LEADERSHIP ANALYSIS PROJECT MGMT6354 PART 1: SELF-AWARENESS Leadership Self-Assessment: Readiness (p.11) Score 75 Interpretation 60-89: Moderate readiness for a leadership role. I see myself being able take up challenging role as a leader. I will be ready to implement important decisions with the help of other team members‚ and I will see myself as a team player. Skill Development In order to improve on my leadership skills‚ I must overcome challenging roles‚ and also learn from it. I
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National Park- Case study of a Tropical Environment 1. Location‚ size and characteristics Jaú National Park is about 200 km north-west of Manaus. It is located within the watershed of the Amazonian central plain‚ i.e. all water drains down into the Amazon. It stretches 340 km west of the join between the Jaú and Negro rivers between 1°40’-3°00’S and 61°26’- 64°00’W. It covers an area of 23‚000 km² making it the largest forest wildlife park in South America. Being in such a forested area it has a high
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a list of the current seven wonders before these changes come into force. The Amazon Rainforest Quick Facts: * The rainforest‚ so vast is located within 9 nations; Bolivia‚ Brazil‚ Columbia‚ Ecuador‚ French Guiana‚ Guyana‚ Peru‚ Suriname‚ and Venezuela. * Represents the remaining rainforest. * The Amazon is the most specie-rich tropical rainforest in the world. * The Amazon river‚ located in the Amazon‚ is the largest river (in volume) in the world. Halong Bay Quick Facts:
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marketplace as a new entrant to compete with Amazon for the over e-book pricing and distribution‚ availing the text books on the ipad using special software‚ providing newspapers online‚ and replacing CDs and DVDs for music labels with the famous iTunes as substitute products. iPad is using Porter’s strengthening suppliers’ intimacy increasing publishers price for the e-books from $12 to $14 which is much higher than the purchase price offered by Amazon which is in average $9.95. The iPad is making
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Q1: Summarize Barnes & Noble’s business strategy and business model based in the case descriptions. How have these strategy and business model been evolved since the case was written? Barnes & Noble’s business model simply put was lower cost‚ and SCM. They sold merchandise at lower cost and they also decreased cost associated with procurement by obtaining better discounts from publishers than other book retailers and by publishing certain titles themselves. Since Barnes & Noble’s
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Why are Tropical Rainforests so Important? Tropical rainforests occupy only 7.5% of the worlds surface and is 1.2 billion hectares‚ yet over half of all plants and animal species live or grow here. The largest rainforest in the world is Amazon which is 600 million hectares and covers nine nations- Brazil‚ Bolivia‚ Peru‚ Guiana‚ Ecuador‚ Colombia‚ Venezuela‚ Guyana and Suriname. Tropical rainforests are home to many rare plant and animals‚ they contain 80% of all insects and 90% of all primates
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Tropical Rain Forest & Boreal Forest Locations Tropical Rain Forest • Tropic of Capricorn- 23.5° S latitude • Amazon Rainforest – Latitude above 15°N Boreal Forest • Boreal Taiga- 50° N latitude • Boreal Siberia- 34°N Latitude Abiotic Factors Tropical Rain Forest • Weather‚ climate‚ rain‚ sunlight‚ clouds‚ and soil is very poor in these areas. The Amazon river rises a lot its water is absorbed in plants for nutrients. Boreal Forest • Weather‚ Climate‚ and soil is
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Tropical Rain Forest 1. Biome’s place on earth Where is it (geographical distribution)? 1) Central America in the Amazon River basin. 2) Africa - Zaire basin‚ with a small area in West Africa; also eastern Madagascar. 3) Indo-Malaysia - west coast of India‚ Assam‚ Southeast Asia‚ New Guinea and Queensland‚ Australia. What are its abiotic factors? 1) Large amounts of rain during the rainy season‚ dense foliage‚ warm all year round. Also the rocks‚ soil‚ sunlight and temperature. What
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Ranching operations cannot be initiated on forested land‚ and ranchers must transform the rainforest into grassland in order to commence operations. Deforesting the Amazon produces timber as a byproduct. Margulis calculated the value of the timber to be USD $203 per hectare of rainforest (57). For loggers‚ ranchers‚ and other agri-businessmen‚ they may see no more value in the rainforest than the USD $203/ha. that can
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by the iPad. But the question remains: can it take on the market leader for tablets? Although the advertising and marketing campaigns have made the Kindle Fire’s unveiling successful‚ many shortcoming compared to the iPad cannot be ignored. The Amazon tablet does not carry an onboard camera. This can be a big deterrent to many perspective customers whom seek this basic feature that has almost standard on all portable communication devices. No 3G capability also limits the target customer base to
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