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    wounded‚ many people were affected and changed after seeing their friends die right before their eyes. The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien is a narrative about the Vietnam war and the people who fought for their lives. The main character‚ being the author‚ is Tim O’Brien and the short stories in the novel are from before‚ during‚ and after the war. These first hand accounts describe what many characters introduced into war experience as they are forced to fight and watch the people around them die

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    Board of directors and CMD have to work under the guidance of bureaucrats and politicians. What in your opinion have been the influence and effect of such a leadership on the strategic management and decisions taken on Air India over a period of time?( learning outcome 1.1 Explain the link between strategic management and leadership) Answer 1 Leadership in Air India Since 2003 Air India has been run by IAS officers with no experience of running a complex global business. The CMD’s Arvind Jhadhav

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    risk-management policy and corrupt organizational culture. The author believes that people who join organizations with full of enthusiasm often feel cheated by organizations‚ and then begin in turn to cheat organizations in unconscious ways. People begin to hide their real selves at work and operate out of a persona that they adopt exclusively for the workplace. Although there are many reasons why good people do bad things in the workplace‚ it is a key point that managing for an ethical workplace is typically

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    8 Things Remarkably Successful People Do The most successful people in business work differently. See what they do--and why it works. Jeff Haden I’m fortunate to know a number of remarkably successful people. I’ve described how these people share a set of specific perspectives and beliefs. They also share a number of habits: 1. They don’t create back-up plans. Back-up plans can help you sleep easier at night. Back-up plans can also create an easy out when times get tough. You’ll work a lot harder

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    Why good people do bad things? “Doing bad is easy but doing well is not”. Yes‚ that saying is the most concrete explanation why good people do bad things. Good people do bad things with good intentions. We‚ humans‚ are all sinful by nature. No one of us can behave perfectly and sinless. But we have the capacity to avoid temptations and to distinguish what’s right from wrong. Good intentions cause most of the world’s great evils. There are many things that happened in the past that can construe

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    unethical activities by assuming bad behaviour is an inherent personality trait. "Only shady people do shady things‚" right? We assume the CFO who reports false financial data and the hedge fund manager who commits insider trading do so because they are inherently "bad people." The maxim of individual responsibility is comforting because it implies that‚ to eradicate criminal or unethical behaviour‚ all we need to do is identify and weed out the corrupt few. However‚ that maxim has two major flaws

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    participating in enjoyable activities is always desirable‚ in my view it is also necessary at times to do things we do not enjoy. The bases for my view are personal‚ social and financial. Personally‚ doing things we don’t care for builds character and helps us mature. For instance‚ when parents have their first baby they are forced to give up their freedom in order to look after the child. There are times when parents barely get enough sleep and still have to get up and go to work in the morning.

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    The most commonly asked question is‚ do people really change over time? Sure‚ things naturally shift over time‚ however people confuse that with wanting change. Change doesn’t happen overnight‚ most people think of change in big steps. Change can be in little steps too‚ some effort is better than none. The person I was in 2015 wasn’t that great‚ however it help shape me into who I am now. In 2015‚ I was unaware of people’s intentions. My grandparent’s wanted to help me lose weight‚ they started

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    http://dspace.unive.it/bitstream/handle/10579/1743/815896-1165694.pdf?sequence=2 CASE 1 : EXTRAORDINARY EXPERIENCES • How can an extraordinary experience be defined? Experience is a mixture of many elements. According to Carlson an experience could be defined as a costant flow of thoughts and fellings that occur during moments of cousciouness. Each experience is different and changes across individual and social experience.Experience involves a consumer emotionally‚ physically‚ intelectually

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    Title:  Ordinary People  Significance of Title:  Ordinary People is named so because it tells the story  of a year in the lives of “ordinary” (normal) people.   Author:  Judith Guest   Biographical Information:  • born March 29‚ 1936  • American novelist/screenwriter  • studied English and psychology at the  University of Michigan  • graduating with a BA in education  Date Published:  1976  Historical Significance:  In the 1970s the interest in studying the human mind  arose in many people. In an interview Guest said

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