...is more important than money? Many of us fall into a particular line of work by accident. We learn of a job opening through a friend or we accept a new job that offers higher pay. We stay with a job because of the benefits or because we believe we don't have any options for anything better. Staying with a job merely because we've found a level of comfort there through familiar faces, routine tasks or a level of salary that we can survive on doesn't mean we've found what can ensure a lifetime of happiness. Many with a college degree who restricted their vision to openings only within their field of expertise have discovered that. Yet, you might be surprised to learn that the percentage of people who are actually working in the field they specifically received a degree in is quite small. In most cases, we major in that which we believe offers the greatest opportunity for success at the time. Newspapers report a severe shortage of engineers and suddenly many of those intent on success major in engineering. Or teaching. Or law. It becomes the 'soup of the day' syndrome. We spend four or more years studying a field and, with the cost involved, we assure ourselves we truly love this avocation. Five or ten years down the road, we discover it's lost its allure. But we allow whatever perks and salary we've achieved to convince us we are locked into this life. Our field of vision shrinks to only that which we currently do. It doesn't make us happy. It doesn't fulfill the dream of what...
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...1 The CASE Journal Volume 4, Issue 2 (Spring 2008) Table of Contents Click on the article or case title to go to that page Editorial Policy Letter from the Editor Case Abstracts Cases “Sally’s Dilemma: Making Tough Choices in Collaborative Visioning” Karl A. Hickerson, David J. O’Connell & Arun K. Pillutla, St. Ambrose University “The Death of a Salesman Revisited: Part A” Herbert Sherman, Long Island University & Daniel James Rowley, University of Northern Colorado “The Death of a Salesman Revisited: Part B” Herbert Sherman, Long Island University & Daniel James Rowley, University of Northern Colorado “Customer Service at the Jewish Community Center” Edward Demarais, Salem State College, Sandra Sheckman, & Gina Vega, Salem State “The Frozen Production Line” Anton Massman, U.S. Air Force, Elaine Davis & Janell M. Kurtz, St. Cloud State University “Dow Chemical and Agent Orange in Vietnam” Cedric Dawkins, California State Polytechnic University – Pomona Membership Form Page 2 The CASE Journal Volume 4, Issue 2 (Spring 2008) EDITORIAL POLICY The audience for this journal includes both practitioners and academics and thus encourages submissions from a broad range of individuals. The CASE Journal invites submissions of cases designed for classroom use. Cases from all business disciplines will be considered. Cases must be factual, and releases must be available where necessary. All cases must be accompanied by an instructor’s manual ...
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...Time Lenders has been doing an extremely noble job since its inception by making people develop a meaningful existence. It has mainly targeted renowned organizations and their employees, and more recently students that are the only hope for a bright future of this country. Words like visions, goals and purpose may sound extremely familiar to us but there is a greater meaning to all of these words that most of us either do not realize, or do not bother to do so. To be honest, none of us group members, and maybe most of the students enrolled in this course in general, had any idea of how having an appropriate purpose and subsequently, a clear vision for it can make our lives an ideal example for the world around us. The first questions asked of us were that whether we think that our lives have been meaningful or not, and how do we want others to remember our life as an individual after we leave this world behind. I think the answers to the second question was pretty clear, but the first question, regardless of any answer chosen, definitely made us contemplate that whether we really have ever thought about doing anything meaningful. We have lived our lives in a state of utter wilderness up till now, without any clear sense of direction in which we want to take our lives. And how could we have decided our direction when we were clueless about our destination itself. Anyhow, it’s still not too late and we have been fortunate enough to realize that we can still follow our true destiny...
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...How effective was Ko in defining and framing a vision for Motorola Penang? In what ways were her efforts similar to and different from the example of Charles Schwab citied earlier? How did Ko resolve the dilemma of where visions come from? Where did she find her vision? S. K. Ko had a very aggressive and challenging vision for Motorola Penang. She struggled with the most effective way of making that vision a reality. Ideal vision is something that inspires and directs people. There is always a tension for a leader when it comes to giving and receiving a vision. She engaged many of her top team in discussions about the challenges of the future of the facility. She had many specific and concrete ideas but didn’t want to seem to be imposing them on the group. She wanted to get most involvement possible to ensure all relevant information was considered that would be tasked with making the vision a reality. Ko’s philosophy reflects a positive, familial, celebrate every accomplishment kind of work environment. She saw technology as a two sided coin that would eliminate low skill job at the same time that it brought new opportunities. She was committed to rapidly moving Motorola Penang to produce more complex systems products, creating an increased demand for technicians and engineers and potentially less demand for unskilled operators. Besides Charles Schawb anticipated a need in the middle class. His vision led him the unique path. It took his organization to places other organizations...
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...Green Mountain Resort Case Study HRMG314 – Managing Organizational Change Green mountain resort was a small resort that was not expected to be in business very long. The resort manager had other plans, as part owner he had visions of making Green Mountain Resort a first-class resort. The issue he faced with achieving his vision was the resorts turnover problem. He had tried many different strategies to reduce turnover including focusing on streamline training, simplify jobs, don’t become dependent on individuals, and making HR processes more efficient (Palmer, Dunford, & Akin, 2009, p. 40). Despite his efforts his turnover problem still existed, he would lose the best service people and be left with the poorest performers. Gunter held the director image when managing turnover. Since he was the manager and part owner he was directing the organization in a particular way hoping to change the outcome of the turnover (Palmer, Dunford, & Akin, 2009, p.27). The hospitality literature took on the image of a coach. This literature was used to try and shape the organization to be successful (Palmer, Dunford, & Akin, 2009, p.30). The focus was highlighting the training and management development showcasing their capabilities. The consultant took on the role as an interpreter. The consultant listened to the problem and the previous attempts to fix the problem and was able to assist with making sense of the outcome and refocus Gunter...
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...como podemos darnos cuenta en que áreas podemos crecer o mejorar para hacer más fuertes nuestras fortalezas y defendernos de las debilidades. Lo que mas me gusto de la conferencia fue que compartió experiencias reales, y anécdotas que le han pasado durante su estancia en ese trabajo, ya que realmente podemos saber a que nos enfrentaremos, en este caso, si llegamos a trabajar en una consultoría. También me gusto que fuera directamente al grano, y explico de manera breve pero muy clara todo lo que se requería, además de que respondió varias dudas de varios alumnos. Como ya mencioné, me parece muy interesante ver como un Ingeniero Industrial puede dedicarse a varias cosas, y algunas muy distintas entre ellas, por lo cual creo nos da una visión hacía el futuro muy amplia para ver hacia donde queremos dirigirnos. Otra cosa que me gusto fueron los diferentes tips para las entrevistas que dio, ya que creo es algo que todos podremos utilizar, cuando sea necesario. Realmente yo no le cambiaría nada, ya que realmente cumplió con explicarnos todo lo que el realiza, así como la empresa donde trabaja y sobre los distintos proyectos en los que ha sido...
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...ENSAYO: EL PELIGRO DE PERMANECER EN LA ZONA SEGURA El Peligro de permanecer en la zona segura: Cómo romper con el hábito de la titularidad que acaba con las empresas En gran parte de los análisis empresariales se parte de premisas generales, que den base de comparación global para saber qué lugares tienen las condiciones idóneas para desarrollar un proyecto. Lo anterior se traduce a inversiones y, al menos en México, es benévolamente publicada toda la inversión extranjera. Se desarrollará entonces el presente desde una panorámica nacional con algunos indicadores numéricos comparativos a nivel mundial que ayuden a ejemplificar, desde el punto de vista particular, la observancia de la conducta de titularidad. PricewaterhouseCoopers en su estudio Saratoga1 publicado en febrero pasado indica que México es el país en Latinoamérica con el mayor porcentaje de rotación de personal con el 17.8%, mientras que 11.2% a nivel LATAM, 8.4% para EU y 10% para Europa, por resultado es de los más altos a nivel mundial. Con este dato acerca de rotación, a primera vista, es difícil de considerar que las empresas mexicanas tienen problemas de titularidad, pero a su vez, puede ser causa de la misma. En el contexto propio se aprecian los síntomas de titularidad en todos los órganos socio-económicos, esta conducta de estancamiento que parece estar infiltrada en la cultura. En la opinión poblacional hacia lo gubernamental se dice que la titularidad viene a destruir la mayoría de los intentos de...
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...marginan, nos matan la memoria, nos queman las ideas, nos quitan las palabras... oh... Si la historia la escriben los que ganan, eso quiere decir que hay otra historia: la verdadera historia, quien quiera oir que oiga. Litto Nebbia “Quien quiera oir que oiga” Ejes: 1) fisiología del cerebro y fenómenos referidos a la memoria. 2) Filosófico: relación con Nietzsche y memoria colectiva, de la especie, etc. 3) Histórico-político: Políticas de olvido y memoria en Argentina. 1) Clasificación de las alteraciones de la memoria Amnesias orgánicas: subcorticales, corticales. Agnosias: visuales, auditivas, tactiles, corporales, motoras. - Amnesias funcionales: psicógenas. Hipermnesias: vision panorámica de la propia vida, prodigiosas Paramnesias a)alteraciones en el recuerdo - Confabulaciones - Falsos recuerdos delirantes - pseudología fantástica - fenómeno "punta de la lengua" - chequeo - b) alteraciones en el reconocimiento - deja vu, deja vecu - jamais vu - sindrome de capgras Síntesis de: La Memoria como propiedad de los sistemas cerebrales de Carlos Muñoz Gutierrez #En un texto clásico del año 1932, F. Bartlett ya nos advirtió de que considerar así nuestra memoria era un error, un error que se ha perpetuado hasta casi la década de los noventa. Detengámonos en un fragmento de la obra de Bartlett. "Recordar no es la reactivación de innumerables recuerdos fijados, fragmentarios y sin vida. Es una...
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...VISION DEL CAMBIO EN CURITIBA La visión de Jaime Lerner está basada en un desarrollo urbanista en el que las personas son el centro del desarrollo de las políticas de gobierno y un crecimiento de la ciudad que no padeciera la problemática de las urbanizaciones comunes. Implica: • Desarrollar iniciativas económicas, rápidas, sencillas, locales y enfocadas a las personas; sin afectar otros sistemas y así proporcionar los servicios necesarios para la comunidad. • Planear con una visión urbanista y desarrollar nuevos procedimientos acordes al crecimiento demográfico de la ciudad y de los problemas presentes. • Generar una conciencia de participación comunitaria en ciudadanos, empresas y gobierno, buscando como objetivo común el desarrollo de Curitiba. • Aprovechar los recursos disponibles. BREVES PROPUESTAS PARA EL LOGRO DEL CAMBIO El éxito del caso Curitiba se debe a que sus propuestas tuvieron un enfoque creativo que permitió dar propuestas integrales a los problemas prioritarios marcados por las necesidades de la ciudad. Principales propuestas: • Cambios y obras aprovechando la naturaleza y sus recursos en vez de ir contra ellos: conservación de áreas verdes, saneamiento de ríos y el uso eficiente del agua • Mejoras en el transporte y uso de suelo • Nuevos procedimientos de salud y los niños, la planeación familiar y el cuidado de los menores en el sector salud. • Asegurar un gobierno transparente y honesto. • Realizar campañas de reciclaje y separación...
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...Reflecting Upon Your Best-Self All of us can recall our own extraordinary moments, those moments when we felt our best-self was brought to light, affirmed by others, and put into practice in the world. These memories are seared into our minds as moments or situations in which we have felt alive, true to our deepest selves, and pursuing our full potential as human beings. Think about three times in your life when you were at your very best. For each best-self episode, write the story of what happened, including how the episode got started, what kept it going, and how it came to an end. | | |Best Self Episode #1: | | | | | | | | | | ...
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...is also affected and reduced by the decrease in elastic property of eye muscles controlling the shape of the lens or the muscles that aid in contraction of lens. Therefore the efficiency of eyes is greatly reduced with increasing age. Ageing also causes changes in the near point of a person. More light is required with increasing age for improved contrast. Nearly double illumination is required for 40 years old people and triple for 60 years old when compared to the young people of about 20 years (Haigh, 1993). The problem of temporary vision impairment caused due to the bright light (glare) also increases with age only. The capability to prevent glare is usually reduced to half in 12 years. (Reuben et al., 1988). Visual Fields 1. About one in seven over 65 has abnormal visual fields (Johnson and Keltner, 1983). 2. Thirteen percent over 65 exhibit a field deficit; 3.5% had severe loss of visual fields 3. 57.6% of those with abnormal vision were previously unaware of this...
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...Lenguaje y cerebro: conexiones entre neurolingüística y psicolingüística M. Jesús Paredes Duarte y Carmen Varo Varo Universidad de Cádiz El estudio de las relaciones entre lenguaje y cerebro constituye un objeto que atañe a muchas y diversas disciplinas. Representa, sin duda, uno de los capítulos más relevantes en el desarrollo histórico de la Psicolingüística y conforma el núcleo principal de los actuales contenidos de la Neurolingüística y su estricta implicación en el tratamiento de los trastornos del lenguaje. Otras muchas perspectivas vienen a crear una visión polimórfica de estas relaciones entre el lenguaje y el cerebro, despertando, no sin inconvenientes, pues a veces se solapan aspectos temáticos en este estudio, una consideración muy completa si tenemos en cuenta los diferentes puntos de vista. Una explicación de por qué el ser humano, frente a otros animales, posee “lenguaje” procede necesariamente del hecho de estar dotado de un cerebro distinto al de otras especies. Por otra parte, desde la perspectiva inversa, podríamos especular que el cerebro humano es diferente al de otros animales como resultado del empleo del lenguaje. Teniendo en cuenta la complementariedad entre estos enfoques, a la hora de tratar la relación entre cerebro y lenguaje, nos parece especialmente ineludible la conexión entre Psicolingüística y Neurolingüística. El presente trabajo surge de la necesidad docente de delimitar el objeto de estudio de dos disciplinas cuya conexión principal se...
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...Matt W. Moore / Andrew Pearce / Sarah Applebaum *************** Taller de Diseño Gráfico IV Escuela de Diseño, DuocUC Profesora / Marta Kiverstein Gurovich m.kiverstein@profesor.duoc.cl Alumno / Claudio Arias Baeza superlight_@hotmail.com sensación, significado y aplicación del color Publicado en Chile por LFNT, La Opera 472, Maipú Santiago 2010. Tel: 9 6447457 Director editorial: karla castro atencio Textos, diagramación y diseño: Claudio Arias Baeza ISBN-13: 978-84-96774-52-9 Impreso en chile Agradecimientos a Ingrid Calvo Ivanovic por su tremendo aporte en recursos de aprendizaje de color. Por fomentar el estudio de este y compartir sus conocimientos libremente. Este libro, en gran parte es una recopilación de lo aprendido gracias a ella. Ingrid Calvo Ivanovic es Diseñadora Gráfica titulada en la Universidad de Chile. Miembro individual de la Asociación Internacional del Color (AIC). Miembro colaborativo del Study Group on Color Education de la AIC. Encargada de Extensión de la Asociación Chilena del Color. Miembro directivo del Grupo Color Santiago. También es docente en la Universidad de Chile y en el Instituto Profesional DuocUC. *************** Prólogo El mundo material es incoloro. Las teorías modernas del color engloban ahora las esferas físicas y perceptual, que se unen para vincular el color a una sensación. Está ampliamente aceptado que, en realidad, la hierba no es verde y que el cielo tampoco es azul. El color es algo...
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...a. I believe Oprah is a High Performance Leader. b. I would consider Oprah to be a Competent Manager. She is great at building teams and definitely gets results through others. Her leadership consists of: * Carefully selecting her team-she has highly qualified people in the areas that they need to be in and in the areas she is most weak in, such as the financial area. * She gathers trusted mentors and uses them for her benefit * She rewards her staff * She values her customers and more importantly she listens to them she shows she truly cares * She stays focused on a mission or vision * She communicates her vision to her staff and she has the innate ability to motivate them * She dreams big and is constantly looking for "what's next". * She knows herself and her beliefs and abilities * She remains resilient, she is constantly changing or looking for new things she has unbelieveable ambition, drive and focus * She learns from her mistakes and then right away moves on Reading about her employees though I would consider her to be more transactional to them than transformational, being very generous with pay and benefits. But other parts of the article stated how she praises but then right away she is on to the next new thing. c. Development Plan Development goals | Action -Who,What & How | Time Line | Criteria for Success | * What's next?Owning own network | 1. Set up meeting with top team leaders2. | Weekly | Staying competitive...
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...1.1: Identify the purposes of different types of organisation 1.1a: Legal structure MASCOT is family company. MASCOT was established in 1982 under the name the Scan Termo Konfektion Aps by John Kjaergaard Grosbøl to sell winter clothes . In 1989, workwear was launched. In 1995, Mascot International A/S. From 1992-2002 Mascot Mascot revenue has increased to 300. In 2002, Michael John john has replaced his father as president of the board to manage the Mascot International 1.1b: Vision The visions of MASCOT are: “What makes Mascot Workwear different from so many brands in the UK is their vision, drive and expertise at creating solutions which so many other brands fail to offer” (http://www.upublish.info) “Becoming Europe’s number-one workwear brand”. (http://www.sap.com) 1.1c: Mission The mission of BP is “ to produce high-quality workwear at the lowest cost possible, with a high level of research and development ensuring innovative products to be made available to Mascot’s client base. Using a rational logistic system and expansive marketing efforts, Mascot will grow organically, increasing its coverage and reach through distribution via dealers.” (http://www.sap.com ). 1.1d: Values BP’s values express our shared understanding of what we believe, how we aim to behave and what we aspire to be as an organization. In 2011, our management team set out refreshed values for BP, reflecting their view of the qualities that distinguish BP at its best ( bp.com, n.d)....
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