...The Three Laws of Performance Rewriting the Future of Your Organization and Your Life By Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan Jossey-Bass, 2009 ISBN 9780470195598 Introduction When something isn't working in our work lives, we struggle with which part of the problem to tackle first. Do we start with cost reduction? What about morale? Or should we begin with process improvement? In our personal lives, it's the same dilemma - which problem do we work on first? Should we resolve to do better with home finances? Make our marriage more fulfilling? Get rid of 10 pounds? Spend more time with the kids? The optimist says there's opportunity everywhere we look. The pessimist says everything is messed up, and it's as though every system is perfectly designed to stay messed up, no matter how many things we try to fix. We pick the problem to work on and we either fail or succeed. If we fail, we add "frustration" to our list of problems. If we succeed, a new problem pops up to replace the old one. The solution to a problem becomes the next problem. We cut 10% of our department budget and our star performers leave in frustration, experiencing a lack of support for projects that are important to them. We quit smoking and gain 10 pounds. We go to the gym to lose the weight, and our family complains we're not at home enough. We spend more time at home and our boss gripes that we're not getting enough done, the budget is out of control and when are we going to fire the next person we...
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...There are four main learning styles that the vast majority of the population falls into. These include the visual, aural, reading/writing, and kinesthetic methods. The kinesthetic learning style is a tactile way of learning that allows the learner to interact with the lesson. Kinesthetic learners do best by being able to feel and touch. Having a hands on approach to the material that is being taught allows these students to retain the information and better understand it. According to “Kinesthetic Study Strategies” (n.d.), these type of learners “need to do things to understand”. Unfortunately, only 15% of students learn this way. This makes education difficult for these students, as most education is catered to the majority of students, which is evenly split between visual and auditory learners (Anderson, n.d.). The author of this essay identifies as a kinesthetic learner. Being a kinesthetic learner, the preferred learning strategies have included many that are typical for this learning style. Hands on approaches for nursing skills have been highly successful, as well as return demonstration. The author has also found that teaching other skills has greatly improved her understanding and method. In order to learn ideas that are not skill related, illustrating the idea and explaining it to others has proved very effective. Also, the author will often write about events in clinicals, what actions she took, and then research to see if these were the best actions...
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...the vital components of bibliography guides on the various collections because this is the way of our topic and also for looking what it information like the library, museum researcher. It shall also the components that so very important for your writing historical research of the Filipina materials in the memorial museum and the most extensive collection of documents and manuscripts in the Philippines. This writing of the Philippines of history these tools are necessary implements for historians to facilitate the already historical research in the writing in the Philippines. Answer: 2. The sum of factors in the presentation of national history among renowned Filipino historians in the rewriting of the history that presents. Philippine history of periods wrote about those come the archipelago in various bases from my research for the identify and direction as the nation. We have our national history unquestionable base in evidences of our evolution from the land, people and living realty but from my search this dynamic interaction with the other worlds and the realities and traditions. Answer: 2. Some factors in the presentation of national history among renowned Filipino historians in the...
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...tables, charts, and labeled diagrams. This mode could have been labeled as Graphic (G). Aural learners learn by listening to and participating in discussions, speeches, and question and answer sessions. Read/write learners learn by reading and writing text associated with the books, class notes, etc., and the kinesthetic learners learn by engaging in physical experiences and manipulating objects. (Ranganath & Priya, 2015, p. 196). Learning strategies The strategies that help with my learning is using text books with graphs, flow charts and pictures, Highlighting or underlining my notes or text books. Drawing diagrams helps with the recall of information. Attending classes, lectures and discussing the subject with others, reading and rewriting notes, making lists, using models, watching videos, performing experiments, or dissecting, trial and...
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...CHAPTER 4 PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF DATA This chapter presents the results of the survey on different reviewing strategies that are beneficial for the preparation in taking Nursing Licensure Examination of the 4th year nursing students batch 2010-2011, analysis and interpretation of data. Sample characteristics One hundred three Fourth Year Nursing Students of Laguna College Batch 2010-2011, sixty July 2010 Nursing Licensure Examination passers and twenty Clinical Instructors and Administrators completed the questionnaires. Participant characteristics are shown in Figures 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4 and __________. [pic] Figure 4.1. Age Distribution of the 4th Year Laguna College Nursing Students According to Figure 4.1 the age distribution profile of 4th year nursing students of Laguna College batch 2010 -2011 with a total of 103 taken as population sample has 44% or 45 respondents of age 19 years old and below, 50% or 52 respondents from age 20-25 years old and 6% or 6 respondents from age 26 years old and above. [pic] Figure 4.2. Gender Distribution of the 4th Year Laguna College Nursing Students Figure 4.2 shows that out of the 103 fourth year nursing students taken as sample population, 73 respondents or 75% of the sample population are female and 30 respondents or 25% of the sample populations are male. [pic] Figure 4.3. Age Distribution of the...
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...which can be justified as a miniature telescreen in our pocket. "Torture Chambers" & "Forced Labor Camps" In 1984 - Anyone who commits a physical or thought crime against the Party is subjected to punishment. They are arrested, and then sent to "forced labor camps" for small offenses or to the "Ministry of Love" to be tortured for conspiracy. Winston is tortured in multiple cruel ways and endures starvation, regular beatings, humiliation, intense psychological suffering. The most detailed torture was his intense experience with starvation. Along with many other prisoners, Winston was starved to the point where he was too weak to lift his head, his hair was falling out by the clumps, and he couldn't recognize himself in the mirror. In the Past - During Hitler's reign of power in Germany political enemies such as German Communists, Socialists, and Social Democrats, along with anyone who opposed the Nazis were incarcerated into "Concentration Camps". In these camps the prisoners would be forced to complete exhausting labor varying from working in construction to mining in coal quarries. They were refused any of their personal rights such as trials, and lived in miserable quarters without a steady supply of substantial food or clean water. In addition, many of the prisoners were subjected to supplementary torture. Today - Guantánamo Bay is a U.S detention camp located in Cuba intended for the internment of "enemy combatants". Enemy combatants do not receive the rights that U.S citizens...
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...Brave New World compared to 1984 Brave New World and 1984 were both written by men who had experienced war on the grand scale of the twentieth century. Disillusioned and alarmed by what they saw in society, each author produced a powerful satire and an alarming vision of future possibilities. Although the two books are very different, they address many of the same issues in their contrasting ways. Huxley's novel sets out a world in which society is kept carefully balanced, with the means of reproduction just as closely controlled as the means of production. Human beings and the goods they make are tailored to one another: people are created in order to fulfil particular purposes, and are encouraged to consume so as to maintain the cycle. The society presented in 1984 is less comfortably balanced. The population is kept content with a rather meagre lot because of the constant war, which, as is explicitly stated in the Book, is a convenient means of maintaining the status quo, and the Party keeps a very close watch on those members of society who are deemed capable of disrupting it. Although set in Orwell's future, 1984 does not put great emphasis on technological advance—indeed, within the society of Oceania, there is effectively none any more, because the methods required for proper scientific enquiry are antithetical to the demands of the Party, and thus real science has been abolished. Orwell posits a certain level of technological advance—the two-way television screens...
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...History is a science that leaves vast field for guesswork, various assumptions and theories, for there is hardly anything less solid than the past. If we are not sure about what happens at this very moment in some other part of our Earth, how can we be absolutely sure about what happened on this Earth yesterday, a year or a hundred years ago? The further we go into the past, the vaguer our information grows. Such a situation is a fertile breeding ground for theorizing; among the most bizarre of such theories is, undoubtedly, the “New Chronology”, which turned a not very well known Russian mathematician Anatoly Fomenko into a rather well known scandal figure. According to him, the Scaligerian chronology we use now is not only inaccurate, but also wildly incorrect as a result of later revisions, rewritings and inclusions by various conspiracy groups, such as Jesuits and the ruling family of the Russian Empire, Romanovs. Based on statistical data, zodiacs, and mathematical elements, used in chronology, he states that the historical period of humankind is shorter than it is supposed to be, with all the ancient history (everything before the 10th century AD) is but a reflection of what happened during the Middle Ages; Jesus Christ lived in 12th century; Mongol Hordes are in fact Russians, etc. Needless to say, the majority of scientific community considers the entire Fomenko’s work to be pseudoscience, although it has a number of followers. In my opinion, what it reminds me most...
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...The Mutilation of History “Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.” (Orwell, 211). History is not necessarily as it appears in history books. People just believe what has been printed in those books without a second thought, but history may have not actually happened that way. George Orwell explores this possibility in his novel 1984, where the main character Winston Smith questions this altered history. In Orwell’s world of 1984, the government changes history to fit their own purposes. This mutability of history is shown through the description of Winston’s job, the newspaper clipping and picture, and the Party’s policies. For a prime example, Winston Smith has a job within the government and his job description is to change history books, newspaper articles, and any other written records to fit the government’s new version of history. Orwell shows the true nature of Winston’s job when he writes, “It was therefore necessary to rewrite a paragraph of Big Brother’s speech in such a way as to make him predict the thing that had actually happened” (Orwell 34). This shows Winston rewriting a previously given speech to make it seem that Big Brother had correctly predicted what happened even though in reality he had been wrong. This is portraying the altering of history in order to fit the Party’s purposes. At one point Winston, who is questioning this alteration of history, finds proof of the history changing. He finds a newspaper...
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...progresses, the clever pigs slowly take control over everyone in order to gain more power. The pigs are able to change the past and future to their advantage by altering history and manipulating the memories of the other animals on the farm. The pigs change the memories of illiterate animals by rewriting historical documents. In the middle of the night, the animals find a pig named Squealer in the barn with “a lantern, a paint-brush, and an overturned pot of white paint.” (68) Later, they notice that one of their seven commandments reads differently than they remember, becoming oddly specific and giving more power to the pigs. Since the other animals have bad memories, they accept the change without question believe that the rule has always been there. The pigs have altered perceptions of the past by changing documents in the present. They hold such...
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...hour march, swim 100 meters, and know how to make a bed. Boys at 10 joined the Deutsches Jungvolk (German Young People) until 13 years old when they were transferred to the Hitler Jugend (Hitler Youth.) * Teachers had to be members of the Nazi party * Timetables included new subjects Race Study and Party Belief * Every child had to be fit and ready to fight * P.E lessons were every day from 2pm to 6pm * Gifted and talented children were sent to a special school called the Adolf Hitler school-To be trained as future leaders. * Outside school German children were supposed to join the Hitler Youth or German Girl’s League. Education became much more ideologically driven during the Nazi years than in the past. Essays became rewriting propaganda handouts. This had a dramatic effect on...
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...book because this is the first scene of Winston Smith going against Big Brother and the Party by committing a Thoughtcrime, which is an instance of unorthodox or controversial thinking. Winston Smith writes down “Down with Big Brother” (Orwell 16) in capital letters in his book, which he knew was a crime that is punishable by death, but at this moment, he is breaking out of the propaganda and ideas that the Party has indoctrinated in their citizens. This is the start of Winston Smith’s fight against Big Brother and the Party. I chose the scene when Winston Smith is throwing away old historical documents because this action is how the Party is rewriting all of history to match their often-changing propaganda. By destroying the documents, the changes were undetectable by the citizens of Oceania. The slogan of the Party is “Who controls the past… controls the future: who controls the...
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...VARK Learning Style Courtney Asher NRS 429V GCU “VARK Learning Style” At some point in our student lives, we will be introduced to a short questionnaire referred to as a VARK. Usually one is required to take the questionnaire in the beginning of their college journey to assist with learning strategies or varied studying styles that provide personalized learning and positive outcomes. If one is lucky, a teacher might introduce it in high school or even middle school because learning styles may change as we age, but it is important to tackle correct study techniques earlier than later. A VARK is a one dimensional tool used to assist a person in identifying a learning preference or preferences for taking in and putting out information when learning is the objective. (VARK, 2014). An individual learning style refers to the preferential way an individual absorbs, processes, comprehends and retains information. (Teach, 2014). It is important to understand how we prefer to receive information because we may not be getting everything we possibly could from a course. Current practice may warrant a B- student, but after participating in the VARK the student may apply new learning strategies ultimately bumping their grade up to an A with the feeling that they actually understand the material being taught. I have taken the VARK countless times and the results have always been the same, I am told I learn predominately by reading/writing with notable points in visual and aural styles...
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...to the reader how a totalitarian government asserts its power. For example, O’Brien tells Winston, “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.” O’Brien explains to Winston that there is no promising future in store for him. Orwell uses the imagery of a boot stamping a face to demonstrate how a totalitarian government distills fear into its citizens to keep them under control. This evokes fear into both the reader and the citizens as it reveals the sheer power of the Inner Party. Furthermore, the Party’s slogan is, “He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” Orwell uses parallel structure to emphasize the necessity of the Party controlling the past, present, and future. This reveals how the Party wants complete control over everything. They claim they have control of the past but in reality they are rewriting it. By asserting their power they’re dominating every aspect of everyone’s life through every moment of time. The Party controls all. Orwell demonstrates the impact that the inner party has on dissenting viewpoints. Firstly, the Inner Party puts up propaganda that say, “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” Orwell utilizes parallel structure to show how the Inner Party can use two...
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...INTRODUCTION Most of the influential masterpieces in the literary world are undeniably, from Western Literature. Those that shaped most of the modern day thinking are found in books that belong to the Western Literary Canon. Any literary work can be considered as Western Literature as long as it is written in the context of Western Culture, in the languages of Europe and some other Indo-European languages. Tales of frontier heroes Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett set the stage for the Western hero and the Lewis and Clark Expedition written in the early nineteenth century gave readers some of their first visions of the landscape and native peoples of the West. Later explorers added to the colorful picture of the West. However, as the realities of the West changed, so did the focus of writers who used the West as subject and symbol. Land became less available and the uses of land came into question. The environmental movement led to a reevaluation of humanity’s relationship to nature. As the region was settled a mix of cultures came into play. Writers now have come to emphasize the complexity of Western life, rather than its simplicity. Contemporary Westerns sound with more diverse voices than ever before. In George Orwell’s novel, 1984, he writes about his dark vision of the future. It may not just be of the future of the West, but the way of thinking and system portrayed are particularly Western in nature. A lot of terms coined in this novel are also use widely already in...
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