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I read a cool BusinessWeek article called “Social Media Will Change Your Business.” The article, by Stephen Baker and Heather Green, is a follow up (in 2008) to a May 2005 article titled “Blogs Will Change Your Business.” Three years later the authors still claim that blogs will change each and every business, but they [...]
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What exactly is Gibberish? Well, to start off, it’s not that. Gibberish actually is based upon fundamental rules. Who knew?!?!?! Before I enlighten you as to how to speak Gibberish, let me tell you how my weird mind works. I was sitting at my computer one foggy day unsure what I wanted to blog about. [...]
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As we were brainstorming the other day out in the Engineering Quad, we all came to the idea that t-shirts would be super sweet. Now of course there have been some suggestions, Christian’s which was a real crowd pleaser, but it should probably be the kind of shirt you wouldn’t mind going to your grandmother’s [...]
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Over the course of the current recession that we are currently in, the government continues to push out large amounts of money. With the national debt over $12.5 trillion,(can you cite please?) the continued spending of millions and millions of dollars is not pushing it down. But how exactly does the government keep coming up [...]
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While this story about the Obamacare package has been unfolding, people have neglected to see other important bills going through the house. The article entitled The End of the American Graduation Initiative was written about exactly this. Being that it was about something that college students could relate to, I found it very interesting. The [...]
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I thought it would be interesting to look at how the administrative system of Enron behaved throughout the life of the company. There were changes in upper level management throughout the business life of Enron and not everyone acted the same as his/her predecessor. Simon’s Theory of Administrative Behavior (Scott and Davis, 53) talks about [...]
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Since Ghana became an independent country in 1957, it has not had much economic or financial success. With a population of over 23 million people, Ghana ranks as the 47th largest country in the nation. Of these 23 million people, only 3.6% are over the age of 65 years old. The median age for Ghana [...]
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I was interested in this book because I love sports. This book talks about how sports originated in the Greco-Roman empire as early as the third millennium. Back then, sports were mostly practiced during ceremonies. They were also the basis of physical education and had entertainment purposes.
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I checked back to Bob Sutton’s blog to see what some people came up with. Most of the entries were lame, but there were a couple good ones, most of which revolve around the word asshole.
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This blog post, by Bob Sutton, is about complainers, so to speak. He writes about people who like to criticize the outcome of something even though they had nothing to do with it. People like this are everywhere, especially in organizations.
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I stumbled across this post on Bob Sutton’s site, Work Matters. This article interested me when I noticed that the title said something about an asshole, so I decided to look more into it. The writer of these blogs, Bob Sutton, has also written many books, one which is title The No Asshole Rule. This book [...]
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The post that I chose to write about, My Nose, Other People’s Business, comes from the perspective of a nosy person. This post talks about how the writer enjoys talking to people about their business and how they are managing it and whatnot. This particular person enjoys asking a lot of questions pertaining to how [...]
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This post comes from the MGMT 339 class during the spring of 2007 and is titled Honeybees – Bees Vanish, and Scientists Race for Reasons. I chose to write about this blog because I hate bees. I am terrified of them, hate the noise that their flapping “wings” make, and afraid of getting stung by [...]
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