...Autobiography of a Manager ! Death of grandmother when Raja was two. Traumatic experience and continues to hurt him. He still carries a photo of his grandmother. ! Moved schools when he was in class V. He was thrown out of his comfort zone and had some difficulty adjusting to the new school. ! Raja’s parents were quite strict. His family had high expectations from him. “There was no question of being no. 2”. He missed a lot of fun in the school. Books became his best friend. He accepted his parents desire and never rebelled against them. Raja became an introvert. ! Raja was always good in studies but when he took up commerce in Class XI he did not perform well. He was shattered as he was always an achiever and when he failed to reach his goal it was difficult for him to get over it. ! He topped the school overall but still did not get an All India rank in commerce ! During his preparation for CAT he was infatuated with a girl who married an immensely rich person. Raja took it upon himself to crack CAT and prove to himself his worth. ! At IIMA, Raja had a difficult time initially. He was not healthy, there were economic problems at home and he was not performing well in the class. He was used to effortlessly coming top in the class. But now at IIMA he was among the bottom 10 percentile. He kept working to improve his grades and by the end of the first year things were better for him. ! After IIMA Raja joined ICG as a consultant in Chennai. It took his some...
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...Running head: Sheila Coleman Autobiography Indiana Wesleyan University November 1, 2012 Sheila Coleman Autobiography My name is Sheila Ann Coleman; my maiden name is Sheila Ann Smith. I was born in Cleveland Ohio on May 19, 1969, to Dorothy and Richard Smith. My parents were married for 25 years before divorcing in 1988. I have 3 sisters and 1 brother. I attended private school from elementary to high school. I attended boarding school to receive an education that offered college preparatory classes in Huntsville Alabama. I was raised in the Seventh Day Adventist church and currently continue in the same faith. I enjoy, watching television, reading fictional and nonfictional books, and spending time with my family. I have a dog name Nahla, who a blue pit-bull. She is lovable and friendly. My husband and I have been married for 21 years and have 2 children, ages 16 and 22. I attended Alabama A&M University before, returning to Cleveland to pursue a career in the healthcare industry. I started as an EMT and then transitioned into the LPN program at Central School of Practical Nursing, graduated 1994. After, 4 years practicing as a LPN. I attended Excelsior College and graduated with an associate degree in nursing. Working in various areas of nursing, I come to realize continuing my education would open additional doors within the healthcare industry. I continued my journey, by enrolling at Indiana Wesleyan University. I completed my bachelors of nursing December 2010...
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...Maya Angelou Introduction Leadership is essential for the success of a given group, society, or organization. Through leadership, a particular group of people is directed, mobilized, motivated, and encouraged to perform a given task. Leadership is among the roles of a manager. The manager in this case is a person charged with given responsibilities of handling affairs of a given business venture. At an individual level, one is supposed to manage his or her own life in an effective way to achieve a lifetime objective. Given that leadership is among the roles of a manager, it means that everyone should cultivate leadership traits in all phases of life. This can be accomplished through several ways. One of them is by learning from reputable leaders of both the precedent and the current generation. The world has witnessed myriads of reputable leaders with profound influence on the community. Their utterances, Way of life, and formulas of handling situations is worthy emulating. As a result, one ought to assess the same and emulate their style of leadership. One area where leadership is essential is in the hospitality industry. Hospitality generally involves accommodating people at a given place. Accommodation in this case involves providing, comforting, guiding, and instructing people on the type of food, entertainment, and recreation facilities available for them. This paper investigates a reputable leader. The leader in consideration is Maya Angelou. The consideration...
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...Ferguson, was born in 1941, in Govan Glasgow Scotland. As a teenager he was working as a tool’s apprentice in his father shipyard then in his 19, he became a labor union activist and an active member of the “Labor Party”. As far as Ferguson’s “the football player” career is concerned, actually, he did not achieve a successful career. In fact, as a player Ferguson started with a small local football team the “Queens Park and St Johnston” club. Afterward, he got the chance to join the “Glasgow Ranger” club, yet this union did not last since he resigned after being responsible for the defeat of his team against its fierce rival the “Glasgow Celtic” club. So determined, Alex Ferguson joined the “East Stirling” football club but this time as a manager rather than as a player. His first management period lasted for three seasons and then was recruited by the Scottish football team “Aberdeen”. With limited resources, Ferguson achieved the unthinkable, he won with his club the “European Winners’ Cup” during the 1982-3 season. This achievement with “Aberdeen” was a milestone in his career and made him “THE” coach that many big names in the European football scene like Real Madrid, Barcelona, Arsenal, and Tottenham, wanted to engage him. Ultimately, Ferguson chose to join Manchester United (MU). During his reign, Manchester United advanced from an ordinary local team to a top-class national team. Together they won all the British football trophies: nine Premiership League titles, five FA cups...
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...film called New Orleans, along with Louis Armstrong. Over time, Billie’s drug abuse was affecting her life. Her health was going down, she didn’t look well, and her career was being put on hold. After her conviction she lost her license to play at night clubs, cabarets or anything that sold alcohol. Withstanding this she still gave amazing performances at concert halls like Carnegie Hall. All her shows sold out and packed with people. After receiving help from the club owner, John Levy, she was able to play in New York’s Club Ebony. The club owner soon became her new boyfriend and manager, who also took advantage of Billie’s fame and money. By the 1950s, the substance abuse started to take affect her voice. Nonetheless, people still enjoyed her singing and she had a great tour in Europe. In 1956 people got a glimpse inside Billie Holiday’s life in her autobiography Lady Sings the Blues. The autobiography was inequitable story that she wrote with Willian Dufty. She later started another relationship with Louis Mckay and was later arrested with him for narcotics. Like all her other relationships it ended after marriage not long later. Towards the end of her career she played live on CBS The Sound of Jazz in December 1957. Among her were also Count Basie, Ben Webster, and her old friend Lester Young. After Lester left his wife to focus on music, his alcohol abuse began to take a toll on his health. Lester died in his hotel room on March 15, 1959. Lady Day was never the same after...
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...In BA-514, Ethics of Business, we examined Freeman’s stakeholder theory and learned that stakeholders fall into one of two categories: Internal like employees, managers and owners, or External like suppliers, customers, society government, competitors, and environmentalists. A successful corporation should concern itself with how it benefits all of its potential stakeholders because, according to the General Systems Theory, the corporation and the stakeholders cannot operate independent of each other. I agree that Welch was a great manager. He oversaw GE’s outstanding 20-year record by generating 23% per annum total shareholder return. However, he was not a successful CEO in his observation of GE’s corporate social responsibility (CSR). He didn’t realize that being involved in CSR can lead to innovation and also presents an opportunity to increase a corporation’s competitive capability in the long-term. All initiatives that Welch launched at GE were centered on increasing profits and market share. The ambitious financial objective was his only target and the apparent stick by which he measured success. He didn’t consider anything else except pursuing a #1 or #2 position in any given division. Welch’s competitive spirit, which was most likely fostered at an early age,...
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...Make Angelou A Great Leader 8 Analysis of Angelou’s Leadership Style 9 Application of Angelou’s Leadership Style to Hospitality Industry 9 Leadership Lesson on Angelou Essential for Hospitality Industry 10 The value of versatility 10 The Value of Spirituality 10 Introspection value 11 Conclusion 11 References 12 Introduction Leadership is essential for the success of a given group, society, or organization. Through leadership, a particular group of people is directed, mobilized, motivated, and encouraged to perform a given task. Leadership is among the roles of a manager. The manager in this case is a person charged with given responsibilities for the success of a given venture. At an individual level, one is supposed to manage his or her own life in an effective way to achieve a lifetime objective. Given that leadership is among the roles of a manager, it means that everyone should cultivate leadership qualities in all aspects of life. This can be done through several ways. One of them is by learning from reputable leaders of both the past and the present generation. The world has witnessed myriads of reputable leaders with profound influence on the community. Their utterances, Way of life, and formulas of handling situations is worthy emulating. As a result, one ought to assess the same and emulate their style of leadership. One area where leadership is essential is in the hospitality industry. Hospitality generally involves accommodating people...
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...Heart and kidney problems forced him to stop performing in 1969. That same year, his longtime manager, Joe Glaser, passed away. Louis spent much of that year at home, but managed to continue practicing the trumpet daily. By the summer of 1970, Armstrong was allowed to perform publicly again and play the trumpet. After a successful performance in Las Vegas, Armstrong began taking performances around the world, including in London and Washington, D.C. and New York (he performed for two weeks at New York's Waldorf-Astoria). However, a heart attack two days after the Waldorf show stopped him for two months. Armstrong returned home in May 1971, and though he soon resumed playing again and promised to perform in public once more, he died in his sleep on July 6, 1971, at his home in Queens, New...
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...Rupesh Doshi on Richard Branson Sir Richard Branson is the Founder and Chairman of Virgin Group – a multi-billion dollar, branded venture capital organization headquartered in London, United Kingdom. I first came to know of Sir Richard when I studied abroad at the London School of Economics during the summer of 2001. One of my classmates suggested a great summer read - the book was titled Losing My Virginity. The title definitely put a smirk on my face but soon after he mentioned the name, my friend said the book was an autobiography of the person who founded Virgin Records, Virgin Megastore, and Virgin Atlantic Airways – Sir Richard Branson. Having heard of those companies, I took my friend’s suggestion and picked up a copy of the book to read on my trip to Asia. I rarely read a book to completion – but Losing My Virginity was an exception and probably the quickest book I have ever read. Engaged and enthralled by the book I came to admire Richard’s leadership and his way of living life. Professor Friedman’s Total Leadership course and the principles he has taught confirmed that Sir Richard Branson is the perfect case study of a leader who has achieved “total leadership” across the four domains of life – work, family, community and self. Richard was born in 1950 in London, the eldest of four siblings (He is 60 years old today). As a youth, he suffered from dyslexia – a learning disorder that impairs the ability to speak and read – which resulted in not only frustration but also...
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...Dempsey had earned enough of a reputation to book more prominent and better-paying fights in San Francisco and on the East Coast. On Independence Day in 1919, Dempsey got his first big opportunity: A fight against world heavyweight champion Jess Willard. Nicknamed "The Great White Hope," Willard stood a menacing 6 feet 6 inches tall and weighed in at 245 pounds. No one in the boxing world thought the 6'1", 187-pound Dempsey stood a chance. Despite his enormous disadvantage in size, Dempsey dominated Willard with his superior quickness and ruthless tactics, knocking the bigger man out in the third round to earn the title of world heavyweight champion. The Willard-Dempsey fight became the subject of controversy in 1964, when Dempsey's former manager, Jack Kearns—who, by this time, had fallen out with Dempsey—claimed that he had "loaded" the boxer's gloves with Plaster of Paris. The "loaded glove" theory held some credence because of the seemingly extraordinary amount of damage Dempsey did to Willard's face. However, film evidence revealed Willard inspecting Dempsey's gloves before the fight, making it highly improbable that the fighter could have cheated. Dempsey successfully defended his heavyweight title five times over the next six years, in what is considered one of the greatest runs in boxing history. Despite his successes in the ring during this period, however, Dempsey was not particularly popular with the public. He had not served in the military when the United States entered...
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...factors which allowed me to adapt to an independent life, giving me the skills that not only helped me during the freedom of college, and independent work but also will help me during life at university as I’ve experienced and learnt how to be responsible of myself at a very young age. During my spare time I enjoy to play football whenever I can, and if it’s not football I’m playing its either watching live football or even be playing a football related video game. During my primary and secondary school life I was vastly involved with football related activities, whether that be football during break or even captaining the school team, competing against local schools. Also I do enjoy reading biographies and autobiographies of former and current football players, and managers, too see how became the person they are today as well as reading their opinion on former colleagues. Unfortunately when I begun sixth form I decided to sacrifice playing football in order to pursue a sole focus on my A-levels, however in university I would pretty much relish the opportunity to be part of anything football related. For work experience I was fortunate enough to go abroad to Istanbul, Turkey and have the opportunity to work in the finance sector of one of Istanbul’s most reputable private...
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...John H. Johnson Patricia Parker Dr. Robert E. Culver BUS 520 Leadership and Organizational March 12, 2011 John H. Johnson's autobiography, "Succeeding Against the Odds", definitely describe him. Johnson began with very humble beginnings, was ridiculed by fellow students who saw the ragged clothes and unrefined “country” manners as ill-suited for middle-class African-American society (Wilson II, 2010). John Harold Johnson was snubbed by advertisers when he founded Johnson Publishing Company, Inc. (JPC) in 1942 with a dream and a $500 loan on his mother's furniture which is the largest African-American owned and operated publishing company (Murrill, 2007). His magazines would include positive presentations and examples of African American life in the United States, leaving negative representations to others. JPC is headquartered in Chicago but has a global reach with offices in New York, DC, London and Paris. It is the home of Ebony founded in November 1945 and Jet magazines November 1951, as well as Fashion Fair Cosmetics founded in 1973, Ebony Fashion Fair founded in 1958, and the Johnson Publishing Company Book Division. Linda Johnson Rice, daughter of founder John H. Johnson, operates as president and CEO of the company (Miller, 2009). John H. Johnson is a leader and a manager. Leadership is the process of developing ideas and a vision, living by values that support those ideas and that vision, influencing others to embrace them in their...
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...The beginning of the Twentieth Century brought with it high industrialism and new-found wealth that allowed a profound sense of comfort that was short lived due to the uncertainty caused by World War I. This uncertainty created the need to accurately evaluate “the value of individual dignity and freedom, about the proper organization of society, and ultimately about the possibility of human perfection.”Lagerfield (1999). Due to the uncertainty that was created, Lagerfield felt personal acquisition of wealth and comfort were not the keys that lead to taking a more realistic view of the future, but the ideology of risk management brought about the need to forgo the frivolous waste of resources. The evolution of risk management in its infancy stages derived from the environmental shift that occurred in response to those catastrophic events such as the Great Depression, Three Mile Island, and the devastation of technological failure noted during the launch and disintegration of the Challenger to name a few. Although the ladder that lead to a full paradigm shift in the way in which cause and effect were viewed; the need to gain a better understanding of appropriately managing risk became paramount. Dun and Renner (2008) believed “the strategies to manage risk typically include transferring the risk to another party, avoiding the risk, reducing the negative effect or probability of the risk, or even accepting some or all of the potential or actual consequences of a particular...
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...sister, Yvonne. Ramsay's father, Gordon James Senior, (died 1997)[8] was - at various times - a swimming pool manager, a welder, and a shopkeeper; his sister Yvonne and their mother Helen (maiden name: Cosgrove)[8] have been nurses.[9] Ramsay has described his early life as "hopelessly itinerant"; his family moved constantly due to the aspirations and failures of his father, who was an at-times-violent alcoholic.[8] In 1976, they finally settled in Stratford-upon-Avon, where he grew up in the Bishopton area of the town.[10] In his autobiography, Humble Pie,[9] he describes his early life as being marked by abuse and neglect from this "hard-drinking womaniser".[9][11] At the age of 16, Ramsay moved out of the family house into a flat in Banbury.[12] Football career[edit] Ramsay played football and was first chosen to play under-14 football at age 12. He was chosen to play for Warwickshire. His football career was marked by injuries, causing him to remark later in life, "Perhaps I was doomed when it came to football".[9] In mid-1984, Ramsay had a trial with Rangers, the club he supported as a boy. He seriously injured his knee, smashing the cartilage during training.[13] Ramsay continued to train and play on the injured knee, tearing a cruciate ligament during a squash game. Ramsay has claimed to have played two first team games for Rangers.[14] According to his autobiography Ramsay played "a couple of non-league matches as a trialist" for Rangers[15] and was signed by the club at...
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