; but what was the good of that? They were very large slippers, which her mother had hitherto worn; so large were they; and the poor little thing lost them as she scuffled away across the street, because of two carriages that rolled by dreadfully fast. One slipper was nowhere to be found; the other had been laid hold of by an urchin, and off he ran with it; he thought it would do capitally for a cradle when he some day or other should have children himself. So the little maiden walked on with her tiny naked feet, that were...
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...Turn on hit highlighting for speaking browsers by selecting the Enter button Building An Ethical Organization Part 2 Michael Cottone HSM/230 Tara Horn 01/18/2015 As the newest business owner in my town I feel that it is my duty to write a mission statement and a value statement for our organization as well as an explanation of each and how they tie together. The basis of the organization is to provide strength and support to our local community. We want to be there for the families in the hardest trials of their lives. We want to give them hope for tomorrow. By eagerly accepting this challenge, we need to create a strong code of ethics, define the role of leadership, and create a solid ethical board of oversight. By creating a strong ethical base, Loving Arms will become successful, sustainable, and a respected member of the community. With all these basics in place, it is the goal of Loving Arms to engender an organizational culture that thrives on teamwork and celebrates diversities both within the organization as well as the diversities within the community we serve. Loving Arms needs to do outreach and research regarding what and where the needs of the community are. We also need to attend and participate in community meetings, advertise our newly formed business, and create pamphlets with information about local, state, and federal laws as well as facts sheets. A funeral home, funeral parlor or mortuary, is a business...
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...Stuff Shells for the Caribbean Families often pass down favorite recipes from generation to generation or from friend to friend. I took a moment to talk with my wife, Antalaya Israel who of which has a West Indian background (Trinidad). We spoke about her family favorite dish or at least her favorite, and to bring in that recipe to share. Surprisingly for Caribbean women, stuff shells were and still are this Trinidadian favorite dish of all times. Now I get it because being from Bermuda, I tend to lean more to Italian dishes as well but my wife is the oldest of three girls and lived with a mother from my observations, that cooked nothing but soul/Caribbean cuisines. At the end of this interview, I will encourage the reader(s) to try my wife’s recipe for stuff shells. I use my wife as a reliable source for this project because of her family’s background---Trinidadian. There’s no secret that Caribbean women love to cook, and not just love but can actually put great things together in the kitchen. Her mother and I often argue about who is the better cook but to be honest, her mother is a very good cook. From the spices she uses to presentation. As a matter of fact, she has a catering company---she being the mother. Trinidad cuisine is known for a number of dishes that has contributed to the culinary world. I believe it’s the spices that create these dishes to come to life like no other culture; roti, doubles, curries and more---Trinidad's best foods are loaded with...
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...Hearing in Infants Ages Birth to 12 Months: Child Growth and Development Tamesha Robinson Collin College Child Growth and Development TECA 1354 Professor Susy A Mathews Associate Faculty Office SCC B-103 or Child Development Lab School Spring Creek Campus Development of Hearing in the Womb Infants sense of hearing under goes most of its development in the womb (Baby center) states that a baby’s inner ear fully develops by the 20th week of pregnancy. The ability to hear is fully developed at birth. While in the womb, babies can hear your heart beat, your stomach grumbling and the blood moving through the umbilical cord. Babies are even startled by loud noises. The results suggest newborns will gravitate toward and pay more attention to what may be “their mothers melodic sounds than those of other women, and will pay more attention to other similar sounds like female voices in general, than they will to even less similar sounds, like male voices. The findings add to evidence suggesting that prenatal hearing can help infants perceive the sounds of speech. It was long know that newborns can discriminate or perceive most of the acoustic properties of speech. The theoretical view is that these capacities are mostly independent of previous auditory experience and that newborns have a bias or skill for perceiving speech. Scientist...
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...Final Blue Sky Management and Leadership Question 1 In the past, Blue Sky leadership led from an autocratic leadership style. An autocratic leadership is similar to a dictatorship where only one person has the authority over the followers or workers. The autocratic leader decisions are to be taken as the final authority and should never be questioned. This leader plans out all of the companies agenda and demands that subordinates work according to their rules. The former CEO but still remained the Board Chairman, Max Blue, believed that meeting was not necessary therefore planning was considered a wasted of time. None of his employees seem to question his authority. This leadership style led to very passive employees at Blue Sky because they were unable to make decision caused them to lack passion about their jobs. Although the past CEO leadership style was autocratic, there were several different leadership styles among the various departments. The structure of the organization was divided in to the CEO, VP of the division, director of marketing, CFO, and the regional directors, who were consider upper management level. With the regional directors being younger and being with the Blue Sky for relatively a short period of time, they were more aggressive wanting to expand different product lines and clientele. However, the younger regional directors were presented with many challenges from the older managers that were mainly in vice presidents roles. These managers wanted...
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...------------------------------------------------- Mark Twain Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910),[1] better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885),[2] the latter often called "the Great American Novel." Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, which provided the setting for Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. After an apprenticeship with a printer, he worked as a typesetter and contributed articles to his older brother Orion's newspaper. He later became a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River before heading west to join Orion in Nevada. He referred humorously to his singular lack of success at mining, turning to journalism for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise.[3] In 1865, his humorous story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" was published, based on a story he heard at Angels Hotel in Angels Camp California where he had spent some time as a miner. The short story brought international attention, even being translated to classic Greek.[4] His wit and satire, in prose and in speech, earned praise from critics and peers, and he was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty. Though Twain earned a great deal of money from his writings and lectures, he invested in ventures that lost a great deal of money, notably the Paige Compositor, which failed because of its complexity and...
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