What do you see as the main difference between a successful and an unsuccessful decision? How much does luck versus skill have to do with it? How much time needs to pass to know if a decision is successful or not? The ability to decide and choose wisely and rightly is often a matter of how the problem was posed. Though we try to be as logical as possible in taking a decision‚ sometimes we end up making illogical choices or choices that in fact were good but ended up with failure. So‚ it is important
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British Journal of Management‚ Vol. 9‚ 91-114 (1998) Attributes of Successful and Unsuccessful Acquisitions of US Firms^ Michael Hitt‚* Jeffrey Harrison‚^ R. Duane Ireland* arid Aleta Best§ *Lowry Mays College of Business Administration‚ Texas A&M University‚ College Station‚ TX 77843-4221‚ •College of Business Administration‚ University of Central Florida‚ Orlando‚ FL 32816‚ ’Hankamer School of Business‚ Baylor University‚ Waco‚ TX 76798-8004‚ and ^College of Business and Industry‚ University
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and their instructors. Unfortunately‚ they can also be miserable failures for students lacking necessary skills and motivation‚ and for instructors lacking necessary resources and support. This paper describes two active learning projects‚ both successful in many ways‚ and draws from them observations and lessons on the failings of active education for some students‚ and the burdens placed on instructors. Experiential learning is not a new concept. Originally derived from apprenticeship programs
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Successful and Unsuccessful Learning Experiences Skiing When I was about fourteen years old I wanted to go on a skiing trip to Austria with my school‚ my parents said they would pay for the for the spending money I was saving my wages from my part time job helping the milkman. I had one major problem‚ I couldn’t ski!!! I didn’t want to travel all the way to Austria and then learn to ski‚ my train of thought was that if I was going to Austria ‚ I wanted to be able to go up to the top of the mountains
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CHARACTERISTICS OF SUCCESSFUL AND UNSUCCESSFUL COLLEGE STUDENTS Characteristic S u c c e s s f u l S t u d e n t s (SSs) U n s u c c e s s f u l S t u d e n t s (USs) Ambition SSs have "aligned ambitions." They are motivated to obtain professional careers after they graduate; they are aware of the knowledge‚ skills‚ and characteristics (KSCs) required for these careers; and they have realistic and accurate ideas of how they can use their education to acquire
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Successful Teacher Many claim that being a teacher is an easy job‚ and everybody can become a teacher. Others‚ however‚ suppose teaching is not a career; it is a human service.Albert Einstein said “I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.”‚ so being an effective teacher‚ everyone should need some special characters such as sense of humor‚ personal touch‚ and willingness to admit mistakes.First of all‚ humor in class is one of the most efficient
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art than a science. So teachers should be artists in this domain. Teaching should provide an opportunity for students to develop a strong sense of creativity‚ a high self-esteem a life- long respect for learning. A teacher will be one factor that helps a student learn and progress along their way through life. Many individuals believe that being a teacher is an easy task. Our society believes that any person can become a teacher‚ but experience has
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How to Be a Successful Language Teacher? I. Introduction Teacher is defined differently from one person to another. It has been said that teachers are those who act as the actors‚ conductors‚ or gardeners. That’s why‚ being a successful language teacher is quite hard‚ and it requires those teachers to understand both good and bad characteristics of language teacher – they can develop themselves to even more successful in the good points‚ and also they can learn and do the correction of
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help students better understand the behaviors of successful and unsuccessful leader.First step is to find brief biographies‚case studies or articles about various leaders.The student need to choose two leaders who most people would consider very successful and two leaders who would be deemed unsuccessful. For my report‚ I have choose Mahatma Ghandi ‚Presiden of Indian Nationalism and Jeff Bezos‚ the founder and CEO of Amazon.com as successful leader .When India in the hands of Mahatma Ghandi
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An unsuccessful learning experience. My unsuccessful learning experience was when I was 16 and starting my Maths A level. We had 2 teachers who split the course material between them‚ one taking pure maths and the other applied maths. The teacher in charge of the pure maths‚ which had enjoyed up to A level and received an A for (in the days before A* existed‚ so top marks in other words)‚ was a young man who had just qualified from his PGCE and came to teach us A level maths. The main problem
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