RESEARCH & IDEAS Why Leaders Lose Their Way Published: June 6‚ 2011 Author: Bill George Dominique Strauss-Kahn is just the latest in a string of high-profile leaders making the perp walk. What went wrong‚ and how can we learn from it? Professor Bill George says these are not bad people; rather‚ they’ve lost their moral bearings. To stay grounded executives must prepare themselves to confront enormous complexities and pressures. Key concepts include: • Leaders who move up have greater freedom
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KAY SUNDERLAND: MAKING THE GRADE AT ATTAIN LEARNING 1. Describe Sunderland’s management and work style. What are her sources of power? Sunderland is an experienced and a methodical manager who prepares beforehand for the client meetings. Being the firm’s point of contact with the client‚ she has to communicate the client’s strategy and vision to her co-workers. Though she does not dictate the creative nature of content developers’ work‚ she is unshakeable when it clashes with the strategic objectives
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1. How did Philips become the leading consumer electronics company in the world in the postwar era? What distinctive competence did they build? What distinctive incompetencies? In anticipation of the impending war in the late 1930s‚ Philips transferred its overseas assets to two trusts‚ British Philips and the North American Philips Corporation. It moved most of its vital research laboratories to England and its top management to the United States. Isolated from their parents and supported
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Enemies of trust: Trust in tumultuous times: Stressed situations in organizations such as merger‚ reorganization‚ or layoff are situations where people look for something that can provide partial answer to the question: “What does this mean for me?” * Snatches of remembered conversations. * Innocent statements can be assigned deep sinister meaning. – misinterpreted * Emails can be analyzed word by word Don’t speculate about the future. Treat employees like grown-ups (so:) * In
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Name: Abigail Natasha Godinho. Roll no: 15 Business Planning And Forecasting. Michael Porter has developed a model that lists five forces which affect an industry. The paper below uses this model to analyze the business environment of the newspaper Midday. The English daily‚ Midday‚ is the chief publication of Midday multimedia ltd. The target audience of this fun filled‚ masala paper is the youth. * Rivalry: Midday faces a lot of competition especially from the famous broadsheet ‘The
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TASK 1 1.1 The current legislation for home based childcare and the role of regulation body. As I childminder I must be register with the regulation body before I can care for other people’s children. All the regulation bodies in the UK publish standards and procedures that every childminder have to meet in order to be register. The regulator body (ofsted ) control in home based childcare in the following ways: registration‚ investigation‚ enforcement. Legislation Outlines legislation Every
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Level: Pre-intermediate Aim:Present perfect to express an experience some time before now. E.g. I have been to Mexico. I have eaten Octopus etc. Target language: I have been/eaten etc.‚ Have you ever...? Time: 50 minutes Assumptions: Students will have encountered the present perfect before so should be familiar with the form. Possible problems: Students might use the present perfect with past phrases‚ e.g. I have been to Mexico in 2003. I have eaten Octopus last year. Lead-In: - 10 mins I would
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The Grave "The Grave‚" by Katherine Anne Porter‚ is about two young children’s lives and how their past affected them while growing up. Both Paul and Miranda are related as brother and sister.Paul was a twelve year old boy who really enjoyed hunting and gathering skeletons.Miranda was a nine year old girl who use to like shooting targets‚ and grew up as a tomboy. They used to live in Louisiana and then later on they moved to Texas. After they moved down to Texas‚ their family purchased a small farm
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Identification and Impact of Airborne Fungi over the Sydney Basin Introduction The need to identify and monitor airborne fungi is vital to the health of humans. Fungal spores may trigger allergic responses in sensitised people‚ causing respiratory diseases such as hayfever and asthma (Knox‚ Ladiges‚ Evans and Saints 2006). A variety of techniques can be used to identify the diversity and density of fungi within the Sydney Basin. The use of agar plate exposure allows microbial colonies to
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Michael Porter’s Factor 1) Threat of New Entrants - The easier it is for new companies to enter the industry‚ the more cut-throat competition there will be. Factors that can limit the threat of new entrants are known as barriers to entry. Some examples include: Existing loyalty to major brands Incentives for using a particular buyer (such as frequent shopper programs) High fixed costs Scarcity of resources Government restrictions or legislation Entry protection (patents‚ rights‚ etc.)
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