...In Homer’s Achilles would be one of the primary Greek Mythology characters to be wordy for Dante’s vison of hell. The difficulty that xxxx would face is assigning Achilles to the right circle of hell, as he is suitable for most if not all. Although Achilles was dubbed a hero and his actions and motivations were acceptable for his time, by the time Dante wrote his works, many of the attributes possessed by Achilles, and ancient heroes alike were deemed sinful. Much of society view was influenced by the Church and by the time of Dante, the European social norms had also shifted, thus making ancient heroes sinners and hell worthy. In the first sentence Homer opens with “Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans” (128). Without going through the rest of Iliad, just based on this statement, Achilles would go to the fifth circle of the hell described by Dante, the circle off hell reserved for those that are charged with anger as a sin. As Vigil describes it to Dante, the residents of this circle are those overcame by anger and the sullen (Alighieri 622). Achilles was a skilled warrior, but many of his decisions were based...
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..."A Clear definition of your business' vison is critical to your success" As --------- pointed out int the discussuon board in Unit 2 Money (DB) "purchasing a franchise is a very good strategy if you are able to secure the capital for investment." As the business plan and strategies are already in place. Now the question is why would the franchise business owner be selling his shop? In this case Dr. Heywood mentioned a Carvel Icecream Shop in her area that closed due to continued construction that made it unpleasent for the customers to visit the Carvel Shop. As a result the business was unable to previal and had to close up shop and offer the franchise for sale. The secret may be found in finding the right balance of the four competencies, and this could be the difference between success and failure for a business that finds its self trying to endure continued construction in their area - and at a time of recession. I found an interesting article from the Central Penn Business Journal, titled "A Clear definition of your business' vison is critical to your success" from March 20th 2009. In the article the author Richard Randall goes to offer four key factors that will help the new busines owner find the right balance to help ensure success whether it's a franchise or a new business. ...
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...Charlotte Beers at Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide (A) By Matteo Conta FEMBA 9B Charlotte Beers at Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide (A) Document purpose: suggestions to increase acceptance of Ogilvy & Mather’s new Vison on employees below senior executive management. Problem definition December 1993: Charlotte Beers assesses the progresses made by the company after she became CEO: she realizes that clients love the Brand Stewardship concept, but most employees, below executive levels, have not embraced the newly created Vison. The problem I will focus in this document is the following: the majority of employees did not embrace the new Vison. I will analyze why this is a key problem, why it is happening and I will propose steps to accomplish more acceptance. Analysis Brief Background Major events have shaped the history of the company in the recent years: first the hostile takeover, 1989, then the loss of key accounts and credibility in the business. Many key senior employees have left in the 2 years following the takeover. The company Vison has been: “just keep doing the same thing, just better”, but the world around has been changing. The marketing business has clearly become more global in nature, with "mergers to form mega-agencies and the concept of transporting brands around the world", and customers are demanding for “more service at lower costs”. Re-creation Technically the type of organizational change Beers has to face as new...
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...Charlotte Beers at Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide (A) By Matteo Conta FEMBA 9B Charlotte Beers at Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide (A) Document purpose: suggestions to increase acceptance of Ogilvy & Mather’s new Vison on employees below senior executive management. Problem definition December 1993: Charlotte Beers assesses the progresses made by the company after she became CEO: she realizes that clients love the Brand Stewardship concept, but most employees, below executive levels, have not embraced the newly created Vison. The problem I will focus in this document is the following: the majority of employees did not embrace the new Vison. I will analyze why this is a key problem, why it is happening and I will propose steps to accomplish more acceptance. Analysis Brief Background Major events have shaped the history of the company in the recent years: first the hostile takeover, 1989, then the loss of key accounts and credibility in the business. Many key senior employees have left in the 2 years following the takeover. The company Vison has been: “just keep doing the same thing, just better”, but the world around has been changing. The marketing business has clearly become more global in nature, with "mergers to form mega-agencies and the concept of transporting brands around the world", and customers are demanding for “more service at lower costs”. Re-creation Technically the type of organizational change Beers has to face as new...
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...Memorandum Hong Kong Jocky Club Case Hong Kong Jockey Club was a gambling company with a monopoly on horse racing, football betting and lotteries, and it was also the largest charity and community benefactor in Hong Kong. The club used to have simple origins of horse racing and it had robust growth along with Hong Kong economy before 1998. In 1996/97 season, the Hong Kong Jockey Club race betting turnover rose to a record peak of HK$92.4 billion. However, it faced adverse condition after this and one of the reasons is bad economy situation. In July 1997, the Asian financial crisis started and Hong Kong’s GDP was stagnant and even turns negative in 1998. And then in 2001, the global economic downturn led by U.S gave Hong Kong another strike. Later in 2003, the outbreak of Sever Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) effected Hong Kong’s visitor arrivals and retail sales severely. Besides economy, regional competition from Macau and other Asian countries and the rise of new forms of illegal betting and offshore betting threated Hong Kong Jockey Club’s business. The vision of the club is to be a world leader in the provision of horse racing, sporting and betting entertainment and Hong Kong’s premier charity and community benefactor and their mission is to provide total customer satisfaction through meeting the expectations of all Club customers and stakeholders, which include the racing and betting public, lottery player, club members, charity and community organizations...
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...a cop spots a driver throwing gang sings after running a red light, they will suspect behaved behavior to the homicide suspects and will chase the man and will most likely be asked to step out of the car when stopped. If exhibiting suspicious behavior police will investigate a murder spree and have the suspect handcuffed and brought in for questioning. Recently on September 20, 2016 a video was published to the public of an unarmed black man that was shot and killed by a white police officer in Tulsa, Okla. “Wood said Shelby fired her gun at the same time that turnbough fired a Taser at Crutcher because she had “tunnel vison”, but really does anyone have vison that bad that you don’t notice that other officers that are with you, the police officer is not death therefore she could hear when the officers are approaching. If there is an officer with “tunnel vison” why is the female officer on the job. There was no unconditional reason for the lady police officer to fire her gun at Crutcher when there were other officers on scene. The only argumentation that Crutcher has that his car broke down in the middle of the road. As Crutcher tried to reach for help thinking his car was going to blow up, people started reporting that there was “an abandon car with its engine running and doors open”. The caller had reported that they had thought Crutcher was smoking something but really it was his car blowing smoke. As the female officer continues with the story the evidence in the video shows...
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...Yes, CVS does have policies and guidelines that are in place for the facility that I am in however, they don’t wait long enough to see if the changes or policies will work to start a new policy up. It’s important for managers to align a company’s vision and strategies with its organizational culture, but by doing that, they must have a clear defined vison and mission of the organization, managers can set strategic objectives they can be aligned with the company’s long-term goals. In addition, short term is also an important goal as well to observe and watch as well. The development of vison and mission statements are a crucial part of the strategic management process. To be successful managers must define and communicate a clear strategy if...
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...The world is committed to the pursuit of long term business success both by example and by creation of business products and solutions. IBM’s Virtual World initiative has received much academic attention. Dodgson, Gann & Phillips (Organization Science, Online, Feb. 2013) concluded as late as Feb., 2013, that it was good for Meetings, Rehearsals and Brain-storming. Press reports reveal out of 400000+ IBMers about 5000 use Virtual Worlds. In other words it does not establish a culture for Organizational Learning (OL). Such a culture is essential to sustain the pursuit of success for the following reasons: • A learning culture is needed to overcome human Folly that is endemic in human nature and undermines judgment. See paper on Systems Thinking and Organizational Learning presented by Senge and Sterman at the Conference on Transforming Organizations, Sloan School of Management, MIT, May, 1990. Specifically, they have said: “For systems theorists, the source of poor performance, organizational failure, and inability to adapt is often to be found in the limited cognitive skills and capabilities of individuals compared to the complexities of the systems they are called upon to manage. A vast body of experimental work demonstrates that individuals make significant, systematic errors in diverse problems of judgment and choice. Training and repeated experience often do not help. Market mechanisms and financial incentives do not eliminate the errors.” They go on to say “Regardless...
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...All throughout high school I knew that medicine was the field that I wanted to go into when I got older. Then during my senior year of high school I took a Certified Nurses Assistant training class. This was a great experience for me, because I was able to gain actual medical experience and work with patients. This is what solidified it in my mind that I wanted to go into the medical field. More specifically that I wanted to become a doctor. What happened was while I worked as a CNA in a nursing home I had realized that whenever there was an issue I nor the nurses could really do anything. The doctors were the ones who had to come in and provide the medical care. That coupled with the fact that working as a CNA made me aware that I genuinely...
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...so much about him. He was not a perfect leader but he recognized this about himself and hired top executives to help. He gave his employees great career opportunities and was generous with his corporate benefits and perks. Strongest Leadership Traits There is no doubt that Ted Turner is a visionary. Evidence of this seen first in his turning around his father’s sign company, next he turned a small “backwater UHF station into a national broadcast phenonium”, which is now The Turner Broadcasting System (“Ted Turner”, 2008). Later he introduced CNN, the world’s first 24-hour news channel. Today he is America’s second-largest individual landowner and owns the world’s largest private Bison herd (“Ted Turner”, 2017). Without vison, leadership is stifled. Ted’s has an extraordinary ability to understand accomplish goals. His enthusiasm, while a strength can be done be over the top at times and, according to my friend runs the Turner Foundation, that enthusiasm can be exhausting for those close to him. Other traits that Ted is strong in and that strengthen his leadership are persistence his vitality and his charisma. Weakest Leadership Traits While every leader has certain degree of all ten traits, few leaders are strong in every area. Ted Turner understood this in the days of forming TBS and CNN, he hired other leaders to help him. Stability, self-confidence, concern for others and integrity were issues he dealt with both privately and publicly. Ted admittedly...
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...Whether you are Generation X or part of Generation Y, the working class and the technologically advanced youth has embraced what Starbucks has to offer - even if they have to stand a half an hour in line to get it. But once you are sipping your venti decaf, non-fat, sugar-free vanilla latte with no foam, do you ever wonder how it all started? Do you know of Starbucks history, and why people of all ages were willing to pay nearly $6.00 for something that is seemingly worth a lot less? Starbucks Marketing Strategy implements many of the high ideals within the Starbucks mission statement . These motivating factors are largely responsible for this franchise's success. Like successful franchises (i.e. MacDonalds), Starbucks started with a vison that was followed through to the end. And, just as in other highly success ventures, the leaders that held the Starbuck's vision, have not rested on its laurels. Starbucks Coffee Company is still expanding in interesting and groundbreaking ways even today. The environmentally conscious Starbucks Corporate Social Responsibilty statement speaks to a new breed of businesses that care about their carbon footprint. With the influence of this forward-thinking company, and its consistently innovative approach to each viral marketing campaign - others companies should start taking notes. It All Started with a Passion for Fresh Coffee Starbucks history owes its beginnings to three friends, Jerry, Zev Siegel, and Gordon Bowker. Inspired by a...
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...The Case of the Unhappy Parent Professional counselors play a critical role and are needed in our schools today. Their positions should not be eliminated because their role is much more than sitting in an office. Counselors integrate the school’s missions and goals, the needs of the school community, and their own strengths in developing their program (Erford, 2015). Erford notes that school counselors develop their capacity to work as leaders and advocates in schools to remove barriers to student success. There has been a transformation in the school counseling initiative to transform policies and practices in the field. Erford suggests that the vison for school counseling that was developed highlights counselors moving into the role of change agents and advocates who focus on supporting and creating pathways that allow students to have school success. School counselors are thrust in to help students from all ethnic, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds reach their full potential, graduate from high school, and become productive, responsible adults (Rosales, 2015). School counselors do not merely sit in their offices. The new vision of the role of counselors focuses on a number of things. One role is academics and student achievement. Other roles include leading, acting as a change agent, brokering services for parents, and creating pathways for all students to achieve high aspirations (Erford, 2015). Erford suggests that counselors design data-driven school counseling...
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...The Functions of Management at Work Columbus Diamond Management for Organizations MGT 330 Instructor Ed Gehy March 13, 2016 References Page: The five functions of management, Planning, Organizing, Commanding, Coordinating, and Controlling are all part of what shapes and makes Ingalls Shipyard a successful and great place to work. Don’t get me wrong the place I work and the type of work I do is dangerous. What makes it worth the dangerous conditions I am under while at work is the company that I work. To explain, the company that I work for takes really good care of their employees. Huntington Ingalls Industries is America's largest military shipbuilding company and a provider of manufacturing, engineering and management services to the nuclear energy, oil and gas markets (www.huntingtonIngalls.com). This company follows The Functions of Management to the tee, Ingalls demonstrate this by its long jeopardy and in how long this company has been alive, production count ability. Planning is a systematic process in which managers make decisions about future activities and the key goals that the organization will pursue (D. Baack, M. Reilly & C. Minnick, 2014). Planning is looking ahead. According to Henri Fayol, drawing up a good plan of action is the hardest of the five functions of management. This requires an active participation of the entire organization. Rick Spaulding is vice president, Central Planning and Process Excellence, for Ingalls Shipbuilding. Rick...
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...it clearly when he said "Looks arent important. It's what we do thats important." But John learns that the paperwork needs to be casual. 3)What should John and Zorab's bussiness look like in one year, two years, and five years? Year 1: In year 1 John and Zorab's bussiness will involve in market reasearch. John and Zorab's will need to reasearch on other companies doing the samething or simular to what they are doing. This insures that John and Zorab have a better strategy when it comes to priceing and etc. 2nd John and Zorab's need to come up with a bussiness plan. Easiest way to do this is to come up with a checklist of what they want and plan to do in the future. Year 2 continueization to come up with bussiness ethics, values and vison and to build on there bussiness plan. By year 5 John and Zorab's company should be blooming if the research and hard work has been put into the bussiness...
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...The American dream was a fairly simply one,finish school,go to college,own a house,then have a family,but as time changed so did the dream.It became allusive,complex as opportunities came and go,and for those who tried to reach it,fell, or “Destroyed themselves”.F.Scott’s Fiztgerald displayed his visons of the American Dream in three people:Tom, a man born in wealth,Daisy,a woman married into wealth,and Gatsby,who had humble beginnings raised into wealth,but lead to his demise. Tom was a man who needed to work little to make it in life.His fortune was birthwright due to being born to wealthy parents.He married Daisy, A Woman Who basked in his wealth,married him,had a child, and lived in a mansion.He was given was so little people were able...
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