Essays on Indecisiveness

Managing Organizations & Leading People

Introduction In the current business environment, leadership is considered to go beyond the “manager” title. Leadership is seen to be about whom the employees ate following. Today’s leaders highly influence the behavior of others hence the leaders must be able to show a good example and must have the ability of effectively motivation others to follow them and work harder for the fulfillment of organizational goals (Warner, 2012). This is because human resource is considered as the most vital asset currently and their management is what determines the success of a firm. Effective management of human resource requires ...

Robert Frost’s, ‘The Road Not Taken’ is one of his most famous poems. The poem has achieved an iconic status owing to its title with people using it to describe life situations and explaining the consequences of their choices. The beauty of the poem lies in the fact that it could be taken in different ways. For those who do not know the history of the poem, the poem might sound like the poet is regretting the choice he had made in choosing one road. A bit of history would show that the poem was in fact ironic ...

Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davies led Americans in the Civil War. The titanic struggle remained the most divisive war in American history. The American Civil war started on 2nd, April 1861 and lasted for four years. The secession of South Carolina from the Union prompted Confederacy to command the US government to relinquish its fort in Charleston Harbor. Lincoln strongly condemned the attempt, and this provoked a Confederate attack. The Confederacy surrounded the fort and fought the Union forces with dangerous weapons. After two days, the Union forces were forced to surrender Charleston Harbor after the bombardment. After the outbreak, ...

It has been observed that teenagers take bad decisions especially when they are in bad company. Teenagers do not take bad decisions because they are vulnerable but they deliberately smoke, consume alcohol and have unprotected sex. This trend has been emerged as a major concern for parents and they are unable to understand how to solve it. This paper intends to discuss how teenagers take bad decisions and further discusses the major factors that are responsible for such bad decisions. John Updike in the story, A&P portrays how a teenager’s bad decision can land him into weird situation. The ...

It is important to note and mention that the movie the zombie land brings to the fore these aspects and concepts. For instance, a college student tries to maneuver so as to reach home in order to find out if the parents are still alive of have been affected or killed by the zombie menace. Throughout the journey, the college student encounters a lot of challenges on the way. He tries to balance his safety first even as he travels with other people along the way. One gets the feeling that he is hopeless and tries to get home safely without ...

Abstract

Leadership is a critical component of such law enforcement agency as police. To make an efficient police leaders, the chiefs of police departments need to possess a wide scope of requisite traits like honesty, integrity, impartiality, flexibility, approachability, knowledge, and other features. Depending on personality attributes, senior police officials may adopt a wide range of leadership modes like transformation, transactional, mixed, active, role-modelling, situational, participative, passive, avoidant, and laissez-faire styles. Beyond that, police leaders are supposed to pursue a number of arch-important activities like the creation of a shared vision that produces the sense of purpose for subordinates, the cultivation of organizational commitment, the ...

Abstract

Low mood disorder, otherwise known as depression, is the product of distorted judgments and beliefs. As such, it can produce cognitive dysfunctions that indicate the impairment in attention, concentration, memory, and other aspects. The opening chapters of the project induct into the rationales behind depression and its phenomenon. Further sections analyze depression and cognitive outcomes, the negative cognitive triad, faulty information processing, the ways depression produces cognitive deficits, functional and structural abnormalities of the human brain caused by depression and associated with cognitive deficits, depression cognitive symptoms and cognitive abilities affected by depression. The opinions of prominent psychology and ...

Human beings must live in two time dimensions at once; that is the present and the future (Forsyth, 2010, p.3). People of all walks need to manage their time effectively if they have to realize their goals as scheduled. This inevitably creates a conflict between focusing on the pressing demands of the day while also creating space to plan strategically for future opportunities. The concept of time management is concerned with planning time usage in such a manner as to perform effectively and efficiently all planned activities. The fundamental objective of time management is to strategically plan and organize a person’s ...

Classic English Literature

Eliot’s poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” was first published in a poetry magazine in 1915. Later Eliot published other poems in the 20th century for which he was awarded The Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. This poem, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is a contemporary poem because it was written when Britain was considered among the modern countries of the world. This was before the beginning of World War I. It is narrated in a dramatic monologue where we find the speaker very unhappy and in mental agony. The poem became a master piece because its ...

Classic English Literature

Eliot’s poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” was first published in a poetry magazine in 1915. Later Eliot published other poems in the 20th century for which he was awarded The Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. This poem, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is a contemporary poem because it was written when Britain was considered among the modern countries of the world. This was before the beginning of World War I. It is narrated in a dramatic monologue where we find the speaker very unhappy and in mental agony. The poem became a master piece because its ...

Throughout the history of literary criticism, a lot has been said about Shakespeare’s poetic wonders, his melancholy prince Hamlet and the power-mad Macbeth. They are like two sides of a coin, the good and the bad, both tainted in their tragic endeavor. As it is the case with most of his tragedies, the protagonists carry within themselves a tragic flaw, tainting them as Byronic heroes who despite their utter devotion to their cause, can never truly come out as winners. Despite the fact that one is the protagonist and the other antagonist of the play, their similarities are ubiquitous: they both ...