... FRIENDSHIPS IN US (NEW YORK TIMES) • Americans are thought to be suffering a loss in the quality and quantity of close friendships since at least 1985 (American Sociological Review ) • The study ... Desiring the best Partner Trust • In US, friend might be an acquaintance or an intimate companion that one has known since childhood • Acquaintance is frequency of interaction TYPES OF FRIENDSHIPS ... marriage and those that never get married) did not.) _ Higher relationship quality, higher stability, _Lower relationship quality, and a quite lower level of lower stability, and a disagreements...
... managers and the “quants,” as the mathematicians are called (A friend of mine who did an MBA at Stanford told me that on his course, students had to identify themselves as being either “quants” or “poets.”) ... project, an attempt to abolish the idea of incomprehensible fate and replace it with the rational, quantifiable study of chance.1 Once upon a time, we were the playthings of fate, and the future ... students had to identify themselves as being either “quants” or “poets.”) The managers liked what the quants could do, but they didn’t always understand it—with consequences which now, alas, are becoming...
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... of Psychiatrists 2003 Gaskell is an imprint of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, 17 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8PG Any parts of this book, including illustrations, may be copied, reproduced, ... health 10.8.1 Mental health promotion among the poor 10.9 Gender and mental health 10.9.1 Gender inequality and mental health 10.9.2 Promoting mental health for women 218 218 219 219 219 220 220 221 ... other health problems person’s ability to things at • Because mental health services are very inadequate There is a severe home and at work shortage of psychiatrists, psychologists and other mental...
... please not post or offer copies of this e-book for download on another website or through another Internetbased download service If you wish to make multiple hard copies for wider distribution, ... found I could respond to everything he believed and acted upon And to think that there were still Quakers!” World War II brought a series of teaching jobs in Pennsylvania, first at Germantown Friends, ... to Robert Allen Clement (the “R.A.C.” to whom several poems in this collection are dedicated), a Quaker attorney and fellow pacifist No One Can Stem the Tide Foreword In 1942 the Clements settled...
... Tại câu lại dịch vậy? “No one” = “nobody”- không ai, không người nào; đại từ bất định mang ý nghĩa phủ định Cụ thể “no one pays attention = everyone doesn’t pay attention” - không quan tâm đến/ ... / give a speech” - đọc /trình bày diễn văn/ phát biểu => Dịch câu nghĩa: Thật không may không tập trung nghe phát biểu anh Bài học liên quan: Nếu không hiểu rõ khái niệm - bạn click vào links ... câu nên đứng đầu câu - Cấu trúc “pay attention to somebody/ something” = “take notice of sb/st” – quan tâm đến/ ý/ tập trung vào/ để ý tới ai, - “his speech” – phát biểu anh “his” – anh ấy, cậu...
... opposed to one another, is given simultaneously the distribution, and indeed the unequal (both quantitative and qualitative) distribution, oflabour and its products, hence property: the nucleus, ... in that women are obviously not to be expected to renounce equality in the sphere of civil rights How can the double demand-for both equality and difference-be articulated? Certainly not by acceptance ... second one be just the other acquainted with contrived points of side of the first? Perhaps more often its complement, A more or less Those ofschool, in a way: nursery adequate complement, more or...
... this book, they have been printed with initial caps McGraw-Hill eBooks are available at special quantity discounts to use as premiums and sales promotions, or for use in corporate training programs ... “AS IS.” McGRAW-HILL AND ITS LICENSORS MAKE NO GUARANTEES OR WARRANTIES AS TO THE ACCURACY, ADEQUACY OR COMPLETENESS OF OR RESULTS TO BE OBTAINED FROM USING THE WORK, INCLUDING ANY INFORMATION ... competing Bachelor on The Bachelorette) ■ ■ ■ Nervous chatter overtook me, and I looked to these new acquaintances for support Ryan told me, “Man, I thought I was going to be the only person who was...
... returning to their sweet homes on land, the warriors fighting the enemies in the battlefield are equally attached to the bracing atmosphere of their homeland In fact, a man, whatever his occupation...
... shorter The rules of competition change Now time-honored techniques may yield only “antiquated” excellence—high quality products and services that the marketplace no longer prizes The value offering ... entrepreneurial freedom that’s here for the taking? Are we willing to seize its power or will we settle for squandering it? 19 ... Even though we keep raising our performance standards, our competitors are also doing such high quality work that customers can scarcely differentiate We maintain our traditional low-price strategy...
... Week,“Jack: A Close-up Look at How America’s #1 Manager Runs GE,” 6/8/98 P/ 92) Escape from this quandary requires practicing a brand of setting priorities, better named, “dual focus leadership.” ... different types of thinking and produce different outcomes Forecasting relies on logical reasoning and quantitative analysis to accurately predict the near future Strategic foresight uses trend information ... put off innovatively preparing for the future brings them another day closer to implementing antiquated plans 28 Job #1: Inventing the Future It is not prediction Predicting where an industry is...
... to risk change unless they are left with no other options • Customer perception: Conformists adequately serve well-known needs in the marketplace They attract customers who are treading water, ... out-hustle, and eventually leapfrog the original inventor • Weaknesses In toe-to-toe competition, equally or more talented competitors may get so far ahead that there is no chance for the best-of-the-best ... space Industries are typically differentiated on the basis of incremental improvement in cost, quality, or both Accordingly, when markets become flat, strategic moves to boost sales growth become...
... dating section, where passengers can send messages to suggest a seat move to facilitate getting acquainted with someone they find attractive Branson’s vision is literally out of this world—Virgin ... fans could bring their recorders and sit in a special taping section to pick up the best sound quality Dead concerts were typically multi-day gatherings where local artisans and merchants sold ... chapters throughout the United States and Canada, the organization’s mission is to elevate the quality of dentistry in a community, build strong relationships among referring dentists, and take...
... latent customer needs fail to detect new business opportunities Few are willing to cultivate the quality of thinking that produces business opportunities no one else can imagine Having laid the ... Imagine across the bases Isn’t this a spectator sport? The way he’s pitching, nobody is doing squat.” In that moment, Haley had reconceived baseball, transforming it from a win-lose game where ... sample list for a hypothetical industry: • While customers might tell you they want service and quality products, the main thing they want is low price • The best way to make money is by buying...
... thinking like a kid who didn’t know any better back in 1994? That question brought radio to the Internet when Cuban founded AudioNet, which later sold as Broadcast.com for $2.4 billion in Yahoo! ... understandings When strategies converge, competition usually hovers around incremental improvements of quality, price, or both Trendsetters with wandering eyes are not content to stay fenced in by their ... from very distinct vantage points To use a sports analogy, replicators get to be Monday morning quarterbacks critiquing the actions of the active players Waiting for changing circumstances to...
... stakes decision to cut trade commission fees in half when it became an online brokerage In the first quarter of 2000, 73 percent of Schwab’s total trading volume was done from Web-based trades Could ... decided to it for free Express Quote began in 1993, long before price comparison was available on the Internet 130 The Power of Questions Progressive’s strategists broke the rules when they dreamed ... say this level of service is impossible Add value through technology With all the hype that the Internet will change the world as we know it, why does Question 26, “How might your business be...
... to their best sources of advice—fellow franchisees, not the “wisdom” of headquarters staff Headquarters publishes quantitative reports including top 10 lists of the best performing bakers in ... it • Many people have the ingenuity and creativity needed to solve organizational problems These qualities are not confined to a gifted few • Breakthroughs that defy past performance are possible ... One Else Can Imagine all the company’s problems, but in 1980, every problem did, in fact, rest squarely on my shoulders, weighing me down and—though I didn’t appreciate it at the time—crippling...
... Cornell University’s operations became saturated by Internet applications He and younger Internet- savvy employees were able to rally everyone to the Internet cause In describing how this came about, ... technology, but he nearly missed the initial window of opportunity around the Internet In 1993, Gates and his colleagues viewed the Internet as a network for academics and techies, and relegated it to ... believes the eventual solutions are likely to be of better quality The group norm of harnessing contention to reach consensus on a quality idea opposes the tendency to settle for a watered-down...