...system in place. She KEEPS MODIFYING and MONITORING continuously. * *The case also stresses the importance of good team design similar to the C&S Wholesale Grocers* Lisa Benton Case Summary In my opinion, the Lisa Benton case study is really not that important (sorry). The major point is boss-subordinate relationships and, by extensions, interpersonal relationships period. Regardless, the story is kind of interesting (and not because it was the only case study in which major characters were more than likely getting it on). The summary is as follows: while Lisa Benton she attended Harvard Business School, worked as the first female manager for Right-Away stores, a company where she won accolades for her “roll-up-your sleeves” approach and charmed the president, Scott Kingston, so much that he offered her a full-time job at Right-Away stores after she graduated. However, she was also offered a job at Houseworld’s Care Division, appealing because of its classical and famous excellent marketing training. She chose to turn down the higher salary and a bigger position partly because of her worries of taking on too much responsibility and partly because of Right-Away’s rundown warehouse and lack of other female manager and, instead, joined Houseworld. At Houseworld, she was charmed by the friendly and professional people she met initially but ended up under Deborah Linton, who immediately made it clear she was biased against Harvard MBAs. The friendly people she had met...
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...Lisa Benton Case Study Executive Summary Lisa Benton is a Harvard MBA who had completed a very successful internship with Right-Away stores, a convenience store chain in Chicago. Although she was offered an attractive position at Right-Away, Benton chose to accept a lower-paying, more junior position at Houseworld because of the company’s greater prestige and reputation for offering excellent classical marketing training in a structured environment. Benton had met several members of the Houseworld product management team during the recruiting process and been impressed with how knowledgeable and friendly they were. However, Benton’s first day of work as an assistant product manager in the Home Care division did not match her expectations. Benton’s new boss, Deborah Linton, offered a cool reception. Linton made clear during their first meeting with Benton that she didn’t like Harvard MBAs and gave the impression that she had no time to help train and orient her new employee. Instead, Benton was shown around by Linton’s other report, associate product manager Ron Scoville, who struck her as condescending and also derisive of MBAs. During her first weeks at Houseworld, Benton developed a good relationship with others in the company. However, she continued to be frustrated by her team. She was consistently relegated to analysis and excluded from strategy and, as such, felt that her talents and training were not being fully utilized. Benton was also troubled by her boss’s lack of...
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...Analysis of the case Lisa Benton As this case portrays the problems faced by Lisa Benton in her company Houseworld it somehow also accented on certain characteristics of human behavior like possessiveness, fear of losing position, future concerns regarding progression & obstacles associated with that progression. Lisa Benton was frustrated and dissatisfied about her job in Houseworld where she started by a lack of responsibility, and poor relationships with her boss, Linton, a colleague Scoville and recently with the reveal of her negative performance review. Since she is not accepted by her team she felt that while having not enough responsibility and room for her execution she didn’t prosper in this company. She also not went through the marketing training which most attracted her to this company at the beginning. Benton was concern of her career in Houseworld and was thinking of calling her former supervisor Kingston, of Right-Away Stores, whom she had previously turned down an appealing offer. There are three major relationships, with Linton, Scoville and Vernon, that shaped up Benton’s current circumstances. If Benton had deal with them with different ways, it may lead to some different result. Because of policy of the Home Care Division, the recruiting practice emphasized recruiting MBAs from top-notch schools for entry-level marketing positions. This decision makes it difficult for Linton, also Scoville to be promoted as they thought that they were not having...
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...assistant product manager at Home Care, Lisa Benton has not been able to combine her inner strengths and her network map in order to establish good basis to launch her career. Whereas she has been hired for her enthusiasm and her academic background, she did not demonstrate neither of these qualities, mostly because of a failure to clearly identify the stakeholders and the interests of all the members of her professional network. Consequently, she could not build an effective network. First of all, at Home Care we have in the one hand the “MBAs” which is the predominant and most powerful stakeholders (overrepresented in the organization) and in the other hand, Scoville and Linton’s group which is a little isolated network based essentially on friendship (or more?) and hard work (task-related network). For example, Scoville is a task oriented person who communicates only for work-related problems and Linton seems to value more relationship, trust and hard work. Lisa perceived her bosses’ attitude as lack of interest or hostility whereas it is partly a lack of motivation due to absence of promotion and decreasing recognition of their skills in the organization that has resulted in isolation. Also, she perceived her direct managers only through the lens of formal hierarchy as legitimate and reward powers whereas they have other strengths that she could have noticed and valued like expertise and commitment to the company. Furthermore, Lisa has successfully got along with the staff...
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...Assignment 3 – Lisa Benton Case Analysis Jack Welch Management Institute Instructor Ardith Bowman JWI510 June 16, 2013 Introduction Lisa Benton is a Harvard educated MBA who chose to work at the Home care Division of Houseworld based upon the classical marketing training in a structured environment from an industry leader over Right-Away which she had interned at. Benton was informed she would become a product manager within 2 to 3 years, yet was not informed of the importance of her performance in the first year. She was informed that the product manager’s responsibility was to groom his or her associates to be “promotable”. Benton was assigned Deborah Linton as her Product Manager who informed her of her dislike for MBA’s with “MBA’s act like they know a lot more than they do” and “the only way to learn is on the job and your formal education won’t help you.” Ron Scoville, the Associate Product Manager and team member, shared the same sentiments with Lisa. Linton made it clear to Lisa that she was ‘going to have to prove herself like everyone else.” There would be no special treatment because she was a Harvard MBA. Linton informed her she should feel free to stop by her office if she had any questions and she was to report to her and not to Ron Scoville, the Associate Product Manager and team member. She also was informed she would get objectives for her job which she never received and later learned Linton was recently promoted and it was thought that Linton exhibited...
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...Lisa Benton an assistant product manager at Houseworld, a leading consumer products company. Upon the start of her career at Houseworld, she has been frustrated by a lack of responsibility, by her poor relationship with her boss and a colleague, and recently, by the negative performance review she received. Initially she is not widely accepted by her team and felt that the lack of responsibility granted to her left her with little room to prosper in the company. Many other factors are also contributing to Benton’s dissatisfaction at Houseworld. She is not receiving the marketing training she was promised and her skills are being underutilized. Strained interpersonal relationships are contributing to this as well. There are three major relationships within the company that shaped Benton’s current state of dissatisfaction. Deborah Linton, Benton’s boss, is the main relationship of focus. Linton failed to establish trust with candor and transparency at Houseworld. This is one of Jack Welch’s eight essential rules in being a great leader. Candor “breaks through political bias,” (Kotter) and Linton failed to do so by allowing her loyalties to Scoville strain the professional relationship between her and Benton, her mentee so to speak. Transparency is defined as “sharing information broadly (Kotter).” By avoiding Benton’s training seminars, she is hoarding necessary information Benton needs to excel within the company. She put her own concerns before that of the company. Because she...
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...Lisa Benton Case Analysis Introduction Effective leadership creates successful teamwork; it’s the formula that every leader must understand in order to win in the 21st century. The relationship between the effectiveness of an individual as a leader and the creation of successful teamwork becomes the secret of a successful business. Effective leaders understand more than ever the importance of teamwork in the corporate organization and how the concept can impact every winning element of the organization. The relationships between team members and how leadership competencies can harmonize these people toward a specific goal become the foundation of all leadership development and people management programs. The Chattanooga Ice Cream Division has been faced with a decline in sales for five consecutive years, leading the family-controlled business to a financial crisis. The team at Chattanooga is very dysfunctional; they exhibit a lack of candor, they are high in conflict and disrespectful of each other, and they exhibit avoidance issues with accountability. Team members seem to always lay blame on other members. Leadership needs to convey that teamwork is a must, and this should be a sustainable teamwork approach to help ensure no further loss in the business. Team Dysfunctions The Chattanooga Ice Cream Team is dysfunctional for several reasons. Some of those reasons are related to the team members themselves, and others are related to the leadership. The team is suffering...
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...image. That means that the best ways to explain films are to describe what the deeper meaning is of each detail, from the first opening credit to the final end credit. The deeper meanings are combined in order to form themes. There is usually at least one Christian theme in there. The main Christian theme in the film Kramer vs. Kramer is love. Kramer vs. Kramer is a passionate film about a wife who leaves her husband because of how upset she is with their marriage. Fifteen months after the divorce, a legal battle begins to determine who gets to keep their 7-year-old son Billy, which turns into a battle of who believes he loves him more and who should get custody of him. The movie was released in 1979, and was written and directed by Robert Benton. Love is a central theme throughout the movie because of the love that Joanna Kramer, Billy’s mother, and Ted Kramer, Billy’s father, show for each other and for Billy. How much someone cares for another person can sometimes lead him to act without thinking and without the input of that person whom he cares for. This is the case when Joanna leaves Ted in the film Kramer vs. Kramer. Margaret, a friend of both of them, consoles Joanna when she talks about how fed up she is with her husband and that she wants to leave him because she feels so much pain. Joanna shows how much she loves Ted when she leaves Billy with him because she knows that’s where Billy rightfully belongs. Her love is also renewed by seeing how much Ted has grown in taking...
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...Literacy Devices Metaphors A comparison without the use of ‘like’ or ‘as’. Example: “He’s a pig” is a metaphor Simile - figure of speech involving a comparison between unlike things using like, as, or as though. i.e. She floated in like a cloud. Personification - Attributing human or other animate characteristics to an inanimate object. Example: Clouds cry. Motif - any element, subject, idea or concept that is constantly present through the entire body of literature Irony. Conveys the opposite of what is meant or what would be expected. Examples: Saying “You’re so graceful!” to someone who has just tripped is verbal irony. A lifeguard drowning in a bathtub is irony of situation. A special kind of literary irony is when the reader (or viewer) knows something the character doesn’t. This is common in horror movies. An example of this is when the heroine runs to Jason for help, when we know he’s the slasher. Sarcasm is verbal irony with attitude, with a mean edge. Pathetic fallacy is a type of literary device whereby the author ascribes the human feelings of one or more of his/her characters to non-human objects or nature or phenomena. It is a type of personification, and is known to occur more by accident and less on purpose. e.g. The softly whistling teapot informed him it was time for breakfast. Hyperbole. Literary exaggeration. Examples: Gilgamesh and Enkidu carried thirty score pounds of weaponry. I’ll give you...
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...controversy they were painted over with veils and loincloths. The Last Judgment is monochromatic and flesh tones and sky colors dominate the work. Yellow, orange, green and blue are scattered throughout the painting. Michelangelo focuses on the action of human creatures quite different than Leonardo’s emphasis on perspective such as birds in flight. His art enhances the naturalism and he had a great skill at portraying profound emotions that make this painting striking. The painting is sort of obscure and has many different meanings. (Michelangelo’s Last Judgment: The Response) The second work of art I chose is the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci. He started this masterpiece in 1503 and finished it in 1506. It was painted with oil paints and it was painted on wood. Leonardo was one of the most famous painters of all time. The Mona Lisa is also one of the most well-known...
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...| Leonardo Da Vinci | Renaissance Man | | Jenny Bevier | 8/20/2010 | | Very few that have ever lived have been acknowledged as a genius. Leonardo Da Vinci was a renaissance man who was a true pioneer of his time. Though he is best known as an artist, he was far more than that. Leonardo was also an engineer, inventor, and scientist. He had one of the best scientific minds of his time. He carried out research in fields ranging from architecture and civil engineering to astronomy, anatomy, geography, geology, and paleontology. Leonardo was a renaissance man whose works of art and studies of mechanics and science paved the way for many artists, engineers, and doctors today. Da Vinci was born in 1452 in the small town of Anchiano, Italy. He was an illegitimate child of a Florentine Notary, Piero Da Vinci, and a peasant woman named Catrina (The World Wide Art Gallery, 2010, para. 2). Until the age of five Leonardo lived in the Hamlet of Anchiano with his mother. From 1457 on he lived with his father, grandparents, and uncle Fracesco in the small town of Vinci, Italy. Da Vinci never received a formal education. However, he was informally taught Latin, geometry, and mathematics by his stepmother Alberia, and her mother in law Monna Lucia. Also, he learned from scholarly textbooks that were owned by various family members. When Leonardo was fifteen, he was apprenticed to the artist Andrea Di Cione, known as Verrocchio. During this time is when Leonardo was...
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...the medium or the mode of expression can be, the main thing is the way we can interpret the painting when we see it. In the following document we will be able to describe how two pieces of art “Mona Lisa” a portray by Leonardo Da Vinci and “Mona Loca” a graffiti by Abstrk can be similar in their forms but behind that, there is a vast difference in ideas, techniques and point of view of each artist. Mona Lisa is a masterpiece of the renaissance period characterized to look realistic and to bring the life out of the painting, while Mona Loca represents a contemporary art, a graffiti which displays surreal elements and less humanism in the artwork. The Mona Lisa is probably the most known piece of artwork in the entire world. It was painted by Leonardo Da Vinci, who was a famous Italian artist between 1504 and 1519. Da Vinci was a considered a Renaissance artist. He was a great painter, but also an observer, scientist and a great inventor who also studies some medicine and anatomy. This preparation allowed him to draw and paint it more accurately than any other artist of his time. Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece “Mona Lisa” or “La Gioconda” results in a painting that seems to be alive. This quality of being realistic is what makes Mona Lisa to fit into Renaissance artwork. Mona Lisa is figure of a woman, dressed in the fashion of her day and seated in a mountainous landscape. The general impression that this portrait gives is the great serenity, enriched by some mystery or even...
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...University of Phoenix is a great school when a number of resources. The most important one to me personally that you can use is the center for writing excellence also known as CWE for short. Now the center for writing excellence is a great way to enhance your writing skills even if you are a good writer. There are always things to improve upon whether it’s your spelling, grammar or you just want reinsurance that your paper is up to par with the professor’s standards. The center for writing excellence is the best ever if you know you’re not a good writer it has many different tests and examples to help make you a better writer, but the CWE is just one of the many resources that university of phoenix offers you. Let’s get to another I love to use and that the center for math excellence or CME for short. This is a great tool because we know that coming back to school is hard enough and throwing math in your face is not going to make it any better. That’s where the CME comes it allows you to practice on your math to let the math anxiety that you might have go away because you can practice anytime anywhere. So if your felling confused, frustrated don’t worry the CWE is there and it has resources within its self to help you master math. These are just a few examples of what University of Phoenix offer you they have professional faculty members that can help along the way with anything you need so not only is this a great school it will not let you stumble they will be there with you...
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...immensely colossal Successes and Failures Apple has created a factory built around innovation. It seems to harness creativity, stimulate new conceptions, and launches successful, remuneratively lucrative, revolutionary products. I believe that Apple’s most immensely colossal success is its ability to leverage its innovation processes to seize new opportunities in the marketplace and grow its business at an incredible pace. Steve Jobs, the co-founder and CEO of Apple, often boasts about the company culture and how it’s predicated upon innovation, forward thinking, and fixate on the “experience”. Aside from conspicuous iPhone and iPad successes, Apple manifested many of its incredible products from incredible misses early in its history. Lisa and the Newton were both recklessly ambitious projects that failed, but were in line with Jobs’ forward thinking...
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...Brittney Reed Professor Turner AR115 27 September 2014 The Mystery Surrounding Mona Lisa Mona Lisa is one of Leonardo da Vinci’s most poetic and famous pictures he painted. Painted in 1503-1505 with oil on a panel, the meaning of this most recognized painting in the world has left many wondering about the portrait’s meaning and why it has changed over time (Harris & Zucker, 2012). The evolution around the Mona Lisa painting has grown over the centuries after it was completed. This and many other of Leonardo da Vinci’s painting and writing has became ever so popular because of who the artist is and the detail and technique that he used in them. Another reason the it fascinates me and many others is when you are looking into her eyes they seem to follow you where ever you move. This gives an erie feeling that people in the recent decades thrive for in today’s decade. The painting is also very mysteries. Who is Mona Lisa? Who was she posing for? What is the little smirk on her face? As most of the portraits that were see in that era there are no smiling faces, a blank look if you will. Many say that Mona Lisa is the wife of a Florentine merchant and the painting was intended for her husband (Harris & Zucker, 2012). After Leonardo had finished the painting it was never given to the husband and Leonardo decided to keep it for himself as he went to work for the King of France, Francis I and why that is to this day remains a mystery (Harris & Zucker, 2012). Portraits...
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