A LEARNING-BASED APPROACH TO ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE: FIVE CASE STUDIES OF GUIDED CHANGE INITIATIVES EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Five successful examples of a learning-based approach to organizational change were studied in order to identify some key success factors. All five change initiatives‚ in major manufacturing corporations‚ were guided and supported through the MIT Center for Organizational Learning . Following the change there were dramatic improvements in business results . This article examines
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Title: There Will Come Soft Rains Author: Ray Bradbury Text type: Short story ‘There Will Come Soft Rains’ made me feel absolutely devastated. Immersing me slowly in its melancholy world of rubbles‚ dust and ashes burning away in a nuclear war. Is by far the shortest‚ sharpest and most depressing short story that I have ever read. ‘There Will Come Soft Rains’ is a snapshot that perfectly captures all of the social paranoias in society during the post war period of the 1950s. Rendering the beautiful
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Executive Summary The soft drink industry is a highly competitive business fighting for market space in which there are dominant companies controlling the business. Coca-Cola and Pepsi Co. are the two largest companies that set the standards for nearly everything in the industry. These two companies compete heavily with each other in terms of advertising to gain market share‚ which smaller companies are left with attempting to be very creative and finding niche markets to attract customers. They
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Fantasy Flights have a largely paper-based system where an Agreement to Charter form is posted or emailed to the hirer and the signed agreement is sent back to the business. Details of charters are kept on spread sheets. The customers need to book before 60days and need to make a full payment at the time of booking. The payment can be made by cheque or credit card. No receipt is issued for both payment methods. The problems occurred in current system Only one staff member can access the
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general about soft skills‚ examples of soft skills that are needed for university students and its importance. “What are soft skills?” According to the oxford online dictionary soft skills are “personal attributes that enable someone to interact effectively and harmoniously with other people” . It is mainly the ability of a person to think critically and make decisions independently‚ soft skills usually used much of Emotional Intelligence (EQ)‚ from the thinking skills prongs other soft skills that
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specific attributes (e.g.‚ try to avoid broad terms like ’quality ’)‚ selected on the basis of your depth interviews (attributes that are frequently mentioned by your respondents). Since there are two brands altogether (e.g.‚ two different brands of soft drinks)‚ you need (a) 10 items to measure bi (these items are brand specific); and (b) 5 items to measure ei (these items are not brand specific). Important: When choosing the main brand (that is‚ the brand you are consulting
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The short story‚ There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury‚ was about a world without Humans. Nuclear war wiped people from the face of the earth and what remained‚ in a city‚ was just a house. A self sufficient and working house which was programmed to do certain things without the help of people. Even with the family gone‚ it remained doing the things it was programmed to do. With this short story‚ Bradbury tried to show that a world without reason and understanding is a Dystopian world The
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Legalizing soft drugs such as Marianna can have its pluses and negatives. Both can be argued evenly with the same results. In this essay I will not choose sides‚ but I will explain the positives that Marijuana can offer as well as the negatives aspects of the drug. First I would like to explore some negative effects that marijuana can have on the human body. When marijuana is smoked‚ THC rapidly passes from the lungs into the bloodstream‚ which carries the chemical to the brain and other organs
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“Fable Like” When you think of fable‚ you think “fiction”. Or you may think “short story”. When you read There Will Come Soft Rains‚ you’ll find that both of these meet your definition of fable. There Will Come Soft Rains can be interpreted as a fable because a fable is defined as a short story to teach a moral lesson‚ often with animals or inanimate objects as characters or a story not founded on fact. When you read the story‚ you could say that it doesn’t include a legend. As though it doesn’t
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In the article: Set on our ways: Why Change Is so hard by Nikolas Westerhoff‚ was published by The Scientific American Mind magazine. The author discussed and investigated the notion of why change is so difficult. There were some interesting arguments raised by the author that I agree with ‚ while some I find it to be quite a stretch. Several areas were covered about the topic emphasizing more on the aspect of difficulty of change after a certain point in one’s life. The author claims in his essay
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