Day: July 19, 2009
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Documentary: 11th hour by Leonardo DiCaprio
The documentary 11th hour by Leonardo DiCaprio was very insightful. DiCaprio’s focus was to let us know that the earth is in a critical time. Failure to act immediately on the earth’s global issues will be fatal to the world as we know it. Thinking of the earth as an infected organism is a great…
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Examples of Ethnocentrism
Ethnocentrism is the word that deals with ethnicity, inter-ethnic relations and related social issues. The definition of ethnocentrism is “the use of one’s own culture as a yardstick for judging the ways of other individuals or societies, generally leading to a negative evaluation of their values, norms, and behaviors. In simple terms it is the…
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Decisions in Paradise Business Scenario, Part 3
Implementation of a decision is necessary for any organization to move in the direction of accomplishing its planned objective. Monitoring and evaluation of the decision is also needed to have an effective implementation. What improves the performance of an organization is evaluating decisions. Evaluating decisions will inform the organization if the solution that was implemented…
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Microsoft Team Dynamics and Ethics
The stresses of knowledge transfer and knowledge management are especially prevalent in the software industry. The time and increasing cost pressures of global software development amplify and make more challenging the issues of globalization affecting every high technology business today. The need for real-time process, system and knowledge management integration across globally-based development teams is…