Essays on Anticipating

The paper presents a review of the book known as “Wharton on Dynamic Competitive Strategy." The book is divided into four parts and 17 chapters. Part one addresses understanding the advantage in changing competitive environment, part two addresses anticipating competitor’s actions, part 3 addresses formulating dynamic competitive strategy and the last part addresses choosing among alternative competitive strategies. This paper reviews part one of the book that covers chapters one to nine. The review involves a critical evaluation of the chapters and presentation of personal views on over the content of each chapter. The book brings together an ...

Internship Report – March – August, 2016

Introduction This report is an internship report that discusses the elements of my internship at the Oriental Garden AS, Norway. This is a Chinese restaurant in a major European city where there is a crosscut of cultures and identities of consumers. This report will focus on the theoretical knowledge acquired and the effectiveness of the training that was undertaken. This report will also present aspects of my reflective log and provide a conclusion on the overall impact of the internship on my personal abilities, and knowledge.

The internship was done in Oriental Gardens, Oslo. It is an upmarket Chinese ...

Abstract

Battles are either won or lost because of a commander’s decision. As a leader of his team, the commander is the central authority when it comes to the military decision making process. But underlying these decisions are his subordinates who are often tasked with making plans and course of actions. These courses of actions are often laid-out by subordinate officers, which make them highly influential in the outcome of a commander’s decision. Over the years, standard procedures have been developed and observed when making decisions in the military. Of particular interest is the seven decision-making steps outlined ...

Multiple intelligence theory suggests that IQ testing is quite limited in order to evaluate the level of students’ intelligence with the help of it. Single ability of intelligence is not a primary focus of the theory. Howard Gardner is a person who came up with this idea. Eight criteria for the intelligence have been considered. They are “potential for brain isolation by brain damage, place in evolutionary history, presence of core operations, susceptibility to encoding (symbolic expression), a distinct developmental progression, the existence of savants, prodigies and other exceptional people, and support from experimental psychology and psychometric findings” (Thirteen.org, ...

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Executive Summary / Abstract

As industrialization has progressed, it has become more diverse and complex leading to higher incidence of occupational accidents, injuries, and diseases. Progress made in design and technology has minimized accidents due to system fault. In the changed circumstances, safety professionals have taken a central role in hazard management endeavor of an organization. Safety professionals are those who know their job, have integrity and can communicate to above and below regarding safety. They continuously seek to improve their knowledge and ability. They strive to prevent or mitigate harm or damage to people, property, and ...

There are a few ways Blades can advantage from using forecasting methods in looking to expand their operations as Blades is an international roller blades manufacturer. Advantages that include a increase in the rate of return of investment in using the correct forecasting money creates baht-designated money inflows and afterward changes over them to U.S. dollars. Anticipating the conversion scale might permit Blades to settle on a forecasting opportunity that is apparently the most advantageous. Moreover, it is said that Blades might set up an auxiliary in Thailand. If this somehow happened to happen, benefits earned by this auxiliary ...

Executive summary. The overall idea of this survey is to find out the spirits of constituency before the next presidential election in the United States. However, instead of concentrating on specific public figures and candidates I chose to focus on more general trends, on what people generally like and dislike in the electoral process and how they appreciate the work of their chosen ones. Introduction and background. The idea of the survey I have carried out consists in the attempt to find out the trends in sympathies as per the candidates running for the presidential office in 2016 among ...

Article review.

Shoemaker, P.J.H., Krupp, S., Howland, S. “Strategic leadership the essential skills”. Harvard Business Review. 02-03 (2013): 1-5.Print.

Thesis statement

The article is dedicated to researching essential skills a strategic leader has to possess. While the scope of the notion ‘strategic leadership’ remains not sufficiently researched (Morill 2), the description of essential skills of a strategic leader can be used to address strategic leadership from conceptual standpoint. Relying on the findings of empirical research in several corporations, the authors of the article distinguish six skills, essential for a strategic leader. They include anticipating, challenging the status quo, interpreting data, deciding, aligning ...

Abstract

Body dissatisfaction refers to an individual’s negativity regarding their own body image. It is found throughout all individuals, regardless of age or gender. However, studies have shown differences do exist when it comes to body dissatisfaction and an individual’s age or gender. Previous research has been aimed at body dissatisfaction and the causes that leads to an individual’s body dissatisfaction. This study is aimed at analyzing whether or not media exposure has a bigger influence when it comes to body dissatisfaction than psychological factors. The sample for this study will consist of 450 participants throughout three ...