Essays on Stagnation

Sustainable Tourism: the Importance of Destination Tourism Indicators

Question 1 Tourism lifecycle is a concept proposed by geographer Richard Butler in “Canadian Geographer” journal in 1980. According to Butler, any touristic destination has its own lifecycle. It starts from a moment when a place is unknown to tourists and stays aside of touristic routes. Then mostly due to a word of mouth popularity of the destinations starts growing, local residents become involved in the process of hosting guests and corresponding infrastructure appears (hotels, transport, catering etc.). At certain moment local tourism infrastructure becomes developed at maximum level, at which it can host peak number of tourists. And ...

While the Target Corporation has achieved a great deal over the last few decades, it is also clear that over the last few years the company is seen a significant reduction in its growth and profitability. This has become a major problem for many traditional brick-and-mortar stores. Even Walmart recently announced that it will be closing hundreds of stores across the United States. One of the primary culprits in this change in consumer spending habits is the rise of online retailers like Amazon.com. These online companies have drawn customers away by offering buyers certain advantages, including lower prices, better ...

Abstract

Erik Erikson developed a psychosocial theory to explain stages of development experienced throughout an individual’s life, from birth and infancy to old age and death. He is most closely compared to Freud, whose psychoanalytic theory predated and somewhat overlapped Erikson’s. Where they were divided, though, was with regards to motivation; Freud believed sexuality was the underlying reason for action whereas Erikson believed social interaction mostly motivated people. Erikson outlined eight total stages to describe dichotomous “life crises” that define important dilemmas at any particular stage of life. The eight stages encompass the acquisition or loss of qualities ...

1. Why and how have fathers become more involved in childbirth? Discuss the pros and cons of this involvement. Fathers have become more involved in childbirth by staying next to their wife and providing her with encouragement, much needed support and companionship. Initially some men are embarrassed to be next to their wife but as he starts using the breathing technique that was taught in the preparatory class, he feels that he has a necessary role to play and feels at home as his wife follows his cue and breathes with him. The advantages of having the husband around ...

In Robert D. Kaplan’s “Defense of Empire,” the author makes his position in the defense of empires clear early. He writes, “Throughout history, governance and relative safety have most often been provided by empires, Western or Eastern.” He argues that in between the times of imperial rule, chaos has ensued. While noting that the British Empire had its troubles, he notes its strengths, mainly that it brought stability and infrastructure that the regions had not known prior. He argues similar to Nail Ferguson that many of these empires such as those in India and China ...

Interdisciplinary relationships are a joint communication and decision-making process with the aim of better health care need of the target population. Effective interdisciplinary relationships reduce costs and advance patient satisfaction, while humanizing overall health care worker satisfaction. Working together as a team brings specific capabilities of each discipline that focuses on the care of patients and eliminates any weaknesses of other teammates. The interdisciplinary relations enhance fast and accurate medical performance. This relationship may include a physician and non-physician provider team and a physical assistant and a nurse practitioner. Interdisciplinary relationship becomes a compound process that needs deliberate knowledge passing and combined sense of for ...

The 1980s were a challenging time for the Soviet Union. Industrial stagnation, inefficient economy, low quality and deficit of the consumer goods undermined ideological pressure of the Communist Party, already entered into a deep crisis. The conflict between economic and technological growth needs and the current administrative-command management system was exacerbated. The country leaders have made ​​decisions aimed at overcoming the dictates of departmental bureaucracy, at developing economic methods of management. However, these solutions remained on paper. The USSR were in need of structural political and economic reforms.

Politburo (Executive Committee) members leading the regime for many years were approaching a ...

Annotated Bibliography: Organizational Development

Aubry, M., Hobbs, B., & Thuillier, D. (2009). The contribution of the project management office to organizational performance. International Journal of Managing Projects in Business, 2(1), 141-148.

The objective of this article is to be able to summarize and defend some scientific results on in regards to a recent Organizational Development phenomenon, the Project Management Office (PMO), in a location where most of the literature is currently coming from advisers. The emphasis of this research article shows how important the project manager is when it comes to the PMO transformation process rather than on the clarification of their great diversity. ...

In the Economist debate over the presence and legitimacy of the ‘global elite,’ Jamie Whyte and Daniel Ben-Ami argued both for and against, respectively, the right of the global elite to have the majority of wealth in the world. They also discussed whether or not they subjectively ‘deserved’ to be there, and whether their status on the top was beneficial for the whole of humanity – whether they ‘served the masses’. Jamie Whyte argued for the legitimacy of the elite, as they are providing services and purposes that are proportional in importance to their income ...

Introduction

Official corruption regularly, exists in every nation with long haul financial stagnation: on the premise of easygoing induction, it is obvious that the degree of authority corruption in an economy is absolutely corresponded with government administrative action, and contrarily connected with the pace of long-run monetary development and advancement. At the same time relationship does not ensure causation: corruption may be a variable adding to a nation's monetary stagnation; then again, in the vicinity of long-run financial decrease the motivator to take part in degenerate exercises may well increment, and in this manner the causation may run from financial stagnation to ...

Country: Russia

Macro Environment Analysis: Secondary Research methods were used to determine the state of the macro environment in the country that has been chosen for analysis.

Politics, Legality and Economy:

The political environment of Russia is currently more inclined towards capitalism, after a long history of communism and the Soviet Union disintegration. This means that private ownerships are allowed and supported, paving the way for foreign investments. However, democracy is a missing phenomenon which may pose higher risks to doing business in the country. There have also been some activities increasing an alarm among the international society. This may have long-term implications for the nation ...

OUTLINE

Abstract 1

Background 2 Discussion 2

The explosion of debt and speculation: 2 Monopoly-finance capital: 2 The financialization of capitalism: 3 Finding 3 Conclusion 3 Abstract The paper is on the financial crisis that goes around the causes and consequences of market structure within a given locality. The study highlights the approaches used by Foster and Magdoff book to assess the current history of the economy.

Introduction

Foster and Magdoff book, focused on the existing relationship between the stagnation and the factors influencing the monopoly stagnation tendency. The approaches facilitated the assessment or realization of ...

In 2008, Ireland encountered a standout amongst the most sensational monetary emergencies of any economies around the world. It stays at the heart of the universal emergency, between the European and US economies. Nevertheless, Ireland was commended as a case of effective business sector drove globalization and monetary development. As such, by what method would the Irish crisis be classified? What does it inform about the reasons for the worldwide crisis? By what method would it be advisable to reexamine the comprehension of contemporary economies and the workings of financial progressivism in view of the Irish experience? The book, 'The Troubles ...

Demography is one of the most important components of sociological knowledge, both theoretical and empirical. In empirical researches, the demographic component is lex non scripta! Today the main problem of the science of demography and all world community facing with – overpopulation of Earth. The subject of an overpopulation at first glance is rather clear and simple but not everything is so simple, and it is necessary to understand it. Usually, it comes down to several aspects: 1) the lack of space on the planet; 2) lack of resources; 3) lack of food; 4) global warming. However, unfortunately, demographic ...

The central argument of this book is the emphasis on the dominance exercised by big businesses on the American economy’s macro-dynamic. Small entrepreneurs who compete for customers through price adjustments outnumber the quasi-monopolies or mega firms by a significant margin. However, the latter still dominates the macroeconomic dynamic. Foster and Magdoff posit that quasi-monopolization, or monopoly capital, is the driver of the American economy’s macro-dynamic. Monopoly capital, however, brings about stagnation. The duo base this argument on the postulation that the greatest strength of this economic system is also its Achilles heel. Quasi-monopolies’ greatest strength is the ...

Introduction

Interest rate, especially the repo and reverse repo rate set by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) have a profound effect on the value of real estate like any other investment vehicle. Because of great influence of the interest rate on an individual’s ability to purchase houses by increasing or decreasing the cost of the total mortgage amount, many people assume that interest is the only factor in real estate valuation. However, this assumption is not true. Interest rate definitely plays a big role in determining the housing prices, but it is not the only factor influencing the price of a ...

What is the civilizational cycle?

Currently the history of Western civilization is coming through its worst times. It fades gradually for the last hundred years. There is a complete stagnation in the economy and culture. Faith in its future falls, idea of democracy no longer seems so attractive. Science has put forward its response on the matter - a new direction in science has established, which explains the process of cyclical development of civilizations. This science is called biohistory. Each civilization passes a certain stages or lets call them cycles of development: generation, development, flourishing and fading. From the point of view of biohistory, civilizations tend ...

Application of Erikson’s Post-Freudian Theory

Application of Erikson’s Post-Freudian Theory

Introduction

Erik Erikson’s’ views make significant contributions to the field of psychology; this is particularly in the understanding of personality development and related factors. An understanding of his own study of personal development creates an understanding of development of his psychology (Fleming, 2004). Most of Erikson’s psychology work became evident in the post-Freudian era. It was between the 1930s and 1950s; being one of Freud’s students, most of his work exhibit the influence of Freudian views and theories; this was mainly in the field of personality development. However, dissimilar from Freud’ ...

The development of Russia had many historical turning points. These changes were mainly connected with such political figures as Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and Putin. The Soviet economy depended on mostly political decisions but not economic programs. Although the basic economic system in Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev eras remained unchanged, there were some peculiarities in these periods. The effect of Stalin’s policy had a profound impact on people and the state. In 1928, the Communists instituted the first Five-Year Plan. It dealt with such aspects of development as an industry, consumer goods, agriculture, transportation, communications, health, education, and ...

Abstract

The theories of psychosocial development stress that an individual’s personality is enhanced by social relationships he or she develops from birth to adulthood. These are explained by Erik Erickson’s eight stage theories that describe the conflicts and achievements that present the turning points in an individual’s life. From birth to old age, an individual establishes a sense of trust in others, develops one’s identity in society, and helps the next generation learn skills in preparation for the future. Erickson asserted that in all stages, an individual learns to grow and develop throughout adulthood in a fixed order ...

Essay

Economic cycle includes four phases: crisis (recession), depression, recovery and growth. The initial phase of the cycle is a crisis (other names: Recession - lat. Recessus-deviation). At the time of recession, there is a decline in economic growth rates, and then, as a rule, direct reduction of output. These phenomena are associated with the overproduction of goods. At this time, the stocks of unsold products are dramatically increasing. There is a mass bankruptcy (devastation) of industrial and commercial enterprises, which can not sell the accumulated products. Because of the suspension of production the unemployment is rapidly growing, and wages are declining. First, the ...

“Mass tourism destinations are now evolving into mega tourism destinations.”

(Weaver 2008, xi) Tourism became a major industry after World War II and has expanded ever since. Even outer space has become a destination for tourists who can afford the trip. (Weaver, 2008, xi) Tourism has evolved since the 1700 and 1800s when the Grand Tour of European capitals was an aristocratic pastime. (Hanna, 2009, p. 5) As the Weaver quote above exclaims, mass tourism is growing to the point where it will soon become mega tourism. Experience over the last 60 years has shown that tourism can have both positive and negative impacts on an area. The objective ...

One of the main characteristics of transformational leaders is their ability to change things from their current order to an envisioned, better order. This ability requires vision for foreseeing how things could be better and strategy for bringing change (Kondalkar, 2009). Nevertheless, the ability to bring the change also requires taking risks and being aware of potential failures. Knowing failure and having previously failed represents an advantage for the transformational leaders, as paradoxical as it sounds. This is because individuals who failed know how to handle the failure and how to build on their own failure for getting back ...

The Cold War is a phenomenon in international relations, a tense period of confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union that took place since the end of the World War II till the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Its prehistory, according to some historians, dates back to the very beginning of the 20th century, when the Russian revolution led to the Bolsheviks overtaking the power in the former tsarist Russian Empire and promoting similar revolutions all over the world with the aim of creating a society, which would be an alternative to capitalism, the ruling ideology in the ...

Middle adulthood is a phase that falls between young adulthood and late adulthood phases of adult life. Middle adulthood entails different issues compared to young adulthood stage and the late adulthood stage of life. Physically, middle adulthood encompasses a broad range of external and internal changes that include thinning of hair, onset of gray hair growth and the acquisition of more wrinkles on the face. It is different from the young adults’ physical experiences that involve growth of beards for boys and increased muscle mass. The internal physical changes involve; reduced efficiency of body systems like the respiratory system and ...

Introduction

Lately, the United States has been trending on a wrong path occasioned by their current budgetary hurdles. The current federal spending and debts are considered to be too high that it will take numerous generations to clear the debt. This is further complicated by the projections given on future spending and debts. The spending and debts are projected to rise by more than two-fold, largely due to increased entitlement spending. It is, therefore, clear that the current American economy will lead to the stagnation of future generations. A variety of academic research has pointed to the likelihood of the United ...

Introduction

In order to ventilate on whether poor countries around the globe get richer, the author explores the possibility that poverty trips exist, and they ensure that even if the economic performance of poor countries is at par or even better than that of rich countries over a similar period, poor countries remain poor over time. I argue that the possibility of poor countries getting richer is impeded by protracted periods of negative economic growth and stagnation in the national incomes.

Discussion

The economic growth of a country is influenced by many factors, among them, per-capita income. Per capita income is very potent ...

Introduction

This report will analyze the scope, prospects and challenges of Venice as a tourist destination in the 21st century and beyond. Venice, a city in Italy has been chosen for this report mainly because of its great historic and cultural importance in the eyes of tourists due to its symbolic museums, churches, architecture, recreational spots, scenic beauty, historic buildings, canals, bridges, etc. Moreover, this city has also been chosen for this report due to availability of various research journals and reports on Venice. The tourism mix of the city will give an insight into the seven P’s that dominate the ...

The Intangible Cost of Conflict

The Intangible Cost of Conflict

Abstract

Conflict is an inevitable circumstance in today’s society. People vary in many perspectives such that the possibility of failing to reach an agreement is high. Organizations are not exceptional from the other institutional frameworks within the society. Business corporations, non-profit organizations, profit organizations, and even governments all succumb to conflict because of the varied nature of the people who run them. Conflicts exist at all levels within the organizations, and it has cost implications. The cost of conflict is often intangible such that it is not easy to determine the implications in terms ...

Paris is the capital city of France and one with the highest population in the country. It is also popularly referred to as the "city of love" or the "city of lights." It is the capital for world business, Fashion and entertainment. It is described as the land of the impressionist with a rich history, culture and art. Paris attracts the most tourists in France and quite possibly in Europe. The city has amazing history and has a beautiful rivers cape. It hosts beautiful historical monuments like chapels, palaces and cathedrals. Paris is known for its Café and restaurants, cinema life, ...

Introduction

Africa today is one the most undeveloped continents with numerous issues plaguing it. This paper shall be examining Africa’s past and history in general in an attempt to understand how it arrived in such a situation. The primary focus of this paper shall be the reasons that as explained previously led to these failures. Europeans colonized all of Africa with the exception of Liberia and Ethiopia 19th and 20th century. The numerous guiding factors behind colonization included search for raw materials and settlement for surplus population among other reasons. The Africans prior to the colonization had their established systems ...

Abstract

Barnes and Noble has maintained its performance through effective strategies and policies that have sustained its revenue yield and profitability. However, recent prevailing economic turmoil has led to significant challenges in their performance mandate. As such, the organization has been facing three main problems: increased costs of publishing books, stagnation in profitability and reduced customer awareness. The various challenges facing the organization have posed a daunting avenue for successful operations and sustenance of viability or survivability within the organization. Thus, with an aim of handling the challenges evident, it is significant that the organization incorporates three main solutions. The three ...

Introduction

There has been a tremendous improvement in the way we communicate and share information within the last quarter of the 20th century to date. The development of the internet has not only made communication easier, but also enabled people to carry out various activities from banking, education, booking of tickets, payments of bills, and buying of products from the comfort of their homes. However, such liberation has come at a cost as identity and security issue has necessitated that a vast of amount of information about individuals are stored in servers and databases of the relevant institutions. The whole notion of privacy ...

Food stamps is a trend which was brought up by communists and activists in the US whereby a financially stable family chooses to survive on food equal to a family of the same size would get from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). SNAP gives a monthly food allowance to low-income families; with just the swipe of a SNAP card (Wade 34). The 35th US president, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, said that “If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich."

Discussion

It is managed by the state and local agencies. On the month of February, CNN ...

Food stamps is a trend which was brought up by communists and activists in the US whereby a financially stable family chooses to survive on food equal to a family of the same size would get from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). SNAP gives a monthly food allowance to low-income families; with just the swipe of a SNAP card (Wade 34). The 35th US president, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, said that “If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich." It is managed by the state and local agencies. On the month of February, ...

Introduction to Pacific Spirit Regional Park

Pacific Spirit Regional Park is located on the University Endowment Lands. This city is located on Point Grey, to the west of the city of Vancouver in British Columbia. The Pacific Spirit Regional Park surrounds the endowment lands of the University of British Columbia. The park is a natural preserve of the British Columbia Government and has been classified under Electoral Area A. The park itself contains over 73 km of area which has been designated for walking or hiking with well laid out trails. 50 km of this area is also available for multiple purposes like cycling and horseback ...

Exam II, Question 1

Foster and Magdoff’s historical perspective of the recent financial crisis is interesting and many points succeed to point out the flaws in our economic system. They believe that the current financial crisis had been building up because of historical events rather than occurring due to a natural cycle. According to the well-known business cycle, a crisis begins to take effect when the economy starts to slump, and is usually evident after a boom period. As evident after the recent boom period, the economy began to stagnate; however, there are many that led to this, in addition to the cycles. In the ...

1.0 Lab 1: Heating Value Measurements: Solid and Liquid Fuels with a Bomb Calorimeter 1.1 Introduction Measurements of heating values can be derived for both solid and liquid combustible fuels using an Oxygen Bomb Calorimeter. The calorimeter measures heat. Heat is not the same thing as temperature. The heat of combustion is called the calorific value. The calorific value is “:the number of heat units liberated by a unit mass of a sample when burned with oxygen in an enclosure of constant volume” (Introduction 2007). The experiment uses the 6100 Bomb Calorimeter. The definition of calorific value in a bomb calorimeter ...

African American History

Introduction Discursive formations an explanation of the human behavior attempts to undermine the archeological historical analysis. In the discursive formations analysis, human beings are not the center analysis to avoid problems associated with anthropological approaches used earlier. This discursive formation analysis can be used in explaining the revolutionary discourses that constantly undermined the history of Europe towards the end of the nineteenth century. At the end of the middle ages, there was an increased power struggle and increased women's participation in social and political activities. The same period experienced the first wave of feminism when women's emancipation movements ...

Research paper

Ia)Short XX century was a historical period , which lasted , according to precipitated British Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm , from 1914 to 1991. In the beginning of this period was the First World War, which resulted in liquidated German, Russian , Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires , and end - collapse of the USSR . It was the onset of total war , the Russian Revolution , the Great Depression, the decline of liberalism and the rise of dictatorships , combining anti-fascist forces in World War II , decolonization and the end of empires , the "golden era" of post-war recovery and the subsequent period of economic crisis , the development ...

One of the main problems of classical mechanics is that of turbulent fluid flow. The reason for this is that there is the presence of thin no-slip boundary which requires a lot of meshpoints in order for the solution to be arrived. There is a research which has been arrived and researched upon which shows that with the use of slip boundary condition to be the model for friction to be achieved for the small skin, there is the possibility for predictive simulation for mean quantities. An example of such mean quantities is the drag and lift turbulent flow with millions ...

Executive Summary

Pettis observes the trade imbalance in the countries' balance of payments. Some developed countries have a large amount of debt because they import much more than they export while some other developed countries have large surpluses in their balance of payments. This trade imbalance in the balance of payments is not sustainable according to him. While China continues to make massive investments by using the advantage of cheap labor in the country and Japan continues fighting against stagnation, U.S. and Europe has important problems of producing and growing. In a world like that all the countries are facing structural problems and ...

Abstract

The research paper deals with the Great Depression and its effects on European economies as well as the ways it was handled by the respective countries. The project is based on the opinions of world’s finest economic experts, historians and scientists. The problem raised is supported by statistical proofs retrieved from researches conducted by the abovementioned subject-field scientists. Key words: the Great Depression, economic, Europe, crisis, war. The Great Depression is a harsh world economic crisis that spanned over the timeframe of 15 years wedged between two world wars. 1930s are considered the starting point of the ...

Comparing Z. Freud’s Conceptions and E. Erikson’s Theory of Psychosocial Development <Student’s Name> <University>

Psychosocial development theory is the theory of psychosocial reeks of personality, created by Eric Erickson, in which he describes the eight stages of personality development and focuses on the development of the individual I am. The issue of personality psychosocial development is not only of scientific interest. Psychoanalysis seeks and finds the roots of the problems in the various stages of childhood and adolescence. It turns out that not only all of us from childhood, but our ...

Article Review: Japan’s Growth Strategy is All Wrong

Abstract The article Japan’s growth strategy is all wrong is about the policies implemented by the Japan government led by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that is viewed to jeopardise the country’s low interest rate environment that is conducive for spending and investment. The purpose of the student in writing this paper is to present the economic problem faced by Japan as an implication of the policies executed by the government, applying the concepts and principles that I have learned in my Economics. The article entitled Japan’s growth strategy is all wrong is about the ...

Myanmar economy has been among the least developed in the world after suffering decades of stagnation due to isolation and mismanagement. One of the most prevalent conditions that have prevented the growth of the country from successful economic development has been the lack of industrial development. The main cause of stagnation in economic development has been the centrally managed economy. The centrally managed economy was an inward looking system of government where all projects were led by the government. Rapid industrialization is an agent of change and rapid economic growth in the current modern world (Kudo). This has been ...

The theorist appropriate to my development, both personal and external is Erikson. He believed there were numerous stages to define our potential. These stages occurred as a stepladder, where at a given time, we would either stimulate our faults, or our desire. These events open and closed every few years, with the window of time only lengthening as we grew older. What would begin as a method of trusting my neighbor, will conclude in whether I am satisfied with style of life. In respect to Erikson’s system of evaluations, so far, I’m doing alright. I recognise Erikson’s placement ...

Haruki Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle follows the passive, apathetic Toru Okada, a man residing and working in suburban Japan whose search for his missing cat reveals much more about his life than it seems. Encountering a great number of supernatural and religious events, along with the concepts of parallel worlds filled with unique characters, Toru learns to take stock of his life and engage with the world around him once more. The use of a blurred, abstract reality allows Murakami to emphasize the apathy she wishes to highlight in the modern Japanese man, getting them out of a state of numbness ...

Introduction

Dow Jones is a term commonly used in business circles. It refers to one of the indices used to calculate stock market prices on the stock exchange. This is the second oldest index in the United States of America after the Dow Jones Transportation Average by the same creator. The term may also be used to refer to the famous Dow Jones company responsible for the publication of the Wall Street Journal, a daily newspaper published in Asia, Europe as well as online for ease of access. There is even a special version for iPad users only simply known as ‘The Daily’. ...

David Landes book, The Wealth And Poverty Of Nations: why some are so rich and some so poor is arguably the most hotly debated economic book of our time, which seeks to explain the rise of Europe and why some nations easily achieved immense economic success while others continued being mired in poverty. Landes comes out as a witty author who is rich in anecdotal evidence, an astonishing range of intellectual information and a piercing analysis in regard as to why some countries command a substantially amount of wealth and economic supremacy while others have been entangled lives of poverty for centuries. ...

Introduction

- Interview Report

Theoretical applications

- Development is a lifelong process of change (Erikson) - Each period of the life span is affected by what happened before and this affects expected outcomes (Learning theories). - Development is influenced by historical and cultural context (Papalia and Feldman)

Conclusion

- Explanation of how this analysis has affected communication within the work environment

Abstract

In this document the author is expected to distinguish, appraise, and integrate multiple theories and/or models of human development relevant to functioning of the client being interviewed. During the interaction the interviewer must recognize how cultural structures that range from marginalizing ...

The world over, countries look forward and tirelessly work toward improving their economies. A growth in the economy signifies an improvement in the standards of living improved gross domestic product (GDP). In the last three decades, the Middle East has generally experienced tremendous growth in their GDP and with specific emphasis to Japan and China which have grown to be global economic powerhouses (Otsuka, 2011). However, a down spiral has been experienced as regards to the rate of economic growth in the past two decades as a result of economic stagnation experienced by Japan since the burst of the asset price ...

List of Questions

The following are seven open questions that I used in exploring the life of the person I chose to interview: 1. What activities do you spend your time on? 2. What are your roles in life at present? 3. What gives you a sense of fulfillment or happiness? Have these changed from when you were younger? 4. What problems or challenges are you encountering right now? 5. What are the things that are important to you now? Have these changed compared to the past? 6. What are your goals in life and why? ...

John Gardner

Global businesses and organizations demand responsible leadership that enhances professional and institutional ethics. There are several authors who have extensively covered this subject, but John Gardner, in his book On Leadership, provides a deeper insight into the aspects that make responsible leadership successful. Although Gardner’s vision on accountability in leadership is quite appealing, his ideas on leadership expectations do not inspire confidence.

Interesting Ideas on trust and Accountability

I find John Gardner’s ideas on the importance of trust and accountability in leadership quite fascinating. Gardner writes that leaders should set high personal standards when it comes to moral and ethical values. If the leader ...

The cold war came to an end in 1989 because of several reasons. The cold war had lasted almost four decades and its effects had been felt worldwide, most notably the alignment of many world countries to either the capitalists or the socialist blocks. The main rivals in the cold war, the United States and the Soviet Union had engaged in this war of ideology for so long that many world countries in Europe had been divided between these two blocks. The worst affected nation was Germany, which had ended up being split into two nations because of the ...

Introduction

Creative destruction is a term used “to refer to the incessant product and the process innovation mechanism by which new production units replace outdated ones” (Schumpeter 81). Backhaus writes that “the term creative destruction is the oxymoron of creation and destruction; it appears to be a paradox. But what it means is to create the new and destroy the old and the new and the old are not on the same dimension” (Backhaus 600). Creative destruction, explain Acs and David, “is the view of the market process as the elimination of the old way of economic life, not as the achievement ...

The four main developmental stages of psychological development are childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and old age. Adolescence is a form of transition from childhood to adulthood, and it is the most confusing developmental stage because people begin to question and discover their personal identity, social identity, and social roles. Adolescence is a stage of development during which people develop objectives, values, and beliefs which will serve as their principles and guidelines during adulthood. However, building an identity does not have to necessarily end with adolescence, and suppressed or false identity issues can arise at any point during adulthood. Although people can experience ...

Why Did the Soviet Union Collapse?

Collapse of the Soviet Union resulted from the processes of system disintegration, which took place in the public and political sphere of the Soviet Union, which eventually led to the end of the USSR on December 26, 1991. As a result, 15 independent republics appeared on the world arena. In this paper a short overview of the USSR history will be presented along with the possible reasons for the Soviet Union collapse and description of the collapse process. USSR inherited a large part of the territory that the Russian Empire possessed, as well as its multinational structure. Between 1917 and 1921 ...

Chapter 3:

Complementary goods * Convergence of technology: Work-flow hardware and software have combined in order to consolidate many different office and productivity functions into one machine. The creation of the personal computer has made it a word processor, typewriter, calculator, research machine and media creator all in one. The printer/scanner/copier has provided one machine from which to fax, print, scan and copy documents, providing added productivity to school papers or documents for work. This convergence also allowed for these products to become cheaper, allowing me to run a small business out of my home with just these two devices.

Horizontalization

* Cooperation with other ...

Introduction

In the year 2008, the United States was plunged into a financial crisis that was the worst ever experienced since the Great depression. Most banks collapsed during this period and the state was involved in organizing for a transfer of wealth. Many scholars among them economists and financial experts were shocked by the speed at which the events took place. John Bellamy in his book “The Great Financial Crisis” gives a bold analysis of the financial meltdown, its causes, how it developed and the implications that it had to the general economic status of America and other countries across the globe.

This ...