very often). Even when it was obvious that a document would be revised‚ or used again in the future‚ she preferred not to use the word-processing system. When the word-processing software was updated‚ Paula went on another course‚ and ‘learned’ the new version…..But still‚ she did not use it. When Pretty‚ a former secretary‚ became the manager of Paula’s section‚ she discovered that Paula had no idea of how to keep track of documents on the machine‚ knew only the simplest editing commands‚ never used
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organizational culture? This indefinable combination of values‚ beliefs‚ and practice that a corporation posses‚ which makes the difference between surviving and thriving‚ succeeding and failing. Most large corporations typically have a strong culture with values and norms appropriate to the organizational purpose. In a big organization‚ sub-cultures also exist‚ division to division‚ office to office. In this part of this group assignment I will describe the organizational culture of one of the most
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Quote used: 7. “I am a great believer in luck‚ and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” – Stephen Leacock‚ economist and humorist. Any person who has exercised endeavors striving for success would be familiar with the conflict between hard work and luck as the limiting factors of long term achievement. Some people liberate themselves of all responsibility and leave everything to chance. While others‚ leave no stones unturned in attempt to induce the highest degrees of perfectionism in
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"When people succeed in life‚ it is because of hard work. Being lucky has nothing to do with success in life” Do you agree or disagree with the quotation above? Use specific reasons and details to support your answer. “Persistence is the material to success”‚ I believe in this quote. With an earnest effort‚ ones put in their work would help them to achieve their goal and eventually become successful in their lives. However‚ luck is just a small element that happens once in a blue moon. Thus‚ I
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true because it is hard to imagine anything more fundamental to most Americans than the belief that we are the authors of our own fate. We go to school‚ study‚ get jobs‚ and work hard with all the assumption that doing so will allow us to achieve financial security‚ but that house in the suburb with the white picket fence‚ and perhaps even attain great wealth. This faith in the American dream‚ in the United States is the land of opportunity‚ success and prosperity through hard work. Take away this
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Hard Light : Time to Dirty Our Hands with the Indian Penal Code By Dhrubaa Ghosh | Hard Light Soft Light – Mon 31 Dec‚ 2012 The rape‚ torture and murder of a 23 year old woman in New Delhi is not the reason for the current public outcry. It was that final weight tipping of the scale; it came at a point when the nation just couldn’t take any more. Rape has become so frequent that its presence is like the repeat telecast of the same episode running forgotten in a television while the family dines
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Motivational Speech Life is Hard‚ Life is Difficult Everybody wishes for good life. It may be at different levels. One person may define a good life one way and another may describe it another way. For one person a good life may be just having three meals a day and a roof over their head. For another it may be having a huge mansion and a couple of million dollars in the bank. There are different levels and meanings to what a good life is. But whatever your definition of it‚ there is perhaps
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From Grace to Grotesque “A good man is hard to find” is a narrative that Flannery O’Connor‚ a spiritual southern writer‚ uses to illustrate the simplicity of religion. O’Connor narrates how the fate of a family is doomed by the actions of their grandmother and their encounter with the misfit on a family vacation trip. O’ Connor with excellent diction and imagery tells this tragicomedy to a climax‚ that creates room for debates among her readers. O’ Connor uses her main grotesque characters
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In A Good Man is Hard to Find‚ O’Connor displays to us the theme of an unsympathetic character that is surprisingly touched when one of his victims of his senseless crimes tries to convert him and persuade him to not kill her. With O’Connor’s Catholic influenced writing‚ a closer look through the short story shows the theme of unlikely‚ undeserving characters finally understanding the error of their ways and knowing that they could change‚ through the help and belief of religion. At the end of the
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Genuine friendships are hard to come by. In this cynical world‚ trust and love are probably as rare as finding a needle in a haystack. However‚ when it does come to one’s life‚ winning the lottery suddenly becomes a distant second to an individuals’ list of memorable and worthwhile experiences. I vividly remember my first year here at the Ateneo. I was one of those fresh high school graduates from the province who was so eager to experience what it would be like to study here in Manila‚ away
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