...Strategies Lab 1 Mod 3 Well there’s always several good questions People are always wondering where good ideas come from how did the good ideas that reshape Americas future in the 1800’s come from? In the past before the Rise of Coffee and Tea was Beer and Wine where the idea processing was bad and always drunk all the time so when America went from a depressant to a stimulant ideas started rolling on the right track. Like a train track when the people relied on beer and wine for ideas was like adding Tons of butter to the railroad tracks the train always kept falling off topic. But when America switched to Tea and coffee the train tracks stayed on target and never fell of the track once. So what I’m saying is that America should have started drinking coffee sooner to help develop good water to eventually rely on the stuff for sources of good knowledge. But another most important thing about the ideas overall is the space the surroundings you finds yourself in like go to a coffee house talk with other people with different kinds of expertise. Eventually after talking with those people regardless of where you meet them just tossing a few ideas around eventually generates a good idea. But on the flip side of the coin they could also generate bad ideas as well as good ones. Sometimes hteres idea processes like the slow hunch where I person heard of an idea and puts it together like a mentally long puzzle and uses logic to put the puzzle pieces together. They happen in mere moments...
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...Summary of Where Good Ideas Come From Christian Myers October 4, 2014 Mr. Vigneron GS1145 I have wondered where people come up with these creative ideas to make our lives easier or more enjoyable so to say. Like George Washington Carver creating peanut butter or the Wright Brothers creating the first airplane over a century, which has been continuously used for numerous of things. According to Steven Johnson there are reoccurring patterns for coming up with these good ideas. He talks about how we want be more creative, come up with better ideas. Johnson took a picture of the first coffee shop in England and explains how they came up with the Enlightenment Party. Then Johnson explains the environments of the “Eureka Moments; flash, stroke, epiphany, eureka, and light bulb” (johnson, 2010). Which doesn’t happen immediately. It is called the slow hunch, which is a long-term idea that develops in a year or two or several years from now. Basically, “The idea has to incubate to form for that eureka moment” (johnson, 2010). However, if you have half a hunch you could find more people with the other half and they combined together called a “Collision which allows hundreds of people to connect with others hunches” (johnson, 2010). Johnson expounds the liquid network, which is “New network of neutrons firing in sync in your brain, new configuration that have not formed before” (johnson, 2010). Johnson reveals how Kevin Dunbar traveled around to these different science lab and...
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...statement is, “choice.” Perhaps the most beautiful aspect of humanity is the diversity of thought and lifestyle. I believe that ethics and diversity go hand in hand, as each individual has developed their codes based on their personal experiences and backgrounds. It is this fact that I do not believe in one set of ethics for all people, but rather a mix of ethics. I found each set of ethics interesting and could relate, on some level, to all of them. Behind each set of ethics, there is an underlying motive driving the choices that we make. Ancient philosophers believed that ethics were a means to perfecting human existence. The code that existed for the theorists of the ancients reflects the time that they lived. There is a comforting simplicity that was drawn in ancient ethics and in ideal world these ethics make sense, to me. For instance, Socrates compares human values to the tools of a carpenter, a carpenter must not only possess such tools, but he must know how to use his tools, in order to be successful (Euthyd. 280b-d) I love the idea of values being tools. Tools exist to build, our values also help us to build the existences we wish for ourselves and those around us. This fundamental idea is simple but profound and powerful when analyzing values. Aristotle had some interesting views on what makes a person virtuous. Although criticized for being self-serving, I tend to agree with Aristotle’s outlook. He says, that the ultimate and complete end in a human’s life is happiness...
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...Google: What They Say and What They Do Brumbaugh, Robert Blaine COM 530 June 11, 2012 Bob Kolber Abstract This paper is about the culture and communication methods of Google. It will start with an explanation of Google’s organizational culture and values. The following section will explain the role of communication within the organization. Including how communication is affected by the organization’s culture, and the role it plays in perception of the culture. The final sections will talk about misalignments between espoused and enacted values. Google’s Culture and Values “It’s really the people that make Google the kind of company it is.” ("Our Culture", n.d.). The people who work at Google are smart, determined, and from various parts of the world. The company hires people based more on their ability instead of their experience. They also maintain an open culture that allows for communication with everyone else in the company. “Googlers” as they call themselves, can even ask questions directly to Larry Page, the CEO of Google. The company values the input and diversity of its employees. It’s the input and diversity that fuels the innovation that the company is known for. Communication and Culture “One of the key reasons for Google's success is a belief that good ideas can, and should, come from anywhere.” (Mayer, 2005). Google supports an all channel style of communication, meaning that everyone can talk to everyone else. This open...
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... Kant and Mill contribute to an overall picture of the historical ethical argument. Chronologically, the first major philosopher, Immanuel Kant, presents an argument that is based upon solely “a priori” knowledge, or rather knowledge that does not come from experience. Kant explains that because we are all rational beings, we are able to separate ourselves from our current human condition and use our own ability to reason to see a broad picture of what is morally acceptable to others. Similarly, Kant finds that the only thing which is good without limitation is a good will; that is, it is the intention of an action that determines the moral validity of any claim, not the effects both foreseen and actual. Kant connects this idea of morality to the claim that humans should act out of duty instead of just what is according to duty. The difference between these two ideas, Kant argues, is that “according to duty” is acting in the right way only because of the negative consequences associated with not performing a morally correct action whereas “from duty” refers to the concept of doing something solely because it is the right choice to make in a given situation. Rephrased, Kant calls these two choices the categorical imperative (from duty), which is completely unconditional in its call for action, and the hypothetical imperative (according to duty), which has one or more conditions that have to be satisfied for an action to be initiated. Further elaborating...
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...are lending money look at the person first and foremost, so motivation is the most critical. You need to convince your bank manger you can make your business work because you’ve researched your market, you’ve costed out the business and you know where you want the business to be in 5 or 10 years time. A means of showing your commitment to the business would be to save and invest money. Abilities & skill: The second element is one of ability and skills. The individual has to have skills appropriate to the kind of business they’re proposing to run. And if they don’t have them, they should have a reliable person who can. It could be that one person knows how to run a business from an operational and management perspective, whereas another person has the technical skills to develop the product or service. Resources: The third element is resources. That’s not purely about money and equipment; it’s also about intellectual capability. (The ability to persuade others is important. Many entrepreneurs have been able to negotiate very favourable deals against the odds, when establishing their business). Strategy & vision: The fourth element is strategy and vision in terms of thinking four or five years ahead and having some idea of where that business might be in the future and putting in place a plan to achieve that goal. Planning & organisation: The fifth element is planning and organisation. Without planning, organisation, coordination and administration, the product won’t...
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...Idea-Mashing: 3 Foolproof Ways to Find Your Awesome Story Idea I hear new fiction writers say that they’d love to write, but they just don’t have any ideas for stories. In Stephen King’s On Writing he writes this about getting story ideas - “… good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun.” — Stephen King, On Writing Taking two ideas and joining them into something new, like King described, is called idea-mashing. Yes, I just made that up. King writes that ideas come from nowhere, but the opposite is true — ideas come from everywhere. The trick is to expose yourself to great ideas and let them naturally...
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...intellectual qualities of leadership. Goleman, than describes the “Anatomy of Emotions” and how we are “hardwired” for them. He goes into the make up of the human brain and how our emotions react when put into certain life situations and that these emotions are stored over time. Ultimately, it is most effective when our “emotional brain and our thinking brain work together”. He describes this as our “emotional intelligence” and believes it consists of five parts. First is “Self Awareness”, and the idea that we do not always pay much attention to how we feel in certain situations. Having strong self-awareness gives us the ability to make good strong decisions based on what we believe is good and right, while knowing where to draw the line. Goleman adds another aspect to self-awareness that is important in good decision-making and that is “self confidence”. With this we are able to be assertive and strong in our decisions. Next is “Managing Emotions”, where...
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...Internal and External Factors Kathy Wilks 05/18/2014 MGT/230 Most business’ have their own rules and the way they run things with their own ideas of which functions are the most important to their particular line of business. However, any business will agree that there are four functions of business that all business’ need to follow and run by. Without the use of these functions it is easy to say that the business will soon go under. Without these four functions there is no way that a business could continue to operate or be a success. Those four functions of business are planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. Planning Is basically where you are making a decision on where you want the organization to go and exactly (step by step) how you plan on getting it there. It is the key function of all four functions and you cannot move on without using this function properly as well as wisely. This function will show managers the type of challenges that face their company and require that they come up with a plan to not only forecast the future economic growth of the company but show how it will be accomplished. This is also the function in which they create objectives and set deadlines for those objectives to be met. Plans will be re-evaluated as unforeseen conditions change the steps that were first decided on. Internal factors such as technology, innovation, and ethics affect the function of planning in ways such as moving ahead...
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...of an organization, we will belong to certain department, we are responsible to align our interest to the organization's interest. It is somehow kind of submission of some of ones interests, in order to adjust and meet the organization's target (ORGANIZATION'S GOAL). Let me give an example; In workplace, we will be meeting variety of personalities, and all those personalities are really far different from each other. It is guaranteed that you will be blending with someone that seems that will not fit with your personality, you might encounter contradictions with that someone due to personality differences, in this case where understanding human behavior will come out, considering the organization's goals (to achieve sales and sales volumes in some parameters). Let say you will be grouped to certain department where your mortal enemy was assigned too, here, you will consider the organization's goal, you will put aside your personal interest which is to snob your enemy, and instead, you will adjust and adapt to that personality's differences, and you will now prioritize to do your job as professional; looking after achieving the organization's goal. It is "GOAL" which motivates professionals to set aside some of ones personal interests, and instead, cooperate to the strategic plan and objectives of the company. 2.) "Change is the only thing constant," that's why it is also inevitable. Changes create pain initially due to shock.Let me give an example; You've been a resident...
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...literature will be undertaken. Then the methods and standards that were used will be addressed, and any questions that are being considered for further research into the area of strategic management will be discussed. From that point, it is vital that conclusions be drawn and recommendations be offered to wrap up the study. Without these components, it is often not clear whether a researcher has a thorough understanding of what the study was designed to do, and it is also not clear if said researcher is certain as to what else should be done in the area and should be questioned when it comes to that particular issue. In short, studies without these components lack completeness and that can make it difficult for anyone in the future to use the study as a jumping off point for similar studies or studies into related issues. The concept of strategic management is one that is highly important to organizations around the world (David, 2009). It involves taking a look at the top management of a company and the resources that management team is using on behalf of the company's owners and in order to show a specific level of performance. The mission, vision, and objectives of the organization must be examined, and it is necessary for them to come into play when attempting to understand the issue (Mintzberg, Ahlstrand, & Lampel, 1998). Plans and policies also have to be developed, and programs and projects must be created to meet the objectives that have been set...
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...assist in improving not only moral but quality and quantity of work performance from the employees. The motivational techniques should be ones that will improve the quality of work from the employees and at the same time allow the company to thrive. The following paper will discuss some of these types of motivation methods that as a manager, I will employ and how they will benefit the company. Motivational Method # 1 The first motivational method I would like to employ would be one of employee recognition for contributions to the company. I would like to have an idea box where employees can contribute ideas and every month two will be drawn from the box and voted on by the employees as to which one they would like to work on implementing. Once the vote was in, the person who contributed the idea would receive their name posted on the idea board as recognition for their idea and would receive a gift certificate to a local restaurant as a reward for their idea (Sykes, 2003-2012). They will also be allowed to help motivate the rest of the team by getting the idea started and assisting the manager in implementing the idea. By allowing the staff to come up with ideas that will benefit the company and allowing them to take part in putting the project together, it also makes them feel like more of a valuable asset to the company. Staff members want to feel important to a company and not just there to do a job. The need for employee recognition makes the employee strive to give their...
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...Compiled Talks of Swami Vivekananda KARMA IN ITS EFFECT ON CHARACTER The word Karma is derived from the Sanskrit Kri, to do; all action is Karma. Technically, this word also means the effects of actions. In connection with metaphysics, it sometimes means the effects, of which our past actions were the causes. But in Karma-Yoga we have simply to do with the word Karma as meaning work. The goal of mankind is knowledge. That is the one ideal placed before us by Eastern philosophy. Pleasure is not the goal of man, but knowledge. Pleasure and happiness come to an end. It is a mistake to suppose that pleasure is the goal. The cause of all the miseries we have in the world is that men foolishly think pleasure to be the ideal to strive for. After a time man finds that it is not happiness, but knowledge, towards which he is going, and that both pleasure and pain are great teachers, and that he learns as much from evil as from good. As pleasure and pain pass before his soul they have upon it different pictures, and the result of these combined impressions is what is called man's "character". If you take the character of any man, it really is but the aggregate of tendencies, the sum total of the bent of his mind; you will find that misery and happiness are equal factors in the formation of that character. Good and evil have an equal share in moulding character, and in some instances misery is a greater teacher than happiness. In studying the great characters the world has produced, I dare...
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...is, “Why do some succeed and some fail?”. What do these emerged businesses do that affect their fate in their chosen path? The answer is strategy. Strategy as defined by Helmuth von Moltke is ‘’applied common sense and cannot be taught”. He explains that strategy is about going beyond what you learn in school which is basically just about the common culture. There is no definite formula. Strategies are not only planned but can also be unexpected. In the business world, there are unexpected circumstances that come up that can be adapted into the existing strategy. It is important for a strategist to be able to see these opportunities that is usually otherwise buried under normal existing conditions and not visible to the eye of a normal human being. They must be able to recognize the patterns that emerges from opportunities. Although strategies should not always be deliberate, there are guidelines that a strategist may follow. Kenichi Ohmae explains that it is important for a businessman to be creative, have endurance and have good intuition. As explained previously, it is important that he/she must be attuned to the external environment and be aware of how it could affect your company and how it could affect the society. Aside from looking for opportunities, a strategist must also be cautious especially when it comes to the readiness of the market. It is also important that he/she is strong willed and must be able to keep his vision despite of discouragements from people...
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...people in the class, I feel very lucky that I got grouped with competent, friendly, and easy-to-work-with people. While one group felt more personal (in a good way) and the other felt more efficient, both groups had motivated people that carried their weight and tried to go above and beyond. I was very satisfied with the results of our projects! In the following pages, I’ll attempt to compare these two groups: Appleritas AppleBomb and Send It!. I’ll begin by giving a brief description of each team member, continued by a comparison of the two groups in terms of how we developed, made our decisions, and handled our conflicts. Lastly, I’ll evaluate myself as a teammate, doing my best to enlist what I did good and what I could possibly improve on. Group Members What’s News? – Appleritas AppleBomb Aaron: With his level-headedness, no-bullshit attitude, and a get-things-done mentality, Aaron played an important role in keeping us on track and prevented us from deviating too much from our assignment (Expediter). I recall him checking MyCourses to read the assignment description, just to make...
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