applying taxation laws; and injecting a vaccine. (Lipton‚ 2014‚ p.4) Soft skills are more difficult to quantify. These skills are personality qualities‚ habits‚ attitudes‚ and even social graces. Unlike hard skills‚ which can be evaluated by a logic intelligence test (IQ)‚ soft skills tend to use your heart‚ and conversely would be evaluated by an emotional intelligence test (EQ). This is ‘right brain’ stuff. Some examples of soft skills are anticipating risk; motivating others; teamwork; innovating;
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thought‚ there are two branches‚ hard and soft. Hard determinism‚ sees technology as developing independent from social concepts (politics‚ culture‚ economy) (Wyatt‚ 2008). Technology creates a set of powerful forces acting to regulate our social activity that we organize ourselves to meet the needs of technology and the outcome of this organization is beyond our control or we do not have the freedom to make a choice regarding the outcome (Smith‚ 1994). Soft determinism‚ is more passive in that it
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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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Local Lawsuit Shari Hart July 25‚ 2012 School of Business 1. Summarize the actions that lead to the lawsuit. 2. Discuss what management could have done in terms of risk management to have prevented the events that lead to the lawsuit. 3. Discuss the ethical considerations reflected in the laws applicable to this case. 4. Determine which sources
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Chapter 11 Multiple Choice 1. Ikea‚ the Swedish furniture chain‚ insists that all its stores carry the basic product line with little room for adaptation to local tastes. If research of the U.S. market showed that Americans preferred larger beds than their Swedish counterparts‚ which of the following strategies would be advisable to Ikea? a. standardization. b. new product development. c. adaptation. d. withdraw from market. e. lower
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from experiences in the US‚ Japan and Western Europe. Some inventory systems however‚ can be affected by variations in local conditions such as infrastructure‚ customs‚ duties‚ and regulations. Hence‚ it is essential to view such systems in an international context. To frame this research‚ we will examine the literature on operations in NIC countries followed by an analysis of local conditions in Thailand. A number of articles are available that examine the inventory setups in Singapore‚ Hong Kong
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Brand Wars "To be‚ or not to be: that is the question" To rise as the new prodigy or to remain imbecile - An issue churning in the minds of all the ’brand owners’. Brand Wars have been going on for decades but it has taken a completely new outlook in the recent years. The fierce battle between brands of the same genre continues as one tries to rise over the others as superior to lead the market. Looking back at the 70’s we can see the brawl between the two highly popular brands Pepsi and Coca-Cola
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Case 5-2 Colombo Soft-serve Frozen Yogurt 1) Colombo Yogurt Company faces competition in two different channels‚ namely the independent yogurt shops and impulse shops that sell other products besides yogurt. During the early 90s‚ Colombo’s competitive environment consists mainly of franchise operations like TCBY and Freshens. The size of these franchise companies that account for most of the independent yogurt stores pose a serious competition to Colombo and by the early 90s‚ the yogurt stores
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it wants to go. RE-POSITIONING BRANDS As markets and customer needs evolve; brands can lose customers to new competitors. In addition‚ brands can become diluted as product or service offerings become commodities. When a brand loses meaning and relevance to target customer‚ a new brand promise should be defined so the brand can be repositioned. TYPES OF BRAND RE-POSITIONING Brand Re-positioning Brand re-positioning is changing the positioning of a brand. A particular positioning statement
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Local Motor Input from potential customers and car enthusiasts Community-help-> select the model to produce Create ideation contest Existing customer to bring new customer Involve customers to cars production->Customer assembles parts-> 60 hours of assembling- microfactory(local) Good ? Yes. Big players are bankrupt American market is moving to full-design and attentative No mass production->$50k (experimental) Are the designer customers? Are car enthusiasts customers? Do-it –yourself
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