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    Purchased by Umesh Phadke (phadke.u@gmail.com) on December 22‚ 2012 Nine Things Successful People Do Differently Heidi Grant Halvorson Harvard Business Review Press Boston‚ Massachusetts ISBN: 978-1-4221-8561-2 Product number: 11065 Copyright 2011 Harvard Business School Publishing All rights reserved Purchased by Umesh Phadke (phadke.u@gmail.com) on December 22‚ 2012 CONTENTS Introduction 1. Get Specific 2. Seize the Moment to Act on Your Goals 3. Know Exactly How Far You Have

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    Why People Join Cults

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    Member Characteristics Worldwide‚ there are hundreds of groups defined as ‘cults’‚ each are comprised of many members‚ who are there for personal reasons. The type of people and their assimilation into cult life are similar in many cases. There is no defined group of people who are more susceptible to a cult’s influence. The people joining may be of any race‚ gender‚ economic class‚ level of education‚ or former religion. Those who join cults centered around religions‚ are usually previously affiliated

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    the twenty-first century. Contrast: IT versus random patrol of the streets: a. The police departments that utilize COMPSTAT are based on the collection of information and analysis of such information contrary to random patrol of the streets‚ which do not utilize data collection and neither it’s analyzed. b. Previously to Compstat‚ the departments had merely conducted an annual review of local Part I crime rates collected in the UCR. The purpose of this brief examination was to provide departments

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    Change is perhaps the greatest competitive challenge that companies face. They feel extremely challenging to embrace it as it is a continuous process having no end. This is because companies keep redesigning and changing their internal organisation and management systems constantly. As Dave Ulrich (1998: p127) mentions: ‘Successful organisations will be those that are able to quickly turn strategy into action‚ to manage processes intelligently and efficiently‚ to maximize employee contribution and

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    “Romantic fiction often portrays characters in terms of their capacity for change.” Pride and Prejudice presents themes of marriage‚ love and status in society. In the 19th century‚ people had a tendency to marry because of financial benefits. Austen uses sarcastic wit both as a narrator‚ Elizabeth‚ her protagonist’s voice and the centre of consciousness to attack the ideas of marriage and love that her society held in her time. She saw that for marriages and relationships to be happy‚ society must

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    Why I Do What I Do

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    forget why you do what you do and who you do it for‚ and make sure everything you do honors that. What I’ve seen happen often times (especially in… yup‚ you guessed it: the education reform movement)‚ is that intentions start out good but the sword starts to swing the other way when money‚ power‚ and statistics are valued over the lives and humanity of students. “Kids first” and “For the kids” becomes merely rhetoric‚ as people jump to enact radically dangerous and untested policies that do anything

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    Why organisations need to change Change management is relevant as though the research finds that change is taking place at an ever-increasing pace‚ the evidence suggests that most change initiatives fail. For example‚ recent CIPD research suggested that less than 60% of re-organisations met their stated objectives which are usually bottom line improvement. This is consistent with other published research. The impact of failures to introduce effective change can also be high: loss of market

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    “Guns Don’t Kill – People Do! Drugs Don’t Kill – People Do!” Doug Marlette is a well-known cartoonist. Throughout his life‚ he had learned that things are not as clear cut as they seem and that often there are two sides to every story; he began to express this in his art (Encyclopedia Britannica‚ 2013). “I began understanding my role as an artist. The great novelists see the whole picture…they empathize with the thief and with the saint. They feel the whole thing and they show the whole thing.

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    Why People Need To Lie

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    When you experience that sick and sinking feeling that your spouse-whether husband or wife-is not telling you everything‚you know you need to act.What you don’t need are more twisted scenarios of what may or may not be going on.All human beings have the capacity to imagine and when it comes to extramarital affairs‚the painful emotions have more than enough power to drive our imagination in the darkest‚sickest directions possible.Even the most uncreative among us can generally imagine vivid details

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    Why Intelligent People Fail Content from Sternberg‚ R. (1994). In search of the human mind. New York: Harcourt Brace. 1. Lack of motivation. A talent is irrelevant if a person is not motivated to use it. Motivation may be external (for example‚ social approval) or internal (satisfaction from a job well-done‚ for instance). External sources tend to be transient‚ while internal sources tend to produce more consistent performance. 2. Lack of impulse control. Habitual impulsiveness gets in the

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