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Don Quixote as an Effective Pessimist

almost as tough a life as his creation Don Quixote; certainly his experiences are likely to have left him pessimistic about it. Th...

The Standards of an Army NCO

armed forces are unlike any other organizations in the world. Although police and fire departments are called "paramilitary," the ...

Workplace Diversity and Its Value

the call over to someone fluent in the callers language, as well as understanding their culture, it would be a much smoother opera...

A Successful Collaboration: Steven Spielberg and John Williams

One). At the time, Lalo Schifrin was slated to compose the score for Mark Rydells film The Reivers with Steve McQueen, but his wor...

Creating a Utopia

and wind power almost exclusively, with the result that the environment is recovering. There are a lot of people walking, riding b...

The Decision Over Justin Ellsworth's Email

This 4 page paper gives an answer to the question of whether or not Yahoo should have given the email access to Justin Ellsworth's...

Iran's Influence on the Cold War in 1979

The Cold War between the West and the Soviet Union (USSR) was at it's height in 1979, the year in which the Iranian Revolution to...

Important Issues in Project Management

role of the project manager? * Are there differences in the skills needed by project managers undertaking different types of proje...

The Importance of History to Professional Military Personnel

Once they had gotten to the enemy lines they would use their bayonets and that, plus their superior numbers, would often turn the ...

Answers to five questions concering Photosynthesis and Other Topics

300 feet of water so how could anything live in the depths of the ocean? In 1977, scientists discovered hot springs on an undersea...

Diversity in the U.S. Army

multiple variables"; an examination of Army policies to "identify structural barriers that limit or tend to limit the employment o...

4 Aspects of Project Management

and mind mapping may encourage creativity, but direction form a manager can keep the process logical and related to the goals that...

Why States Fail

State capacity is a reflection of a states strengths and weaknesses. Very simply, state capacity can be defined as "the ability...

Why Do Performance Assessment Systems Succeed or Fail?

then met with a specific plan, both the managers and the employees are likely to see a positive outcome from the result of the ass...

Failed Government Funded Theater Project of the 1930s

program had fallen apart and Congress eliminated it altogether (2003). While it never lasted, the funding of the arts has alway...

Why a Change May Fail

refers to this as unfreezing as it is aimed at unfreezing the attitudes of the employees and prepares them for change (Huczynski a...

Authoritarian States, Democratization, Why Germany Succeeded and Russia Failed

and cultural characteristics that define them, each of which have a profound effect upon the transition to democracy (Pei, 2002). ...

China and eBay

Japan, the company had entered the Chinese internet auction market at a much earlier stage of development and as such may avoid th...

Colorado’s Amendment 36 - Why It Failed

of the states nine electoral votes and Kerry the other four (Saffron, 2005). As the system is structured now, all nine went to Bus...

Contingency Theory; Is It Valid?

level of variation and employee discretion is required then it is more likely the best approach to production control the one wher...

Book Review of Sydney Finkelstein's Why Smart Executives Fail

the book is to help others avoid committing similar errors. The book focuses on a variety of firms which are mostly American comp...

Why the 2009 Stimulus Package Failed

buy inputs from suppliers, increasing the demand for their goods and stimulating the jobs in the upstream supply chain. The suppli...

Why Dot-Coms Failed in E-Commerce

A paper addressing various reasons why dot-com businesses failed for a period of time. The author presents data about the number ...

Dennis Jett's Why Peacekeeping Fails

the foreign service, originally wrote the book as a dissertation for his Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of W...

Why did communism fail?

not dictate some of the things that manifest as a result of unscrupulous and greedy dictators. In evaluating the situation, a focu...

Why eBay Failed in Japan

trying to start a business there. Yahoo! Japan Auctions, by contrast required no such information to register. Furthermore, the ...

Creating Value with ERP Enterprise Resource Planning

companies have a greater level of control, and as such we can start to see why there is the added value and knowledge is values as...

Hansa Pilsner Case Study; Marketing Questions

address issues such as the markets failure to understand exactly what a pilsner beer was, these meant consumers did not have a rea...

HUMAN RESOURCES AND SUCCESS IN MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS

proximity to Cisco or Cisco-owned companies (Goldblatt, 1999). In addition to examining a potential acquisition targets books, Cis...

Why EMI and Glaxo Achieved Such Different Results in the Medical Industry Despite High Levels of Innovation

their developments to be a commercial success. One area of criticism that is often seen where companies fail is the failure to inv...