The 75 Greatest Management Decisions Ever Made 1. A slaveowner decides to place an advertisement for the return of alost slave. 2. Apple decides to develop the first salable PC. 3. Henry Ford decides to start his own company. 4. Sears‚ Roebuck decides to go into retail sales. 5. Julius Reuter decides to use carrier pigeons to deliver information. 6. Swiss watch manufacturers decide to collaborate. 7. Bill Gates decides to license MS-DOS to IBM. 8. Reuben Mattus decides
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preferred touring rather than producing lot of records. WHAT IS THE DECISION? In the 1980s‚ the Grateful Dead rock band encouraged fans to record their concerts--steal their intellectual property. It was a brilliant management decision‚ according to business writer Stuart Crainer: It ensured fan loyalty of legendary proportions and resulted in millions of dollars of merchandise sales‚ concert tickets‚ and non-bootlegged recordings. Decision Making Landscape As taping culture grew‚ tapers infused the
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Best Christmas Ever! Every year I have a great Christmas spending valuable time with family and friends. This past Christmas was the best I’ve ever had. I received the best unexpected gift ever! It all started when everyone in my family came to my house early Christmas morning for breakfast. After breakfast we started passing out gifts. First‚ we would usually go in a huge circle and everyone would open one gift at a time. This time was different and very odd to me. My family would let everyone
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as we can go in living memory‚ and so the loom large in our active folk story. And many who lived then were too young to understand it in its depth; they remember only that the war was a great victory” (Adams 115). In Michael C.C. Adams’ The Best War Ever America and World War II‚ the author explains and clarifies the truth about the many myths in and about the war. There are many reasons as to why the war was seen as something positive and as a “good” thing for our nation. Motives such as the media
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Jasmine Jones History 1302 Professor Stephen Dice April 8‚ 2015 The Best War Ever: America and World War II Summary The Best War Ever: America and World War II‚ by Michael C.C. Adams uses memoirs‚ and glorifying aspects of the war‚ to compare the misleading accounts of the war that had been created by historians and the media. During wartime America was considered to be at its prime. America industry was flourishing‚ American soldiers were the toughest‚ and the American people were united as a well-integrated
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The Best Death Ever – Niall Griffiths By Christian Steenfeldt‚ 3.U Children cannot differentiate between what is fun and what is serious. In the short story “The Best Death Ever” by Niall Griffiths four boys are playing a game where they have to fake a death. The boy whoever fakes the best death wins the game. The four boys do not understand what they are doing and see the game‚ The Best Death Ever‚ as a fun game. Until one moment‚ when one of the boys misjudges the distance to ground and almost
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have hit me yet‚ but now that I look back I know that I had to feel it. I think that the things that I was feeling was such a blob of mixed emotions that I really did not know how to feel so I will just say that I was excited. At the airport I met my best friend and two other friends of mine from school. We would all be traveling together‚ most all the time. The only things that would really be different would be where we lived and who we would live with. As the flight‚ Northwest number 69 to Detroit
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The best vacation I’ve ever been on was to Jamaica. So just sit back and relax while I tell you my story. Well‚ it all began with the plane ride. I was extremely happy that the plane ride started at 11:00‚ which meant I would wake up 9:00 and get some extra rest and start going to the airport at 10:00. Nope‚ it wasn’t like that. I had to wake up at 6:00 because we had to be at the airport at 8:00 and the flight stated at 11:00. Isn’t that stupid. I was so mad I had to wake up earlier then usual
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The best advises That I have received From the moment you are born‚ everyone usually gives you advice and tells you how you should live your life. I always love listening to others’ advice‚ however‚ it does mean that I always follow them. In fact‚ the best advice I ever received was the advice from my parents‚ "Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay then it’s not the end". In fact‚ That advice was it taught in Arabic language. My parents’ advice was so right and appropriate. This advice
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Olive Garden is the best restaurant in Springfield for dates because of the atmosphere. There are many delicious Italian restaurants‚ but nothing is more welcoming than Olive Garden’s atmosphere. Olive Garden has nice and welcoming waiters that will assist you at any time. *For instance‚ a friend had taken me there for dinner one time when the restaurant was packed. The waiters at the welcoming desk served us breadsticks and our beverages while we waited. It made me and my date feel that even though
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