Changing your organizational culture is the toughest task you will ever take on. Your organizational culture was formed over years of interaction between the participants in the organization. Changing the accepted organizational culture can feel like rolling rocks uphill. Organizational cultures form for a reason. Perhaps the current culture matches the style and comfort zone of the company founder. Culture frequently echoes the prevailing management style. Since managers tend to hire people just
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O C TO B E R 2 012 c o n s u m e r p a c k a g e d g o o d s p r a c t i c e From oxcart to Wal-Mart: Four keys to reaching emerging-market consumers Alejandro Diaz‚ Max Magni‚ and Felix Poh To get products to customers in emerging markets‚ global manufacturers need strategies for navigating both the traditional and the modern retail landscapes. In emerging markets the world over‚ multinationals struggling to get their products to consumers confront a bewildering kaleidoscope of strategic
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Data Inspection First we will smooth the series by transforming the data on oil demand into their logarithmic form. The log transformation allows the model to be less vulnerable to outliers in the data‚ and thus enables for a more precise forecasting model. Next the data series must be checked for trend and seasonality. Figure 1.1 shows the time series plot for the log transformation of oil imports in Germany from 1985M01 until 1996M12. [pic] Before fitting a trend and seasonal dummies to
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Major arguments: 1. “Roving bandits” versus “stationary bandits” a. the ‘roving bandits’ under anarchy conducted uncoordinated competitive theft‚ which destroys the incentive to invest and produce b. by contrast‚ a ‘stationary bandit’ monopolizes and rationalizes theft in the form of taxes by setting himself up as a dictator; a secure autocrat thus has an encompassing interest to provide a peaceful order and other public goods that increase productivity in his territory 2. the
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With this year’s theme of “problematic protagonists‚” each of the summer works features a main character whose personality can be found unappealing. In Master Harold and the Boys‚ Athol Fugard explores themes of racism and segregation in South Africa during the apartheid. Hally‚ a white boy‚ has known Sam and Willie‚ two older African servants‚ his whole life and has intelligent conversations with Sam as his equal. After discovering that his alcoholic and handicapped father is being discharged from
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Chaim Potok’s book The Chosen takes place in the 1940s and is the story of two boys trying to become and stay friends even though they are from two different Jewish sects. It is not that To Kill a Mockingbird is an awful or terrible book. While reading To Kill a Mockingbird‚ readers will enjoy a well-written book‚ a winner of the Pulitzer Prize‚ and a classic. Yet‚ high school students will relate more to the two main characters of The Chosen as they are 15 and in high school at the beginning of
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Two or Three Things I Know For Sure Allison illuminates the fact that we as women must appreciate each other and our beauty before we can truly cherish other forms of beauty around us. "Two or three things I know for sure‚ and one of them is that of we are not beautiful to each other‚ we cannot know beauty in any form"(86). We are so conditioned to see female beauty as what men see as beautiful‚ that we don ’t even know what it means to us. If we can get to the point where women feel
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System Analysis and Design 9th Edition Chapter 1 Apply Your Knowledge 1. Should Low-Voltage develop a system to connect with TX Industries’ purchasing system? Why and why not? Yes‚ I would develop a system to connect with TX Industries’ purchasing system. Usually it is the larger companies that push the technology implementations of smaller companies. In order to streamline the order process for TX Industries we need to get on board in implementing an accounting system that is able to connect
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Georgia Sharecropper’s Story of Forced Labor Primary and Secondary Sources A primary source is a resource generated by a participant in or an observer of an historical event. Primary sources include speeches‚ letters‚ diaries‚ and newspaper stories. Memoirs and autobiographies written well after the event also are considered to be primary sources. Primary sources are not limited to written records; images and material objects also serve as primary sources. For example‚ American Indian rock art
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The Delphi Technique — What Is It? | 2. | History | 3. | Key characteristics | 4. | Role of the facilitator | 5. | Use in forecasting | 6. | Acceptance | 7. | Delphi applications not aiming at consensus | 8. | Delphi vs. prediction markets | 9. | The Delphi Technique | 10. | Disrupting the Delphi | 11. | From the representative Republic to a Participatory Democracy | 12. | Prioritization Process Using Delphi Technique | 13. | Delphi Method | The Delphi Technique — What Is
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