Available online at www.sciencedirect.com Research in Organizational Behavior 28 (2008) 185–206 Ambidexterity as a dynamic capability: Resolving the innovator’s dilemma Charles A. O’Reilly IIIa‚*‚ Michael L. Tushman b a Graduate School of Business‚ Stanford University‚ Stanford‚ CA 94305‚ USA b Harvard Business School‚ Soldiers Field Road‚ Boston‚ MA 02163‚ USA Abstract How do organizations survive in the face of change? Underlying this question is a rich debate about whether organizations
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Challenge Essay Alone‚ unwanted‚ abandoned‚ and forgotten are just some of the things elders go through. Elders are sometimes just left at a senior homes or hospitals because they are unable to care for themselves. Elders are forgotten by their kids or even grandkids forget. Elders get treated differently as well they get treated with lots of sympathy and sadness. The challenges elder’s faces aren’t always fair. One of the challenges elders’ faces that aren’t always fair is being abandoned. As
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My Challenge Why am I learning another language‚ and how important is another language in my life? I want to be in the best place in my profession‚ and I want to make a comfortable life in the future. There are three reasons to learn another language; career‚ success‚ and money. Some people want to be in a good place in their careers. So‚ they do everything for their profession. For instance‚ my job is a computer engineer‚ and I always think about that what I need to do to get a good career!
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Restructuring Challenges Mae Williams BUS: 610 Organizational Behavior Instructor: Dr. Leo Smith February 11‚ 2012 Organization Restructuring Challenges Organizational fluency is vital to achieving stated objectives‚ however‚ maintaining and advancing productivity requires transitional change. Depending on the circumstances‚ degrees of necessary changes vary from minor adjustments to major operational restructuring. Regardless of the nature of the business‚ meeting today’s challenges requires
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Nicholas Pratt Professor Campbell The Unplugged Challenge Back to the Stone Age. That is what went through my mind as I prepared to begin the Unplugged Challenge and disconnect from the internet for five days. Several questions crossed my mind before I began. How will I stay connected with people? What if I miss an email naming me the Publishers Clearing House ‘Grand Prize Winner?’ Could I live for nearly a week without the search capability of Google or the hilarious videos of YouTube? It seemed
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Communication Challenges Rachel Naomi Remen‚ M.D.‚ is a master storyteller and a great observer of life; Remen said‚ “The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention.... A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.” Communication‚ gender and culture influence one another in many ways (Wood‚ 2008). People communicate either
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Essay on Challenges First Challenge is family adjusting to school responsibilities. Second is adjusting to the extra responsibilities of higher education compared to High School. Third is getting to know others on campus. Trying to balance the responsibilities with school and family is somewhat complicated. Having a husband as a manager at a Retail store can be difficult‚ with him dealing with customers‚ employees‚ paperwork‚ cleaning‚ and deposits. He’s tired from that. We
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Over so many assignments I could’ve chose‚ I chose this one which is the marshmallow challenge. I chose this one to share because it was the first project my teammates and I did in the beginning of the year and we worked so hard on it to try and get an “A”. And to get that grade Mr. Lopez asked me to build a tower with my teammates and the biggest tower from the class will get a candy . The expectation was to build the largest tower using spaghetti sticks and tape‚ with a marshmallow on top of the
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Overcoming Challenges It’s good to overcome and face challenges for many obvious reasons‚ but there may be risks and results and in the end you will probably learn something very valuable in the near to far future. In every day life we have challenges. For example sitting in class everyday to go to school and having the strength to push through to the next day. If you have the courage to take on challenges there may be risk involve. If you strive to excel in your challenge and fail you will
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Challenges in Education The morning school bell rings across the country and it is another day for elementary classroom teachers. They have worked hard to prepare a classroom that is inviting and educational. As the students come in the classroom‚ teachers are faced with daily challenges that did not exist twenty years ago. Teachers today must engage student that are used to multitasking‚ deal with the general lack of respect that is exhibited toward them‚ and teach the fundamentals with an ever-changing
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