of skills- the hard skills and the soft skills. Hard skills are important and you should never undermine them. They are your bread and butter skills. For example‚ a tourist guide has to know the technical aspects of his job like showing his tourists the right places in a proper sequence with authentic commentary on them‚ the legalities of his job‚ the safety aspect of his tourists etc‚ yet‚ he will be more in demand and earn more if he also has the necessary soft skills for the job like manners and
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People’s ability to handle the soft skills side of business - influencing - Communication - Team management - delegating - appraising - presenting - motivating is now recognized as key to making businesses more profitable and better places to work. A person’s soft skill is an important part of their individual contribution to the success of an organization. Particularly those organizations dealing with customers face-to-face are generally more successful‚ if they train their staff to use
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CaseNet® The Soft Drink Industry in 1996: A Case Study for External Environment Analysis Raman Muralidharan Indiana University-South Bend he average U.S. consumer drinks more soft drinks per capita (2.3 eight ounce servings a day) than any other beverage‚ including milk. Table 1 shows the per capita consumption of various beverages in the U.S. for 1991-1995. In terms of 1995 retail sales‚ soft drinks in the U.S. are a $52 billion dollar industry (Standard & Poor’s Corp.‚ 96:11). The U.S. market
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The Rain Man Juan Hernandez UMUC "Of course I don ’t have my underwear. I ’m definitely not wearing my underwear.... These are not boxer shorts. Mine are boxer shorts. These are Hanes 32... My boxer shorts have my name and it says Raymond...I get my boxer shorts at K-Mart in Cincinnati". (Rain Man‚ 1988) This quote from the popular movie Rain Man perfectly captures the disorder that plagues Raymond Bobbitt‚ one of the main characters. He is a very particular man who must always
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Soft drink consumption has increased substantially over the last 50 years and it has been established that using large amounts of soft drinks regularly can be detrimental to your health. If used in moderation soft drinks can have some beneficial effects on your body. Caffeine Benefits Caffeine is a stimulant that is found in soft drinks. It large amounts can have detrimental effects on your health but it also has numerous benefits. Caffeine stimulates your central nervous system‚ helps breakdown
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Garth Stein in the novel‚ The Art of Racing in the Rain‚ tests how Denny’s‚ Eve’s husband and Maxwell‚ Denny’s father-in-laws‚ relationship guides their behavior towards each other‚ their fears through Eve’s illness and their personal love for her‚ causes them both to do things that held serious consequences. Stein supports his claims by contrasting their differences in handling the trials. The author’s purpose is to point out the dissimilarity in the way people handle sicknesses ending in death
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What is Acid Rain? First identified in 1872 in Sweden and studied in the U.S. beginning in the 1950s‚ acid rain is precipitation in the form of rain‚ snow‚ hail‚ dew‚ or fog that transports sulfur and nitrogen compounds from the high atmosphere to the ground. Sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NO‚ NO2) are bi-products from burning fuels in electric utilities and from other industrial and natural sources. These chemicals react with water‚ oxygen‚ carbon dioxide‚ and sunlight in the atmosphere
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manage the company’s broadly diversified and geographically scattered operations. With the retrenchment strategy‚ Sara Lee Corporation is able to transform it into a more tightly focused food‚ beverage‚ and household products company. Management believed concentrating its financial and managerial resources on a smaller number of business segments in which market prospects were promising and Sara Lee’s brands were well positioned would help the company save cost and more profitable. The company had also
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export drugs. However‚ the government designed a drug policy with tolerates smoking cannabis under strict terms and conditions. Coffeeshops Coffee shops are only allowed to sell soft drugs and not more than five grams of cannabis per person per day. Coffee shops are governed by strict laws that control the amount of permitted soft drugs‚ and the conditions in which it is sold and used. Coffee shops are not allowed to advertise drugs. Persons under the age of 18 are prohibited from buying drugs and are
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Communication‚ June 2008 The Importance of Soft Skills: Education beyond academic knowledge Bernd Schulz Polytechnic of Namibia Abstract This paper makes a survey of the importance of soft skills in students’ lives both at college and after college. It discusses how soft skills complement hard skills‚ which are the technical requirements of a job the student is trained to do. The paper exhorts educators to take special responsibility regarding soft skills‚ because during students’ university time
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