BENEFITS OF GREEN BUILDINGS OVER CONVENTIONAL BUILDINGS ECONOMIC BENEFITS: Green buildings save money because they conserve resources and enhance efficiency by: * Using natural insulation such as roof gardens * Using technology such as solar panels‚ fuel cells‚ and photovoltaics * Conserving water and reducing runoff using solar water heating‚ contour landscaping‚ and water-conserving or water-recycling appliances * Maximizing energy conservation and efficiency by optimizing
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Military Discipline. Definition The word discipline comes from the Latin word disciplīna which means "to instruct". Discipline is a specific form of instruction which develops self-control‚ character‚ and efficiency. The Importance of Discipline. Discipline is of the utmost importance in order to ensure the efficiency of the military organization as a whole as well that of the individual units. Efficiency helps to ensure that goals are met and that the highest level of profeesionalism is
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Peter Drucker‚ in his article of HBS discusses the sources and types of innovation and analyzes through examples where different types of innovations stand. Firstly he asks the question whether innovation is hard work or as believed by many inspiration. He argues that innovation is mostly the resuly of hard‚ disciplined work as opposed to inspiration. Then he goes on to discuss the profile of innovative organizations and their managers. He thinks that establishing roles and processes‚ setting goals
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heart and soul. Building a winning culture By Paul Rogers‚ Paul Meehan and Scott Tanner Paul Rogers is a partner with Bain & Company in London and leads Bain’s Global Organization Practice. Paul Meehan is a Bain partner in Tokyo and leader of Bain’s Organization Practice in Asia. Scott Tanner is a partner in Bain’s Melbourne office. Copyright © 2006 Bain & Company‚ Inc. All rights reserved. Editorial team: Paul Judge and Elaine Cummings Layout: Global Design Building a winning culture
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Discipline and Punish Michel Foucault (trans. Robert Hurley) Part One: Torture 1. The body of the condemned This first section of Part One serves as an introduction to the entire book. Examples of eighteenth-century torture provide Foucault with many colorful episodes to relate in his account of how penality changed in modernity. Foucault relates an explicit account of Damien’s torture to introduce his subject (3-5) and compares that account of penality to Faucher’s timetable for prisoners published
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informs the teacher that he has forgotten his lunch and asks if he can run back to the classroom to get it. What should be the teacher’s response? It’s one of those incidents that may not necessarily require a disciplinary action. Does the school’s discipline system have a scenario for this? A young boy sits in the back of the class. It’s the third place he has been moved this school year and it’s only October. He is not very disrespectful nor is he all that talkative‚ it’s more of a cumulative thing
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dimension that differentiates learning from more traditional organizations is the mastery of certain basic disciplines. The five that Peter Senge identifies to be leading to innovative learning organizations are: (a) Systems Thinking (b) Personal Mastery (c) Mental Models (d) Building Shared Vision (e) Team Learning (Mark‚2001) 2.0 The Usefulness of Peter Senge’s Five Disciplines As a Tool in Helping Managers (a) Systems Thinking It is an idea of the learning organization developed
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Discipline can become a challenge for parents today and choosing the right method is something that parents should take very seriously. Physical punishment is one form of discipline that parents employ. In fact‚ most parents believe that physical punishment is an acceptable form of discipline (“The National Child Traumatic Stress Network” 1). On the other hand‚ there may be some people who oppose physical punishment but is this a good decision to make? In order for parents to make this decision‚
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In the first part of Discipline and Punishment‚ Michel Foucault argues that‚ over the course of a few short centuries‚ the penal system shifted its target from the criminal’s body to their soul. Foucault locates this shift in the transition from public torture to prisons; from punishment as a public means of expressing force to a private means of correcting and preventing nonconformity. Punitive power has been replaced with disciplinary power‚ and discipline works on the soul rather than the body
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MAPÚA-NSTP ON-LINE LEARNING EXERCISE SUMMARY REPORT Prepared by : Calma‚ Armie M. Section: AY02 Date: 5/21/2013 Activity Title: Chapter 12 HOMEWORK NO. 4 GROUP NO. 3 Reminder: Use arial font; size - 12; single –spaced. (Your answers should be in narrative format and do researches to provide more suitable responses.) Answers: 1. In your own understanding‚ What is Community Organizing? Community organizing is a process where people come together to strengthen
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