...The article entitled, "Where there's a Will, There's a Way", gave a very well informed explanation concerning Resilience. The author went into grave details concerning the specific definition that Resilience is, "a psychological study of individuals and groups in adverse circumstances"(Harrington,2012). "Resilience research analyzes why some people go on to experience more problems, while others develop into adults who can contribute positively to society (Werner, 2004),(Harrington,2012). This very statement gave room to spark such a revelation of testimony within me. As a child, I was raised in a neglected home riddled with physical, emotional and sexual abuse. Being raised in this environment, caused emotional trauma, deep hurt and rejection to burrow within my soul. This environment fragmented the core of my being, which left me shattered from watching, hearing, and experiencing so many things no one should have seen, let alone a child! I didn't grow up in a solid foundation of Christ but what I did have was Religion, which led us to more Confusion, and eventually chaos. Hosea 4:6 says that, "my people are destroyed...
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...and anti-soccer Americans. In Kwame Anthony Appiah’s “Moral Disagreement,” Appiah examines the ways that different cultural groups perceive themselves as opposed to others. In today’s society, these different cultural groups we all belong to, tend to see themselves in terms of an “us versus them” mentality. Overcoming or at least understanding the differences we share with opposing cultural groups is crucial for the sake of peaceful human interaction and existence. Since the beginning of history, the public's attitude towards police has been mostly negative. Due to failed community policing attempts, the misuse of police authority, and the media negatively influencing both cultural groups painting a lousy picture on both spectrums, this has been a constant battle worldwide. Through effective neighborhood policing and learning to trust the police, America could be a sharpened more secure place to live. First, because of failed community policing attempts in America, there has been a constant battle for the people and the police to view each other as equals and overcome the differences we share. Community policing is the newest terminology for law enforcement. It is a federally funded initiative built on the premise that everyone should be working together to reduce the fear of crime. The major obstacle with this has always been getting the police and communities to stray from the way that we have always done things to accepting new and innovative ideas. According to the Oakland...
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...What is your take on the recent trend of 'million sq.ft. malls' where every second developer wants to make one of the biggest malls in India? Do you support this trend? I support this unprecedented wave of million sq ft mall as with multiple demands on limited time, shoppers carefully choreograph their shopping trips. Mn sq ft size and prominence means that, for good or ill, these malls have a significant impact on a place and its character There is growing acceptance that as long as Big malls are well designed ,made, leased , and suitably located, they can accelerate retail growth in our country In broader perspective Million sq ft malls are signs of growing economic development and prosperity and the desire of the investor and builders to invest in these mega projects -- which means more choice for retailers , shoppers and increasing employment opportunities for catchment population. A large Mall is an indicator that a Industry is moving toward the future. Large malls require plenty of investment, more time and labor to construct , lease and operate but they also have long- and short term advantage . How sustainable will this trend be considering the economic condition of the country? Sustaining a successful retail development in India requires a high level of expertise, proactive management, and innovation. In the near term, the robust consumer demand will mask the lack of experience of these new developers. Over the longer term, however, it will be important...
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...Developments in Practice XXXVI: How to Talk So Business Will Listen … And Listen So Business Will Talk Heather A. Smith School of Business, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario heather.a.smith.queens@gmail.com James D. McKeen School of Business, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario One of the most important skills all IT staff need to develop today is how to communicate effectively with business. Over and over, research has shown that if IT and business cannot speak the same language, focus on the same issues and communicate constructively, they cannot build a trusting relationship. And business is consistently more negative about IT‘s ability to communicate effectively than IT is. In fact, even while IT collaboration is improving, business‘s assessment of IT‘s communication skills is declining. While much attention has been paid to organizational alignment between IT and business (e.g., governance, structure) very little has been paid to the nature and impact of the social dimension of alignment, a big element of which involves communication. To explore the business and interpersonal competencies that IT staff will need in order to do their jobs effectively over the next five–seven years and what companies should be doing to help develop them, the authors convened a focus group of senior IT managers from a variety of different organizations. This paper documents the results of this discussion, integrating them with findings from the research and practitioner literature...
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...More Praise for The 8 Dimensions of Leadership "For a fresh outlook on what it takes to be a great leader, read this book. The 8 Dimensions of Leadership is an insightful, practical guide—a leader could spend ten or twenty years learning some of the lessons you'll take away. Don't wait." —Keith Ferrazzi, beslselling author of Never Eat Alone "The 8 Dimensions of Leadership is a treasure trove of practical leadership advice. Built upon a solid research-based foundation, the book is a remarkable collection of proven developmental strategies. Clear and engaging, it is a must-read for those who aim to sharpen their leadership skills and improve their interpersonal effectiveness," —Steven Snyder, founder and Managing Director, Snyder Leadership Group, and former CEO, Net Perceptions Inc. "It is always refreshing to read a research-based book on leadership that presents convincing evidence that the best leaders are not 'single celled' or 'one-trick ponies.' The book guides ad leaders to discovering new behaviors that enable them to go beyond their autopilot approaches and the ultimate ruts that so many leaders dig for themselves." —Jack Zenger, CEO, Zenger Folkman, and coauthor of the bestselling The Extraordinary Leader and The Extraordinary Coach "The quest for leadership is first an inner quest to discover who you are, and one of the best places to begin that quest is with The 8 Dimensions of Leadership. Jeffrey Sugerman, Mark Scullard, and Emma Wiihelm challenge...
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..., YOU LL K NO W A T T HE F I N I S H L I N E A SP A R T A N G UI D E T O T H E SPO R T O F O B ST A C L E R A C I N G JOE DESENA AND ANDY WEINBERG B 1 , YOU LL K NO W A T T HE F I N I S H L I N E A SP A R T A N G UI D E T O T H E SPO R T O F O B ST A C L E R A C I N G JOE DESENA AND ANDY WEINBERG Spartan Race, Inc. www.spartanrace.com Pittsfield, VT USA Copyright © 2012 by Joe De Sena and Andy Weinberg All rights reserved, Including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. Spartan Race and “You’ll Know at the Finish Line” are registered trademarks of Spartan Race, Inc. Designed by Steven Mosier New York, NY Published by Spartan Press ISBN-13: 978-0615675183 ISBN-10: 0615675182 FOR SP A R T A NS A N D F U T U R E S P A R T A NS E V ER YW H ER E. WE GIVE SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR FAMILIES AND FRIENDS— ESPECIALLY OUR WIVES COURTNEY AND SLOAN, AND OUR CHILDREN JACK, JADE, CHARLIE, GRACE, AND CATHERINE— WHO SUPPORT AND INSPIRE OUR ADVENTURES AND MAKE THE SPARTAN LIFE REAL. 4 T A B LE O F C O N T EN T S 5 FOREWORD PREFACE WELCOME TO OBSTACLE RACING, THE ULTIMATE HUMAN SPORT THE SPARTAN BRAND OF OBSTACLE RACING JOIN THE OBSTACLE RACING COMMUNITY CHAPTER 1. MYTHS AND LEGENDS PRIMAL ELEMENTS: WATER AND LAND, MUD AND FIRE PRECURSOR EVENTS OBSTACLE AND CHALLENGE EVENTS: SKILL, ADVENTURE, AND MUD OBSTACLE RACING AS A FORMALIZED SPORT THE FOUNDING FEW FORGING A NEW SPARTAN LEGACY SPARTAN RACE LORE: IN THE BEGINNING … SPARTAN WARRIOR: JASON...
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...Warning Concerning Copyright Restrictions The Copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyright material. Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specified conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction not be "used for any purposes other than private study, scholarship, or research." If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of "fair use," that user may be liable for copyright infringement. xxiII ACKNOWLEDGMENTS write has to pass beneath the critical· eye and flashing red pen of my long-time partner in life and work, Sylvie Hampe. \Vhen-. ever she announces, "This doesn't make sense," I've leamednot to argue, but to rewrite. Over the years she and I have learned how to give and receive criticism and' still remain best friends. Thanks, love. PA R T I MAKING ANALOGS OF REALITY I used to think that the documentary films I was making were real. But as I looked at what I was doing, I saw I was making analogs-I was making models of the situation I was filming. -Bob Young, documentary filmmaker, 118th SMPTE Technical Conference 4 . MAKING DOCUMENTARY FILMS AND REALITY VIDEOS IT TAKES MORE Making a successful documentary film or video requires much more, It starts the camera. You have to...
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...KYMENLAAKSON AMMATTIKORKEAKOULU University of Applied Sciences Degree Programme in International Business ALLISON HOUSE THE CHALLENGES OF WOMEN EXPATRIATES REGARDING INTERNATIONAL ASSIGNMENT Bachelor’s Thesis 2013 1 ABSTRACT KYMMENLAAKSON AMMATTIKORKEAKOULU University of Applied Sciences Degree Programme in International Business House, Allison The Challenges of Women Expatriates Regarding International Assignment Bachelor’s Thesis 74 pages including 12 pages of appendices Supervisor Minna Söderqvist, Principal Lecturer Commissioned by Charlotte Regional Partnership September 2012 Keywords female expatriate, international assignment, male trailing spouse, career advancement, glass ceiling, repatriation With the ever-increasing amount of global business conducted in today’s world, the need for expatriate assignments on behalf of the workplace is increasing also. There is a deficit in the amount of female managers currently on international assignment. The primary objective of this thesis was to identify the challenges facing women, which would have prevented more women from embracing international assignments, and to more thoroughly explore stated challenges in order to pinpoint possible smallscale solutions. The thesis was based on IHRM. The main research method was a collective case study, which consisted mainly of dual perspective qualitative research. The primary conclusions of this thesis are that with additional...
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...Nine reasons to have your own business 1. You Control Your Own Destiny Many entrepreneurs consider themselves "Type-A" personalities, folks that like to take control and make decisions. In other words, owning a business saves them from having to work for anyone else. "One reason to own a small business is the ability to direct the culture of your company," says Kasey Gahler, a certified financial planner in Austin who left a big company to start his own business Gahler Financial three years ago. "When you're in the driver's seat, you are making the decisions on how best to steer your company into the future. This might be overwhelming for some and one must know when and how best to delegate. However, when you are able to make your own decisions about how best to operate day-to-day, this leads to creating a culture, a brand and an organization." 2. You Can Find Your Own Work/Life Balance One of the most oft-cited benefits of owning your own business is the flexibility that comes with it, whether that be working from wherever you want, setting your own hours, wearing a nightgown or even sitting next to your pet while you work. "I get to carry a knife, drive a pickup truck and hang out with my dog a lot more – what can be better than that?" says David Winters, who owns a mobile screen repair business called Screenmobile in Charlotte, North Carolina. Just as important, entrepreneurs say that owning their own business lets them set their priorities. "I make my own schedule...
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...What Leaders Really Do by John P Kotter . Reprint r0111f December 2001 Required Reading r0111a Barbara Kellerman HBR Survey Personal Histories: Leaders Remember the Moments and People That Shaped Them r0111b Primal Leadership: The Hidden Driver of Great Performance r0111c Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie McKee HBR Roundtable All in a Day’s Work r0111d A roundtable with Raymond Gilmartin, Frances Hesselbein, Frederick Smith, Lionel Tiger, Cynthia Tragge-Lakra, and Abraham Zaleznik What Titans Can Teach Us r0111e Richard S. Tedlow Best of HBR What Leaders Really Do r0111f John P Kotter . The Hard Work of Being a Soft Manager r0111g William H. Peace Leadership in a Combat Zone r0111h William G. Pagonis Leadership: Sad Facts and Silver Linings r0111j Thomas J. Peters The Work of Leadership r0111k Ronald A. Heifetz and Donald L. Laurie In Closing Followership: It’s Personal, Too Robert Goffee and Gareth Jones r0111l Best of HBR 1990 What Leaders Really Do They don’t make plans; they don’t solve problems; they The article reprinted here stands on its own, of course, but it can also be seen don’t even organize people. as a crucial contribution to a debate that What leaders really do is began in 1977, when Harvard Business prepare organizations for School professor Abraham Zaleznik change and help them cope published an HBR...
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...The following is a highlighted summary of the book, Execution, published by Crown Business. The statements below are key points of the book as determined by James Altfeld and have been made available at no charge to the user. Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done By Larry Bossidy & Ram Charan Introduction Too many leaders fool themselves into thinking their companies are well run. They’re like the parents in Garrison Keillor’s fictional Lake Wobegon, all of whom think their children are above average. Then the top performers at Lake Wobegon High School arrive at the University of Minnesota or Colgate or Princeton and find out they’re average or even below average. Similarly, when corporate leaders start understanding how the GE’s and Emerson Electrics of this world are run—how superbly they get things done—they discover how far they have to go before they become world class in execution. Here is the fundamental problem: People think of execution as the tactical side of business, something leaders delegate while thy focus on the perceived “bigger” issues. This idea is completely wrong. Execution is not just tactics—it is a discipline and a system. It has to be built into a company’s strategy, its goals, and its culture. And the leader of the organization must be deeply engaged in it. He can delegate its substance. We talk to many leaders who fall victim to the gap between promises they’ve made and results their organizations delivered. They frequently tell us they...
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...Social Science & Medicine 66 (2008) 2520e2531 www.elsevier.com/locate/socscimed Biomedical scientists’ perception of the social sciences in health research* Mathieu Albert a,*, Suzanne Laberge b, Brian D. Hodges a, Glenn Regehr a, Lorelei Lingard a a b University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario, Canada Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada ´ ´ ´ Available online 11 March 2008 Abstract The growing interest in interdisciplinary research within the Canadian health sciences sector has been manifested by initiatives aimed at increasing the involvement of the social sciences in this sector. Drawing on Bourdieu’s concept of field and Knorr-Cetina’s concept of epistemic culture, this study explores the extent to which it is possible for the social sciences to integrate into, and thrive in, a field in which the experimental paradigm occupies a hegemonic position. Thirty-one semi-structured interviews were conducted to explore biomedical scientists’ receptiveness toward the social sciences in general and to qualitative research in particular. We found that these respondents exhibited a predominantly negative posture toward the social sciences; however, we also found considerable variation in their judgments and explanations. Eight biomedical scientists tended to be receptive to the social sciences, 7 ambivalent, and 16 unreceptive. The main rationale expressed by receptive respondents is that the legitimacy of a method depends on its capacity to adequately...
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...[pic] [pic] |Briefing | |Mergers & Acquisitions: An Introduction | |Prof. Ian Giddy, New York University | |[pic] | | | |INTRODUCTION | |This is an introduction to the subject of mergers, acquisitions, buyouts and divestitures as covered in my Mergers & Acquisitions course. The purpose is to delineate how and why a merger | |decision should be made. The course focuses on mergers and acquisitions in the context of private as well as publicly traded companies. Acquisitions...
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...INDUSTRIAL INTERNSHIP REPORT ON “STUDY ON COLD CALLING WITH FOCUS ON EMPLOYEE PERSPECTIVE” A summer training project report submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement of Post-Graduation Diploma in Management SUBMITTED BY: N. Sneha Priya Roll No. 2T333 SUPERVISED BY: Dr. A. Bhavani Professor - Social Sciences SIVA SIVANI INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT SECUNDERABAD-500100 2013-2015 COLLEGE CERTIFICATE COMPANY CERTIFICATE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I would take this opportunity to express my sincere gratitude to everyone for their valuable assistance and support during my Industry Internship Program (IIP) at Client Curve Info systems Pvt Ltd Hyderabad. I would like to heartily thank my company guide, Mr. Prem Singh Tara, CEO at Client Curve Info systems Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad for giving me an opportunity to work at Client Curve Info systems Pvt Ltd and for his valuable guidance during the course of my internship. His inputs and suggestions have played a very crucial role at every stage in the development of the project and my knowledge as a whole. I would also like to thank Ms. G. Avanthi, HR Manager and for helping me throughout and guiding me and Mr. Karan, COO and my corporate guide, for believing in me and giving me an opportunity to work on a live project and for teaching me and coaching me with each and every small detail required to successfully complete my project, their guidance at the grass root level and helping me overcome every little...
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...Women Veterans: The Effects of Combat Deployment Patricia Rochedieu Liberty University Introduction to Human Services HSCO 500 Mrs. Jennifer Griffin November 17, 2014 Abstract The relocation and adjustment processes occurring within persons facing involuntary deployment are most certainly filled with anxiety and uncertainly. This discussion will focus on women veterans who have served on the front lines and the affects of combat deployment. Examinations defining the trials and tribulations faced by the female military member will place attention on the psychological and psychosocial transactions that occur during military operations and the challenges women face. Expansion of this topic will include a dialogue that offers insight into the growing concerns shaping the outcomes of the female member’s deployment to include military sexual trauma, eating disorders, depression, substance abuse, adjustment disorders, sleep disturbances and spiritual and existential struggles. Although this topic will only provide a brief glimpse into the female veteran’s plight it opens up a forum for further discussions within this topic with the intentions of highlighting the effects of combat deployment on women veterans who served on the front lines. Women Veterans: The Effects of Combat Deployment The participation of women deployed to combat areas throughout the world is vital to the successful outcomes of any mission. Women in the military are well trained and possess specific...
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