Developing a Tolerance for Ambiguity By Greg | Published: January 14‚ 2010 Celebrate your appreciation for ambiguity with a T-shirt like this from the Mental Floss store Early in my career at GE‚ one of the leadership values the company mentioned‚ but never really emphasized‚ was a “tolerance for ambiguity”. There was never any coaching on how to develop such a capability. Even now‚ I can’t really find a reference to it on the web (though current GE CEO Jeff Immelt recently emphasized the need for leaders
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not provide any financial analysis and evaluation based on user behavior and their psychographic characteristics‚ such as user personality‚ values‚ attitudes‚ interests and risk tolerance in terms of willingness. These psychographic classifications are extremely relevant with regards to individual strategy and risk tolerance. Even with the similar bank transactions data and spending category‚ an investor background‚ past experience‚ personality and attitudes can make investment process unique for each
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Helen Keller once said‚ “tolerance is the highest form of education‚” and although that may be true in some circumstances‚ when religion comes into play it becomes more of an excuse for not understanding others and less of something to be proud of. Tolerance is often used as a synonym for acceptance when it is not. It is the act of understanding something but not actively accepting it. Examples of such tolerance can be found in religious groups‚ and in the United States‚ According to the Oxford Dictionary
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has always seen criminality as a rational choice that can be combated by deterrence. Zero Tolerance policing aims to stop serious crime by clamping down on the minor crimes like graffiti that the practitioners believe lead to further crimes and using custodial sentences for first offences. It includes set responses to particular crimes by the police although the courts maintain some discretion. Zero Tolerance is not necessarily exclusive of urban regeneration‚ social investment or community policing
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The terms of zero tolerance policies and school-to-prison pipeline are labeled differently‚ to some extent. Zero tolerance refers to the policies and practices that push students who are involved in drug‚ weapon and violence offenses on school grounds out of the school and take them into the juvenile or criminal justice systems. Most schools have adopted zero-tolerance policies for a variety of behavioral issues largely directed towards weapons‚ drugs‚ threatening behavior‚ and fighting on school
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The Museum of Tolerance and The Swastika Maria A. Kreit Anthropology 101 Dr. Raffaella November 30‚ 2011 Abstract This essay is about my first experience at the Museum of Tolerance. Although the museum was very informative‚ the one main detail that it did not have was many actual artifacts. It had a few artifacts‚ but none that were noteworthy or interesting in regards to history. My experience in the Museum of Tolerance mostly focuses on the holocaust exhibit of the museum‚ which then
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Zero Tolerance Being able to provide a safe environment for students has been a priority since school zones have become a war zone. It only took one gun shot fired at a school to cause mayhem across the country. Since this occurrence school safety has been a concern the entire educational community share. Zero tolerance is as much as an issue with people outside of school as well as the people inside. Opinions vary whether one is against this policy or not‚ especially psychologists and regular people
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The zero tolerance policy strives to reduce violence in schools and make schools a safer place for students. Anne Atkinson‚ a member of the Virginia Board of Education defines zero tolerance as a “policy that mandates predetermined consequences or punishments for specified offenses.” The policy first became effective in 1989‚ but grew most rapidly in 1994 when the Gun- Free Schools Act was passed (1). There are many controversies about the zero tolerance policy including whether or not the policy
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a legend in his time where the creators and thinkers had decreased their presence. People‚ not just in Great Britain‚ but also around the world will remember his leadership through history‚ books‚ movies and especially in his speeches “Their Finest Hour”25 in the future and called him The Iron Man. Or perhaps‚ they will call him‚ the man who conquered Nazi and did not
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Tolerance‚ as defined in the dictionary‚ is a fair and permissive attitude toward those who race‚ religion‚ nationality‚ etcetera‚ differs from one’s own. In today’s society we misuse the word tolerance. In such examples as‚ I am very tolerable of so-and-so. So to emphasize the true meaning of tolerance‚ society should look at the events that took place in history. There has been no tolerance in races‚ religions‚ and other characteristics of human nature. In AD313 the Roman emperor Constantine the
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