CONNECT THEN LEAD In puzzling over whether it's better to be feared or loved as a leader, Machiavelli famously said that, because it's not impossible to do both, leaders should opt for fear. Research from Harvard Business School's Amy Cuddy and consultants Matthew Kohut and John Neffinger refute that theory, arguing that leaders would do much better to begin with "love"—that is, to establish trust through warmth and understanding. Most leaders today approach their jobs by emphasizing competence
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distinct tools to perform strategy and decisions, such as SWOT analysis, PESTEL analysis and marketing mix analysis. In terms of the marketing mix, as an important concept in the subject of business studies, it refers to “a balance between the four main elements of marketing [is] needed to carry out the marketing strategy. It consists of the ‘4ps’: product, price, promotion and place” (Marcousé and Surridge et al., 2011:141). Firms can build an effective marketing strategy by using the marketing
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(2007PGP070C) M Mohan Rao (2007PGP074C) Phani Koundinya N (2007PGP077C) Naik Chetan Bhimrao (2007PGP080C) Nalin Rana (2007PGP081C) Navneet Singh Arya (2007PGP082C) Nikhil Kumar (2007PGP085C) Nitin Gupta (2007PGP086C) Santosh Kumar V S Matala (2007PGP137C) Sulakshana Ramakrishnan (2007PGP159C) A New Mandate for Human Resources The article starts with analyzing whether we really need HR in today’s business scenario. Currently, HR’s basic function is to handle policy making
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Process of Change is a Key to Successfully Transformed Organization Japeth Jacob Massey school of Engineering 26 April 2010 Abstract Process of change is the key. Change can be brought about only and if we understand the process of change. This paper presents the major obstacle to change and the major failure leader often overlook. Change takes time and cost money. The objective of the paper is to discuss the failure of ineffective transformation and clarifying the process for change to save
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strategic and organizational changes that occurred over the life of Andersen in the context of Figure 11.1. Architectural design of firm may vary among companies. There are most common categories are business environment, strategy, and organizational architecture. Business environment of Andersen includes technology that was used effectively; structure of its markets, regulations which helped Andersen to grow along with its reputation. The second category is strategy which includes Andersen’s primary
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planned change : Organization development is directed at bringing about planned change to increase an organization's effectiveness, generally initiated and implemented by managers, often with the help of an OD practitioner either from inside or outside of the organization. Organizations can use planned change to solve problems, to learn from experience, to reframe shared perceptions, to adapt to external environmental changes, to improve performance, and to influence future changes. The theories
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12. HOW WILL I PROTECT MY BRAND, LOGO OR PATENT? China has been presented as an usual abuser of copyright and trademark protection, but it is far from being alone. Most Asian countries pretend that they wanted changes on the way laws are implemented: but, when we examine the cases which involve these problems, Asian countries have the principle-"Why pay for it when it can be got for free?" In Korea, most cases of IPR infringements suffered by European right holders relate to registered
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2004. Emerald Publishers. An agent-based intelligent environmental monitoring system Ioannis N. Athanasiadis and Pericles A. Mitkas ABSTRACT Fairly rapid environmental changes call for continuous surveillance and on- line decision- making. Two areas where IT technologies can be valuable. In this paper we present a multi-agent system for monitoring and assessing air-quality attributes, which uses data coming from a meteorological station. A community of software agents is assigned to monitor and validate
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ORGANISATIONAL CHANGE Introduction Resistance is a common reason for the failure of change initiatives. The subject is thus of extreme importance to management. This paper explores the contention by King and Anderson that a common theme in defining resistance is “a naïve and managerialist assumption that resistance is counter-productive – even irrational – behaviour which needs to be overcome” with an emphasis on organisational change. It begins by looking at organisational change and its managerialist
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following antidepressants would be least likely to cause drug-disease or drug-drug interactions for T.N.? A. Venlafaxine. B. Fluvoxamine. C. Phenelzine. D. Fluoxetine. Which one of the following periods represents the continuation therapy phase for T.N.’s depression? A. 6–12 weeks. B. 12–16 weeks. C. 6–12 months. D. 2−3 years. T.N. will be seen initially at monthly intervals to assess antidepressant therapy. Which one of the following instruments is a patient-completed measure of depressive symptoms that
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