...Ms. Barnes February 27, 2012 “The Goal” Essay 1 In Eliyahu Goldratt’s novel “The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement”, he tells a story about a man going through hard times, in both his work life and personal life. Alex works in a manufacturing plant that is barely staying afloat, and his boss has left it up to him to keep the business running with a three-month time span to do it in. Even though “The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement” is just a story, it is still very relatable to businessmen, businesswomen, and students. The three categories of constraints that are shown in the story are knowledge, material, and supplier. The knowledge constraint caused for the manufacturing plant to not be looking at the correct statistics to see the plant’s productivity. Since the managers of the plant were not looking at the correct statistics it led them to believe that the plant was operating at a good level when really they were not at all. Alex learning from Jonah, his physics teacher from school, minimized this constraint. Jonah had a way about him that led for Alex to think deeper then he ever had about the productivity of the plant. Alex came to realize what the actual goal of the plant is (to make money) and what numbers are needed to measure if their goal was being met. Once the knowledge started formulating within Alex he was able to take it to other employees that way people knew how to start acting to achieve the goal of making money. It will be a lot easier...
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...When it comes to setting your career goals, it is crucial to write them down. Why? Because studies have shown that you are more likely to reach their goals when you write them out. We can all say what we want, but our desires can change on a daily basis. You might no longer want what you wanted last year or five years ago. As you learn more about the world, you start to want different things. When you put your goals to a document, it forces you to clarify what you want. It also gives you the motivation to take action. Moreover, you can look at it and celebrate your progress. On the other hand, you might be confused when it comes to starting. This course gives you information on how to accelerate your career in 30 days. If you are writing a career goals essay, read on to learn how. Many graduate and undergraduate programs require an essay on your life, personal interests and career goals. For me, I can easily articulate my goals in a few sentences. However, when I’m asked to put it to paper, and in a concise way…well, that requires some thought and planning. Not to mention if graduate or undergraduate school acceptance depends on how well you convey your goals–it can be downright daunting. However, it doesn’t have to be. All it takes is some practice and thoughtfulness. What Are Career Goals? This is what you want to do with your professional life. It can be anything from getting hired by a specific company to holding a particular position. It can also span out five...
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...Smart Goals Essay Vanessa Goins Grand Canyon University MGT-605 (MGT-605-0103) Leadership Professor Andree Swanson March 21, 2013 Out of the three goals, (Personal, educational, and professional) I chose two of the goals that I am focusing on and that is my personal and educational goals. For my personal goals, I want to create a big picture of what I plan to do in life. Then I want to break them down in order to reach my goals, then once I have them together, then I would start working on them to achieve them. For example(Specific and Measurable goals), I plan on finding a job that has great benefits and the best rate of pay, and one that does not require working on weekends(Monday-Friday only), and not working overtime. Another personal goal is developing time management and communication skills. My current skill level from those two goals needs work in order for me to be successful. I am currently unemployed right now so I believe the skills required and what would represent my greatest challenge now and if I were an employee would be focusing on Effectiveness of time management skill would be to work on always doing things on time like my homework assignments and duties at home. I would always be arriving in time at the workplace, getting a sense of achievement and increasing my energy levels. I will learn to control my time so that I will have more time to think about myself and the organization. Communicating will help me lead to effective communication with...
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...University of Phoenix Material SMART Goals Part A: Reflect on your results from the Career Interest Profiler Activity and the Career Plan Building Activity: Competencies. Building on your strengths and weaknesses, create five SMART goals to help you with your personal academic and career journey. Resource: University of Phoenix Material: Goal Setting Example: Take a writing workshop in the next 2 to 3 weeks to help me improve my writing skills in order to successfully communicate with others. 1. Eliminate procrastination on completing assignments this week. 2. Better organized my time between working and studying. 3. Read and start discussion on at least 5 Learning Activities this week. 4. Receive an A average in this class. 5. Take advantage of the workshops offered by the University this month. Part B: Evaluate your SMART goals according to the SMART criteria. Provide support for your evaluation. | |S |M |A |R |T | |Goal |Is the goal specific? |Is the goal measurable? |Is the goal attainable? |Is the goal realistic? |Is the goal timely? | |Goal 1: Eliminate procrastination|Yes |Yes |Yes |Yes ...
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...Please describe your future goals, and the way you believe that the specific program / specialization will help you achieve them. After my graduation from the IMBA, I would love to pursue a career either in the marketing department of a multinational company oriented to consumer goods or in a marketing consultancy company. I would like to work as a Senior Brand and PR Manager and be responsible for the developing of marketing plans, the communication of new products, Customer Management, the managing of promotional activities and campaigns and the monitoring of budget fulfillments. Working in such a position will provide me with the necessary knowledge and insight of all the aspects of the marketing world and will enable me to use the skills that I will have developed throughout the MBA studies. Given my intention to work in such a company and my determination to pursue my long-term goals, I believe that these are indispensable for me. I think that in order to attain my long- term goals, I must acquire special knowledge and this is possible only by working in this sector. As for my long term goal, my ultimate inspiration is to establish my own business venture in marketing consultancy. Having acquiring a broader view of the marketing function by attaining my short term goals, I will have the specialized knowledge and the necessary experience to establish my own business which will function as an outsourcing company. Its main responsibilities will be to offer to its clients...
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...I got goals for just about everything in life, but for now I think I’ll stick with my school goals for now. Specifically my school goals for this year, and of course there going to be realistic so not something like straight A’s all trimester/year long. Mainly some goals for my grades, things I hope to have achieved, and possibly some sports goals as well. I’m of course going to start with grades simply because there the key to the other things, without the good grades you won’t be in many sports, and you certainly won’t get anywhere in life with low grades either. So without further a due, here, is my essay... or at least the rest of it. Grades, yes those dreaded things that our parents practically go insane over and yes it is true that we need to keep them good if we have plans on going anywhere in life. But this isn’t a paragraph about grades in general; it’s a paragraph about my grades. So let’s keep on topic here. My goal grade wise is simply a 3.0 or higher, by that math if I can keep it around a 3.2 to 3.6 it’ll be a perfect GPA for getting into most schools. Mainly MSU, Ohio State, Central,...
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...Career Goal Setting Starting at an incredibly young age we are always asked what we want to be in life, and that thought sticks with us throughout our entire educational endeavor. When I was in the fifth grade, I became obsessed with the game of golf. Everything that I did had to revolve around golf or I would rebel against it. It became my passion around the age of 10, and it has stuck with me until this very day. Throughout my high school career I always thought that being a golf professional was the career path for me, but now a part of me has realized that at some point golf needs to end. It is time for me to find a new dream career. My goal for this academic year is to find the career path in which I would like to pursue. My strengths of adaptability, communication, competition, futuristic, and significance are going to help me find a perfect career fit as well as set goals pertaining to it in the process....
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.... Edwin Locke in the 1960s created a theory called the Goal-Setting Theory. Goal-Setting Theory states that setting goals is what creates the drive that allows for tasks to be done and promotes higher performance. With goals set it give directions for works to get their tasks done. If a person sets their own goals and follow their assignment it is called self-set goals. Workers will also get updates and feedback from other employees. In the movie, Remember the Titans, Coach Boone says, “If we don't come together right now on this hallowed ground, we too will be destroyed, just like they were. I don't care if you like each other or not, but you will respect each other. And maybe... I don't know, maybe we'll learn to play this game like men”....
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...Goals Essay It is critical in the goals essay found in almost every MBA application to show that you have clear direction and purpose based on experience and planning. Business school is not another opportunity to "find yourself." 8:00 AM. July 1, 2030. The 23rd floor of the Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong. A woman sitting behind the mahogany desk calls a Shanghai trader to buy 200,000 shares of Alibaba stock. Moments later, she dashes into a videoconference with Tokyo analysts. When the conference finally concludes two hours later, the woman rushes down the stairs, hails a taxi to the Hong Kong International Airport, catches a flight to Thailand, and ends her day with a meeting with the CFO of Asus Computers. I look forward to maintaining this busy schedule as a portfolio manager of an international equity fund about ten years after obtaining my MBA. The Top School academic experience can build on my public accounting training and my multi-cultural and multi-lingual background to prepare me for work first as an equity analyst in the mutual fund industry and ultimately as a portfolio manager specializing in Asian Pacific equities. As a CPA and staff accountant with Big 4 for the past two and a half years, I have developed a solid foundation in teamwork, analytical, and problem-solving skills. As a bilingual associate of the Asia-Pacific Business Group, I specialize in auditing the financial statements of in-bound Asian businesses. However, while Big 4 provides...
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...build on my public accounting training and my multi-cultural and multi-lingual background to prepare me for work first as an equity analyst in the mutual fund industry and ultimately as a portfolio manager specializing in Asian Pacific equities. As a CPA and staff accountant with Big 6 for the past two and a half years, I have developed a solid foundation in teamwork, analytical, and problem-solving skills. As a bilingual associate of the Asia-Pacific Business Group, I specialize in auditing the financial statements of in-bound Asian businesses. However, while Big 6 provides expansive career opportunities in public accounting, I have reached a plateau in developing the analytical and management skills necessary to achieve my ultimate career goal of money management. In public accounting, we measure and examine financial transactions of the past. In contrast, money managers examine the current attributes of securities and attempt to predict their future performance; unfortunately, this forward-looking focus is absent in public accounting. Unable to delve into financial areas beyond accounting and limited in obtaining more challenging analytical experiences, I am also constrained by the...
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...MBA Admissions Essay Powerful Tips for Improving Your Odds of Gaining Admission to the MBA Program of Your Choice Admissions essays are easily the most challenging part of the MBA application process, and it’s no wonder. Most people don’t like to write, and even those of us who do enjoy writing can come up blank when called upon to write about ourselves, especially when so much is at stake. The fact remains: If you want to go to business school, you have to be able to generate one or two thousand carefully chosen words that sum up your background and experience, your career goals, your reasons for seeking the MBA, and why you’ve chosen the program to which you’re applying. Step one: Relax. Writing admissions essays is stressful—it’s supposed to be stressful— but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible. Everyone who has ever applied to business school has written admissions essays, and so can you. All you have to do is submit essays that are a little bit better than most of the others, and if you follow the advice we’ll cover in the following pages, it will be a lot less painful. How to Write a Successful Most MBA essays are mediocre The good news is that most MBA admissions essays are mediocre at best. If you can at least come up with a marginally compelling narrative, and if you can spell and punctuate everything correctly—or know someone who can—you’ll automatically have an advantage over much of the competition. This guide is designed to help you get started (the hardest...
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...Tips for Scholarship Applications and Personal Essays* Getting Started Before you start filling out your scholarship applications, you need to spend some time thinking about how to write a scholarship essay that will get the results that you want. For many students, the hardest part of writing a scholarship essay is getting comfortable with highlighting your accomplishments. Students often see this as bragging about themselves. But this is exactly what you need to do in order to convince the judges that you should receive the scholarship instead of the other applicants, you have to tell the judges what makes you a better candidate. Therefore, one of the most important things you have to do when getting ready to write your college scholarship essays is to spend some time reflecting on just how wonderful you really are. When you write down all of the great things you have accomplished, it will be much easier for you to create an essay that conveys your strong points to the judges. Tips for getting ready to write a strong essay: 1. Make a list of all your accomplishments. 2. Develop a list of your extracurricular activities. 3. Write down the three accomplishments of which you are the most proud. 4. Think of a problem that you have faced and write down how you were able to overcome it. 5. Put in writing your career goals, or your reason for wanting to attend college. 6. Pretend that you had to write a letter of recommendation for yourself. Write down the three most important things...
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...Macaulay and Rachel Rafelman thru their essays are trying to eradicate the stereotype, they are both almost speaking about the subject in their essays and the tone in the essays are almost the same, funny and at the same time keeping a serious tone underneath, sexism seems also to be a common point for these two author it seems to be the center of pretty much everything they’re talking about. Stereotype in the both essay as been pointed out and the authors seems to take people to that point where they are convicted enough to stop doing that thing which is stereotype not only that but they uses different other article to point to point that and say what think about it, for example, Ronald Macaulay; in his essay “Sex difference” uses novel and different other article to point the stereotype but not only that he also argues about it just as Rachel Rafelman in her essay “Party Line” uses interviews that she makes or other colleague Article to pointed that out and talk about it or argue about it, both author stick with the same idea that lead us to conclude that they are both talking about the same subject but just in two different environment, for example Rafelman in her essay she is at A Gala and Macaulay is just using Article, novel, journal to talk about the subject . In these essays the authors tone is what we can describe as having two side, funny and serious at the same time the reason why I am saying this is because in the essay the author are using it to keep use entertain...
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...Assessment 1 Business Study Skills and Methods Essay title 1: What are the main sources of information you should use when preparing to write an academic essay? How can you evaluate the different sources of information you find? An academic essay is basically an essay students at university level, write for their courses. Lecturers at different universities call academic essays a variety of names such as: An essay, paper, research paper, term paper, argumentative paper/ essay, analysis paper/essay, informative essay, position essay and so on. Even though lecturer and students have a variety of names to call an academic essay, it still entails the same goals. Academic writing is an assignment that entails you having to explore something that you as a student is most interested in, especially from your courses. You have the ability to freely express your thoughts, opinions and ideas from whatever topic you choose and have an audience that is interested in reading and is open to reading how you as a student feel about the topic. An academic essay involves to first choose a topic, research on the topic by finding different books, articles and blogs online. So that you can gather information from different sources, so you would be able to fully grasp the topic and put it into your own words and then give your best idea by writing a thesis statement. Which requires you to write the main point to your arguement, an academic essay also involves analysis where you would have to examine...
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...Coming into the quarter I had a few goals set for myself as a writer that I wished to accomplish in UWP 001. A few of the goals I wished to accomplish for myself were better use of rhetoric devices in my writing and strengthen my sense of audience awareness. I feel like I have made huge strides forward in both these areas of emphases that I wished to fix. I chose my problem paper to go along with my research paper for my portfolio. I chose my problem paper over assignment 1 for a variety of reasons. I felt like my problem paper challenged me more out of the two papers. I found it especially challenging having to present my problem for without sounding like I was complaining every step of the way. This made word choose extremely important and...
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