The Best of the Best The book basically talks about visionary companies deviating from most books which are written on charismatic leadership and visionary products. Visionary companies are institutions in industry having a separate standing in terms of admiration and impact on world around them. All visionary products as well as visionary charismatic leaders have to die‚ it is actually company that last long through multiple products and leaders. In six year of research Jim Collins and Jerry I.
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society live by. Freakonomics‚ is a book that really triggered my imagination as a kept on reading‚ I really loved it. I myself started asking myself a great amount of questions that I had never looked at before. Especially toward the end that he asks the importance of ones parents with him. Levitt uses a smart technique to catch the audience attention‚ he uses really weird questions as chapter titles like: What do school teachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? This chapter focuses on what
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The theme of chapter five of Freakonomics is involving parenting and whether parents really do affect their children as much as it is believed; whether the parents really matter. Levitt and Dubner discuss the roles of parents in the lives of their children‚ including the choices they make to protect them. They provide situations to show how the conventional wisdom of parenting is constantly changing‚ certain beliefs going in and out of style and ideas contradicting one another arising. Parents do
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best for them. However this want‚ can become obsessive. They find themselves at a point where they feel that if they child makes a mistake that they will be criticized by their peers. Parents have different ways of raising their kids. The book Freakonomics discusses the attributes of different kinds of parents‚ and what are the most successful methods. Some parents have a tendency to become overinvolved with the lives of their children. This over involvement has led to the term “helicopter parents
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entitled ‘AP Macroeconomics‚’ I truly had no idea what the ‘macro’ in the word meant. Of course I knew the meaning of economics—it’s everywhere in these trying times of the economy‚ plus‚ it was a vocab word in middle school. Now that I’ve read Super Freakonomics‚ I have an understanding of what the prefix in the word actually means and I find it interesting‚ perhaps even a future career option‚ or major in college. This book made me think in different ways‚ ways that I never imagined to think of before;
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Justin Rayome Dr. Ditloff International Relations 6 March 2014 Levitt‚ Steven D‚ and Stephen J. Dubner. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything. New York: Harper Collins‚ 2005. Print. The authors of Freakonomics‚ Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner‚ were very clear in the fact that they did not want their book to simply revolve around one single theme‚ thus making it difficult to discern a distinct thesis statement or theory. Some may perceive this type of approach
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ECON 260 Freakonomics Freakonomics‚ by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner‚ is book that not your typical economist would write it was co-authored in 2005 and if morality represents how we would like the world to work‚ then economics represent how it actually does work in this award-winning book. Steven D. Levitt is a not your typical economist. He is a much-heralded scholar who studies the riddles of everyday life- from cheating and crime to sports and child rearing and whose conclusions
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like everyone and their mother has been listening to podcasts these days. I’m happily on the board with the whole podcast-craze‚ and if you’re looking for a form of (sometimes) educational entertainment‚ I’d highly suggest checking these out: 1) Freakonomics. This podcast “explores the hidden side of everything”‚ using economics to better explore behaviors‚ history‚ science‚ you name it. I’m sure a lot of you have heard of this podcast before‚ but if you haven’t yet‚ definitely take a listen. Even
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Cited: Levitt‚ Steven D. Stephen J. Dubner. Freakonomics. New York‚ Harper Collins‚ 2005.
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AP Government September 7‚ 2012 Chapter 2 Summary Within the first pages of this chapter‚ we are introduced with the topic of the constitution and actions of Gregory Lee Johnson. The case of Gregory Lee Johnson is about that of him burning an American flag and protesting that when the government became involved‚ it was against his freedom of speech. This is where the constitution of the United States comes into play and supersedes the ordinary law. The question though‚ what exactly is a constitution
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