...Imagine hearing that someone has gotten very, very injured and may be on the edge of possibly dying, not just because they were involved in a life or death situation, but because they were being involved in a situation that they had put themselves into. Imagine hearing that this person has gotten severely injured, and all this chaos has been caused by the same person that is trying to survive the life threatening situation. Due to situations like this happening every day, this is why people should be held accountable for the poor actions and decisions they have made. These poor decisions and actions are leading people into life or death situations that could have easily been prevented, but because of them, these people are now forced to be involved in these situations.. Many people have put their lives in life or death situations due to poor decisions and actions. These poor decisions, actions and mistakes should be unacceptable and the people that have chosen to commit to these decisions should be held accountable for the damage they have made. These people should be held accountable because themselves in the situation alone is not the only chaos that would be happening, one situation that would be adding chaos to the problem, is that either you...
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...argued that, in complex and unstable contexts, the traditional mode of "think-first" deliberate strategies which set "thinking" apart from "doing" is becoming increasingly ineffective. The unpredictability of complex contexts, in which we operate, leave us with no choice but to be markedly adaptive rather than attempt to be overly prepared. Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) are the order of the day, and the organization's Standing (desired future state) and Steps have to emerge in action, rather than be pre-determined, in the development of strategy. However, this emergence of strategy, ought to be predicated on a Stand (strategic perspective or position), and a set of Shared values, without which emergent strategies may well lead to chaos. The principal role of the leader in a CAS is not to increasingly...
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...The Personal Leadership Style of Mary Ramos In our times of innovation and change, my personal leadership style involves a great deal of flexibility in order to lead in messy times. I have strived to create an environment that is warm and inviting as well as nurturing. As Michael Fullen states in his book, Leading in a Culture of Change, I want to “foster leadership in others, thereby making themselves dispensable in the long run”. I want to be a leader of leaders or a leader producer. In the chaos field of education, we will be tackled with many daily problems. I agree with the Heifetz (1994, p15 from Fullan p.3) in that we need to learn as leaders how to mobilize people to tackle “…tough problems”. Leadership is not so much in the solutions but in getting people to identify problems and mobilize them to address those problems. The book goes on to discuss convergence of many ideas and skills to be effective. The one type of leader is no longer effective in addressing many types of problems. I have added convergence as a descriptor of my leadership styles and will revisit that later. One component of this convergent style includes Moral Purpose. As a leader in education, I want to create an inviting learning environment in my school community where school is a positive place of many levels of environments coming together in a positive way. I want to create an environment where the teachers are open to discuss ideas and to see me as part of the team to facilitate positive change...
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...Negative Interest Rates Nominal interest rates are normally positive, but not always. Given the alternative of holding cash, and thus earning 0%, rather than lending it out, profit-seeking lenders will not lend below 0%, as that will guarantee a loss, and a bank offering a negative deposit rate will find few takers, as savers will instead hold cash. During the European sovereign-debt crisis, government bonds of some countries (Switzerland, Denmark, Germany, Finland, the Netherlands and Austria) have been sold at negative yields. Suggested explanations include desire for safety and protection against the Eurozone breaking up. More often, real interest rates can be negative, when nominal interest rates are below inflation. When this is done via government policy (for example, via reserve requirements), this is deemed financial repression, and was practiced by countries such as the United States and United Kingdom following World War II (1945) until the late 1970s or early 1980s (during and following the Post–World War II economic expansion). In the late 1970s, United States Treasury securities with negative real interest rates were deemed certificates of confiscation. Negative interest rates have been proposed in the past, notably in the late 19th century by Silvio Gesell. To prevent people from holding cash (and thus earning 0%), Gesell suggested issuing money for a limited duration, after which it must be exchanged for new bills; attempts to hold money thus result in...
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...Organization development Chapter 2 exercise Group member’s name Venkatesha maraiah Kjc1080518 Kavitha r.mugam Kjc1080517 Sarmila r.mugam Kjc1080519 Mageswari sundram Kjc1050030 Organization development Chapter 2 Exercise Questions 1. Research Apple’s product history to discover the progression of its major products? Apple’s product history to discover the progression of its major products is Apple computer, Inc is a multinational corporation that creates consumer electronics, computer software and commercial servers. Apple’s core product lines are the iPad, IPhone, iPod music players, and Macintosh computers line-up. Founders Steve Jobs and Steve Woziniak effectively created Apple computer on April 1 1976, with release of the Apple 1 and incorporate the company on January 3, 1977 in Cupertino, California. For more two decades, Apple computer was predominantly a manufacture of personal computers including the Apple 11, Macintosh and power Mac lines. With the introduction of the successful iPod music player in 2001. Apple established itself as a leader in the consumer electronics industry, dropping “computer” from its name. The company is now also known for its ios range of product that began with the I phone, IPod touch and now iPod. As of 2012, apple is currently the largest technology firm in the world with its stock market value reaching $500 billion in March 2012. 2. What are its newest product innovations? Apple’s newest product innovations are...
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...Part IV Emerging and Integrating Perspectives January-2007 MAC/ADSM Page-213 1403_985928_17_cha14 January-2007 MAC/ADSM Page-214 1403_985928_17_cha14 CHAPTER 14 Complexity Perspective Jean Boulton and Peter Allen Basic principles The notion that the world is complex and uncertain and potentially fast-changing is much more readily acceptable as a statement of the obvious than it might have been 30 years ago when complexity science was born. This emerging worldview sits in contradistinction to the view of the world as predictable, linear, measurable and controllable, indeed mechanical; it is the so-called mechanical worldview which underpins many traditional approaches to strategy development and general management theory (see Mintzberg, 2002 for an overview). The complexity worldview presents a new, integrated picture of the behaviour of organisations, marketplaces, economies and political infrastructures; these are indeed complex systems as we will explain below. Some of these behaviours are recognised in other theories and other empirical work. Complexity theory is unique in deriving these concepts through the lens of a coherent, self-consistent scientific perspective whilst nevertheless applying it to everyday, practical problems. These key principles can be summarised here: There is more than one possible future This is a very profound point. We are willing to accept the future may be too complicated to know, but the notion...
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...Quality Management In chapter one W. Edward Deming is the total quality pioneer that defined quality in his present day, which was over 50 years ago, however, his defining elements are basically the quality foundation that is practiced in today’s environment for quality with most major industry leading companies. Deming’s vision and philosophy along with the fundamental elements of quality that he defined made him a successful quality pioneer in the 1950’s. According to Deming he defined quality and its elements through common extractions taken from his quality pioneer book “Out of the Crisis.” Quality and its elements are defined as “A dynamic state associated with products, service, people, processes and environments that meet or exceeds expectations and helps produce superior value.” Deming believed that quality has many different criteria and that the criteria change continually, along with consumers valuing the various criteria differently, which creates the important opportunity to measure and re-measure the preferences of the consumers’ frequently. Deming understands the need to re-define the various and different consumers’ preferences and the need to re-measure them frequently was a unique perspective for his time. This unique perspective made him a quality pioneer and it is also one of the corner stones of the foundations that today’s quality is built upon and used in today’s quality definition. In today’s environment of fierce...
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...James Phillips, Co-Founder and SVP of products, Couchbase A few months ago I had the good fortune to hear VMware CEO Paul Maritz speak at a conference. Asked “which trends would you identify that will have the biggest impact on IT in the coming decade?” Paul identified two: cloud computing, and the transition underway in at the data layer—specifically mentioning Big Data and NoSQL. Paul noted that, in his experience, a shift in the data model generates farreaching ripple effects: new applications are enabled, the application development process is impacted and the infrastructure atop which these applications run changes. He saw it happen with IMS (hierarchical data model) and with the relational model. In his estimate we’re on the leading edge of another fundamental shift. Clearly Paul is not alone. It is hard to find an IT “predictions” story or blog that doesn't mention Big Data and/or NoSQL. But these terms are frequently interchanged as though they are synonyms. In part, the confusion comes from focusing too sharply on the technology itself. There are certainly similarities in implementation—notably the tendency to spread data across many servers versus storing data on a small number of very large servers. But if one softens the focus on the technology, it becomes clear there are three distinct trends driving innovation at the data layer: data growth, web application user growth and the explosion of mobile computing. Data growth [Big Data]. IDC estimates [i] that more...
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...Ma. Sarah Katrina F. Santos June 16, 2014 11229888 SPEECOM - C32 Informative Speech How many of you thinks that having more customers is better than having fewer customers for a business? Can I see a show of hands? Alright. I presume that for those who said yes, which is the majority, raised their hand for the same reason. More customers mean more people buying and more people buying mean more profits for the company, isn’t it? Sounds sensible but I hate to break it to you but those of you who said yes are wrong. Today I will transform that thinking to exactly the opposite. I will introduce based on a new study the idea of ‘less is more’. Focusing on a smaller number of customers could help a company speed up growth, increase profit and improve long-term health. I am going to talk about how top companies gain customers, how they keep them and how these customers help them in expanding their business. They don’t need a lot of customers, just the right ones to keep them on top. First point is, fewer customers can speed up the company’s growth. Would you believe that some companies actually go out of business because of too many customers? Yes, that is true. The problem with these companies is they get very overwhelmed with the influx of customers that they forget to establish a connection with their customers. According to Forbes, this is one of the top 5 reasons why 8 out of 10 businesses fail - because they are not really in touch with their customers...
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...COLLECTED VIEWS ON COMPLEXITY IN SYSTEMS JOSEPH M. SUSSMAN JR East Professor Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Systems Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts April 30, 2002 The term “complexity” is used in many different ways in the systems domain. The different uses of this term may depend upon the kind of system being characterized, or perhaps the disciplinary perspective being brought to bear. The purpose of this paper is to gather and organize different views of complexity, as espoused by different authors. The purpose of the paper is not to make judgments among various complexity definitions, but rather to draw together the richness of various intellectual perspectives about this concept, in order to understand better how complexity relates to the concept of engineering systems. I have either quoted directly or done my best to properly paraphrase these ideas, apologizing for when I have done so incorrectly or in a misleading fashion. I hope that this paper will be useful as we begin to think through the field of engineering systems. The paper concludes with some “short takes” -- pungent observations on complexity by various scholars -- and some overarching questions for subsequent discussion. AUTHOR A THEORY OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS Edward O. Wilson Herbert Simon SOURCE Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge “The Architecture of Complexity”, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 106, No. 6, December...
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...34.Concept of Globalization Why does the concept of GLOBALIZATION excite so much interest? We are beginning to think about the world in new ways. The importance of borders between different countries is reduced, and cross-border structures are strengthened. The power of organizations operating only within the nation state is weakened. Individuals who possess the necessary skills find it easier and faster than before to implement complex interactions. By pushing computer keys a banker can almost instantaneously transfer sums of money between London and New York, between New York and Bangkok, between Bangkok and Paris, and so on. The political and legal institutions of these different countries no longer present insurmountable obstacles to doing business between them. The problems of predicting the effects of globalization in part stem from uncertainties about how the notion should be defined. These uncertainties arise because the terms are used in many different ways. Gowan (1999) reflects on this ambiguity in the introduction to his text: The 1990s have been the decade of globalization. We see its effects everywhere: in economic, social and political life, around the world. Yet the more all-pervasive are these effects, the more elusive is the animal itself. An enormous outpouring of academic literature has failed to provide an agreed view of its physiognomy or its location and some reputable academics of Right and Left even question its very existence. It is not necessary to...
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...Change Will Prevent Chaos: Why Police Brutality Is a Problem On September 18, 2015, a 16 year old boy was beaten multiple times with a baton after allegedly jaywalking. Eight additional cops were called to the scene when they arrested the black teenager. According to Sunil Dutta, the police used necessary force, and the teenager could have prevented the entire situation. However, experts would agree that police brutality is caused by numerous underlying problems, including inadequately trained officers, racial tension between police and society, and the false intention that media blows situations out of proportion. While Sunil Dutta believes officers receive training at a higher caliber compared to past decades, experts in the field profoundly disagree (2). Initially, training begins in the academy where officers are shown gruesome pictures and footages of police being beaten. Seeing the graphic images persuades officers to do everything in their nature to avoid being injured. Additionally, lethal weapons are right beneath their arms, and one poor decision could lead to multiple deaths. Seth Stoughton stated, “Instead of rushing in...
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...understanding of how organisations actually create and manage knowledge dynamically. Nonaka, Toyama and Konno start from the view of an organisation as an entity that creates knowledge continuously, and their goal in this article is to understand the dynamic process in which an organisation creates, maintains and exploits knowledge. They propose a model of knowledge creation consisting of three elements: (i) the SECI process, knowledge creation through the conversion of tacit and explicit knowledge; (ii) `ba', the shared context for knowledge creation; and (iii) knowledge assets, the inputs, outputs and moderators of the knowledge-creating process. The knowledge creation process is a spiral that grows out of these three elements; the key to leading it is dialectical thinking. The role of top management in articulating the organisation's knowledge vision is emphasised, as is the important role of middle management (`knowledge producers') in energising ba. In summary, using existing knowledge assets, an organisation creates new knowledge through the SECI process that takes place in ba, where new knowledge, once created, becomes in turn the basis for a new spiral of knowledge creation. = 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. As Alvin Tof¯er said, we are now living in a `knowledge-based society', where knowledge is the source of the highest quality power.1 In a world where markets, products, technologies, competitors, regulations and even societies change rapidly, continuous...
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...French composer Claude Debussy (1862-1918) composed this modern orchestra work in less than 2 months; Debussy composed this near the end of his life and it was originally supposed to go along with a ballet, though it ended up just being an orchestra work. It was premiered in 1913 in Paris, France (Zaption). Watching and listening to this piece as it was performed in person was truly magical. The entire orchestra worked together in perfect harmony, with the conductor flawlessly leading the way. I especially loved how all the performers synced together with their instrumental groups perfectly, and no one was off key or had their timing off at all. “The musical themes are short, following quickly one upon the other, and the liberal use of woodwinds in various combinations makes for a character-driven and playful atmosphere” (La Jolla Music Society). This would have to be the most salient feature of the performance, as it helped to kept me on my toes at all times with its very frequent changes in pitch, tone, and theme. The applause at the end of the piece was enormous, for a good...
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...friends I’ve cast out and replaced with food, video games and more work. It’s a never ending cycle. Starting with an issue, leading to food or a supplement (video games, movies, etc.). Which leads back into the initial issues that damage my self-confidence. This results in infinitesimal issues becoming titanic in proportion. Two events are notable in this experiment. One of which leaves curiosity, while the other a positive effect. Day three a sibling rivalry turned into a fight, of which family members and friends were negatively affected. My brother and I acted like idiots confined in a militant enthusiasm rush. We were at that specific moment unaware of our actions. After storming off, I was able to try and use the tools from mediation to calm myself. Over the course of an hour I was able to. Normally this scenario would take weeks to resolve. I do however wonder what would have happened if that specific scenario would have occurred a week later. At that time I was aware of the issues, but barely knew how to combat them. A week later I was still clueless ― as this training takes a lifetime to truly comprehend and fully practice. The second scenario gave me a reason outside myself and family to work towards being mindful. As a tutor, I see people at the edge of their will. One more nudge could cast them into a failed semester. Midterm week is one of these edges. Most students work hard throughout the semester and for some it comes down to a few tests. A student came in on that...
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