What Is Grand Strategy?* by John Lewis Gaddis** Yale University When my colleagues Paul Kennedy‚ Charlie Hill‚ and I first began talking about setting up a grand strategy course at Yale in the late 1990s‚ at least half the people to whom we tried to explain this thought we were talking about “grant” strategy: how do you get the next federal or foundation grant? This misunderstanding would not have occurred‚ I think‚ during the fifty years of insecurity that separated the Japanese attack on Pearl
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What Success Means To Me A great deal of people define success as living a life of luxury with brand new expensive vehicles‚ a big beautiful home and so much money you couldn’t possibly spend it in this lifetime. I’m not one of those persons. I can define success in one word; stability. When you reach a point in your life where all your bills are paid‚ you have a roof over your head‚ even if it’s just a small studio apartment‚ and you’re not worried about where your next meal will come from‚ I
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Vincent Staples is a guy who most people do not know about‚ however his path to success is almost a miracle in itself. Vincent Staples was born in Long Beach California where he lived his childhood with his mother and father in the hood of Northern Long Beach. He grew up wanting to defy all odds and this task was even more challenging with his father in and out of the house constantly and his mother being emotionally unstable. At a young age Staples decided that he did not want to be like his father
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The Most Famous Online Marketplaces A few decades ago‚ the ideas of shopping online were not as popular as today. People talked about it as an unsecure method of shopping. Nowadays‚ it becomes a new trend of shopping. For most people‚ it’s the fastest and cheapest way to buy all the thing that they need. They just need to access the Internet with a computer‚ and then they can easily do the shopping online at anywhere and anytime. As the result‚ thousands of online shopping websites were born. However
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Barger‚ previously president and COO of JetBlue‚ was named the airline’s CEO. JetBlue’s board promoted Barger to the CEO role in the wake of a highly publicized operational crisis in February that led to the cancellation of over 1‚100 JetBlue flights and adversely affected the travel plans of thousands of passengers. Though numerous interviews and meetings during the past day allowed Barger to outline his vision for the airline‚ he realized that he needed to move quickly in implementing that
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What Kind of Success Should We Embrace？ Since ancient times‚ people in growing numbers have been pursuing success. When asked about what success is reflected in‚ people’s answers differ. Some people believe that enough fund and outstanding achievements embody a successful man or woman whereas others insist that success is doing something that one considers is worth doing. I am in favor that the view on whether successful or not varies from people to people and era to era and strong espouse
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“What Drives Success?” is an article written by Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld that uses facts to determine the simple question of what drives success. As the two authors dig into this subject they determine that other ethnic and religious groups are doing better than white Americans. Indian-Americans make almost double of what white-Americans are making (1). People of the Jewish religion only make up two percent of America’s population‚ yet they make up a third of the current Supreme Court (1).
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Napoleon is the most charismatic general in French history‚ famed for his military successes and (at the same time) for not quite conquering Europe. Starting as a second lieutenant in the French artillery‚ he rose quickly through the ranks until he staged a 1799 coup that made him First Consul of France. (In 1804 he went further‚ proclaiming himself emperor.) He led his armies to victory after victory‚ and by 1807 France ruled territory that stretched from Portugal to Italy and north to the river
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JetBlue is a low-cost domestic airline in the United States that utilizes a combination of low-cost and value-added differentiation as its market strategy. From its launch in February 2000 to the time of the case‚ the airline grew to become the 11th largest player in the airline industry in a short span of 4 years. Moving into the growth phase‚ JetBlue transitions from launch mode to an established product stage where it needs to focus on growth of scale. Executive leadership has determined that
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1. ¿Cuáles son los hechos más relevantes del caso? ¿Cuál es la situación competitiva de la empresa? Hechos: Generales: * Neelman‚ hombre visionario y fundador de JetBlue llevaba una vida dedicada a la industria aérea‚ fundó JetBlue basándose en sus propias experiencias y tratando de mejorar las expectativas tanto de clientes‚ colaboradores y asociados; haciendo del excelente servicio a estos grupos la clave de su éxito. * 5 años de existencia en la industria para el 2005. * Para el
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