This is a very powerful book, and it has some powerful messages for the modern executive. ... This book focuses on five principles that enable one to manage others and especially oneself to get things done in a new and productive manner. ... Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge may all be wasted in an executive job without the acquired habits of mind that mold them into results. ... After reading this book, I realize the importance of the effective for any executive. ... I liked this book a lot, how's that for intellectual. ...

• Word Count: 643
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Senge authored the book while the director of the Center for Organizational Learning at MIT's Sloan School of Management. ... Personal Mastery includes job-specific skills as well as emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual well-being. ...

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On the book, Media and The American Child, published by Erica Scharrer, clearly says that television does not support a healthy brain development, because when kids watch television, these programs require a very small amount of cognitive effort, so children that get accustomed to this, might have a hard time when trying to accomplish a task that requires reasoning and thinking a little more. ... The kid, who do not develop good social skills on their younger lives, will have problems on their jobs as an adult, and not only on their jobs, but in all of their relationships with other people. .....

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

For students, that end is a good job. ... The book, Poverty and the Government in America, suggests that "after graduation, students earned 2 percent more for each vocational education course they took" (Sreenivasan). ... " It means that students can gain economic benefits by receiving job-focused education, for demands for STEM jobs in our economy will grow more increasingly than non-STEM ones. ... Technical skills and occupationally specific skills provided in vocational education increase job access and job stability. ... Indeed, it is true that getting a job and economic b...

• Word Count: 1365
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A majority of today's jobs do not require employees to have a vast knowledge of literature in order for them to do their job proficiently. ... Boone Pickens, while Brian Adams was reading The Book of Small, by Emily Carr (Anderson). ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He uses digestion as an analogy to reflect the worthlessness of book knowledge. According to Montaigne, in comparing the mind to the stomach and food as thoughts, "the stomach has not done its job if, during concoction, it fails to change the substance and the form of what it is given- (43). What we know as book knowledge is thus completely irrelevant for it fails to look at the greater picture. ... Throughout Gargantua and Pantagruel, Rabelais emphasizes what seems to be the theme of the book: "know yourself."" ... As a matter of fact, Montaigne begins his entire treatise by emphasizing t...

• Word Count: 2020
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"Manners to be Observed by Teachers and Students," is a volume of the book "The Revival of Religious Learning" written by Abū Ḥāmid Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Ghazālī, better known as al-Ghazālī. ... Vidaurri, in which she said "Writing is a skill that will always be helpful in life; it will help us in history, government, and it would be even more helpful in our future jobs....

• Word Count: 882
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Today this is no longer true, a college degree although it helps it's no longer a guarantee that one could get a job. ... This economical demand can go as far as to impair the freedom of the students because it imposes two approaches one can take to education: conform and get educated thus losing your sense of identity which doesn't even lead to an assured career given the fact that a degree is no insurance of success on the job market. ... Lard and Jarman (1993) published in a book a longitudinal study about divergent thinking. ...

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For instance, the book by Williams (2009) painted changes caused by technology as inevitable and impactful. ... This phase will take six months or two semesters and will be supported by on-job training sessions and seminars. ... Information will also be made available through the library and continued on-job training and seminars on the change. ...

• Word Count: 1485
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However, one of the problems that our research confronted is that a single book or story offers few opportunities to learn new words through multiple encounters because the needed repetitions simply do not occur. ...

• Word Count: 7274
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In his book "Notes on Continuous Learning, Culture and Organization-, Bob Mingie defines the Learning Organization as "an enterprise that focuses on the continuous improvement of its processes, products and service; that facilitates the learning of its members, both individually/independently and as groups/teams; that continuously transform itself in order to meet its strategic goals- The learning organization can be better explained with the aid of a figure prepared by Kai R. ... Demonstrates organization's capacity of change Accelerates individual learning capacity but also redefine...

• Word Count: 2743
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In his book "Notes on Continuous Learning, Culture and Organization-, Bob Mingie defines the Learning Organization as "an enterprise that focuses on the continuous improvement of its processes, products and service; that facilitates the learning of its members, both individually/independently and as groups/teams; that continuously transform itself in order to meet its strategic goals- The learning organization can be better explained with the aid of a figure prepared by Kai R. ... Demonstrates organization's capacity of change Accelerates individual learning capacity but also redefine...

• Word Count: 4362
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate