and behaviors modified as needed through a graduated disciplinary process. When officers make statements or act in a manner that disrupts the order of the department‚ formal counseling and/or graduated discipline has to take place. In the book “Good to Great” by Jim Collins (2005)‚ the concept of getting the right people on the bus is a key component to building
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heroes of the War were the Navajo Code Talkers. They used their language as a code‚ making their code unbreakable to the Axis powers‚ and their ability to decode faster than any other. Those who we
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fight for their country in the 1940’s. The code talkers are a main part of the victory in World War II. They used a secret code no one could break. The code talkers were made of classified tribes that no one knew about until they were declassified years after the war was over. The Native American code talkers were important because no one could break their code. The tribes included were the Navajo‚ the Comanche‚ and the Choctaw. When a Navajo code talker received a message‚ what he heard was a string
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Navajo‚ the Code Talkers The Navajo code talkers took part in every assault the U.S. Marines conducted in the Pacific on Guadalcanal‚ Tarawa‚ Peleiu‚ and Iwo Jima from 1942 to 1945. They served in all six Marine divisions‚ Marine parachute units and Marine Raider battalions‚ transmitting important messages by radio and telephone in their native language—a code that the Japanese never broke during the war. Philip Johnston‚ a former missionary’s son who once lived on the Navajo Reservation was
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communication needs to be: * Clear. * Concise. * Concrete. * Correct. * Coherent. * Complete. * Courteous. In this article‚ we look at each of the 7 Cs of Communication‚ and we’ll illustrate each element with both good and bad examples. 1. Clear When writing or speaking to someone‚ be clear about your goal or message. What is your purpose in communicating with this person? If you’re not sure‚ then your audience won’t be sure either. To be clear‚ try to minimize the
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Good to Great: Responding to Change. I think that Jim Collins’ book is essential for future entrepreneurs‚ managers‚ and leaders in the Philippines. The tips given by the author are useful in the dynamic‚ ever-changing‚ and constantly fluctuating business environment of the Philippines. Jim Collins described the kind of leader who can address these changes as a Level 5 leader "a paradoxical blend of personal humility and professional will." The Level 5 leader is not the "corporate savior" or "turnaround
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Good to Great Book Review Throughout the book Collins examines what differentiates a good company from a great company. This first chapter addresses the process of evaluating information and finding characteristics that differentiates the two types of companies. After finding these characteristics Collins’s team compared the data to a variety of companies and discovered what a great company had that a good company didn’t. “We came to think of our research effort as akin to looking inside a black
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Good To Great by Jim Collins Chapter 9: From Good to Great to Built to Last Chapter Summary: • Four Conclusions: 1. Great companies from Built to Last evidence shows that early leaders followed good-to-great framework. The only difference is that they were entrepreneurs in small business‚ as opposed to CEO’s. 2. Apply Good to Great concepts to sustain results‚ as a
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Good to Great Book Report The ideas that are given in this book will stimulated my mind into becoming a leader and perhaps enabled me to bring my company ahead of the competitors. It was amazing to see how Collins spent nearly five years in comparing the mediocre companies with great companies. One most notable difference is on how the level 5 leader responds to each situation that the company faces. This book will helped me to understand that if a company becomes big‚ its not because of the skilled
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PERFORMANCE EXCELLENCE In social research‚ the question‚ assumption and development of theories are traditionally centered on a search for truth‚ knowledge or at least communicate information for decision making. My initial reading of Good to Great was by no means presented as a research project and left the reader feeling as if he had just been introduced to a motivational speaker or a misplaced stock broker. However‚ as a Doctoral student‚ I applied some basic analytic matrix learning and
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