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Stacey Matrix
What is the Stacey Matrix? It is designed to help understand the factors that contribute to complexity and choose the best management actions to address different degrees of complexity.
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Schwartz Theory of Basic Values
What is the Schwartz Theory of Basic Values? The recent theory concerns the basic values that people in all cultures recognize. It identifies ten motivationally distinct types of values and specifies the dynamic relations among them.
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Organizational Culture Profile
What is the Organizational Culture Profile? The organizational culture profile is used to understand what is an organization's primary cultural characteristics.
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Organizational Capacity for Change
What is Organizational Capacity for Change? Organizational capacity for change (OCC) is the overall capability of an organization, to prepare for, or to respond to, an increasingly volatile and changeable environment. Every person has a...
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Naming Your Business
What are the considerations when Naming Your Business? Follow your state's naming guidelines · 2. Don't pick a name that's too similar to a competitor's name · 3. Choose a name that people can spell and pronounce.
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Mental Frame
What is a Mental Frame? Mental framing is how you see any given situation and occurs when you position your thoughts in such a way as to convince yourself of the value of difficult situations. This positioning begins by asking a few...
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Manufacturing Functions - Explained
What are Manufacturing Functions? Functions related to manufacturing operations may include the design and development of production lines, purchasing raw materials and components, selection of raw material suppliers and subcontractors,...
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Managerial Grid (Management Grid)
Managerial Grid, Management Grid. The managerial grid model is a self-assessment tool by which individuals and organizations can help identify a manager's or leader's style.
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Management Information Rights - Preferred Shareholders
What are Management Information Rights of Preferred Shareholders? Information Rights - A preferred shareholder may get special rights to information. This could include the ability to more closely monitor board and executive activity in...
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Level of Certainty in Management Decision Making
What is the Level of Certainty in Management Decision Making? Decisions are made under the condition of certainty when the manager has perfect knowledge of all the information needed to make a decision. This condition is ideal for...
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Leadership Traits
What are Leadership Traits? Trait leadership is defined as integrated patterns of personal characteristics that reflect a range of individual differences and foster consistent leader effectiveness across a variety of group and...
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Leader Decision Making
What is Leader Decision Making? How does leader decision making fit into behavioral leadership study?
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The V-Sit
Dr. Algae reminds the student of The President’s Fitness Challenge and then introduces your student to an exercise called the “V-sit stretch”.
Music Matters
Alternating Inversion Chords when Harmonizing a Descending Bass - Music Composition
We explore one idea for harmonising a descending scale in the bass line. Many people find it easier to harmonise an ascending scale than a descending scale and most people find it easier to harmonise a scale at the top of the texture...
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Anthony's Framework for Managerial Activities - Simplest Explanation Ever
Anthony's Framework explains how decisions are made in an organisation. It is also used for the study of Management Information Systems (MIS)
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Translational Advice
Chinese scholar and literary translator Michael Berry (UCLA) gives some key pointers to young translators.
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Community Concern
Primatologist and bestselling author Frans de Waal (Emory) distinguishes between the community concern of humans and of animals.
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Human Rights Biases
Legal scholar Emilie Hafner-Burton (UCSD) discusses the work done by sociologist James Ron on human rights biases within human rights NGOs.
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Types of Taxes
The video Types of Taxes explains the types of taxes paid at the local, state, and federal levels of the United States government, including income tax, sales tax, and property tax.
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Why Self-Driving Cars Are Hard To Make
Aren’t we supposed to have self-driving cars by now? Well, it turns out they’re harder to make than we thought.
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Unexpected Windows
Intellectual historian Darrin McMahon (Dartmouth) describes the benefits of engaging in intellectual history.
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Worth Imitating
UC Berkeley historian and Byzantine specialist Maria Mavroudi describes how famous Greek writers were consciously imitated centuries or even millennia after they had lived, and how she was counselled to take the writer Lucian as her role...
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Beyond the City-state?
Classicist and political theorist Josiah Ober (Stanford) muses on how we might best apply ancient Athenian insights on governance to our modern world.
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Arab-Greek Bilingualism
Historian Maria Mavroudi (UC Berkeley) reveals how a careful study of Arab-Greek bilingualism can shed important light on a wealth of societal values, including the very foundations of their systems of knowledge.