...Teach Like A Pirate Part 1 of Teach Like a Pirate is divided into 6 sections: Passion, Immersion, Rapport, Ask and Analyze, Transformation, and Enthusiasm. Passion can be divided into content passion, professional passion and personal passion. A teacher who is fully immersed in the moment has a special type of intensity that resonates with great power in the classroom, regardless of the activity. Building rapport is all about interacting with your students as fellow human beings, not just subordinates. Rapport is important because it helps create buy-in. Ask and Analyze says that if you consistently ask questions that lead to creative and outside-the-box thinking, your mind will provide you with creative and outside-the-box answers. The Honda Odyssey example is so true! Transformation deals with reframing. A teachers job is to create a mental paradigm shift by reframing the content and its value and relevancy to their lives. Enthusiasm is contagious. Your attitude carries with it your single most powerful tool to influence your classroom. Part 2 of Teach Like a Pirate discusses crafting engaging lessons. I learned many ideas from Dave Burgess’ hooks. I liked “Move It, Move It”. It encourages kinesthetic activities in the classroom. We do a lot of music and movement in Kindergarten. I have also used the “People Prop” hook by having groups make human letters with their bodies. (ex: making the letter A by laying on the floor) The “Picasso” hook is used...
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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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...Corresponding to Siebel’s Core Values, Carman should treat customers with deference and professional fashion as representatives from Quickand Reilly could be our prospects He should avoid providing incomplete information; also whateverinformation is demanded from customer should be provided withoutany reluctance It’s a perfect opportunity to flaunt the strengths and fleet of partners Share some of Siebel’s success stories In order to provide details of competitive landscape in CRM marketCarman can share Gartner Research Report which shows Siebelsystems as a complete solution provider and market leader Since Cathy belongs to Client service and marketing Department; Carman shouldn’t explain too much of technical details of productinstead he must focus on how a Siebel product can cater to theirorganizational requirements. Corresponding to Siebel’s Core Values, Carman should treat customers with deference and professional fashion as representatives from Quickand Reilly could be our prospects He should avoid providing incomplete information; also whateverinformation is demanded from customer should be provided withoutany reluctance It’s a perfect opportunity to flaunt the strengths and fleet of partners Share some of Siebel’s success stories In order to provide details of competitive landscape in CRM marketCarman can share Gartner Research Report which shows Siebelsystems as a complete solution provider and market leader ...
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.... How should Carman respond to the invitation to tell the Quick and Reilly executives what he thought of Oracle? What features of this particular interaction influence your opinion? Would your opinion of the right response change if the circumstances were different? Response to Cathy’s query: • Corresponding to Siebel’s Core Values, Carman should treat customers with deference and professional fashion as representatives from Quick and Reilly could be our prospects • He should avoid providing incomplete information; also whatever information is demanded from customer should be provided without any reluctance • It’s a perfect opportunity to flaunt the strengths and fleet of partners • Share some of Siebel’s success stories • In order to provide details of competitive landscape in CRM market, Carman can share Gartner Research Report which shows Siebel systems as a complete solution provider and market leader • Since Cathy belongs to Client service and marketing Department; Carman shouldn’t explain too much of technical details of product instead he must focus on how a Siebel product can cater to their organizational requirements. Features influencing opinions: • Since meeting was not prior scheduled, lack of understanding about clients’ needs, budget and requirements could strain the prospective deal • Carman is not sure if Cathy Ridley is Influencer or Decider and degree of power that she holds in organization • Carman himself is not comfortable in comparing Siebel...
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...Techniques on getting people to like you Today I am going to share on how to get people to like you. Or more exact, I am going to teach you on how to make your best first impression. I will give you numerous way to make people to like you and I will be covering on rapport building, mirroring, matching, representational systems and rapport mistakes. The first technique we are going to cover is rapport building. The definition of rapport is the development of a close and harmonious relationship in which two or more people understand each other and can communicate well. Most people try to build rapport by being nice to someone, followed by a sharing of common experiences. By doing this you’re saying, people like people like themselves, and these are the reasons I’m like you. These common techniques can work some of the time but definitely not all of the time. Building Rapport is normally the difference between getting someone to quickly like you, or not. I’ll teach you know what to look for and how to effortlessly gain rapport with anyone. When you are with someone you trust, you may not notice, but you are naturally mirroring him or her. Mirroring is defined as when you copy someone else’s behavior; their movement, body position, hand gestures, tone of language, etc. A clear example of mirroring is seen when a couple naturally completes each other’s sentences. They are so in tune they actually seem to read the others thoughts. What most people do not realize is that mirroring...
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...A post JVS Pathways Discovery meeting was held on 8/31/17 at the Warren JVS office for Taylor. The meeting was to go over everything that took place during the Discovery process and to talk about her participating in an internship. In attendance was Taylor, her mother Jenny, her stepfather Chris, her grandmother Linda, this counselor, and Rita and Bill from the JVS Pathways team. During the meeting Rita the Career Navigator for the JVS Pathways team who spent all her time with Taylor during the Discovery process went over everything that was collected such as: her interests, contributions/skills, ideal working conditions vs. preferences, tasks, and potential sites for an internship (full report in case file). When it comes to interests, Taylor identified the following three areas to focus on for internships: Legos/organizing/crafts, food preparation, and shopping. During Discovery several of Taylors contributions/skills were identified. Some of the main ones included: being organized, being detail-oriented, willing to learn, is able to follow directions, is hardworking, can focus on a task until it's completed, and will ask questions if she is unsure of something. The rest of the list is outlined in her Discovery report, which is in her case file. As a part of the process, Taylor and her parents also identified her conditions for an internship vs. her preferences. With conditions Taylor needs a job that keeps her busy, that has supportive co-workers, where her availability...
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...considération toutes les formes d’innovations technologiques potentiellement favorables au développement durable : innovations de procédé, innovations de produit, innovations organisationnelles, innovations de marché. Elle s’intéresse également à toute la chaîne de l’innovation et accorde une attention particulière à la pluralité des dispositifs d’innovation. La recherche poursuit cinq objectifs scientifiques, eux-mêmes guidés par des préoccupations opérationnelles : – étudier le rôle ambivalent de l’innovation technologique, analysée à la fois comme une des causes du développement non durable et comme un facteur clé d’un nouveau mode de production, compatible avec le développement durable ; – caractériser les technologies et les processus d’innovation favorables au développement durable, en tenant compte non seulement de leurs aspects environnementaux, mais aussi des autres dimensions du développement durable ; – étudier les aspects socio-économiques de ces technologies et processus d’innovation favorables au développement durable, à travers des études de cas ; – situer l’innovation technologique en relation avec d’autres instruments au service du développement durable ; – étudier les freins et les incitants à la mise en oeuvre de politiques d’innovation et de diffusion des technologies favorables au développement durable ; mettre les conclusions en perspective par rapport au contexte belge. L’insertion du Centre de recherche Travail & Technologies de la FTU dans des réseaux de recherche...
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...1.0 Introduction According to Leslie and Philip (2012), innovation is the commercial exploitation of new knowledge, in other words, developing new ideas into products and production processes and selling them on to customers. Innovation is also the process of translating an idea or invention into a good or service that creates value or for which customers will pay. The term innovation can be defined as something that are original and, as consequence, new that ‘breaks into’ the market. Innovation is needed for businesses to produce new products. Multinational Companies (MNC) can be defined as corporations which have their home in one country but operate and live under the laws and customs of other countries as well according to Ruth and Michael (2000). Generally, any company or group that derives a quarter of its revenue from operations outside of its home country is considered multinational companies. It can also be referred to as an international corporation. One of the examples of MNC is Starbucks. Starbucks Corporation is an American global coffee company and coffeehouse chain based in Seattle, Washington. Starbucks is the largest coffeehouse company in the world, with 20891 stores in 64 countries (Wikipedia, 2013). According to Leslie and Philip (2012), the global business environment can be defined as the environment in different sovereign countries, with factors exogenous to the home environment of the organization, influencing decision making on resource...
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...HOW TO FOSTER CREATIVITY IN DECISION MAKING Abstract Creativity is the most critical and important factor for all organizations to take advantage of in order to survive during these challenging times (Kanter, 1983; Tushman and O'Reilly, 1997; Utterback, 1994). Ongoing uncertainties of both the economic and global financial markets, indirectly forces almost all successful companies to adopt a new corporate business model largely based on using individual creativity to facilitate and enhance organizational innovation. In order to build and sustain an effective organizational culture conquered by creativity and innovation, organizations must effectively identify to maximize all creative wealth of their members, develop creative leaders and management teams and provide a kind of work environment that is highly supportive of creative expression. The focus on this paper is to examine the ways to foster creativity in decision-making since it can easily be seen and understood that fostering creativity is not an easy task as there are no easy formulas to make creativity happen. Introduction Creativity is significant in management research (Shalley et al., 2004) and it is well defined as the production of novel ideas, which are not only unique but also useful. They are deemed to be useful when “they have potential for direct or indirect value to the organization, either in the short or long-term” (Shalley et al., 2004). Ideas can always be generated by anyone, and are either...
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...INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT Question 4: Compare and contrast the activities of two companies of your choice in the same industrial sector in developing new technology to try to maintain competitive advantage. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 3 TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT 4 (i)PRINCIPAL STAGES OF TECH DEVELOPMENT 4 (ii)BASIC INDEXES OF TECHNOLOGY 4 ROLE OF R&D 5 TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION 7 ANALYSIS 10 (i)SAMSUNG 10 (ii)APPLE 12 PORTER’S 5 FORCE MODEL COMPARISON 15 SWOT ANALYSIS 17 CONCLUSION & RECOMMENDATION 19 REFERENCES 21 INTRODUCTION This paper seeks to compare core and enabling technologies of two organizations in the consumer electronics industry. Apple is currently first in the brand value while Samsung is sitting in the second position. Whereas Samsung has the maximum market share in the mobile industry. Apple leads the line in the tablet segment. Both the companies compete fiercely in almost all the segments such as Laptops, mobiles. Apple’s is preparing the next innovative product called the Apple Tv. Apple and Samsung both generate huge profits but it is the latter which returns huge revenues each year and Apple is slightly losing its charm since Samsung is coming up with innovative and high tech products every year.. This paper further analyzes contrasting strategies of core and enabling technologies between two...
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...LEAD USER PROJECT HANDBOOK: A practical guide for lead user project teams INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS AND SERVICES CONSUMER PRODUCTS AND SERVICES PROFESSIONAL PRODUCTS AND SERVICES Joan Churchill • Eric von Hippel • Mary Sonnack PREFACE When Joan Churchill, Mary Sonnack and I were doing lead user projects for our research in the 1990’s, we needed some standardized training materials for lead user project teams. We therefore wrote this handbook, and progressively revised it based upon field experience. Our final revisions were made in 1998. Then, our manuscript just sat there, as we all went on to other work. It is now 2009, and researchers and practitioners have learned a great deal more than we knew in 1998 about lead users, and how to run lead user projects. In a year or two, we expect that completely new handbooks will supersede this one. In particular, we are eagerly looking forward to one now being planned by Professors Christoph Hienerth and Marion Poetz of Copenhagen Business School. Still, while we are waiting for newer materials, we think that lead user teams, consultants, and teachers may well find something of value in what we wrote 10 years ago. Accordingly we are posting this book on the Web under a Creative Commons license that permits free downloading. It can be used in conjunction with 6 short lead user project training videos developed by Joan Churchill. These are also available on the Web for free downloading from http://mit.edu/evhippel/www/index...
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...Innovative Business Practices Innovative Business Practices: Prevailing a Turbulent Era Edited by Demetris Vrontis and Alkis Thrassou Innovative Business Practices: Prevailing a Turbulent Era, Edited by Demetris Vrontis and Alkis Thrassou This book first published 2013 Cambridge Scholars Publishing 12 Back Chapman Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 2XX, UK British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Copyright © 2013 by Demetris Vrontis and Alkis Thrassou and contributors All rights for this book reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. ISBN (10): 1-4438-4604-X, ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-4604-2 TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter One ................................................................................................. 1 Knowledge Hybridization: An Innovative Business Practices to Overcome the Limits of the Top-Down Transfers within a Multinational Corporation Hela Chebbi, Dorra Yahiaoui, Demetris Vrontis and Alkis Thrassou Chapter Two .............................................................................................. 17 Rethinking Talent Management in Organizations: Towards a Boundary-less Model Carrie Foster, Neil Moore and Peter Stokes Chapter Three .......
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...Case study An analysis of 3M, the innovation company Introduction Any review of the literature on new product development and innovation management will uncover numerous references to 3M. The organisation is synonymous with innovation and has been described as ‘a smooth running innovation machine’ (Mitchell, 1989). Year after year 3M is celebrated in the Fortune 500 rankings as the ‘most respected company’ and the ‘most innovative company’. Management gurus from Peter Drucker to Tom Peters continually refer to the company as a shining example of an innovative company. This case study takes a look at the company behind some of the most famous brands in the marketplace, including Post-it® Notes. It examines the company’s heritage and shows how it has arrived at this enviable position. Furthermore, the case study attempts to clarify what it is that makes 3M stand out from other organisations. Background Originally known as the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, with its headquarters in St Paul, Minnesota, 3M was established in 1902 to mine abrasive minerals for the production of a single product, sandpaper. From these inauspicious beginnings, the company has grown organically, concentrating on the internal development of new products in a variety of different industries. The latest review of the company’s position reveals that it manufactures over 60,000 products, has operations in 61 countries, employs 75,000 people and has achieved an average year-on-year growth...
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...Running head: INNOVATION LEADERSHIP Innovation Leadership Russell L. Dykes Bellevue University Abstract Innovation leadership is all about facilitating and empowering others in order to help their creativity thrive. In order to be a leader of innovation, the manager must facilitate the innovation of others by providing the space, equipment, networks, partnerships, and environment that allows their creativity to flourish. The innovation leader must toward establishing a culture of innovation realizing that innovation work requires a team. Innovation cannot be conceived, developed, and delivered by just a single individual. Innovation Leadership Contrary to the beliefs of some, innovation leadership is not project management. Neither are the processes of innovation leadership the same as those of being an inventor. Innovation leadership is about creating the context and environment for innovation to occur. This involves creating and implementing the roles, physical space, partnerships, networks, decision-making structures, and equipment needed to support innovative thinking. Innovative leadership is not about being the one with the best and brightest ideas. Rather, it is about facilitating and empowering others in order to help their creativity thrive (Malloch & Porter-O’Grady, 2009). Quantum leadership can tolerate uncertainty and disorder, and can create a flexible structure based on self-organizing. Creative disorder brings...
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...Giant Warrick L. Farr MGT-330 09-01-2011 Professor Alice Nworah Halliburton the Energy Giant Halliburton has proven that it wants to stay in business for many years. Since the inception of the company in 1919, Halliburton has spent billions on new technologies. According to Halliburton (2011), “in 2009, Halliburton spent approximately 349 million dollars on technology research and development. The result from this technology granted Halliburton with 219 patents in 2009 alone. Halliburton currently has technology centers located in Belgium, Canada, Singapore, United States, and the United Kingdom. According to (2011), “Halliburton recently opened a new technology center in April 2011, at the Federal University of Rio De Janeiro. Innovation is what sets Halliburton apart from its competitors”. This center will provide solutions that they can implement to accelerate deepwater field development and continue enhancing production from the mature oil fields. Management has also paved the way to introduce these new technologies into the college campus in Houston, Texas. Halliburton has established a program named Camp Red, which is an elective course at the University of Houston. This course is worth three credit hours to primarily senior level engineering technology students. This program is comprised of a five day camp of 23 students and three professors. The week included projects that challenged the student’s technical and creative skills, along the tours of rigs. At...
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