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By reading Perlis's article, freshman will become motivated to be ambitious to work hard and stay focused through all four years of college. One may learn the courage to try a whole new experience, the ability to see the long term goals of college, and the sense of resilience, that when things do become difficult you can have the strength to get back up. My college experience got off to a very rocky start and I almost never recovered. Perhaps if I had read this article I would have been able to…

There were many issues going on in the Komatsu organization. However, the main disputes include changes in leadership, a slow domestic market, global issues, and focusing too heavily on one competitor. Komatsu had 4 different CEO’s (Kawai, Nogawa, Tanaka, and Katada), in a span about 30 years because the changes that occurred in Komatsu and that they wanted to expand globally. Each CEO had his own strengths and weaknesses, but not all proved to be able to handle the problems inherited from the…

was old enough to work, at no point in my life thus far have I been able to save any of my income for long periods of time. In the short term, my goal is to have enough money to pay for my education, as I recently found out that there is a limit to borrowing. A mid-term goal is to become debt free by age 30, although lofty, I believe is achievable. As for long term, my goal is to have enough to retire and to help pay for a portion of my future children’s education. Tracking my finances over…

Navi urLife is the ultimate guide to the lifestyle in Waterloo Region. The new mapping app -- Navi urLife will target on people who are new to Waterloo Region (i.e. first-year students, immigrants, business representatives and visitors). According to administration offices of UW and Laurier, there are 10,750 first-year students coming to Waterloo every year (…). Also, Waterloo is one of the top five best places for new immigrants to live. It is predicted by Statistics Canada that “the…

This approach which promoted firms’ labour forces to envisage their long term future with a company was popularised by “Japanese Management” (Ouchi, 1981). This emphasised that although Japanese culture and its work ethic played a pivotal role in Japan’s “bubble phase”, a ‘purple patch’ in Japan’s economic history, whereby they…

I lived in a small, slow and steady town called Bowral. I consider myself to be a part of a typical well-structured family type. I lived with my two loving parents and a younger sister, Mia who I adored. It was in May 2012 when my innocence was lost and I was introduced into the harsh realities of the world. It was the day my dad told me that he had been diagnosed with cancer. It was from this moment forward that I would experience pain that I had never felt before. I was only 15 at the time, I…

University of the People Personal finance - BUS 2204 Written assignment Unit 1 Introduction into SMART goal setting or planning model S.M.A.R.T. planning model consist of evaluating a goal by five different criteria and from five different perspective to determine its overall quality - is it easily understood, can it be followed in the process of fulfillment and when do we know we have achieved it. To make this evaluation simple there is a mnemonic acronym SMART which refers to most important…

For years the manufacturing industry in the United States has been pressured by overseas organizations. At the company I work for, Hudson Precision Products Company (HPPC), we have withstood these pressures as much as possible. But in the next 20 years, HPPC will need to undergo some serious changes in order to survive. As an increasing number of domestic companies take their business overseas, it threatens the viability of HPPC 's business. With lower costs of production and a greater access to…

leadership and ownership succession planning. In completing this triangle you see that each part is to be interdependent however still works together, for example the business strategy plan covers “where is this company going” for both the long and short term, however it doesn’t simply stop at once Bob retires Joe will take over, that is left to the succession and leadership part, etc. Successful businesses they can see and have all parts covered, planning cannot take…

When we are asked to reflect often times this begs us to look at our past, to place a valuation on our growth and to measure our present. This makes us take a step back from what is going on around us and evaluate who we were, who we hoped to become and who we are/who we became. One of the more difficult to place the spotlight on ourselves, to turn the mirror on our own reflection and to point the finger at ourselves to say, what have you done to better yourself or to make a difference in this…