...Describing Each of the Three Pillars of the College of Business Servant Leadership, Entrepreneurial Spirit, and Innovation Georgianna UNV/504 Jonathan Kelley February 3, 2015 Describing Each of the Three Pillars of the College of Business Servant Leadership, Entrepreneurial Spirit, and Innovation The contents of leadership have become a significant element in many platforms, especially when it relates to the three pillars of the college of business. Leadership skills can be detrimental to a business if not properly used. Many times business have allowed leadership to be abused and when that happens the business suffers majorly. The purpose of this paper is to articulate and describe each of the three pillars of the college of business. The three pillars of college of business are servant leadership, entrepreneurial spirit, and innovation. Servant Leadership In a 750-1,000-word essay, describe each of the three pillars of the College of Business (servant leadership, entrepreneurial spirit, and innovation). Discuss your findings from the articles you found about the three pillars in the "Reference List Table" assignment in Topic 3. Be sure to include a discussion of the way you will apply each of these pillars in your career or industry. Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required. This assignment requires a minimum of 3 scholarly sources. This assignment...
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...Sweatshops: Moving Toward Responsible Global Business” by breaking down their essay into two primary sections. The first describes the difficulties of both external and internal forces in permanently discarding sweatshops while the second division highlights the complexity behind any plausible solution. While the content of this article is of elevated interest, more important for our purpose is the success behind their rhetoric. They utilize the emotions of an audience on an already sensitive topic while simultaneously providing evidence from a variety of environments and sources to point out that their conclusive recommendations are of great value when the urge to change the manner in which we get products finally sets in. In their essay “The Struggle Against Sweatshops: Moving Toward Responsible Global Business”, Radin and Calkins both inform and persuade their audience at an effective level through their credibility, emotion, and logic—ethos, pathos, and logos, respectively—to conclusively come about at more fully understanding the need for reform in global labor markets. I will first define ethos followed by an analysis and illustration of the rhetoric as it is used in the essay. That will then be followed by pathos and logos, both sharing a similar format of define, analyze, and illustrate. Rhetoric is, of course, a powerful tool and a necessary component in communication. The first of the three pillars of persuasion that make up rhetoric is ethos. Julia T. Wood (2011) defines...
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...Three Pillars Essay Camrron Anderson Grand Canyon University: UNV-504 04/06/2016 Three Pillars Essay Camrron Anderson Grand Canyon University: UNV-504 04/06/2016 On March 10, 2016 I embarked on a journey to continue my education and obtain a Masters’ level degree from Grand Canyon University. This has been a goal that I have set for myself since the completion of my undergraduate degree in 2012. I know that in order for me to continue to build myself professionally a graduate degree is extremely necessary. A Master’s degree will not only qualify you for more advanced career opportunities and increase salaries but it will also allow one the opportunity to completely immerse one’s self in a specific area of study. After the completing of my master program I hope to continue to progress along the professional ladder in the Healthcare industry. My dream job would be to work in a position where I would be able to directly affect patient care and experience without having to be clinical. To me this position would best be suited in patient advocacy or even patient relations. In either of these departments I would have the ability to work directly the community that we serve by listening to concerns, answering questions, and providing the necessary help and care to anyone who enters the facility. These departments are also culturally and religiously sensitive to the growing populations and demographics that contribute to the community in which they serve. In...
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...Three Pillars Essay Shacola Columbus Grand Canyon University: UNV 504 Innovation and Entrepreneurship December 24, 2014 The college of business has three very distinctive pillars that help the college of business move a positive direction. The three pillars are servant leadership, entrepreneurial spirit, and innovation these are pillars that the college base there learning on. While looking at all three pillars you can see how they all play a role with each other. The first pillar were actually go in depth into is servant leader. Servant leader is finding out what the people needs and putting them first. Servant leaders help others and also meet their environment need that’s located around them. A servant led environment wants individuals to include their ideas and how they feel. In the article Leadership Excellence by Barrett, Colleen explains how to treat people and shows the power of a servant led organization. Colleen looks at the most important priorities in customer service, is to follow the golden rule. She encourages people to follow the golden rule treat people like they would want to be treated, and then everything else will fall into place. Having a positive and motivating environment will rub off to the customers and something positive will arise from it (Barrett, 2011). The next pillar that comes along with servant leader is innovation. Innovation comes from a servant leaders environment; in this type of environment its helps the individuals...
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...and we see how diseases can completely ruin this miraculous organ. In Gamel’s essay it is brought to our attention how the human being cherishes their eye sight; one would choose to tolerate pain in the hope that one may regain their eye sight; however, we are never shown why the human being cherishes sight so much. “(En) trance” by Chris Arthur shows the reader how this organ allows the mind to explore all different options. In this essay we see how the eyeball allows the human being to see things in a different perspective than their own and how others may perceive an image or a building based off of their own experiences and sight. We see the importance of the eyeball in regards to memory and we see its importance in the way that sight impacts people’s lives. Although “The Elegant Eyeball” by John Gamel explains the importance of the eyeball it is through “(En) trance” by Chris Arthur that we see the emotional and physical impact it has in one’s life. Throughout his essay Gamel explains how the eye works. He explains what a normal eye would possess opposed to an eye that acquired a disease, which would eventually obtain scaring. He explains the importance of the eye stating that, “Forty percent of the brain is devoted to vision, which provides us with more information than our other four senses combined” (Gamel, 39). The importance of the eye in regards to our other sense is great. In his essay “(En) trance,” Arthur explains to the reader how each person has their own viewpoint...
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...ESSAY: THREE PILLARS OF THE KEN BLANCHARD COLLEGE OF BUSINESS Jakes Chege Grand Canyon University: UNV 504 June 10, 2014 Three Pillars of the Ken Blanchard College of Business Ken Blanchard College of Business consists of three pillars which act as a guide to anyone that pursues academic excellence through this faculty. They are found via video and there are a few articles that touch on their content and they are available in the Grand Canyon University school library. Ken Blanchard is a renowned writer and one of the founder members of Ken Blanchard Group of companies who has sold over 80 million hard copies of his books detailing on global leadership, entrepreneurship, innovation and servant leadership. I will be examining and discussing each of the three pillars in this essay and binding them with the findings I gathered from articles in topic 3 of this course. Servant Leadership The mission of Ken Blanchard College of Business is to develop a servant who by developing business skills and values not only can run businesses well but can also make difference in the community and in the world at large. According to Blanchard (2011), servant leadership is the foundation that sets up innovation and entrepreneurial spirit. These leadership skills in these servants will not only impact their homes, communities but can change the world. Blanchard (2011) continues to state that the servant Leadership has two parts in itself which encompasses the whole meaning. They...
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...Three Pillars Essay Grand Canyon University: UNV 504 Innovation and Entrepreneurship June 10, 2014 Three Pillars Essay In his video Ken Blanchard, discusses the three pillars of business; servant leadership, innovation and entrepreneurial spirit (Blanchard, 2011). Servant leadership is not being a servant to those that you work with, it is offering direction and vision with stated goals. It sets a platform for all employees to know where the company is headed, while focusing energy on the set goal. It requires that both management and employees live according to the vision with customers being the primary focus. Servant leadership if done correctly draws out the innovation in employees. It asks people to bring their ideas to work and put on their thinking caps to move towards better practices, efficient processes and more satisfied customers. It allows for the entrepreneurial spirit in employees to be developed. Employees not only become a part of the process for development and innovation, but partners in the business. They have a personal stake in the company which can build long term loyal employees working to sustain and grow for the customer, themselves and the business. Although servant leadership focuses on others and needs of the whole in most cases there could be some shortcomings to servant leadership. According to Lynch and Friedman servant leaders might easily focus more on the needs of the followers than the needs of the organization as a whole or considering...
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...Capstone Exam Hum130 – Religions of the World Instructor Cynthia Stewart March 2013 Student Name: Date: March 21, 2013 Directions: For Sections I-IV, type your answers in the gray spaces provided, which will expand as you type. For Section V, type your answer in the white space as you normally would. You may use your textbook to complete this exam. In the essay sections of the exam, you will need to properly cite your source, including page number, if you use a direct quotation. Example: (Fisher, 2005, pg. 207). You may not use other sources, including the Internet, in answering these questions. You may of course bring any knowledge of your own to bear in answering, but if you copy or paraphrase information from any source other than our textbook, you will receive a grade of zero for the entire exam. Section I: Definitions (5 points each, 30 points total) Define these pairs of words immanent and transcendent - Immanent is believing that a sacred being(s) exist within the world and are present among us. Transcendent is the belief that a sacred being(s) exist outside of our world. sacred and profane - Sacred is a connection with God or a religious purpose that deserves veneration. Profane refers to the mundane things that exist in the world. cult and sect - A cult represents a distinct break from other traditions. A sect is a splinter group or a subgroup associated with a larger tradition. theistic and nontheistic - Theistic is a religion...
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...Bmw Company The BMW Group – one of Germany’s largest industrial companies – is one of the most successful car and motorcycle manufacturers in the world.With BMW, MINI and Rolls-Royce, the BMW Group owns three of the strongest premium brands in the automobile industry. The company formulated their Strategy Number ONE, which aligns the BMW Group with two targets: to be profitable and to enhance long-term value in times of change. And this applies to technological, structural as well as cultural aspects of our company. Since 2007, they have been implementing various initiatives in keeping with the strategy’s four pillars: Growth, Shaping the Future, Profitability and Access to Technologies and Customers. The four pillars of strategy number one: 1.Growth BMW adopted the view of “customers service=growth driver” as the underlying principle to grow its market. In 2008, the company had accumulated more than 14 million BMW automobiles on the road,which in recognized as 14 million potential service customers. For this reason,BMW launched global initiatives to systematically exploit to huge sales potential of the service and part business,enabling the organization to reach out entirely new group of customers. As result,customer focus became the heart of all of BMW’s sales and marketing activities. BMW focused on developing its growth market by continuously pursuing targeted regional expansion strategy particularly in parts of Asia. 2. Shaping the Future BMW’s...
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...human beings are born with evils in their heart. The reason that God allowed Noah to save creatures on earth is God found him who was a good man with mercy in his heart. This part of Genesis teach me to be a grateful man who always has mercy in mind. 3. “As for those that have faith and do good works, We shall admit them to gardens watered by running streams…” (The Koran, surah Women, 4:57) Answer: This quote is from The Koran, chapter 4, The Women, Line 57. If we go up a bit to Line 56, it says that “Those who disbelieve Our revelations, We shall expose them to the Fire.” By 56 and 57, this part describes what happens if you believe in Allah or if you not believe in him. This connect to the five pillar of Islam. The very first pillar of Islam, profession/witness. Though the five pillars are equally important, this one is primary and fundamental. It simply says “there is no other God but Allah, and Muhammad is his messenger.” Then Line 56 and 57 from chapter 4 tell you what gonna happen if you believe in Allah and you will get burned by Allah if you disbelieve in him. Part II: Short Answer 2.According to Seneca, what does it mean to be a good person? How should one treat others? What principles ought one live by? Answer: Man’s purpose in life, according to the Stoics, is to live in conformity with nature/the divine will. There are two parts to this: 1) Bring one’s life in line with the laws of nature; 2)Understanding that one must resign oneself (completely, and without...
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...Business and Sustainability Write an essay on the following topic: Based on your personal definition of sustainability, how committed are organisations to sustainability practices? What changes in corporate strategy and policy are necessary in the journey to sustainable business? Illustrate your answer with examples. Introduction Conducting business in the global economy, enterprises are under more communities’ scrutiny on their operations (Dey & Sircar, 2012). Moreover, sustainability is considered as the focal point of enterprises in creating shareholder value, performing management practices (Epstein, 2008), instrumental to survival in an increased competitive environment (Eweje, 2011), and achieving competitive advantages (Galbreath, 2011). As a result, this issue draws much attention from a broad base of stakeholders, comprising of customers, communities, employees, governments, and shareholders (Hess & Warren, 2008; Eweje, 2011). However, how to employ sustainability has remained a challenge for business leaders (Epstein & Buhovac, 2010). Accordingly, sustainability is commonly executed “more coincidentally than with a clear strategy” (Baumgartner & Ebner, 2010, p. 77). To obtain a deeper understanding of the topic, this essay begins with exploring the definition of sustainability. Followed by which is the investigation of how committed organisations are. Thereafter, the way to incorporate sustainability in companies is examined. Finally...
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...Effective Leadership and Management in NursingIn: Other Topics Effective Leadership and Management in Nursing Effective Leadership and Management in Nursing Shirley J. Mitchell University of Phoenix HSC 492 Instructor: Linda Westermann March 12, 2012 Effective Leadership and Management in Nursing According to Sullivan and Decker (2009), leadership is influencing others into working toward accomplishing a common goal. Some people are born with an innate leadership quality within them. Others require learning leadership and management skills. It takes a certain personality trait that makes them a natural leader. Intelligence, personality, and abilities are three categories of the trait theory that is a part of the profile of successful leaders (Sullivan & Decker, 2009). I will discuss my personal views of leadership. It will describe how leadership differs from management. Finally, the characteristics of an effective leader will disclose. What are your personal views of leadership? Everyone is a leader at one time or another. A good leader is one that knows just when to pull back from the leadership role and let the team proceed on his or her own. These leaders have a natural ability to guide their team effectively with his or her charismatic approach that the team believes they are well supported. They know when to lead, when not to lead, when to let the team lead, and they know just when to dance. How does leadership differ from management...
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...Sample Essay 1 Belief systems and philosophies have greatly affected the people and societies where they are practiced. They give guidelines on how to live their lives and affect every aspect of their cultures. Two such belief systems and philosophies are Hinduism and Confucianism. Hinduism is a religion with no founder. The people who practice this religion believe in moksha and reincarnation. Moksha is the freedom from earthly desires and a complete understanding of the world. Reincarnation is the belief that people are reborn over and over again until achieving moksha. Whether or not they are born into a good life depends on their previous life’s karma (good or bad deeds). In Hinduism, they also have a caste system. It divides people into four social classes and hardly gives any social mobility at all. People are decided which class they belong to at birth. For example, if a child is born into a family of slaves, that child will be a slave for the rest of his life. Confucianism is a philosophy started by Confucius in China. In Confucianism, the people valued education and believed in filial piety, the respect for elders. They also believed in the spirits of ancestors and created the famous quote, “do not do unto others, what you would not want them to do unto you.” Hinduism and Confucianism greatly affected the people and societies they were practiced in. In Hinduism, because of the belief in reincarnation and karma, people avoided doing bad deeds. Those who achieved...
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...For Immediate Release India Insurance Industry Essay Writing Competition Winner Announced Ms Megha Asnani, Business Analyst with Accenture Service Private Limited was declared winner of the 2nd India Insurance Industry Essay Writing Competition organised by Asia Insurance Review in conjunction with the India Rendezvous. Ms Asnani’s essay on the topic: ‘An Indian Solvency II?’ stood out for its originality and in-depth analysis of the subject. Ms. Asnani will receive a cash prize of S$5,000 and she will also make a presentation of the winning essay at the 5th India Rendezvous in Mumbai on 20th January 2012. The “Energise Insurance in India” essay competition drew entries from some of the best insurance writers in India and was judged by a distinguished panel of top industry professionals and chaired by Mr Yogesh Lohiya, Chairman and Managing Director of GIC Re. Others in the judging panel included: Mr Jan Mumenthaler, Head-Insurance Services Group, Business Risk Department, IFC; Ms Joan Fitzpatrick, CEO, ANZIIF; Mr Michael J Morrissey, President & CEO, IIS; Mr Dezider Stefunko, Chief, Insurance Unit, UNCTAD; Mr Jawaharlal Upamaka, Editor, IRDA Journal; Mr A K Roy, General Manager, GIC Re; Mr K Raghunath, Vice President, Reinsurance, Bharti AXA General Insurance Co; and Mr G V Rao, Chairman & CEO, GVR Risk Management Associates. More details at www.asiainsurancereview.com For enquiries, please contact: Asia Insurance Review Ms Ann Tay, DID +65 6224 5583 or email: ann@asiainsurancereview...
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...Research Essay: Ramadan In this descriptive research essay, I will outline the history, characteristics and purposes, and festivals immediately following Ramadan (Eid-al Fitar, and Shawwal), the Islamic month of fasting. Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar- lasts 29 or 30 days- and all Muslims who can participate are expected to fully stop such activities as eating, drinking, smoking and having sexual relations from dawn until sunset. I will examine the historical aspects of Ramadan including how and when Ramadan first appeared in Islam. In addition, I will discuss the practices that are associated with the holy month of Ramandan and the significances of such practices. Finally, I will discuss the festivals that follow the completion of Ramadan. As previously mentioned, Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar and all able Muslims who participate are expected to abstain from eating, drinking, smoking and having sexual relations from dawn until sunset. Ramandan is considered an holy month for muslims since it is considered the the month in which the Quran was revealed to the Prophet Mohammed by God through the archangel Gabriel. This is revealed in a passage in the Quran that states “ Ramadan is the month in which the Qur'an was sent down as guidance to humankind..” (Q. 2:183, 185). In addition, the Qur' an states that “fasting has been written down upon you (is mandatory), as it was upon those before you”. According to the...
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