...conversations have you encountered that go something like this: “Hello friend, how are you?” There is a pause, the shoulders sag, and the universal answer is exhaled: “BUSY!” “Busyness” seems to be ubiquitous in urban life today. The pace of daily life is speeding up substantially. We rush back and forth between skyscrapers, with personal schedules fully occupied. According to some critics, busyness has become a significant insignia of so-called upper-middle-class status, which is due to one specific reason, that is, the pursuit of success. In their opinions, busyness doesn’t necessarily lead to success. People who are truly successful are not the kind of people who are always involved in busyness. On the contrary, many successful scientists, novelists, and designers appear to be childlike and distractible. Meanwhile, they also claim that many of the busiest people will never be successful, such as waitresses and telephone operators. However, I personally hold the opposite view that people who are always engaged are not all chasers of the gold medal. The enthusiasm and passion for their work and families is no doubt the strong driving force to devote themselves in the trivial yet meaningful everyday life. Moreover, what busy bees like me value the most is the sense of self-accomplishment busyness brings. When you’re busy, your mind is switched-on and you are constantly thinking, learning and developing. If you’re busy doing a number of different activities, such as learning...
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...In “Busy Is a Sickness” Scott Dannemiller argues that there is two different types of busyness and why he needs to change his ways because he is taking what he has for granite. The two types of busyness are “busyness with control” which is created by self-created stress and “busyness without control” that usually affects the poor because the have to work multiple jobs to maintain a healthy lifestyle for themselves and family. In “Busy Is a Sickness” Scott describes that his busyness is busyness with control and that he created his own stress by always having the urgency to rush because of a full schedule that he created. Scott gives an example by explaining how he rushes his kids in the morning to eat fast and to hurry so they won't be late...
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...MANAGING THE CHANGE PROCESS Introduction: Iware Logic Solutions ℗Ltd is an IT Solutions firm and consultancy service provider. Iware offers world-class IT services to Commercial and Government sector clients. The firm has a group of clients that includes Small, Medium and Large Scale Industries. The establishment is located in Bangalore, a prominent city in the southern part of India. Change; be it bigger or smaller is a response to the internal and external environment of an organisation. Resilient organizations are repeatedly connected and quick to react to the situations they inhabit in the world of busyness. Managing the change process starts from identifying the necessity to change, designing the change and walking the organisational people through the process since organizations never change but people do. 1.1 - Determine the organisation’s position in the sector and market within which it operates Iware operates in IT sector and the competition is always increasing. The growing competition is challenging the sustainability of the firm and affecting the profitability. The company has to be careful in every contract to achieve the objectives since it is in the beginning stage. The organisation had faced issues with the decreasing number of clients and customers due to the challenges and competition in the market. The firm follows a centralized method of decision-making and control where decisions are made strictly at the top management. The management...
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...directors exit is involuntary while instead its completely voluntary.(Boivie, Graffin and Pollock, 2012). The author identifies key motivational and de-motivational factors and developed five hypotheses that he explored and tested. 1- Prestige hypothesis that is key motivational factor that affects directors’ decision, since company prestige is generated from company performance, media visibility, and firm size contributed to directors’ self-esteem. 2- The author continues to explore the second motivational hypothesis that is related to directors’ contribution to the firm which gives them the ultimate pride to be part of something big. (Boivie, Graffin and Pollock, 2012). The remaining three hypotheses identify de-motivational factors. 3- Busyness hypothesis is one of these factors since the required time, effort and commitment by the individual while serving on board reflects negatively. 4- Firm reputation and financial results are another factor that the author developed his hypothesis. 5- The author identifies his fifth hypothesis that is related to firm performance and illegitimate firm acts which affects individual motivations. (Boivie, Graffin and Pollock, 2012). Research Design: Study Settings & Sample:...
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...Hamlet’s Blackberry | My Disconnected Blackberry | A way of life revisited | | Kent Olden English 20 Section 36Professor Lynda Radican | 5/12/2011 | As any teacher worth their weight in salt will tell you, they set out to give students the best possible education. Along that path they often influence the future generations. My teacher has identified one of the many problems troubling this burgeoning generation. The problem being the busyness that technology has created. The purpose of this assignment was to examine my screen habits and make change as I saw fit. By reading powers book, I was able to articulate the problem and take steps towards a remedy. I struggle as a writer; at times I am brilliant, in my mind at least. Most other times I am just sitting staring at a screen or finding some other distraction. My writing process involved discussing the books topics with others. The lesson being taught by this book made me think of my teenage child now and in the future, accordingly I wrote to that audience. Reading this book has been a help to me. I sit for hours, but it could be even longer with the distraction of a connected screen. I have taken steps to alleviate this distraction. I thank you for introducing me to William Powers. It is my hope that with this paper you will gain a degree of insight into my balanced life. Also it was my intention to fashion my thoughts into an “A” grade paper. Free of grammatical error and on task with the assignment...
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...To me a manager is a motivator, someone who makes the team want to achieve anything in any way possible, through any means. The people have to be self-motivated, but a good manager can make anyone have that motivation. A manager helps break down goals to his/her team and makes very precise and well thought out actions to get his team there. After the many readings I learned that the ideas we have of management with top down thinking is wrong and we should be doing outside in thinking. Linda Hill's "leading from behind" didn’t make sense to me because I always have believed that a leader should be in front of their team and leading them head first into battle or sales. But, after watching the video I understood what she meant that a leader needs to let his team step forward and flourish on their own, and if he if is in the front they will never step up because the leader has already stepped up for them. What I understood from Seddon’s basic argument is that a manager’s roll is like managing a system in order to reach an organizations goal. Seddon’s six steps helped show that everything we know to be right, when broken down is wrong. The one that stood out is with many people you have more brain power and that is not always a good thing, it all depends on the type of work those brains are being put forward to do. So, if your mind is not in the right place it doesn’t matter how much you know. From the video "Recognizing the role of managers" she talks about “executing...
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...1 archaic : purposeful activity : busyness 2 a : role, function b : an immediate task or objective : mission c : a particular field of endeavor 3 a : a usually commercial or mercantile ACTIVITYengaged in as a means of livelihood : trade, line b : a commercial or sometimes an industrial enterprise; also : such enterprises c : dealings or transactions especially of an economic nature : patronage 4 : affair, matter 5 : creation, concoction 6 : movement or action (as lighting a cigarette) by an actor intended especially to establish atmosphere, reveal character, or explain a situation —called also stage business 7 a : personal concern b : right 8 a : serious ACTIVITY requiring time and effort and usually the avoidance of distractions b : maximum effort 9 a : a damaging assault b : rebuke, tongue-lashing c : double cross 10 : a bowel movement —used especially of pets See business defined for English-language learners » See business defined for kids » Examples of BUSINESS The store has lost a significant amount of business since the factory closed. She works in the publishing BUSINESS. David has decided to go into BUSINESS with his brother. Their publishing company is the best in the business. I have to go to New York City on business next week. They advertised to increase business. He has the skills necessary to run a business. The town is trying to attract new businesses. Do we have any other business we...
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...Job Satisfaction I tend to agree with a lot of the statements in this article. I especially like the part where the one nurse wrote, “Please take the busyness of patients into account when scheduling.” This finding corresponds with Oermann and Moffitt-Wolf’s (1997) observation that new graduates experienced stress during orientation due to lack of experience, lack of organizational skills, and new situations. (Halfer & Graf, 2006) The inability to handle the intense working environment, advanced technology, and high patient acuity results in new graduate nurse turnover rates of 35% to 60%. All of this occurs within the first year of employment. Turnover has an inverse relationship to job satisfaction. As job satisfaction increases turnover decreases. Many factors influence the satisfaction of new graduates. (Halfer & Graf, 2006) New graduate nurses are leaving their current positions at an alarmingly higher rate than experienced nurses (Patterson, 2009) I do believe things can be done to change these issues. I feel it is important, though it is not always practical to involve the new staff in the scheduling process and, as the article states, include as a “Team scheduling” process, rather than a “self scheduling”. This may make more people feel involved, and although it may not solve all of the issues, such as weekends or holidays, it may be a small change that will improve job satisfaction. I wish they had something like this on the unit I work on. We...
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...What are we so busy about? I know many have heard the saying, “no matter how busy a person’s day may be. If they really care, they’ll always find time for you.” Well after reading Tim Krieider’s essay, “The ‘Busy’ Trap” it describes the busy lives of individuals and how they avoid leisure time. Krieider’s argument states how many will say they are busy doing the things they don’t need to be doing just to avoid doing anything they’re actually supposed to be doing. I am truly guilty of the bust trap. Simply because I am tired and just don’t feel like doing anything. I can recall days leaving work after having a very stressful day then having to go grocery shopping, pick up my son from football practice, cook, and help my youngest with his homework...
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...Carter, Christine. "Gratitude vs. Materialism | Greater Good." Greater Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life. 7 Nov. 2011. Web. 19 Feb. 2012. . Chapter 4 Article Write Up This article talks about how the holidays, specifically Christmas, is a time of year to be happy and joyful. The Holidays are becoming too much about materialism and how such busyness leads to stress anxiety sleep deprivation. She goes into much detail about how the cultural message around Christmas time is typically materialistic. People don’t understand that material things don’t bring us complete happiness and can lead to unhappiness. Materialistic people tend to upset with their lives, have low self esteem, find less meaning of life, and be less concerned about the welfare for others. They also don’t have the greatest family lives, have little enjoyment, and high chances of depression. These kind of people need to make changes in their lives to help better the emotions in the December holidays. People need to learn to be grateful and express our gratitude to others. It will make us happier in the end by not caring about daily hassles. It will also leave little room to think about negative things and focus most of our brain on positive things. If people follow this type of formality, then we will have happier holidays and live more positive lives. Research shows that grateful perception can have a positive effect of kid’s lives. When people get into the habit of being grateful and when we express concern...
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...Dislike: | Boring explanations/wasting time with too many facts. | Someone wasting their time trying to decide for them. | Rejection, treated impersonally, uncaring & unfeeling attitudes. | making an error, being unprepared, spontaneity. | Reacts to Pressure and Tension By: | “Selling” their ideas or argumentative. | Taking charge taking more control. | Becoming silent, withdraws, introspective. | Seeking more data & information. | Best way to Deal With: | Get excited with them. Show emotion. | Let them be in charge. | Be supportive; show you care. | Provide lots of data & information. | Likes To Be Measured By: | Applause, feedback, recognition. | Results, Goal-oriented. | Friends, close relationships. | Activity & busyness that leads to results. | Must Be Allowed To: | Get ahead quickly. Likes challenges. | Get into a competitive situation. Likes to win. | Relax, feel, care, know you care. | make decisions at own pace, not cornered or pressured. | Will Improve With: | Recognition & some structure with which to reach the goal. | A position that requires cooperation with others. | A structure of goals & methods for achieving each goal. | Interpersonal and communication skills. | Likes to Save: | Effort they rely heavily on hunches, intuition, feelings. | Time. They like to be efficient, get things done now. | Relationships....
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... First, when I stand in a Chinese supermarket, the main words that pop into my mind to describe the atmosphere are boisterous, busy, and crowded, whereas atmosphere in a American supermarket is totally different: quiet and ordered. For example, for my grandmother, the most important topic to communicate with the neighbors about every day is what she will buy for cooking. It is a tradition among older people to go shopping together and communicate in the supermarket, which is already full of people. Let’s think about it:” because of the large population, hundreds of people have to stay in a limited, small area and keep speaking to each other. How can that be quiet and ordered?” Somehow, the sound doesn’t bother their shopping, and the busyness atmosphere is a support to show that the quality of goods...
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...Organizational Behavior is an applied behavioral science built on concepts contributed by a number of related behavioral disciplines. The most influential members of the Organizational Behavior team are psychology, social psychology, sociology, and anthropology. Study of these four disciplines helps one understand the underlying principles that build the overall science of Organizational Behavior. A simple composite definition of Organizational Behavior could be a science that studies the behavior, influence, relationship, and activity within groups. The discipline of Organizational Behavior helps one apply the knowledge and understanding gained from the study of groups to manipulate the activities of the group to achieve specific goals. Organizational Behavior Disciplines It frequently requires a team to accomplish a task. Each member of a well-balanced team contributes a meaningful part of the entire effort to complete the task successfully. This team concept can be applied to the study of Organizational Behavior. Organizational Behavior is an applied behavioral science built on concepts contributed by a number of related behavioral disciplines (Robins & Judge, 2009). The most influential members of the Organizational Behavior team are psychology, social psychology, sociology, and anthropology (see Appendix). Study of these four disciplines helps one understand the underlying principles that build the overall science of Organizational Behavior. Psychology Psychology...
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...fulfillment intimate relationships also fulfill psychological needs. Emotional attachment strong bonds or feelings of love. Emotional availability the ability to give to and receive from others emotionally without fear of being hurt or rejected. Each of the relationships are important because all relationships involve a degree of risk. However, only by taking these risks can we grow and truly experience all that life has to offer. 2. What problems might form barriers to intimacy? What actions can you take to reduce or remove these barriers? Obstacles to intimacy include lack of personal identity, emotional immaturity, and a poorly developed sense of responsibility. The fear of being hurt, low self-esteem, mishandled hostility, chronic “busyness” (and its attendant lack of emotional presence), a tendency to “patentify” loved ones, and a conflict of role expectations may be equally detrumental. These barriers to intimacy may have many causes, including miscommunication, a dysfunctional family background, and jealously. 3. What are the common elements of healthy relationships? What are some common warning signs of trouble? What actions can you take to improve your own interpersonal relationships?The common elements are trust, loyalty respect,...
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...Comparisons and Contrast of Jainism and Daoism Both Jainism and Daoism (Taoism) have ancient roots going back a few thousand years. Statues and yogic seals found in the Indus Valley show that Jainism was practiced by civilizations as far back as around 2500 BCE, while Daoism appears to have originated around 2000 years ago. Although Jainism is older by about 4500 years both have continued to have to be practiced by numerous followers seeking a level of enlightenment. Although having over 6 million followers little has been known about Jainism outside of India. This may be due in part to there being no written scriptures in regards to this religion for a large part of its history. Rather the teachers of Jain would orally spread their knowledge whilst wandering the land. While Jainism was more or less “contained” in India, Daoism teachings are widespread throughout the world. Unlike Jainism, Daoism is a philosophical teaching and not a religion. This may help explain why so many people around the world choose to follow it as an escape from the “industrial rat race.” Yet when compared side to side, it is easier to understand how one would choose to follow Daoism over Jainism. To say that Jainism is strict is an understatement. To follow Jainism successfully one would have to adhere to teachings such as the teachings of Mahivira, the man credited with giving Jainism the form that is practiced today. These teachings include the three jewels: Right belief, Right knowledge,...
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