Running head: Good to Great Book Review | In partial fulfillment for the requirement for DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND COUNSELING BY TIFFANY TURNER-BANKS 11/12/2011 Jim Collins and his research team have done a wonderful job identifying what it takes for a company to go from good to great. I found this book extremely interesting and would like to share several of my thoughts. The study looks at companies that appeared on the Fortune 500 from the years of 1965 to
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Imogene M. King posed when she created a conceptual frame of reference for nursing. “King’s conceptual system included twelve concepts that were identified from her analysis of nursing literature – self‚ body image‚ role perception‚ communication‚ interaction‚ transaction‚ growth and development‚ power authority‚ organization‚ and decision making” (King‚ 1981). The concepts of self‚ perception‚ communication‚ interaction‚ transaction‚ role and decision making were selected to represent how individuals
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that many of our cognitive abilities are enhanced‚ or hindered depending on the fundamental structure of our system of language. I found that Boroditsky used much of her own research in order to support her claims that direction‚ time and gender are concepts largely affected by the structural system of our language. Overall I found Boroditsky’s arguments to be sound and thorough. I agree with her claims that language shapes thought. When visiting a small town in northern Australia‚ Boroditsky came
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vertically down your paper‚ leaving 2.5 inches on the left and 6 inches on the right. This allows you to take notes on the right-hand side of the page leaving space on the left to summarize the main point with a cue word or phase. Organization of concepts When the instructor moves to a new topic‚ skip a line. It is also a great idea to use some organizational structure to your whole page. Use bullets! Use an indented system – kind of like outlining You can underline important words. Filling
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relationships especially polyamorous arrangements. Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave new world touches on some of the controversies associated with multiple partner concepts of marriage. As Polyamory becomes more accepted in the mainstream we must question whether or not this is a good thing. Huxley’s society in Brave new world is based on the concept of stability‚ and in order to keep this certain cultural traditions have been envisioned differently to promote the nations security. One of the most notable
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According to Ahonen‚ Tienari‚ Merilainen‚ and Pullen (2014) the concept of the way in which traces of knowledge are chosen by researchers on the topic of diversity have an effect on the way in which diversity is perceived. Through refining the concepts of context and power in relationship to diversity‚ the authors look at how mainstream scholars on critical diversity issues tend to politicize and homogenize certain concepts to skew them towards specific outcomes. Approaching diversity from a
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Developmental Writing The one psychological construct that is discussed throughout two of the articles is the idea of generativity along with basic trust versus mistrust. Trust is one of the first social concepts that babies learn through feeding‚ sleeping and using the bathroom. The biggest thing here would be for the child to allow his or her mother to be out of their sight for a certain period of time because they are certain their parent will return back to them. Therese Benedek prefers trust
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Questions 1. Describe the nature of concepts and the role of prototypes in concept formation. We use concepts to simplify and order the world around us. We divide clusters of objects‚ events‚ ideas‚ or people into categories based on their similarities. In creating hierarchies‚ we subdivide these categories into smaller and more detailed units. We form other concepts‚ such as triangles‚ by definition (three-sided objects). But we form most concepts around prototypes‚ or best examples of
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is sexually assaulted lead to the blow-up where he almost gets himself killed. He has endured these subtle forms of racism his whole life‚ and he reaches a breaking point where he just isn’t going to take it The last concept that is displayed in Crash is the sociological concept of ethnocentrism. This means that we judge other cultures by the standards of our own. Not only that‚ but we also believe that our own culture is superior to everyone else’s. Graham and his Latina girlfriend fight and he
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Goldieblox: Engineering Toys for Girls Goldieblox is a toy company that creates interactive toys aimed at sparking an interest in innovation and engineering in young girls. The creator behind the idea and company was a graduate engineering student who noticed the disproportionality in her classes among male and female students. She correlated this disparity with walking down a girls’ toy aisle and being overwhelmed with pink and dolls in comparison to the boys’ aisle with engaging toys. The toy
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