Developing a Tolerance for Ambiguity By Greg | Published: January 14‚ 2010 Celebrate your appreciation for ambiguity with a T-shirt like this from the Mental Floss store Early in my career at GE‚ one of the leadership values the company mentioned‚ but never really emphasized‚ was a “tolerance for ambiguity”. There was never any coaching on how to develop such a capability. Even now‚ I can’t really find a reference to it on the web (though current GE CEO Jeff Immelt recently emphasized the need
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TOLERANCE Definition - The capacity for or the practice of recognizing and respecting the beliefs or practices of others or Willingness to accept feelings‚ habits‚ or beliefs that are different from your own. Explanation - Tolerance‚ as we define it‚ refers to the skills we need to live together peacefully. In times of peace‚ people have a chance to prosper socially‚ economically and emotionally. Tolerance which there is room for every person‚ each with their own ideas‚ thoughts and dreams. Lack
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Tolerance is a virtue that is dying down slowly. In earlier days‚ children were part of a large family set up. It was difficult to find out the real parents of a child because the house was filled up with lots of cousins. Every one had the right and responsibility towards all the children. None of the children was given a special treatment. Terms like individuality‚ special place‚ independence‚ were taboo words. The key aspects that governed life were adjustment‚ sacrifice‚ putting others before
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Has the meaning of tolerance changed for the better or for the worse? CHANGING TOLERANCE The general acceptance of the meaning of tolerance is about universal human rights‚ to behave virtuous way towards other people and to respect others’ rights. Generally‚ experts declare that the people’s freedoms and rights end where the other people’s freedoms and rights start because to be tolerant requires being respectful others’ beliefs and not preventing others’ freedom and their rights.
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Thesis Statement Tolerance‚ it is a form of acceptance and from a young age we are taught to tolerate that of which we do not agree with. This can be a variety of issues in the world of today such as: Homosexuality‚ politics‚ religion‚ race‚ etc. and because of this it has been leading to increased violence within our population. I feel a tolerance class may be the key to lowering violent acts in our schools and population by teaching people to be tolerant simply disagreeing with another’s choice
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Female Ambiguity: Kirke from The Odyssey vs. Bianca from The Taming of the Shrew Women are ambiguous characters throughout texts such as The Odyssey and The Taming of the Shrew. In these two stories‚ there are female characters that are deceitful and beguiling towards men. Kirke and Bianca are two comparable characters that display such behavior. I will explain how both characters display ambiguity by hiding their true nature behind actions that they wouldn ’t normally take; therefore these
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My article entitles: “The Ambiguity of Leadership” and it is from Jeffrey Pfeffer. This review consists in three parts. First of all‚ I’ll purpose a short summary. Then‚ I’ll give an analysis of how it is connected with the course contents and the course literature. Finally‚ I will do my personal assessment. This article is divided in 6 parts which address three major leadership’s issues: (1) the ambiguity of its definition and measurement; (2) the question of whether it affects organizational
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This need to submit to Kafka’s ambiguity can best be seen in a scene in the same introductory chapter of the initial court session. After K. is informed by phone of his first hearing‚ Kafka explains‚ “Of course he was required to appear; they presumed it was not really necessary to point that out. He was given the number of the building in which he was to appear: it was a building on a street in a distant district K. had never been to before (Kafka‚ 36). Just as the phone call had introduced an ambiguous
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Conflicts and Ambiguity Conflicts and ambiguity occurs in group work as a natural process. Conflict should be taken into careful consideration and not be avoided. If conflict arises in a group‚ the group members and the group leader need to take the time and energy to work through the problem and come up with a solution. As a group leader‚ it is essential to become aware of possible conflicts that may arise during the group. A group leader needs to possess diversity awareness‚ since in includes several
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Being born-and-raised in a multireligious society‚ racial tolerance was an art embedded in me. Studying in a national school (where all races learn a unified syllabus‚ promoting oneness)‚ I was exposed to the culture of my Malay and Indian friends. Society suffers from this oddity of racial profiling‚ whereby a person gets branded according to their race. I quote my elders‚ ’’being Malay‚ you’re lazy; being Indian‚ you’re a criminal’’. Appalled‚ this is far from the truth. Yes‚ sometime in the
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