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Week 2 Discussion Questions

organizations environment was dynamic versus stable? The strategy of Guttman and Hawkes (2004) appears to be sound. It req...

Matrix Evaluation Point Justification

Further, the Executive Summary should provide cost information in enough detail to give decision-makers an accurate view of how mu...

HHH, Change Management, and Systems Thinking

Connected to the larger system, the hand is an integral part; separated from the system it quite literally is dead and fills none ...

Holism: Systems Thinking

actions and those that exist because of "ineffective coordination among those involved" (Aronson, 1998). The following four point...

Organizational Creativity Increases

Changing culture cannot be done by edict, but establishing the atmosphere in which a strong, positive culture can take root and gr...

2 Articles on Systems Thinking

pieces of what is being studied . . . . Systems thinking, in contrast, focuses on how the thing being studied interacts with the o...

Crisis and Change at Toyota Motors

In 2013 Toyota Motors adopted a new organizational structure to enable changes in the firm to overcome the problems of the past. T...

Toyota's Mistakes

There is a lot to learn from the mistakes Toyota made when their cars suddenly accelerated. In terms of ethical leadership they di...

Survey Project, Importance of Creativity

This essay relates the details of a proposed survey study that focuses on the importance of teaching creativity/critical thinking ...

Anthropology Definitions and Concepts

humans from animals (McConnell, 1977). Total Social Fact as Suggested by...

AIDS and HIV and Their Effects on Human Biology

drug users and those receiving blood transfusions. Also in 1983, researchers isolated a virus connected with the disease, a...

So You Think I Drive a Cadillac? by Karen Seccombe

those that work instead of punishing them. The arguments come from the women on welfare. They represent the interest of the impo...

Nursing Education - Concept Mapping And Critical Thinking

mapping. This is not a new approach but it is one that has gained a great deal of attention in the last several years. Concept map...

Animal Thinking and Language

between thought and language (Myers, 2006). The findings of renowned linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897-1941) that were published ...

Scientific Thought

phrase "its not rocket science" is used to suggest that a certain topic is not that difficult, implying that science is quite diff...

Nursing Case Study & Critical Thinking Styles

familys emotional state through observation and empathic listening. They can explore their own emotions through self-examination a...

Schools of Philosophy as Used in Nursing

(Allmark, 2003, p. 4). Poststructuralism: This perspective takes a deconstructive view of structuralism and "sees inquiry as ine...

Decisions in Paradise

founder. When the potential outcomes are considered, and a preferable one is identified the decision-making process can then move ...

“Blink”: Gut Feelings and the Diagnosis of Heart Conditions

(one of the complicating factors in coronary artery disease) on an annual basis (Woods 27). Unfortunately, even more go untreated...

Ancient Greek Philosophers

Aristotles concrete, scientific theories are more relevant than Platos deductive and abstract ideology. Aristotle believed...

Global Warming

much carbon dioxide. But, in one article it is interestingly uncovered that a new source of global warming may be a serious culpri...

The Relationship Between Critical Thinking And Language

That such testing procedures expect the same scholastic performance from all students no matter their cultural or academic backgro...

Virginia Held on defining "Human" and "Natural"

a woman gives her child is "incorporated into the framework of the natural," rather than thought of as a matter of choice, which w...

Arnheim and Bazin: Film Theory

is simply the record captured by a filmmaker who sets up a camera somewhere and lets it run, then even a documentary is not truly ...

Portraying Character on Screen

of the play, which is the fact that Toms continues to love his sister, miss her and long for a different past, as he pursues a dif...

Persuasion and its Relation To Critical Thinking

than it must be true (Kemerling, 2001). The most recent example of this is the current war that the US is fighting in Iraq. Presid...

Poetry, Social Change, and Business

Tom Ehrenfield (author of Poetry & Business) states that entrepreneurs have a lot in common with poet, as they both "invent new wa...

Ethics: Utilitarianism

the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation" (Jeremy Bentham, 2006). This simple co...

Political Thinking: The Perennial Questions by Glenn Tinder

a student, or anyone else, this think, but can present some insights that students and teachers alike may find useful, he states ...

Study on Health Status and Participation Critiqued

evaluating information (including assumptions and evidence) related to the issue, considering alternatives ... and drawing conclus...