Abigail Louise Mathena 720-339-3773 abbymathena@gmail.com OBJECTIVE To apply to be a Youth Sports Camp counselor and to gain more experience and leadership opportunities with children. EDUCATION Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado Anticipated Graduation * Major: Communications Studies May 2016 * Minor: Business Management * 2.95 GPA Ralston Valley high school
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Reflection report Good to Great In book Good to Great, the author Jim Collins concludes that it is possible for a good company to become a great company. Jim Collins and his research team were researching over five years to come to this conclusion, by examining from a list of 1435 companies, those that showed substantial improvements in their performance. Their final sample consists of eleven companies, which includes Abbot Laboratories, Circuit City, Fannie Mae, Gillette, Kimberly-Clark, Kroger
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Project GM591 Course Project TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION II. PROBLEM STATEMENT III. LITERATURE REVIEW IV. ANALYSIS V. SOLUTIONS VI. REFLECTION VII. REFERENCES I. The New Belgium Brewing Company in Fort Collins, Colorado was founded by Jeff Lebesch in 1989. The highly motivated entrepreneur started with a different yet simple concept; brew a better beer than anyone else. So Jeff went into the basement of his home and started working on several different
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sentence in Jim Collins book; Good to Great, Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Other Don’t. Jim Collins says, because good is the enemy of great, is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. This book is packed with leading edge thinking, understandable examples, and data to support the conclusions. It is a challenge for CEOs, entrepreneurs and leaders to show evidence of the discipline required to shift their companies from Good to Great. Jim Collins and his research
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In Chapter 4 of the book Good to Great, Jim Collins asserts that taking good decisions represents one of the key factors for a good organization to become great. The good decisions flowed from the fact that all good-to-great companies made an effort to confront reality, while at the same time maintained absolute faith that they could prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties. The author calls this the Stockdale Paradox. Collins also states that it is crucial to create a climate where honesty
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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
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Case Update and SWOT Research and update the case information as much as possible with current research, and then conduct a comprehensive SWOT analysis for New Belgium Brewing. As of 2013, defined by the Brewers Association New Belgium Brewery is the 3rd largest craft brewery and the 8th largest overall. Annual production of beer is less than 6 million barrels. Currently New Belgium sells beer in 31 states and the District of Colombia. In 2013 they began shipping to Alaska and Louisiana and
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The ale, dubbed Fat Tire in commemoration to the inspirational bike trip, became the brewery's flagship beer. By 1991, Jeff and Kim formally organized the brewery as NBB and began selling the first bottles of Fat Tire around their hometown of Fort Collins. Kim, Serving as the businessperson of the two, engaged in the marketing and distribution Operations. selling the beer to friends, neighbors. and local bars/stores. A neighbor provided the watercolors
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Analysis of New Belgium Brewing Company’s Corporate Social Responsibility Legal and Social Environment of Business, Professor Ruud 3/12/15 New Belgium Brewing Company New Belgium Brewing Company was started by Jeff Lebesch in 1991 in Fort Collins, Colorado. He made his first two brews, which are still around today, in his basement and now they are embarking on opening their second brewery later this year in Asheville, NC. New Belgium Brewing Company not only makes multiple types of brew
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