million in the same quarter last year. BlackBerry lost $965 million in Q2 2014, primarily because it overestimated how many new phones it would sell. Excluding all of the one-time charges, BlackBerry's operating loss was $354 million for the quarter, up from an adjusted loss of $248 million in the prior quarter and up from $114 million in Q3 2013. Despite the bad news, BlackBerry CEO John Chen struck a positive tone. “With the operational and organizational changes we have announced, BlackBerry
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Mashell Chapeyama Topic: Art History Year 2012 Level: Bachelor of Science in Business Administration The French revolution and Painting The French revolution had a big impact on art. It brought in new themes to art. The following are some of the themes that emerged: • Democracy • Reconciliation • Patriotism • Rising against unfair rulers • Battle-scenes Some paintings that emerged from the French revolution heightened the need for democracy. Before the revolution most nations were
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detailed information. Might be dangerous if written inappropriately. Sued or fired 5. The memo is the managerial tool of choice when you want to put out word to lots of people. Have to be worded with exquisite care, particularly for announcing bad news-turn down in business, a firing, promotion over rivals. Recipient are likely to pore over these bullentins.(rewrite) 6. Announcing executive’s dismissal become more concise for the fear of annocing too many contributions may cause people think the
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always keep in mind what’s at the stake. For instance, when the stakes are high, the communicators must consider people’s feeling and provide them objective facts supported by credible sources. The communicators must also consider the format of their messages. In some cases, especially when one’s is a newly-hired, the best communication format is silence. After “how it said” the communicators must consider “what is said.” So the communicators must consider how much detail they want to give to their
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ELEMENTS OF COMMUNICATION – EMPATHY & ACTIVE LISTENING WEEK 8 1 EMPATHY - CONFLICT RESOLUTION 2 EMPATHY “Feeling into”, seeing how it is through another's eyes Experiencing the feelings of another without losing ones own identity 3 EMPATHY The emphatic person senses the other person’s bewilderment, anger, fear or love “as if” it were his own feeling, but he does not lose the “as if” nature of his own involvement. ~ Robert Bolton, People Skills, 1987 4
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Communicating across Cultural Barriers Nancy J. Adler If we seek to understand a people, we have to try to put ourselves, as far as we can, in that particular historical and cultural background. ... It is not easy for a person of one country to enter into the background of another country. So there is great irritation, because one fact that seems obvious to us is not immediately accepted by the other party or does not seem obvious to him at all. ... But that extreme irritation will go when
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contents Case Description 1 Danske Bank on Facebook 3 The straw that broke the camels back 5 Danske Bank in a new world 7 Facebook is based on “Produsers” 8 Conclusion and Recommendation 8 References 10 Online data 10 Articles & litterature 10 Case Description Danske Bank have recently launched a new campaign with a new slogan called ”New Normal, New Standards”. Especially, the TV-advertisement has caused a lot of anger and frustration among their customers, because
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1. Introduction Communication can be defined as when one person gives, receives and exchanges information, ideas or opinions and this exchanged is done so that what is communicated will be understood by everyone connected to the conversation. Why is communicating effectively is important? Effective and good communication with people helps in many things, for instance it can get the job we want, it can help us getting promotions, good communication makes us a good leader if we have that capability
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drugs and drama. In fact these are among the T.V. shows with higher ratings. Hero is characterized as a person of good character who performs beneficial acts towards a community and influence an individual self-concept in a good manner. Today, the new hero is the anti-hero and his morally reprehensible conduct is excused by a good cause turning evil into good and at many times it is praised. In “Why We Love TV’s Anti-Heroes” Stephen Garrett describes this world as one with a strong desire and acceptance
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Breaking bad was written and produced by Vince Gilligan and broadcast from 2008 to 2013. Over these 5 seasons, many blog personal pose the question that Breaking Bad doesn’t examine the extent to which American institutions are failing and the drug problems. That it is deceptive by only exploring Walter White’s (actor) problems rather than the drug problem as a whole, specifically the urban poor. The middle class focus left questioning if it is the greatest series of all time, as popularly reported
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