...Throughout my four years of high school, I have had to make significant sacrifices. During my freshman year of high school I joined the girl’s soccer team, but I also joined a program that involved getting a hands on experience with my future career. That being said, I had to sacrifice soccer in order to be more available with the program and attend the usual meeting that were being held weekly. The sacrifices I had to make in high school were significant to me because I changed the direction of my focus towards something that would benefit me in the future. An example of a Sherpa who made a sacrifice of his own was Rob Hall, from the article “Into Thin Air,” Hall willingly chose to climb Mount Everest with “Hall’s wife, seven months pregnant with their first...
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...Into Thin Air Have you ever read “Into Thin Air”? I am going to talk about a chapter from the book that I have read. The chapter talks about Jon Krakauer’s journey climbing Mount Everest. Along with his journey, it talks about the events that went with his journey. “Into Thin Air” is a good story that I would recommend to anyone because it teaches you to never give up, to help others, and what it is like to climb Mount Everest. My first point of why “Into Thin Air” is a great story to read is that it teaches you to never give up. My reasoning for this is that Jon Krakauer faced many challenges while climbing Mount Everest, but he never gave up. One challenge that he faced was when he reached Hillary Step.(Krakauer,page 358). Jon reached the top of...
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...Jon Krakauer was a part of the deadliest expedition in Mount Everest history (at that point), with 8 people dying on May 10 and 11th in 1996. Into Thin Air was written by Jon Krakauer, an avid mountaineer in his youth and a journalist as he is climbing Everest. Jon writes about his expedition and personal experience of climbing Everest. In the book Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer uses rhetorical appeals to express the dangers of climbing Mt Everest. Jon Krakauer triggers readers emotions with careful wording, and uses human nature to justify climbing Mt Everest. Jon is explaining the history of Mount Everest, when he exclaims that it's human nature to want to climb everest. “Once Everest was determined to be the highest summit on earth, it...
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... The author of Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster, Jon Krakauer, experiences this, but he has determined that it is by far the worst incident of his entire life. Krakauer ascends the mountain with well-respected and world-famous mountaineer Rob Hall’s team. Several of the people on Hall’s team, including Krakauer, successfully reach the summit, but descending proves...
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...“Into Thin Air”, a book written by Jon Krakauer, mountaineer and renowned for his writing of the outdoors, is Krakauer’s account of the deadliest season of Everest. In the beginning of the story, Krakauer writes, “I can attest that nothing I saw early on the afternoon of May 10 suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down,” (Krakauer 5). This quote is foreshadowing what is to come later in the story, and Krakauer suggests that he and other climbers were unaware and unsuspecting of the “murderous storm”. As the story goes on, Krakauer talks about Everest, writing, “I stared at the peak for perhaps thirty minutes, trying to apprehend what it would be like to be standing on that gale-swept vertex,” (Krakauer 59). This quote tells of the presence of Everest, and how large, yet beautiful it is. Krakauer does a good job of letting the reader know what it is like to be looking at the largest mountain in the world. Lastly, Krakauer writes, “I stayed behind to...
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...If someone told you the story of a man who left his life full of fortunes to become one with nature, what would your opinion of him be? Would you think that he’s brave? Reckless? Jon Krakauer in his non-fiction story, Into the Wild tells the journey of a young man by the name of Chris McCandless. Chris, after enduring a childhood where he was given everything in the world besides a loving household decided to leave everything behind, burn and donate all of his money and walk into the brisk wilderness of Alaska’s Denali area after hitchhiking around the continent a couple of years prior. Krakauer is impartial enough to let the reader form their own opinion of McCandless, even though his own opinions slip in at some points. Krakauer uses negative...
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...Jon Krakauer records in detail his experiences of adventure and tragedy on Mount Everest in this journal-like novel. A successful voyage summiting to the top of Mount Everest was completely omitted when the team of climbers had a disastrous journey back down the Mountain. By the time Krakauer made it back down, 12 of his teammates had died and his life was changed. Originally, this novel came about when a magazine wanted krakauer to climb to base camp of the mountain and document competition and growing commercialism of Mountain climbing. However, Krakauer went above and beyond when he decided to trek to the top of Mount Everest. After quitting the mountain climbing world to raise a family, Krakauer accepted the magazines request and bravely packed his bags to take the risk to the top of Mount Everest. It would have been the tallest mountain he has ever attempted to climb....
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...presumed dead, the twelfth casualty of the season.” Krakauer will never leave behind every single moment that he experienced on his first expedition summiting the highest mountain in the world in 1996. Mount Everest has been infamous of taking away many lives during its climbing season every summer from April to June, and of course, there was no exception in Krakauer’s trip. The victorious glory after summiting Everest was swiftly swept away from him on his way back to Camp Four. Descending down from the South Col to his tent, Krakauer has no idea how he will never have a chance to see half of his teammates again, not even Rob Hall or Andy Harris, who he thought was near the Camp during the deathly storm. Putting his thoughts and feelings in Into Thin Air, “a personal account of the Mt. Everest disaster”, Krakauer vividly recalls his memory about what happened during the entire trip, perhaps giving the audience a sense of responsibility for the death and injure of his team members in the very last chapters of his book and somewhat extends that responsibility towards Boukereev, a professional guide in another team. Jon Krakauer describes his trip descending down with some blurry memories, providing his readers with a sincere sense of guilt for the lost of Andy Harris. He confesses that he is “physically and emotionally wrecked” after spending an hour “scouring” for Harris, and all that he gets from the search team is conviction that Harris “was dead”. The feeling of guilt...
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...Christopher McCandless was a young man who gave up everything when he decided to embark on a treacherous journey to Alaska. After a year of hitchhiking across the country, he finally arrived at his destination. Due to poor decisions, he eventually succumbed to his death. Many people, such as the Into the Wild author Jon Krakauer, believe that “McCandless wasn’t some feckless slacker, adrift and confused, racked by existential despair. To the contrary: His life hummed with meaning and purpose. But the meaning he wrested from existence lay beyond the comfortable path: McCandless distrusted the value of things that came easily” (184). Even though I do not agree with the methods he used while on this spiritual journey, I do agree with Krakauer’s assertion that he kept hope alive even while close to death, and that his life “hummed with meaning and purpose”. McCandless came from a comfortable upper middle class family. Many people would say that Christopher McCandless had a relatively good life. His parents worked hard to provide him with all the necessary tools to ensure that he had a secure future. When he graduated, his parents were under the impression that he was going to attend law school. Chris had different plans which became evident when he donated all his money to OXFAM, and he disappeared into the wild. He didn’t want to be tied down by the stresses of today’s society; he didn’t want an ordinary life. He felt “emancipated from the stifling world of his parents and peers...
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...Management Excellence Toolkit-Part 4: Improve Your Estimating and Forecasting Effectiveness March 16, 2011 by Art Petty Leave a Comment 27 Note from Art: Your decisions define you as a leader and a manager, yet we spend very little time in our busy lives finding ways to improve our abilities in this area. This Management Excellence Toolkit Series will help you recognize the challenges and pitfalls of individual and group decision-making and offer ideas on improving performance for you and your co-workers. Part 1 of this series emphasized the importance of developing, updating and referencing a Decision Journal. Part 2, focused on understanding how we make decisions and how various traps and biases often derail us. In Part 3, we tackled the power and importance of framing situations properly to improve your odds of success. Part 4 focuses on improving estimating and forecasting accuracy by strengthening management and leadership practices. Let’s kick this one off with the conclusion: poor management and leadership practices make a tough job tougher by introducing pressures and biases that directly impact estimating and forecasting activities. If these environmentally imposed biases weren’t enough, human nature gets a vote as well. Studies in the field of decision-making have shown, “we are systematically over-confident in our own abilities.” Consider the unscientific annual BusinessWeek poll results: “90% of managers believe they are in the top 10% of all performers...
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...Everi THE INTERACTION OE COGNITIVE BIAS, PSYCHOLOGICAL SAEETY, AND SYSTEM COMPLEXITY Michael A. Roberto B usiness leaders and scholars have learned important lessons from tragedies such as the Challenger disaster, the Bay of Pigs fiasco, and the Three Mile Island accident.' Similarly, we can leam important lessons about leadership and decision making from the unfortunate events that took place on Mount Everest several years ago. Survivors have offered many competing explanations for this tragedy. While they have focused on the tactical blunders, this research examines the underlying cognitive, interpersonal, and systemic forces that played a role in the incident. This conceptual analysis suggests that cognitive biases, team beliefs about interpersonal risk taking, and system complexity interacted to create a fatal disaster. Incredible achievement and great tragedy unfolded on the treacherous slopes of Everest on May 10, 1996. TVventy-three people reached the summit along the South Col route in Nepal on that day, including Rob Hall and Scott Fischer, two of the world's most skilled and experienced high-altitude climbers. Unfortunately, Hall, Fischer, and three members of their expeditions died as a storm enveloped the mountain during their descent. Others barely escaped with their lives after many hours wandering in the dark while braving subzero temperatures. Hall, the leader of the Adventure Consultants expedition, had established an impressive track...
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...Lar03342_ch07_210-251.indd Page 210 2/3/10 4:37:12 PM user-f498 /Users/user-f498/Desktop/03:02_evening/MHBR165:Larson:208 C H A P T E R S E V E N Managing Risk Estimate 5 Project networks 6 Schedule resources & costs 8 l iona rnat Inte ojects pr 15 Define project 4 Reducing duration 9 Introduction 1 Organization 3 Managing risk 7 Monitoring progress 13 Project closure 14 16 Oversig ht 17 Agile P M Strategy 2 Leadership 10 Teams 11 Outsourcing 12 18 Career paths Managing Risk Risk Management Process Step 1: Risk Identification Step 2: Risk Assessment Step 3: Risk Response Development Opportunity Management Contingency Planning Contingency Funding and Time Buffers Step 4: Risk Response Control Change Control Management Summary Appendix 7.1: PERT and PERT Simulation 210 Lar03342_ch07_210-251.indd Page 211 1/30/10 4:54:39 PM user-f501 /Users/user-f501/Desktop/Tempwork/JANUARY 2010/30-01-10/MHBR165:Lars You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes because that’s where the fruit is. Will Rogers Every project manager understands risks are inherent in projects. No amount of planning can overcome risk, or the inability to control chance events. In the context of projects, risk is an uncertain event or condition that, if it occurs, has a positive or negative effect on project objectives. A risk has a cause and, if it occurs, a consequence. For example, a cause may be a flu virus or change in scope...
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