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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Vending Machines in Schools With approximately 17% of children between the ages of 2-19 being obese‚ why are we allowing our schools to provide vending machines that are full of junk food to our children? The fact is‚ schools are terribly underfunded and the vending machines offer them a profit stream they need for their budget. Schools are using the profits from the vending machines for after school activities‚ computer‚ school programs‚ etc. The problem isn’t really the vending machines themselves;
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Wiesenthal‚ took out a patent for a needle to be used for mechanical sewing. There was no mention of a machine to go with it‚ and another 34 years were to pass before Englishman Thomas Saint invented what is generally considered to be the first real sewing machine. Charles Wiesenthal first patent in 1758 John Adams Doge 1818 The English‚ Thomas Saint was issued the first patent for a complete machine in 1790. The patent describes an awl that punched a hole in leather and passed a needle through
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Rs 80‚000 on reacquisition of bonds. What accounting entries would be passed in the books of Megha Corporation? 2. On 1st January 2009 Shweta corporation purchased 10‚00‚000 of its fully paid shares at Rs 22 per share. On 20th January 2009 the company sold 5‚00‚000 of the treasury stock at Rs 25 and on 8th February 09 the rest of treasury stock issued to employees under stock option scheme at an exercise price of Rs 15 each. Show the journal entries to record the transactions. 3. In the year
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means‚ then machines could also have the capacity to know. However‚ knowledge‚ a human capability‚ is based on learned facts‚ experiences‚ judgments‚ growth‚ change‚ interactions‚ and other active processes. The concept of knowing requires the description‚ consideration‚ and application of a multifaceted process lacking rigid rules‚ goals‚ and boundaries. None of these attributes are available to a machine‚ so a machine ’s capabilities would not constitute the requirements for a machine to know.
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Can Machines Think? Draft due: 2/25/13 Final draft due: 3/1/13 Introduction to Philosophy Section 05G Spring 2013 CO In the articles of Computing Machinery and Intelligence by Turing and Minds‚ Brains‚ and Programming by Searle‚ many different arguments are made for and against the claim‚ can machines think? Now just as they did in their articles‚ I will explain what I mean by machine and think. A machine is a mechanical object designed by human beings to assist us in our lives. And when I
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The Machine and Modernism “The Machine Stops” by E.M. Foster explores the collapse of modernistic ideas and the detrimental effects of human progression as a result of the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment. One of the characters‚ Kuno‚ realizes that flaws exist within the Machine they live in because it has failed him. Whereas‚ his mother‚ Vashti‚ worships the machine and all it has done for her‚ as it allows for her to live a comfortable life with all she feels that she needs. Modernism
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Extra Credit Paper April 23‚ 2013 Moral Machines – Ethics The future of computing and machinery is changing at such an extremely fast pace that we need to invest in the application of ethics to the world of machines. But there are many problems with programming a machine to act ethically. Ethics are simply emotional expressions and machines can’t have emotion. Computers don’t have the practical wisdom that Aristotle thought we use when applying our virtues. What about the ethics of the lesser
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to the point to where we could not live without it. The book “The Machine Stops” could be accurately compared to the way people around the world live their lives. For example‚ In “The Machine Stops” their society became so dependent on technology‚ that when technology died‚ the people died
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Abstract The Bridgeport Interact 412 Vertical machining center is supported by the language developed by Heidenhain. The language is a modified version of the conventional G-codes with added features. The machining center has the facility to use either the G-codes or the modified language. The modified language also has the facility of using functional parameters within a program by substituting them with variables which are either entered at a later stage or calculated by the controller
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