Badass U Articles Summary How to Succeed in College (The 5 Badass Ways)! Are you going to college or going to be going to college? Let me give you this warning: you only get one shot to do it right! Who am I to say this? I have been to several huge universities (University of Texas and Arizona State University), I started over several times, went to several community colleges, strictly online colleges, joined all different kind of clubs, lived in different dorms, apartments, and at my parents while going to college, and got a bachelor’s and a master’s degree. Considered by many a failure at college (mainly because I went there for so long), but ended up working a job at a very prestigious firm which none of my peers could get into. Later, I got a job going to major universities and interacting with students. This included the University of Dallas, University of California San Diego, University of San Diego, University of…
INTRODUCTION: Toyota Talent Developing Your People the Toyota Way by Jeffrey K. Liker and David Meier was written after two prior published books regarding Toyota Company’s management- The Toyota Way and The Toyota Way Fieldbook. The authors decided to come up with this third installment of the Toyota series book because of the intention of explaining in details the 4P model of excellence (philosophy, people, problem solving and process) that was introduced in the previous books. Though this…
conflict. Your parents are the ones who teach you to walk, talk, and everything else we must learn to do in life. I feel that all of my habitual ways of dealing with conflict come from my family members. I learned that both my mother and father handle conflicts in different ways. They both try to avoid conflicts, and I do the same. I feel that my parents raised me in a way that fighting is never the answer to a conflict. When a conflict does arise, I search for opportunities to work through them…
In a 2003 article entitled Competitive Advantage the Toyota way, Toyota is highly touted for its ability to create a competitive advantage with limited capital resource and the appropriate usage of human and capital resources (Fane, Vaghefi, Van Deusen & Wood, 2003). This information from 2003 is relevant because it was the predecessor for the recalls that created such turmoil in the organization. Our text identifies the five steps strategic control process for organization’s top managers as…
In society, there are many ways of learning, understanding, and knowing the world that range from scientific ways to non-scientific ways. There are many types of scientific ways of learning that include but is not limited to psychology, sociology, and political science to name a few. But learning if not limited to scientific ways, learning can also be accomplished through non-scientific ways such as learning from personal experience, learning from parents or through tradition, and even using…
The Way It Haunted Me People say that good things always come in pairs, but what about bad things too? My parents, sister and I decided to visit Cedar Point during what I like to call a dark fall. The days were hazy and honeyed, and cinnamon and pomegranate aroma filled the air. The skies were always awake and illuminated with the never-ending thunderstorms, and murky rains; the scattered leaves were luminescent in their yellows, reds, and purples as if they forgot they were about to die. That…
common English idiom says “a picture is worth a thousand words” but sometimes there aren’t even words to describe a picture. That is the case for “The Pillars of Creation”. This picture was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The photo depicts a nebula with three towers of gaseous regions, hence the name; in a way, it is metaphorical. Fortunately, for the normal people in the world, there are no controversies that provoke unreasonable people. The article “Ways of Seeing”, by John Berger,…
1. Describe the Milky Way. What does it contain? The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy, which looks like a pinwheel. At times, people can look up to the sky and see the faint band of light, the glow of stars in the galaxy’s disk, which gave the Milky Way its name. The galaxy is of an average size, 100,000 light-years across and 1,000 light-years deep. It contains about 500 billion stars and many planets. The center of the galaxy contains a supermassive black hole, which is the cause of our…
10 Ways to Build a Winning Personal Brand Personal branding is nothing new. Julius Caesar 's three-word mantra, 'veni, vidi, vici, ' clearly demonstrated his winning-at-all-costs persona. Politicians have successfully developed and packaged their brands to win votes and build coalitions of political power. Today 's marketer, networking aficionado and job seeker find even greater pressure to build a personal brand given the digital tools that are widely available for branding and marketing a…
An example of how listening can be useful in business is by receiving instruction from your boss about a new project. If you listen well, you will be able to know what you need to do for the project and the expectations of the project. Carrie Brenner, author of “Ten Ways to Improve Your Interpersonal Skills” (n.d.) give practical ways to improve listen skills in the office. Brenner states, “Using your own words, repeat what the speaker has said. By doing this, you’ll know that you’ve processed…