...Introduction The city of Kyle, Texas is on it’s way to becoming a full service community with targets to continue to grow their quality healthcare, higher education, and retail industries for the benefit of the local residents. According to the City Kyle website, Kyle is home to over 60,000 persons with a projected growth rate of 6.9% between 2010 and 2015 (www.cityofkyle.com). This total conflicts with the US Census website, which reports the City of Kyle was home to 29,293 residents in 2011, and had a projection growth of 4.6% (www.census.gov). Following the US Census calculation the population rate for the City of Kyle would project the 2012 population rate to be 30,640. The two totals conflict sufficiently and will evidently cause some confusion with the projected outcomes. The City of Kyle is considered a Home Rule City, a city with an adopted home rule charter for its local self-governance. In addition to being a Home Rule City, the City of Kyle also operates with a City Manager form of Government. The City Council is comprised of a Mayor and six Council Members. The resident voters choose the Mayor and three Council Members at large and the other three Council Members are elected from their prospective districts. The goal of the proposed budget for the City of Kyle is to maintain the current service levels for all necessary city services. The goals and objectives of the City is the guideline for forming the City’s yearly budget. The budget projection is slated...
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...“How is Your Personal Economy? Abstract The discussion of the book entitled “The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous & Broke” by Suze Orman, and “Let’s Get Real About Money” by Eric Tyson is one that measures an individual’s knowledge on how to handle their money and ways to make it grow to benefit them. Key points found in both books deals with a lot of the economic aspects of our society today. By using both books as references and knowledge gained from the microeconomics book, This paper discusses the benefits of both books for one’s overall ability to be financially sound, even if you think you may live in an un-financially sound society. Although, both books are geared toward readers in different stages of their lives, they do bring up the questions of whether or not these individuals understand the concept of money, or how it should be a benefit and not a hindrance, and also that it is truly not the happiness factor for life that several millions believe the case to be. The one idea that should be taken from this paper is the knowing whether or not you are financially healthy enough to fit your needs, goals, and desires. What is an economy? It is a type of management of one’s resources. Whether its money, oil, food, land, or a type of service, knowing how to manage one’s own resources, is key to having a great personal economy, even when your countries’ economy isn’t doing so well. To make it even simpler, when talking about one’s personal economy, I talk about...
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...Advertisement."" tabindex="-1"> Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article.AUTHOR: JULIA GREENBERG.JULIA GREENBERG DATE OF PUBLICATION: 06.15.15.06.15.15 TIME OF PUBLICATION: 7:00 AM.7:00 AM THE WEB WILL EITHER KILL SCIENCE JOURNALS OR SAVE THEM GETTY IMAGESSCIENTIFIC RESEARCH IS awesome—we read it, we build upon it, we innovate with it, and we love it.But the process of getting research from the scientists who spend months or years with their data to the academics who want to read it can be messy. It takes a long time. It’s expensive. And the researchers involved give their work away for free—as do the peer-reviewers who approve it. Many researchers have long believed publishing power has evolved to lie in the hands of a few big companies, like, say, Reed-Elsevier and Springer. But none had ever done a study to see if that was true.Vincent Larivière, a researcher at the University of Montreal’s School of Library and Information Science, decided to do what any good scientist does: Test the hypothesis. Turns out the hunch was right. “In fact, we did not think things would be this bad,” he says.In a study published last week, Larivière, along with his co-authors Stefanie Haustein and Philippe Mongeon, found that in the natural and medical sciences as well as the social sciences and humanities, five major publishers “account for more than 50 percent of all papers published in 2013.” Those publishers include Reed-Elsevier, Wiley-Blackwell, Springer, and Taylor & Francis...
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...New Approaches to Teaching Sustainable Living to Post-Secondary Students Prepared for xxxxxxx xxxxx John Molson School of Business Prepared by xxxxx xxxxxxxxxx John Molson School of Business November 11 2013 Table of Contents List of Illustrations .................................................................................................................... iii-xi Executive Summary .................................................................................................................... xii Introduction .................................................................................................................... 1 Research Results .................................................................................................................... 2-3 Data Analysis .................................................................................................................... 4 Edification .................................................................................................................... 4 Sustainability .................................................................................................................... 4 Reasoning .................................................................................................................... 4-5 Conclusion & Recommendations ...................................................................................................... 5 Bibliography .............
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...Challenges and Solution of Business Communication Successful businesses use a variety of communication methods to keep people informed and processes operating smoothly. Those business owners understand that communication is a continuous process and watch for hurdles that can pop up at any point to get in the way of clear, accurate, timely, effective communication with employees, customers and the public. By knowing what to look for you can take steps to prevent obstacles and resolve issues quickly when they do arise. Diversity Every person has a unique frame of reference that filters how they view the world. Differences in age, gender, ethnicity, religion and other factors all create different points of view. Diversity helps work teams bring more solutions to the table. But those filters can also cause the receivers to interpret messages differently than the sender intended or create different expectations. Distance Businesses must find ways to keep communication channels open with people who are away from the office, such as a remote sales force or people who work from home. Some companies deliver information to mobile devices or schedule regular meetings so employees can anticipate and schedule their trips and sales calls around them. The challenges are even greater for companies that do business globally. Cross-cultural communication adds different languages, business norms, distance and time zones to the equation. Technology Email, social media, the web and mobile devices...
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...MGT202 – Project Management Case Study Charlotte Reed Table of Contents Introduction 3 Case Study One: 3 Risks associated with this project 3 Top 10 steps to deliver this project 5 1. Define the scope 5 2. Determine available resources 5 3. Determine the cost of project 6 4. Assemble your project team 6 5. List the steps 7 6. Develop a plan 7 7. Request project adjustments 8 8. Monitor teams progress 8 9. Keep everyone informed 10 10. Risk management 10 Case Study Two: 12 Stakeholders in this project 12 Project Owner 12 Project Manager 13 The Private Companies 13 The Second Government Department 13 Interviewer 14 Liaison 14 Statistician 14 Managing the stakeholder interaction during design, inception, scope agreement, delivery, review and completion 15 Conclusion 17 References ...
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...Community Briefing on: Covey’s Habits of Highly Effective People . Stephen Covey's Seven Habits of Highly Effective People® ( Remember Covey’s habits are protected intellectual property) 0 Index Page 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 14 17 17 Habits defined Defining a habit Paradigms and Principals The Private Victory Habit 1- Be proactive Habit 2- Begin with the end in mind Habit 3- Put first things first Time quadrants The Public Victory Habit 5- Seek first to understand then to be understood Habit 6- Synergy Habit 7 - Sharpen the saw Habit 8 – Finding your voice Quotes that support the habits The ABC of using the habits Reading Recommendations Stephen Covey's Seven Habits of Highly Effective People® ( Remember Covey’s habits are protected intellectual property) 1 Seven Habits of Highly Effective People Habit 1: Be Proactive Take responsibility for your life. Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind Define your mission and goals in life. Habit 3: Put First Things First Prioritise, and do the most important things first. Habit 4: Think Win-Win Have an everyone-can-win attitude. Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood Listen to people sincerely. Habit 6: Synergize Work together to achieve more. Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw Renew yourself regularly. Habit 8: Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs. To deal with people in a way that will communicate to them their worth ...
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...network is Facebook with records about 6.2 million visitors (Shahrizan In addition, 2010). The study also found that the majority of students (74.7%) have Internet access at home and only 18.1 percent surf the Internet at the cafe. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/suren-ramasubbu/influence-of-social-media-on-teenagers_b_7427740.html http://blog.malaysia-asia.my/2015/03/malaysia-social-media-statistics-2014.html Real Life Teens Social Media Addiction With the rising phenomenon of social networking websites such as Facebook and Twitter, constant interconnectivity with friends and family is now part of a teens daily life. However as opposed to enriching their lives, is social media just another avenue for teens to become addicted to? One of the biggest problems facing our teens today is the addictive, pervasive effects of social media. It can lead to increased distractibility, anxiety, depression and apathy. Fear of missing out (FOMO) is a very real feeling thats starting to permeate through teens social relationships. Social media sites like Facebook and Twitter are making this increasingly more difficult for a teen to avoid. Teens can quickly become self-absorbed in a superficial online world. As a direct result, they crave affirmations from their peers in the form of likes, favorites, shares, retweets, reblogs, and revines. They can even start to feel irrelevant without loads of social media attention. Teens who have trouble connecting face to face may depend on the Internet as a place...
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...University of the Fraser Valley A Marketing Analysis on Tim Hortons Company Diana Beedassy 200105312 Business 120 Mr. Richard Simon April 2, 2012 Table of Contents Cover Page...............................................................................................................................................1 - 2 Table of Contents…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….3 Introduction and History………………………………………………………………………………………………..………………....4 - 5 SWOT Analysis……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….………………….6 – 7 Business Articles………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………8 Target Market…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………9 – 10 Tim Horton’s merging with Wendy’s Inc………………………………………………………………………………………………..11 Tim Horton’s as a convenient product……………………………………………………………………………………..…………...12 Channel of Distributions …………………………………………………………………………………………………………..…………...13 Promotional Strategies……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….…….....14 Socially Responsible Behaviour……………………………………………………………………………………………………..15 – 20 Recommendations – Part A (SWOT) ……………………………………………………………………………………………..21 – 22 Recommendations – Part B …………………………………………………………………………………………………………. ..23 Recommendations – Part C……………………………………………………………………………………………………………24 – 25 Gross Annual Sales & Market Share………………………………………………………………………………………………26 – 27 Appendix 1 – Timeline……………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………..28 Appendix...
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...Conclusion 25 Bibliography ‘There is no such thing as society’ ‘There is no such thing as society;’ this one sentence spoken by Margaret Thatcher in an interview to woman’s own in 1987 was seen by her many critics as capturing the essence of her political mission. They believed that she wanted to remove the sense of community in Britain. The Thatcher ethos was seen as negativity towards the state’s role in people’s lives that it was up to each individual to look after him or herself. The Thatcher era was seen by many as about winners and losers, the winners were well rewarded with lower taxes, a property boom, rising wages, opportunities to purchase council houses and shares in the privatized companies at discount rates. If you had a job and money under the Thatcher government, there was multitude of opportunities. Whilst those who were without jobs and were dependant on welfare saw industries such as manufacturing decreasing in size, welfare payment cut in size, training being either cut or unfunded. They were expected to pay catch up with the winners on their own initiative without much help from the government. Much of the opposition came from the left, who Thatcher herself had little time for and one of her main objectives was the removal of socialism. Thatcher saw socialism as the polar opposite to her beliefs that people should first and foremost look after themselves. Whilst Thatcher created many enemies during her time as prime minister, she had little time to worry about these...
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...file:///F|/Business/Marketing/22 Immutable Laws Of Marketing.html The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing Al Ries and Jack Trout The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing Violate Them at Your Own Risk Al Ries and Jack Trout Dedicated to the elimination of myths and misconceptions from the marketing process A DF Books NERDs Release THE 22 IMMUTABLE LAWS OF MARKETING. Copyright © 1993 by Al Ries and Jack Trout. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission Contents Introduction 1. The Law of Leadership 2. The Law of the Category 3. The Law of the Mind 4. The Law of Perception 5. The Law of Focus 6. The Law of Exclusivity 7. The Law of the Ladder 8. The Law of Duality 9. The Law of the Opposite 10. The Law of Division 11. The Law of Perspective 12. The Law of Line Extension 13. The Law of Sacrifice 14. The Law of Attributes file:///F|/Business/Marketing/22 Immutable Laws Of Marketing.html 15. The Law of Candor 16. The Law of Singularity 17. The Law of Unpredictability 18. The...
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...100 Great Marketing Ideas from leading companies around the world Jim Blythe 100 GREAT MARKETING IDEAS FROM LEADING COMPANIES AROUND THE WORLD Jim Blythe Copyright © 2009 Jim Blythe First published in 2009 by Marshall Cavendish Editions An imprint of Marshall Cavendish International 1 New Industrial Road, Singapore 536196 Other Marshall Cavendish offices: Marshall Cavendish Ltd. 5th Floor, 32–38 Saffron Hill, London RC1N 8FH, UK • Marshall Cavendish Corporation. 99 White Plains Road, Tarrytown NY 10591-9001, USA • Marshall Cavendish International (Thailand) Co Ltd. 253 Asoke, 12th Flr, Sukhumvit 21 Road, Klongtoey Nua, Wattana, Bangkok 10110, Thailand • Marshall Cavendish (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd, Times Subang, Lot 46, Subang Hi-Tech Industrial Park, Batu Tiga, 40000 Shah Alam, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia Marshall Cavendish is a trademark of Times Publishing Limited The right of Jim Blythe to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. Requests for permission should be addressed to the publisher. The author and publisher have used their best efforts in preparing this book and disclaim liability arising directly and indirectly from...
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...100 Great Marketing Ideas from leading companies around the world Jim Blythe 100 GREAT MARKETING IDEAS FROM LEADING COMPANIES AROUND THE WORLD Jim Blythe Copyright © 2009 Jim Blythe First published in 2009 by Marshall Cavendish Editions An imprint of Marshall Cavendish International 1 New Industrial Road, Singapore 536196 Other Marshall Cavendish offices: Marshall Cavendish Ltd. 5th Floor, 32–38 Saffron Hill, London RC1N 8FH, UK • Marshall Cavendish Corporation. 99 White Plains Road, Tarrytown NY 10591-9001, USA • Marshall Cavendish International (Thailand) Co Ltd. 253 Asoke, 12th Flr, Sukhumvit 21 Road, Klongtoey Nua, Wattana, Bangkok 10110, Thailand • Marshall Cavendish (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd, Times Subang, Lot 46, Subang Hi-Tech Industrial Park, Batu Tiga, 40000 Shah Alam, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia Marshall Cavendish is a trademark of Times Publishing Limited The right of Jim Blythe to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. Requests for permission should be addressed to the publisher. The author and publisher have used their best efforts in preparing this book and disclaim liability arising directly and indirectly from...
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...100 Great Marketing Ideas from leading companies around the world Jim Blythe 100 GREAT MARKETING IDEAS FROM LEADING COMPANIES AROUND THE WORLD Jim Blythe Copyright © 2009 Jim Blythe First published in 2009 by Marshall Cavendish Editions An imprint of Marshall Cavendish International 1 New Industrial Road, Singapore 536196 Other Marshall Cavendish offices: Marshall Cavendish Ltd. 5th Floor, 32–38 Saffron Hill, London RC1N 8FH, UK • Marshall Cavendish Corporation. 99 White Plains Road, Tarrytown NY 10591-9001, USA • Marshall Cavendish International (Thailand) Co Ltd. 253 Asoke, 12th Flr, Sukhumvit 21 Road, Klongtoey Nua, Wattana, Bangkok 10110, Thailand • Marshall Cavendish (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd, Times Subang, Lot 46, Subang Hi-Tech Industrial Park, Batu Tiga, 40000 Shah Alam, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia Marshall Cavendish is a trademark of Times Publishing Limited The right of Jim Blythe to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. Requests for permission should be addressed to the publisher. The author and publisher have used their best efforts in preparing this book and disclaim liability arising...
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