Taran Swan had successfully launched Nickelodeon in Latin America. Would Swan be able to continue leading the team from New York? Or would it be better to appoint an interim director‚ and if so‚ whom? 1) Appoint a current member of the team as interim director • Swan knows her team member’s work ethics. They all know about each others projects. • Who should she choose? 2) Appoint third party individual as interim director • Third party with unattached opinion and new view. • Hard to find a
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Billy Collins Billy Collins was born on March 22‚ 1941 in New York‚ NY and is married to Diane Collins. He is the son of Katherine M. Collins and William S. Collins. Collins received a Bachelors Degree at the College of the Holy Cross in 1963 and also received a Ph.D. in romantic poetry in 1971. He has been a writer-in-residence at Sarah Lawrence College and also was a Literary Lion of the New York Public Library. He is an English Professor at Lehman College for CUNY‚ where he has been teaching
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In his novel In the Lake of the Woods Tim O’Brien paints a vivid image of the horrors of the Vietnam War‚ particular the savagery of the Thuan Yen massacre. While prior to reading the novel readers instinctively blame the soldiers themselves for their immoral actions‚ as the novel progresses‚ O’Brien shows that while the soldiers may have physically committed the brutal acts of murder‚ blame cannot solely be placed on them. O’Brien depicts the Vietnam landscape as one that‚ due its elusive and chaotic
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Gillian Clarke’s poem ’Cold Knap Lake’ centres on a childhood memory of a girl almost drowning in a lake in South Wales. The poet‚ with her parents‚ ’watched a crowd’ of people pull the girl out of the water. It seemed at first that they were too late: the girl’s lips were blue and she ’lay for dead’. The metaphor ’dressed in water’s long green silk’ tells us that she was covered in weeds from the lake. In the second stanza‚ Clarke describes her mother as a ’heroine’ as she knelt down to resuscitate
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Othello’s Swan Song In William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Othello‚ the Moor of Venice he presents his character of Othello as having all the great qualities of a true leader‚ but also a man who lacks any type of reasoning power. Othello being the ideal hero has strength‚ prowess‚ and battlefield knowledge. However these ideas of leadership do not translate well into situations in the real world and in this case‚ situations dealing with the heart. The battlefield and senate are where Othello
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Black Swans or Dirty Ducks? A Retrospective Challenge the Unchallenged It’s a duty of risk managers to challenge that which rests unchallenged. Nassim Nicholas Taleb did a great service by popularizing risk concepts in his book‚ The Black Swan . However‚ it is easy to get seduced by his enthusiasm‚ carried away by his pace and miss a few flaws. Over the last six years since it was published The Black Swan has been virtually unchallenged as a standard reference book. However‚ on closer examination
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Rev. Billy Graham has revealed the reason why some young Christians abandon their faith later on in life‚ and also gave parents tips on how to raise their children in a godly way. On Tuesday‚ Rev Billy Graham responded to a question posted on The Kansas City Star by a woman who overheard a man in an adjacent restaurant table discussing his family. The young man said they were very religious during his younger years‚ but later on‚ all of them have abandoned their faith. The 97-year-old American evangelist
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Case Summary of Taran Swan at Nickelodeon Latin America Taran Swan served as launch director and general manager of Nickelodeon Latin America. She had written the business plan‚ compiled a team and brought it through its first 18 months in the air. She unexpectedly had to return to New York and was faced with the decision of whether to appoint an interim leader in her place‚ and if so‚ who among her team members should she select? Origins of Nickelodeon Latin America Nickelodeon is a cable
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Nicholas Taleb’s The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable discusses extreme events that everyone believes to be “highly improbable” and to be widely unexpected. Taleb calls the extreme events “Black Swans.” Taleb believes that the unexpected (“Black Swan”) is the key to understanding not only financial markets‚ but also history itself. When Wall Street suffered its worst single-day in modern history in 1987 Taleb had this “ah hah” moment. He then realized that “Black Swans” could happen at any
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Snippet: The Lakes in Canada: 5 Great Lakes article includes locations and small descriptions of 5 most beautiful lakes in Canada such as Abraham Lake‚ Moraine Lakes in Canada: 5 Great Lakes Nature always attracts people with its beauty‚ as it is not only pleasing the eye but also gives us a state of equilibrium and comfort. Lakes are a gift from the gods for us; they personify calmness and clarity. The Lakes in Canada: 5 Great Lakes article includes locations and small descriptions of 5 the most
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