Dismantling the Sales Machine Author: Brent Adamson‚ Matthew Dixon‚ and Nicholas Toman Dated: November‚ 2013 Source: Harvard Business Review Magazine Dismantling the Sales Machine Sales leaders have long fixated on process discipline. They have created opportunity scorecards‚ qualification criteria‚ and activity metrics—all part of a formal sales process designed to help their team members replicate the approaches of star performers. This is the world of the sales machine‚ built to outsell less
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“Can machines think?”- A question heavily debated dating back to the days of Descartes. This idea has been explored and analyzed by scholars in many diverse fields of study for many‚ many years. Mathematician Alan Turing was a pioneer in unraveling this question. His philosophies found in his published paper “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” changed the ways in which we perceive and comprehend artificial intelligence. Turing’s most famous advance on the age-old question was the self-titled Turing
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A Chief Lieutenant‚ of the Tuskegee Machine: Charles Banks of Mississippi. By David H. Jackson Jr. Gainesville: University Press of Florida‚ 2002. Charles Banks‚ the subject of this appealing biography was a seemingly well-known Black leader‚ like such as Obama Baraka and Jessie Jackson. Banks status‚ demeanor‚ and power were unlimited‚ way beyond his hometown of Clarksdale and Mound Bayou‚ Mississippi all-black towns. Born in 1873‚ in Clarksdale‚ Mississippi‚ Banks spent most of his life in
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Inflatable air bag Alternate drying mechanism in automatic washing machine Product Design Lab 1 Group 5 Pre-requisites • • • • • • Easy operation Safe Greater power and water efficiency Reasonably priced Substantial drying of clothes Minimal wear of clothes Patented in 1957‚ the mechanism alongside uses a mechanical piston to squeeze water out of the clothes Brainstorming & categorization of modules Mechanical Thermal Chemical Electrical Mechanism
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The Time Machine (by H.G Wells) Summary The narrator recounts the explanation of two difficult ideas by a man he refers to as the Time Traveller to an after-dinner group. The group includes a Psychologist‚ a Medical Man‚ a Provincial Mayor‚ and a few other men. The Time Traveller shows them a smaller prototype of the time machine‚ and when he pulls a lever‚ it disappears--into the future‚ he claims. At the next week’s dinner‚ the Time Traveller comes in midway through the meal‚ haggard and limping
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The Art and Craft of the Machine Author(s): Frank Lloyd Wright Reviewed work(s): Source: Brush and Pencil‚ Vol. 8‚ No. 2 (May‚ 1901)‚ pp. 77-81‚ 83-85‚ 87-90 Published by: Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25505640 . Accessed: 27/03/2012 12:42 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars‚ researchers‚ and students
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Political machine is an organization that “boss” or small autocratic group that commands the people who actually work and receive their payment. The power is upon on the boss‚ but it based on the workers so they can vote to impeach the executive officer. This government is legitimate forms of local government because the leader of political group is elected by “people”. Therefore‚ they usually support the political machine‚ and they follow the direction of their order. However‚ if they don’t satisfy
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A Protective Machine Gorilla The short film NO-A is a futuristic film about a gorilla-like machine trying to protect its creator from harm. NO-A was directed by a team of 8 students from Savannah College of Art and Design as a graduation project. The film won the 2015 Red Dot Award. The film begins with NO-A entering what looks to be a control room in a huge space looking building. The machine walks on all fours and rocks back and forth as if he is a primate. His creator must have built him in
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Starchitect of Post-Modern Architecture Architecture was the first style to push beyond modernist values and shift to post-modern values. Modern architecture followed a uniform style that appears in the de Stijl movement; which preferred order‚ horizontal/vertical lines‚ simplicity‚ sameness‚ universal form‚ and purism; meanwhile‚ the Bauhaus movement used industrial materials and simple geometric forms. The international style or what can be termed as present-day architecture followed the modernist
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In the next couple of paragraph’s‚ I am going to be explaining the themes of irony and conflict in the short story‚ The Machine That Won the War‚ by Isaac Asimov. The setting of The Machine That Won the War is the future of the earth‚ and a great war had just been won against the enemy race. Two men‚ Swift and Henderson‚ are the main characters‚ and are debating over who really won the war for earth. They are discussing whether or not it was the giant strategy computer known as Multivac
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