...Last year I had read the book entitled “Three cups of tea: One man’s mission to promote peace…One school at a time” by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin. This book has influenced my perceptions of the world that there still exists compassion and humanity. The book traces the life of mountaineer Greg Mortenson and his efforts towards establishing schools for the people of the remote, inaccessible areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Greg Mortenson was a mountaineer who got lost in the mountains of Pakistan on his way back from climbing K2, one of the world's highest and most dangerous peaks, in the Himalayas. He wandered into Korphe, a poor Balti village in Pakistan, where the chief and his people took him in and nursed him back to health. Moved by their kindness, Greg promised to return and build a school for the children. This is the remarkable story of how, against all the odds, Greg built not only one but more than sixty schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and dedicated his life to establishing literacy and peace. Pakistan, touted by many as a harbinger of war, was in a state of war when the author chanced upon the province of Balti. The natives therefore were hesitant and apprehensive of the unknown and fearful of outsiders. The presence of a stranger could have spurned them, but they nursed and sheltered Greg. This proves that compassion and selflessness are still alive. At this juncture the book reintroduced to me this amazing category of people who are still...
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...adapt (focus was internal rather than on audience.) The Structure in place during John Birt was clearly Functional Structure * Flatter and flexible structure was put in place. * Senior management layer was removed – 17 directors would report directly to Director General * Removal of duplications of central and support functions * Simplifying internal trading * Control by performance * Specialization of competencies * Geographic divisions for better control * Each division became independent and self sufficient * Because of this independent behavior of different units and the sheer size of the leadership group and the executive committee, hands on editing by Greg Dyke was not possible. Hence accountability was difficult to ascertain in this structure. Greg Dykes Structure was mostly a Multi Divisional...
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...Joseph Nye in The Powers to Lead defines what he believes to be a leader and the skills necessary to be a leader. Greg Mortenson, the focus of Three Cups of Tea, fulfills Nye’s definition of a leader. After failing to summit K2, Mortenson stumbled upon a small Pakistani village and began a journey that would not only change his life, but the lives of thousand of children in Pakistan. While building schools in Pakistan, Mortenson has helped transform the mindset of an entire nation about the value of education. Nye says that two-thirds of Americans believe they are in “leadership crisis” (Nye pre). After the collapse of the sub-prime housing market and recent economic struggles, who can blame them? Those who are looking for a leader, however, need look no further than Greg Mortenson. Joseph Nye defines a leader as one who “helps create and achieve shared goals” (Nye 18). A leader must act in a triangular system that involves the leader, his followers, and the context in which the situation exists (Nye 21). Mortenson works effectively as a member of the leadership triangle. He acts as the leader and his followers are the towns, villages, and refugee camps that receive the benefits of his schools, water systems, and community centers as well as his assistants and the members of the Central Asia Institute. The context in which Mortenson exercises his leadership is as equally important as the other two parts of the triangle. As Nye quotes Karl Marx as saying, “Men make...
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...Greg Mortenson achieved great success in a region of the world that lacked the resources and man power that he indeed could supply. However, his means of attaining his "volunteer status" shed some light on idea that Greg Mortenson was just in it for the money. Although he did in fact build schools in the Middle East, his lies and embellishment take away from his success. What seemed like a routine mountain climb of K-2 would change Greg Mortenson's life forever. In his biography, Mortenson begins with describing his motives for climbing the treacherous mountain range. His sister, Christa, suffered from an epileptic seizure and then died ten months later due to complications. To commemorate his sisters brave struggle, he deceived to climb K-2 and place her necklace...
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...In 2007, Three Cups of Tea had signaled much confusion. One individual, Greg Mortenson, helped publish Three Cups of Tea and his fabrication could be seen throughout the book. A few individuals had seen the lies and took action. CBS and Jon Krakauer reported about Greg Mortenson’s lies in 60 Minutes. After that, NBC had interviewed Mortenson, confirming that he lied in his book. Greg Mortenson fabricated his story, he also built schools for children in the Middle East. Mortenson should be punished for his lies in Three Cups of Tea. When Three Cups of Tea was published, much controversy, about Greg’s schools, was raised. Mortenson, according to the argument, lied about the number of schools he built. In 2011, Jon Krakauer had written Three Cups of Deceit, claiming that much of Mortenson’s experiences regarding his adventures in making his schools are highly exaggerated. Krakauer uses Mortenson’s acquaintances to support his claims, against Mortenson (Krakauer). CBS, also, launched an investigation on Mortenson. CBS had aired in 60 Minutes that he did lie. In 60 Minutes, Krakauer claimed that Mortenson did create schools, but Three Cups of Tea is over exaggerated....
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...Do you enjoy your summers? Well one thing for sure is that Greg Heffley doesn’t. Jeff Kinney’s “Diary of a Wimpy Kid Dog Days” starts with summer vacation. In this book, Greg is the main character again, and summer vacation is on. He expects to stay home and play video games, but his mom thinks the opposite. One day Greg’s summer vacation turns into a total blast, when Greg calls Rowly to hang out, Rowly excitedly tells him that he’s going to his family’s country club. Right away, Greg rudely invites himself, but Rowly just goes along. The country club from then on was Greg’s everyday place to go in summer, as he got this brilliant idea of taking advantage of Rowley, just to go to the club. Greg starts ordering food and milkshakes and smoothies, they play golf, tennis and go golf karting. But as one day Greg’s dad gets suspicious about him going outside and to the country club each day, so Greg makes up a lie and tells him that he got a job there.Greg’s dad was very proud of him, until when Rowley’s Dad, informs Mr. Heffley of what was happening....
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...Executive Summary Automation Consulting Services (ASC) has experienced rapid and tremendous growth, resulting in several issues and problems within the company. Founders are worried the company is out of control due to the increasing business practice conflict, inconsistency in entrepreneur spirit and increase in office expenses. Thus they are considering documenting a long-term company strategy, monitoring office costs and centralizing the control in order to address these problems. The purposes of this report are to: · Identify and analyze the issues raised from current operating offices. · Provide recommendations to address the problems and concerns that have been raised. To address the issues that have been raised, it is recommended that ASC: · Establish a long-term strategy to convey company goals, promote a unified entrepreneur spirit, and prevent future business practice conflicts, while maintaining the current level of autonomy assigned to office partners. · Implement a new pricing policy where the price is determined by the estimated expense plus a 20% markup. This helps eliminate the current practice of cross-subsidizing, provides partners with incentives in cost control, and helps offices shift from operating as revenue centres to profit centres. · Incorporate client based evaluations into the annual bonus system for partners, encouraging them to expand the client base through acquisition of new clients while maintaining current client relationships...
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...LANCE ARMSTRONG1 On July 24, 2005, Lance Armstrong became the first person ever to win the Tour de France seven times. Armstrong’s unprecedented achievement was all the more remarkable for the fact that in 1996 Armstrong was treated for testicular cancer that had spread to his lungs and brain. Even without cancer, Lance Armstrong was not an obvious candidate for title of the greatest cyclist ever. Despite certain natural advantages – notably a heart 30% larger than normal with an abnormally slow beat rate (32 times per minute while at rest) – Armstrong’s aerobic rate was less than that of cycling greats such as Miguel Indurain and Greg LeMond. For most of his career, Armstrong was not the world’s preeminent cyclist. He won the world championship just once (1993) and his Olympic best was a bronze medal in 2000 Sydney games. Armstrong’s seven-year dominance of the Tour de France resulted from a combination of factors, not least of which was his singleminded focus, not just on cycling, but on a single race. Between his 1999 and 2005 Tour de France victories, Armstrong was overall winner in only five other cycle races. Armstrong raised planning for the Tour to a new level of sophistication. His meticulous preparations included: “. . . computer calculations that balanced my body weight and my equipment weight with the potential velocity of my bike,” and “careful computer graphs of my training rides, calibrating the distances, wattages, and thresholds.” Armstrong abilities were well-suited...
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...Book Review Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin. Three Cup of Tea. New York: Penguin Young Reader Group, 2009, 209 pages. This book is from the author’s personal story of how he discovered himself from the failure of mountain climbing to the rescue by the village Korphe in Pakistan. His life goal occurred a big change and resulted the commitment of building schools for poor children in Pakistan and Afghanistan mountains which inspired by the kindness offering that the little mountain village’s chief he stayed. Furthermore, this book is about the process of how he achieved this life goal. Biography of The Author Greg Mortenson is born in Minnesota and move to Tanzania with his parents when he was just three months old because of his father was missionary. He went back to the domestic of the United States when he was fifteen years old. Mr. Mortenson is also a previous mountain climber. He is the cofounder of the nonprofit organizations the Central Asia Institute and Pennies for Peace. He has established many schools in rural and often volatile regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan, which provide education to more than 28,000 children where few education opportunities existed before, especially female children. Introduction of The Book Greg Mortenson, the author of this book, went to Pakistan for climbing the second highest mountain in the world, K2, to memorize his dead sister. After the unexpected failure of his challenge, he got lost in the mountains. However,...
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...When I was little, I hated crayons. I prided myself on my superior fine motor skills. I always colored inside the lines, and cut paper perfectly along the thick black outlines even if I took twice as long. I always had neat, legible handwriting that all the other first graders envied (or so I thought). Crayons, to my six-year-old mind, symbolized everything that was wrong with the world. The color was always lumpy and uneven, so it was virtually impossible to color completely inside the lines. Crayons smelled like burning cardboard mixed with old potpourri, and broke too easily. I could never sharpen them, even with a special crayon sharpener, so they were as nice as when they'd first come out of the box. After I used a crayon once, the point would become rounded, defective. Eventually, the paper wrapping would slide off or the crayon would get so short I would have to tear away the label. The crayon wasn't perfect anymore. It was ratty. Blunt. Short. Ugly. Ten years later, I still have something of a profound preoccupation with perfection. Recently I was making a birthday card for a friend. It was beautiful - I had cut out flowers from construction paper and pasted them on. I meticulously outlined each flower with glitter glue and drew "Happy Birthday," braving the brain-cell-slaughtering odor of a Sharpie marker. After cutting the words out, I pasted them onto the front of the card and outlined them in glitter glue. The card sparkled under the lamplight and the flowers...
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...1) The office timing in the morning is 10.00. A fine of Rs. 50 would be charged if late. If late more than 1.30 hrs. Then ½ day leave would be considered. 2) If going directly to the client on visit information for the same should be given by Massage / Call to NK before10.30 for known reasons. 3) Give information for your leave (Predefined) i.e. before 1 week. 4) For emergency leave information to MK or NK through Message/Call in the morning. 5) If on leave continuously from Saturday to Monday then salary for Sunday would be deducted. 6) Uniform is compulsory Monday-Friday for all permanent employees. (Except on Saturday / Birthdays) [100/-] 7) ID card is on all days for all permanent employees. 8) Those employees who are in a probationary period are expected to get the uniform within 1 week of confirmation when they become permanent. 9) Any Master / Files / Reckoners / Calculators are once taken has to be kept back at the proper place. 10) It is expected from all the employees to keep the office premises & office neat & clean. 11) Toilet is to be maintained clean and water should not be spilt on the floor. 12) At the time of leaving the office see to it that the respective tables which you are using are cleaned up and properly maintained. [50/-] 13) Please switch off the lights and fans when leaving your table. 14) All the respective reports and systems made by the firm are to be strictly followed. [50/-] 15) The time slots fixed up to meet MK or NK are to be...
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...Just plain and simple and to the point, “He’s Just Not That Into You.” Yes, yes, yes I know original, a blog post based off of a movie, but it fits right into our Gender and Communication course quite perfectly. Based on the hit book, “He’s Just Not That Into You” by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo and off the movie “He’s Just Not That Into You” directed by Ken Kwapis, this post is another tribute to girls who can’t figure it out and guys who are not even sending mixed signals. In Behrendt and Tuccillo’s bestselling book they use their self help techniques to empower women instead of making them feel worse about some guy just not being that into them, they guide women and give them advice about who to keep, how great they are, and who to avoid. As quoted in an article about the book, “Deciphering Women’s Dating Books” by Ryan Murphy, “Authors Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo challenge their readers to avoid men who: keep them waiting by the phone, are not sure they want a relationship, make them feel sexually undesirable, drink or do drugs to an extent it makes them uncomfortable, fear talking about the future and who are married.” In the movie directed by Ken Kwapis many of these same attribute that the book is about are used in the movie, and more often than not by the character of Alex while helping the character of Gigi find the right guy. Alex is a bartender, he sees men and women trying to pick each other up all night every night and he believes he has pretty much figured...
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...Social relationships In the workplace it is important to keep a professional-client relationship. With this relationship it is only alright for a client to meet a professional in their office and nowhere else. Boundaries have to be made aware so there is no way that the client and professional can get confused about the relationship and what the professional does to help the client. Managing boundaries should be one of the first things that are stated to the client. The client should realize that the professional wants to help them but can’t go to any event or become socially aquainted to the clients. Neither the client nor professional should become friends and have a life outside of the office. In the video the client asked the professional to go for coffee because she felt as if the office was to stuffy and wanted to get some fresh air. The professional asked her why she felt as if that was a good idea to be sensitive to maybe her culture. He handled it ethically correct and told her how that might not be a good idea being that there could be boundaries being broken. I would prevent any boundaries being broken before it even happened by telling the client the boundaries. I would automatically state that it is not good for the professional and client relationship if we were to become friends and explain to them why it would not be a good idea to become friends in the professional relationship. If they were to ever invite me out of the outside of the office I would...
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...How was Wendy Peterson taken charge of the Plano branch office? * Took charge under pressure to fuel growth * Junior manager of account service clients * No experience with sales organization * Excellent at bringing business through client * Inherited team of 11 sales persons and 3 sales assistants * Decent mix of experience and enthusiasm in sales team * Stable revenue through established clients * Inherited underperforming division What is your evaluation of Wu's performance? * Wu’s performance is ambiguous since although he landed one large client and generated revenues of 400,000 he generated further revenues though add-ons that the client perhaps didn’t need * Wu’s work ethic was questionable, there are numerous instances to support this: He was always at a meeting with a client, he was rarely at his desk, never updated the sales pipeline tool which he knew very well and never took sales calls publicly * He also printed his business card in mandarin * While one may argue Peterson was a little too involved in her employees work, Wu derelict his administrative duties entirely * In his first moths he exposed himself as a dedicated student. He arrived early and stayed late nearly every day. He showed curiosity and attention to detail. He, also, enjoyed being expert for a change. * After his first month he started his real sales efforts. Then he spent only early mornings in the office. He was not updating Peterson for his daily progress...
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