Running Head: Extreme Jobs Case Study -- Extreme Jobs Sharelle Walker B6125-Leadership and Organizational Behavior Argosy University Professor Glaspie-Ellis February 18‚ 2013 Problem Identification In today’s workplace‚ extreme jobs are now the norm. The article Harvard Business Review‚ “Extreme Jobs”‚ defined extreme jobs as any job that requires more than 60/70 hours per week and also adds different factors such as work flow
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Extreme Sports About 6‚000 people die from extreme sports every year. Dying from extreme sports isn’t as uncommon nowadays‚ but people who love nature and have passion about the sport are willing to do it even if it means risking their own death. Rabindranath Tagore quoted‚ “You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water”. What he meant here is that we can’t achieve our goals in life if we don’t commit to something and just hide ourselves in our own
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Extreme Parenting There is a child who is never allowed to attend a sleep over or have a playdate. A child that must constantly practice the violin‚ do homework‚ and is never allowed any free time to do as she pleases. This is the child of an extreme parent. Parenting methods have long been a subject of controversy‚ but a new trend in parenting called “Tiger” parenting may be the most controversial of today. The method of extreme parenting or parents that go to extreme lengths to give their children
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Discussion Questions: 1. Look at the examples of extreme behaviors described in the article‚ then go online and find one more example of extreme consumers. Describe it in detail and discuss how you would deal with these consumers if you were a marketer for the company whose product(s) these extreme consumers are infatuated with. 2. Why do you think so many managers actively avoid or are wary of extreme consumers? Another example of an extreme consumer is the shopper who radically values savings
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Hobsbawm‚ Eric. The Age of Extremes: The short twentieth Century 1914-1991: 1995: Abacus‚ London. The Age of Extremes: The short twentieth Century 1914-1991 provides a succinct review of the middle three quarters of the 20th century. The book trails world history from the outbreak of World War I to the collapse of the Soviet Union & explicitly witnesses author’s profound interest for the world history. The Author Eric Hobsbawm‚ (1917 – 2012) was a British Marxist historian of the rise of industrial
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Extreme sports risky but worth it? Imagine the feeling of accomplishment‚ the adrenaline rush‚ and the overall thrill of participating in an extreme sport for the first time. Whether it be skydiving or successfully landing a jump on your snowboard or skis for the first time. Extreme sports are all about big risk‚ and big reward. To me there are four categories of extreme sports the ones performed in the air‚ water‚ on the ground‚ or on the snow. They can vary from mountain biking or jumping out
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Miles Davis Born in Alton‚ Illinois‚ Miles Davis grew up in a middle-class family in East St. Louis. Miles Davis took up the trumpet at the age of 13 and was playing professionally two years later. Some of his first gigs included performances with his high school bandand playing with Eddie Randall and the blue Devils. Miles Davis has said that the greatest musical experience of his life was hearing the Billy Eckstine orchestra when it passed through St. Louis. In September 1944 Davis went
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took more of a physical and offensive position in the tricky game of slavery against the South. At the time‚ violent acts of abolition probably seemed to be doing more harm than good‚ but having a hindsight view today allows us to see that these extreme abolitionists did more good than harm by taking one
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THE EXTREME FUTURE: The Top Trends That Will Reshape the World for the Next 5‚ 10‚ and 20 Years by James Canton‚ Ph.D. “Canton’s background in future-planning consultancy began when he studied under Alvin Toffler in the 1970s-and it shows in this big-picture take on the world of tomorrow…” —Publishers Weekly The Midwest is beach front property‚ the workforce is largely dominated by women‚ and genetic engineering gives rescue workers gills to better save lives according to James Canton
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enough. Frankly‚ I was not particularly good or at any of them. In fact‚ I always used to wish there was a game I could play without having to compete with anyone‚ but enjoy myself simply by virtue of playing it. My interest and participation in extreme sport started one Saturday afternoon after me‚ and a few of my friends watched a van Disel video. We thought‚ why not try some bike stunts‚ by then I had a dirt bike‚ and we played truth and dare. None of us could do any real stunt‚ but we practiced
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