...50 Good Short Thoughts | Short Good Thoughts In English | Short Thoughts 1. It is not what you do for your juniors/subordinates/children that are important. It is what you teach them to do for them selves. 2. The world suffers a lot, not because of the violence of bad people, but because of the silence of good people. 3. A successful man is he who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him! Learn to accept criticism proactively and with grace. 4. Your success is determined by what you are willing to sacrifice for it. 5. No one will manufacture a lock without a key. Similarly the God does not give problems without solutions. Only we should have patience and courage to find them. 6. Success is not the key to happiness. But happiness is the key to success. 7. Do not complain about others. Change yourself if you want peace. It is easier to protect our feet with shoes than to carpet the earth. 8. Do not only be close with someone who makes you happy. Be close with someone who can not be happy without you. It may make a lot difference to him at least. 9. Bill Gates never did LaxmiPooja but he is the richest man. Einstein never did SaraswatiPooja but he was the cleverest man. So just believe in hard work. 10. You can tell whether a man is intelligent by his answers. But you can tell a man is wise by his questions. 11. Slow down and enjoy life. It is not only the scenery you miss by going fast but you also miss the sense of where you are going and...
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...Jahurul Islam redefined the concept of business and industries in Bangladesh. He was the king of Bangladeshi business sector. The history books rightly states him as the father of Bangladeshi business. Business was in his blood since he belonged to a traditional business family. Jahurul Islam ventured into the business sector as early as 1964, with his company 'Islam Group'. Since then Islam Group has diverged into multidimensional sectors including engineering, construction, trading and even manufacturing. The company, over the years, concentrated in other sectors including pharmaceuticals, textiles, jute, aviation, ceramics, media, real estate, finance, construction and even something as vital as energy. Through the variety of his concerns, Jahurul Islam has shown diversified thinking capability that no one in his generation possessed. His unique way of thinking and leadership also resulted in Islam Group to be one of the leading industries in Bangladesh. Perseverance is one of man's greatest qualities; Jahurul Islam possessed that quality. It naturally transformed him to be a great businessman and leader. He faced a lot of problems during the three decade sway over his company; however his patience and his brilliance together made Islam Group number one company in the country. Besides being good businessman, he was also a humanitarian. He founded Jahurul Islam Medical College and Hospital, for the betterment of the country. Although the institute officially began...
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...Choice of Ending the Cycle Lawrence Miller Jr. Composition I Instructor Hewlett April 25, 2015 When does the cycle come to an end? Better yet do I start the process to change the cycle? I sit for days on end, trying to collect my thoughts of what I picture my life would be like, rather than the images of my childhood. Images of my mother being beaten by my father, will forever be a stained memory in my brain. Missing out on growing up with my siblings, because of the choices I made. The only solution my mother could come to was sending me away. This cycle of being a deadbeat father, uneducated, abusive and alcoholic now I was carrying the burden on my shoulders. One day I said I can’t continue down this path. After all the headaches, stress, endless jobs my decision became very clear, college is the final decision. I realize if I want to strive for greatness and become a solid provider, role model for my family, secondary education is required. My days as a child, I could remember sitting in my room dreaming of what I wanted my life to be like. I told myself I would have a family, house and awesome job. Over the years my dreams started to become further near. As I begin to look over my life I realized, I was following the same path as my parents. It began when I had my first child at 18, just as my father had me. The cycle had begun, I wasn’t even aware that my life was about to go down a winding path. Birth is the beginning of life, as a newborn you are a virgin...
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...envisioned future – these are the essentials that constantly reminds us of who we are and where we’re going. Having read the article “Building Your Company’s Vision” by James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras makes me want to think of doing things that contribute to the general welfare rather than doing things because I just have to. It gives me purpose and something that keeps me going. It gives me reasons to love what I do and to pursue excellence in order that I may fulfill my purpose and satisfy my personal needs that goes beyond the salary, needs that seek deeper than what it looks on the outside. It defines mine and the organization’s being linked together. The companies that have been mentioned have long been recognized successful and famous in their own industry and this article explains why they are where they are now. Such motivational stories would be of great help to those organizations who seek improvement and development in their structure as a whole. Keeping up with this dynamic world isn’t easy and every organization needs something to hold on so they won’t lose their balance and just fall off from the cliff where they stand. One wrong move and everything will be messed up. This gives them the core that is unchanging, the core that is permanent and lives within the organization, the people, and everything is geared because of that certain thing. This article stresses the importance of having core ideology and core purpose so people within the organization...
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...Book Review of Built to Last (Best of the Best) Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies is a book written by Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras.. It was published in the Year 1994. This Book is a result of Six year research project how visionary companies are established. While reading this book, I found that there are 2 objectives No.1 to learn the characteristics of Visionary companies 2. To highlight the practical and analytical and logical approach of doing a research so that they influence the practice of management. This Book will also be helpful for those people who have a certain vision in their minds of establishing their business. The research is based on true and practice examples with thorough research work. It is said to be one of the most influential books with respect to management. In the 1st Chapter Best of Best it clearly defines what a visionary company is. According to Author the company is a visionary company who has a clear mission of making money and making people happy. It is also combined with core values and pertaining big goals. He also says that that they are established before 1950’s. , well admired by knowledgeable people, have gone through multiple product or service life cycles. I completely agree that a visionary company has to have clear goals and the ability to sustain them. But it is not necessary that it should be established before 1950. There are visionary companies that established after 1950. For example Reliance Industries...
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...rally your thoughts and give you the drive or foresight to be the best leader. Instead he made me think and I answered the simple basic questions he posed. When Porras talked about leadership, he asked simple questions, as a leader where do you see yourself or the world in the future, and how does it affect the way you lead? Porras’ co-wrote a book called “Built to Last” which studied the fundamental differences about visionary companies and how they differ from other companies. A visionary company is a company that had or has a significant impact on the world. It is also a company that is widely admired by its peers and that it has a long track record of success. It also has multiple generations of leaders, product growth and a successful industry cycle. An enduring company is defined as a company that is thriving and doing well for at least a period of ten years. Porras talked about companies who in the beginning where small, then grew to medium and continued to grow. These companies had to endure the pain of ups and downs and turbulent times but in the long run they remained viable. With the market, comparison and visionary companies; the comparison companies out preformed the market company four to one, and the visionary companies out performed sixteen to one. Companies that had high performance were also involved in their community and also had an impact on the culture. In leaderships roles you have a founder of the company or you could have a leader who...
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...Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don’t ‘Good things take time, but great things happen all at once.’ – Rat Race. Jim Collins counters criticisms on Built to Last with Good to Great, by unfolding sought-after information on how to turn a company into a great one. ‘Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t’ written by Jim Collins in 2001 is the outcome of a rather ambitious research project. Collins and his team studied 11 companies, chosen out of 1,435 companies, which were able to transform themselves from ‘good’ companies to ‘great’ companies. These 11 companies were included based on at least 15 years of advanced performance. The research demonstrates the course of action that ‘good’ companies take on their journey to becoming ‘great’. Jim Collins began his research as a Stanford Graduate School of Business faculty member. At Stanford University, Collins has degrees in mathematics and business administration, as well as degrees from the University of Colorado and the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University. In 1995, he founded a management laboratory in Boulder, Colorado where he continues to perform research and discuss his findings with executives from social and corporate areas. Collins has worked with CEOs in several companies and social sector organizations. He is the author and co-author of five books that revolve around his research including Built to Last, with Jerry I. Porras...
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...PROJECT IN QUALITY Nikolas Bellosillo TC303 INTRODUCTION This book review is for our QUALITY subject with our professor Mr. R. Romero. The book is entitled Built to Last: Successful habits of Visionary companies By Jim Collins and Jerry Porras, published by HarperCollins Publishers. Built to Last is a blueprint for building organizations that will endure long into the twenty-first century. "This is not a book about charismatic visionary leaders. It is not about visionary product concepts or visionary products or visionary market insights. Nor is it about just having a corporate vision. This is a book about something far more important, enduring, and substantial. This is a book about visionary companies." So write Jim Collins and Jerry Porras in this groundbreaking book that shatters myths, provides new insights, and gives practical guidance to those who would like to build landmark companies that stand the test of time. Drawing upon a six-year research project at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Collins and Porras took eighteen truly exceptional and long-lasting companies -- they have an average age of nearly one hundred years and have outperformed the general stock market by a factor of fifteen since 1926 -- and studied each company in direct comparison to one of its top competitors. They examined the companies from their very beginnings to the present day -- as start-ups, as midsize companies, and as large corporations...
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...“Visionary companies are premier institutions – the crown jewels – in their industries, widely admired by their peers, and having a long track record of making a significant impact on the world around them.” Visionary leaders and breakthrough ideas come and go, but visionary companies survive the transitions. The “successful habits” of the visionary companies were observed in comparison to “silver medalist” companies in the same industry. Both the visionary and comparison companies outperformed the market, but the visionary companies demonstrated extraordinary long-term results. The tandems most frequently referenced in the book are GE/Westinghouse, HP/Texas Instruments, Motorola/Zenith, P&G/Colgate, Merck/Pfizer, and Wal-Mart/Ames. These comparisons dispelled commonly held myths regarding the nature of exceptional companies. Myth Reality 1 It takes a great idea to start a great company Visionary companies did not demonstrate early success 2 Visionary companies require great and charismatic visionary leaders Leaders of visionary companies were focused on building great institutions as opposed to building their individual reputations 3 The most successful companies exist first and foremost to maximize profits Visionary companies are characterized by the pursuit of multiple priorities only one of which is making money. 4 Visionary companies share a common subset of “correct” core values Visionary companies are ruthless stewards of their actual values 5...
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... envisioned future – these are the essentials that constantly reminds us of who we are and where we’re going. Having read the article “Building Your Company’s Vision” by James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras makes me want to think of doing things that contribute to the general welfare rather than doing things because I just have to. It gives me purpose and something that keeps me going. It gives me reasons to love what I do and to pursue excellence in order that I may fulfill my purpose and satisfy my personal needs that goes beyond the salary, needs that seek deeper than what it looks on the outside. It defines mine and the organization’s being linked together. The companies that have been mentioned have long been recognized successful and famous in their own industry and this article explains why they are where they are now. Such motivational stories would be of great help to those organizations who seek improvement and development in their structure as a whole. Keeping up with this dynamic world isn’t easy and every organization needs something to hold on so they won’t lose their balance and just fall off from the cliff where they stand. One wrong move and everything will be messed up. This gives them the core that is unchanging, the core that is permanent and lives within the organization, the people, and everything is geared because of that certain thing. This article stresses the importance of having core ideology and core purpose so people within the organization...
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...The halo effect refers to a bias whereby the perception of a positive trait in a person or product positively influences further judgments about traits of that person or products by the same manufacturer. One of the more common halo effects is the judgment that a good looking person is intelligent and amiable. There is also a reverse halo effect whereby perception of a negative or undesirable trait in individuals, brands, or other things influences further negative judgments about the traits of that individual, brand, etc. If a person "looks evil" or "looks guilty" you may judge anything he says or does with suspicion; eventually you may feel confident that you have confirmed your first impression with solid evidence when, in fact, your evidence is completely tainted and conditioned by your first impression. The hope that the halo effect will influence a judge or jury is one reason some criminal lawyers might like their clients to be clean-shaven and dressed neatly when they appear at trial. The phrase was coined by psychologist Edward Thorndike in 1920 to describe the way commanding officers rated their soldiers. He found that officers usually judged their men as being either good or bad "right across the board. There was little mixing of traits; few people were said to be good in one respect but bad in another."* The old saying that first impressions make lasting impressions is at the heart of the halo effect. If a soldier made a good (or bad) first impression on his...
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...June 2012- unit 2 Constitution Outline two constitutional reforms proposed by David Miliband. * Replacement of the current House of Lords with a second chamber elected using PR, this would strengthen the representative function of the legislature by providing more representatives who have genuine legitimacy by the use of PR- making the composition accurate to the votes cast. * The introduction of AV would to commons would not change the current constituency structure of the UK, and would also be a bit more proportional than the current Westminster system FPTP. Explain the arguments in favour of a codified constitution. * Codification is the only way of protecting individual rights and freedoms, the current quasi-entrenched HRA fails to do this, reflected in the conservative plans to replace it with a less powerful British bill of rights with will neither enjoy quasi-entrenchment nor a direct association with the ECHR. This shows how the government of the day can tamper with our rights in the absence of codification. * It may help prevent any further drift towards excessive executive power, codification will surely constrain possibly over-mighty governments who are easily able to alter to constitution. However, it may not necessarily be entrenchment de jure but possibly de facto, which would be unnecessary and fail to curb excessive executive power. * Codification will bring Britain into line with other modern democracies, the UK is one of three, including...
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...can decide to implement or ignore the changes. It then proceeds to the third reading, in which no amendments can be made, and the bill is debated as a whole, followed by a vote. This process is then mirrored by the House of Lords, followed by a consideration of amendments, until finally it receives the royal assent. Backbench MPs can exert a lot of influence in the legislative process, both through the vote and the debate. Particularly if the government of the time does not have a strong majority. An example of this was in 2012 when 53 MPs defied Cameron, on the vote regarding EU budget cuts. However, because it is humiliating to the government at the time to lose the vote on legislation, there are particular measures to ensure backbenchers, are unlikely to rebel against the party line. This job is carried out particularly thoroughly by the whips, whose job is to ensure each MP votes with the party. As there is no anonymity in the voting process in terms of legislation, an MP is hindering their career chances if they don’t tow the party line. As most MPs will be looking towards future cabinet positions it is very unlikely they will rebel against the party line. In this way MPs are...
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...To what extent does the prime minister control the cabinet? Prime ministers have a lot that they can manage and control the cabinet and the system surrounding it. So power can vary but the Prime Minister definitely has a more power that say backbencher, ministers and your average MPs The main reasons for the control the Prime Minister has over Cabinet are due to the powers they have over the Cabinet itself. The Prime Minister chairs cabinet meetings, and manages the agendas, as well as making the decisions at the end. This means that the Prime Minister has a lot of control over the meetings, and can direct choose which way the meetings lead to suite what he wants to cover and get support for.The fact that the Prime Minister says when the cabinet meeting are and decides when they are called and sets their length then it means that the PM determines the role and significance of the entire cabinet. Cabinet meetings have declined because the number of meetings changed from 100 a year to only 40. When former Prime Minister and Labour politician Tony Blair had meetings they never really lasted more than an hour. If you look at the size of the Cabinet and the extent of the amount of issues that are discussed shows that Blair did not take the meetings as important. But the man who succeeded Blair was Gordon Brown who made them last longer, but not a lot. The Prime minister in the past has been know to manipulate the Cabinet to get support for their cause. An example...
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