GOOD TO GREAT Why Some Companies Make the Leap…. And Others Don’t Author : Jim Collins About the Author : Jim Collins‚ a student and teacher of enduring great companies. He serves as a teacher to leaders through the corporate and social sectors. He is an ex-faculty of Stanford University Graduate School of Business and proud recipient of the Distinguished Teaching award in 1992. Known for his deep research’s‚ Jim has authored or co-authored four books‚ including the classic a. BUILT TO
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“Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness‚ it turns out‚ is largely a matter of conscious choice‚ and discipline.” by Jim Collins. Good To Great and the Social Sectors by Jim Collins covers how leaders can meet goals efficiently with their desired group or team. This monograph dives into the deeper details and qualities of how businesses went from average to amazing with long lasting capabilities. Any business or group can deliver superior performance‚ achieve lasting endurance‚ and
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The movie “From Swastika to Jim Crow” was produced in 2000. Even though‚ it was made in 2000 there was many connections to today’s current events. The speaker stated‚ they wanted to present the movie before the election to understand and analyze an educator’s point of view. However due to the hurricane they had to postpone the movie‚ until after the election which made this event and discussion more prevalent. The movie was a documentary explaining the similarities between Nazism in Germany and
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Kyndall Foust Mr. Lindner English III AP 4th 18 February 2014 Exile in the Grapes of Wrath There comes a time when desperate circumstances calls for irrational actions. In Steinbeck’s novel‚ The Grapes of Wrath‚ Jim Casy is faced with the challenge of choosing right vs. wrong. Seeking a new philosophy‚ Casy finds himself displaced from his normal preaching life into an alienating and enriching experience that reveals his true character. In the process of excluding himself from his everyday life
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In The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness‚ Michelle Alexander examines our current criminal justice system and the mass incarceration of African Americans in the United States. She argues that the War on Drugs and drug offense convictions are the single most compelling cause for the magnitude of people of color behind bars. Prisons are used as a system of racial and social control that function in the same way as Jim Crow laws. It is no longer legal to discriminate against
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The Jim Crow South was an era of intense racism and segregation. Jim Crow was more than oppressive laws; it was life as the South knew it. However‚ underneath the hateful surface‚ the Jim Crow South is more complicated than it is portrayed. Harper Lee explores these issues in her book‚ To Kill a Mockingbird. In the fictional town of Maycomb County‚ Alabama‚ Lee presents the theme of coexistence of black and white in all people and things‚ by illustrating Scout and Jem’s relationship with several
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the idea of “separate but equal.” This idea came along by the Supreme Court by a certain incidence that occurred in 1892. It took place in a train when an African-American passenger that went along with the name of‚ Homer Plessy denied to sit in a Jim Crow car (made specifically for the color). Homer Plessy was seven/eighths white and only one/eighth black‚ but due to the Louisiana law this meant he was still treated as an African-American‚ thus required to sit in a car specifically for the “colored
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growth opportunities in terms of launching a credit card to the Romanian market. The overall goal is to increase annual profit by €5 million within two years of launch. Selection of the right target audience‚ while applying the appropriate launching strategy is the direction of our focus. Our goal is to extend the Alpen Bank premium service to customers via a new product market. Predictions of economic growth in Romania‚ proves that the market is growing increasingly ripe for credit cards. Therefore
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Costco was founded in 1983 by Jim Sinegal and Jeff Brotman who were previous colleagues in California within other membership warehouse stores. “The company’s business model was to generate high sales volumes and rapid inventory turnover by offering members low prices on a limited selection of nationally branded and select private-label products in a wide range of merchandise categories” (Thompson‚ p. C-35). This analysis will review the “cornerstones of Costco’s strategy; low prices‚ a limited product
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McCombs School of Business MAN 374 (04458) University of Texas at Austin Fall 2007 GENERAL MANAGEMENT AND STRATEGY COURSE OVERVIEW Joe Giordano jagintx@austin.rr.com Office: CBA 3.246 Text: Porter‚ Michael E. Competitive Strategy. (New York: Free Press‚ 1998). Office Hours: Tuesday or Thursday by Appointment. Contact in class or through e-mail to arrange time. Course Description Perspective and Themes This course is about the creation and maintenance of a long-term
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