a boring stick in the mud. I say‚ just like a great role model of mine “why so serious?” Elbert Hubbard said “Do not take life to seriously. You will never make it out alive.” We spend our whole lives working so hard and doing things that we have been told to do our whole lives that we have lost our sense of humor. We make every situation so serious that nothing is fun anymore. I think that every situation in the world has the potential to be funny; but we’re told a time and a place. “Bryndyn there
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2015 When The World is Flat With the acceleration of communication and transportation within the past century‚ the world has undergone transformative changes of globalization – “the inexorable integration of markets‚ transportation systems‚ and communication systems to a degree never witnessed before” (Friedman). A new global culture where products‚ ideas‚ and technologies have an unprecedented ease of exchange has enabled nations‚ businesses and individuals from all over the world to communicate
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Why So Expensive? College is said to be some of the best years of your life. The parties‚ the freedom‚ and the new experience help you find new friends‚ hopefully a career and yourself‚ but rising college cost are having young adults stressing instead of enjoying the college experience. Every year less and less states are giving their college’s money and more and more students are asking for financial aid or taking out student loans. The more that college tuition continues to rise the more of
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Di Cavour Count Camillo Benso has done so many remarkable things in his lifetime. His life started when he joined the Turin Military Academy when he was 10 years old. Joining the Army when he was 17 showed me that he wanted to fight his way through the world. Even though he resigned from the army 4 years later because of boredom‚ he also left because he didn’t like the way the government was leading them into battle. Benso travelled around the world where he saw the places for what they really
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Case 4: Takamatsu Case Analysis (25 points) Executive Summary Takamatsu Sports Enterprise is a sporting company that has recently experienced a considerably large loss in net profit. Mr. Takamatsu has begun to look into the problem of the company and believes that Ms. Ota is the problem in the loss of sales. Although Mr. Takamatsu thinks that Ms. Ota is the problem‚ it really is Mr. Fujita. He has inefficient training and sales. If Mr. Takamatsu gets Mr. Fujita the appropriate training‚ he can
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Colonizer’s Model of the World One of the central themes in J.M. Blaut’s book The Colonizer’s Model of the World‚ is that the social stratification and class system‚ which was built around the farmers and the landowners‚ which is cited by Marx and Eric Jones as the foundation that Europe was able to use to rise to power and dominance was reflected and found in similar forms throughout Africa and Asia. He utilizes the writings Jones and Marx‚ specifically The European Miracle from Jones‚ to show
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industrialists‚ Konosuke Matsushita likes a monument with no doubt. He not only founded the great company‚ Panasonic‚ but also gave the world much easy understanding management philosophy. From starting being an apprentice when he was a teenager‚ Konosuke worked very hard and walked out his own business road. (Wu‚ 2007)There are so many successful industrialists‚ but there are so little people who can abstract his own philosophy even the people who can be described as god level. In modern Japanese industry
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1. Describe the general accounting process. The accounting cycle process includes the steps below: a) Recording each transaction in the form of a journal entry. b) Posting the amounts from the journal entries to individual balance sheet and income statement accounts in a general ledger. c) Making adjusting journal entries to the accounts to correct errors and to reflect the financial statement impacts of items that occur because of usage or the passage of time. d) Preparing the income statement
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Kenneth Sikora February 20‚ 2013 MKTG 430 Nike Case Analysis In 1962‚ Nike started as a US distributor for the Japanese shoe manufacturer Onitsuka under the name of Blue Ribbon Sports selling merchandise out of the back of cars at track meets. It wasn’t long before they realized they wanted to start designing and manufacturing their own brand of athletic footwear. In 1972‚ they changed their name to Nike and developed their iconic swoosh logo. Their first innovative shoe featured a waffle
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Management Service. In your opinion‚ which of the three was the biggest factor? Explain your answer. The manner in which the employees are treated by the organization is an essential factor in determining the effectiveness of managerial ethics. In the case of Minerals Management Service‚ it is observed that despite the organization being aware of the various discrepancies such as accepting royalty in kind‚ selling oil and gas in open market‚ allowing buyers to revise the bids to the contract‚ consuming
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