some people everyone - BE UGLY! (The two people walk around the pumpkin patch shopping for a pumpkin) Shopper 1: man, all of these pumpkins are TOO ugly for halloween! Shopper 2: Ya, These pumpkins are REALLY ugly! Shopper 1: Even too ugly for a jack-o-lantern! Shopper 2: Ya, let's go look somewhere else! (all the pumpkins are giving each other the thumbs up and a WHEW!) Then Shopper 1 turns around and says: WAIT! They will be perfect for PUMPKIN PIE! All the pumpkins scream in pain
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"In my whole life I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who did not read all the time – none zero. Investing requires a broad knowledge. My children think I’m a book with a couple of legs sticking out” - - Charles Munger I had been trying to get this in order but it never seemed to end. I am not a bookworm who reads a new book every week. I would rather go back to my old library and read any of the books or a chapter from a book rather then read something new. I must
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Pumpkin Genocide Every year around Halloween the act of carving pumpkins into jack-o-lanterns always seems like a perfect idea, doesn’t it? For you, maybe, but for a pumpkin like me it hits close to home. If you could put yourself into my shoes, (if I could wear shoes) Halloween would be a dreaded time for you and your family. Humans snatching the innocent neighbors, siblings, cousins, or even parents and children of pumpkins from their home to poke holes in them? Horrible. Carving pumpkins
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William Frederick Cody lived from till 1846–1917, he become Buffalo Bill, was born in a log cabin near LeClaire, Iowa Territory, on February 26, 1846. His dad Isaac, worked variously as a trader, a surveyor, and as overseer for an absentee landowner. Isaac Cody himself was a product of westering pioneers. The first Codys in America were Huguenots who fled France for the Isle of Jersey to escape religious persecution. By 1698 they owned land in Massachusetts. Isaac was born in Ontario in 1811 and
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When I was eight, I learned how to ride a bike without training wheels. I remember it like it was yesterday, it was during the summer so it was very sunny; and my house stood in a cul-de-sac. My mopm, brother, and I all walked outside through the garage standing in the driveway while my mom helped gear us all up. Straping helmets, kneepads getting ready for the big day, I then started to roll my bike back out onto the driveway wondering to myself if I could actually do this. I turn to my mom with
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Analysis Project JACK WELCH By Chad Wilson Lucy Ebanja Renee Wingfield Sheng Wang Ying Zhang Instructor: Dr. Constant Beugre Content Jack Welch’s accomplishments Jack Welch joined General Electric (GE) in 1960 and became vice president (1972) and then vice chairman (1979). In 1981 he became chairman and CEO of GE; at 45, he was the youngest person ever to have held that position. Having taken GE with a market capitalization of about $12 billion, Jack Welch turned it into one
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AM FL Y TE Team-Fly® 29 Leadership Secrets from Jack Welch Abridged from Get Better or Get Beaten, SECOND EDITION Robert Slater McGraw-Hill New York Chicago San Francisco Lisbon London Madrid Mexico City Milan New Delhi San Juan Seoul Singapore Sydney Toronto Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the United States of America. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or
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corporate America, we can consider Jack Welch a true pioneer in defining leadership. Jack Welch was able to lead and make General Electric a very competitive enterprise in the world (100 Ventures) during the 1980s. Jack Welch is bringing his lifelong management skills to a new online university program (Glader, 2009). Biography Jack Welch was born in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1935. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering. In 1960, Jack Welch joined General Electric and worked
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How difficult a challenge did Welch face in 1981? How effectively did he take charge? When Jack Welch took over as CEO of GE in April 1981, the world was in a recession. GE needed to be restructured, and this involved restructuring, reduction of its payroll and modernization. Jack Welch adopted a strategy of “Fix, Sell or Close”. This strategy enabled GE to exit unprofitable businesses and restructure loss-making businesses into profitable businesses. Jack Welch’s management technique adopted
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Jack would identify multiple reasons why the Chattanooga team is dysfunctional. They are currently not demonstrating many of the foundational principles Jack believes make a winning team: outlining a clear mission and values, practicing candor, differentiating your organization and voice and dignity (Welch & Welch, 2005). In addition, it appears their leader is not practicing any of Jack’s eight rules of leadership nor demonstrating the 4E’s and 1P needed in order to “lead more and manage less”(Welch
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