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My name is Zain Grubbs and I am from Orlando Florida, by way of Kansas City Missouri. I have lived in Jacksonville for 6 years now. This is my first class that I am taking since graduating with my Associates Degree in 2013. So I am really excited to be back on track to get my Bachelor’s Degree. I want to become a teacher because I feel like that I have so much to offer this younger generation. I believe children need that male teacher/role model in their lives. My goal is to become a principal, so wish me luck dealing with children every day!

I think I have always known that I wanted to work with children, and being a substitute teacher for 2 years, confirmed that. I am happily married, going on 3 years. I love to travel and host game nights. My Favorite sports teams are the Buffalo Bills and Florida State Seminoles. Also any team from Kansas City. So that is me in a nutshell. I wish everyone success in this class, and I am excited to be on this journey!

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Management is the organizational process that includes strategic planning, setting objectives, managing resources, deploying the human and financial assets needed to achieve objectives, and measuring results. Management also includes recording and storing facts and information.

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This is interesting because it shows a chart of how management is. You start all the way at the bottom to try and make your way to the top.

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One thing I learned from this video is that it gives another break down on management and what it exactly does.

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Management tutorial: What is management? | lynda.com

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One thing that stood out to me was that she state that it is about developing and maintaining good relationship with people you work with.

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Corporate Social Responsibility and Green Business

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What is Corporate Social Responsibility?

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https://businesswales.gov.wales/socialbusinesswales What does Corporate Social Responsibility and Green Business mean and are they relevant to small businesses?

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This picture further explains what corporate social responsibility is. Being ethical in everything you do.

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Corporate Social Responsibility includes everybody and every thing.

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This article broke down what social responsibility was. Ethics was always easy for me because all you got to do if follow the rules.

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Abstract

The Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) field presents not only a landscape of theories but also a proliferation of approaches, which are controversial, complex and unclear. This article tries to clarify the situation, "mapping the territory" by classifying the main CSR theories and related approaches in four groups: (1) instrumental theories, in which the corporation is seen as only an instrument for wealth creation, and its social activities are only a means to achieve economic results; (2) political theories, which concern themselves with the power of corporations in society and a responsible use of this power in the political arena; (3) integrative theories, in which the corporation is focused on the satisfaction of social demands; and (4) ethical theories, based on ethical responsibilities of corporations to society. In practice, each CSR theory presents four dimensions related to profits, political performance, social demands and ethical values. The findings suggest the necessity to develop a new theory on the business and society relationship, which should integrate these four dimensions.

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Corporate Social Responsibility Theories: Mapping the Territory

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The Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) field presents not only a landscape of theories but also a proliferation of approaches, which are controversial, complex and unclear.

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This article tells us the value of a dollar. In a third world country where some of our goods are made for cheap, such as shoes, are sold for a profit here. That is the pros and cons of globalization.

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I found this cartoon snippet funny. it is being sarcastic of how everything can be under one company. will will never happen.

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This is what i understand globalization to be. Business start expanding internationally. With the trade markets and tariffs, globalization takes place. We manufacture goods thought across the world.

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You will never be able to make the correct decision at all times as a manager. It is best to ensure you have the right data to make an effective decision.

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What is Decision Making?

Let's define decision making. Decision making is just what it sounds like: the action or process of making decisions. Sometimes we make logical decisions, but there are many times when we make emotional, irrational, and confusing choices. This page covers why we make poor decisions and discusses useful frameworks to expand your decision-making toolbox.

Why We Make Poor Decisions

I like to think of myself as a rational person, but I'm not one. The good news is it's not just me - or you. We are all irrational. For a long time, researchers and economists believed that humans made logical, well-considered decisions. In recent decades, however, researchers have uncovered a wide range of mental errors that derail our thinking. The articles below outline where we often go wrong and what to do about it.

5 Common Mental Errors That Sway You From Making Good Decisions: Let's talk about the mental errors that show up most frequently in our lives and break them down in easy-to-understand language. This article outlines how survivorship bias, loss aversion, the availability heuristic, anchoring, and confirmation bias sway you from making good decisions.

How to Spot a Common Mental Error That Leads to Misguided Thinking: Hundreds of psychology studies have proven that we tend to overestimate the importance of events we can easily recall and underestimate the importance of events we have trouble recalling. Psychologists refer to this little brain mistake as an "illusory correlation." In this article, we talk about a simple strategy you can use to spot your hidden assumptions and prevent yourself from making an illusory correlation.

Two Harvard Professors Reveal One Reason Our Brains Love to Procrastinate: We have a tendency to care too much about our present selves and not enough about our future selves. If you want to beat procrastination and make better long-term choices, then you have to find a way to make your present self act in the best interest of your future self. This article breaks down three simple ways to do just that.

How to Use Mental Models for Smart Decision Making

The smartest way to improve your decision making skills is to learn mental models. A mental model is a framework or theory that helps to explain why the world works the way it does. Each mental model is a concept that helps us make sense of the world and offers a way of looking at the problems of life.

You can learn more about mental models, read how Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman uses mental models, or browse a few of the most important mental models below.
Top Mental Models to Improve Your Decision Making
Best Decision Making Books

Want more great books on decision making? Browse my full list of the best decision making books.

All Decision Making Articles

This is a complete list of articles I have written on decision making. Enjoy!

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The Decision Making Guide: How to Make Smart Decisions and Avoid Bad Ones

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Let's define decision making. Decision making is just what it sounds like: the action or process of making decisions. Sometimes we make logical decisions, but there are many times when we make emotional, irrational, and confusing choices. This page covers why we make poor decisions and discusses useful frameworks to expand your decision-making toolbox.

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I have learned that there is no absolute rules in strategic planning. Many companies follow different models. A strategic plan is a document used to communicate with the organization the organizations goal

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The Basics of Strategic Planning, Strategic Management and Strategy Execution

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Strategic Planning, Strategic Management, and Strategy Execution basics

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This is a simple Organizational chart. It shows the order of management. The CEO at the top, management in the middle, regular workers at the bottom. This is your typical Organization.

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Most organizational structures are designed to maintain stability and assure reliability of performance.

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Organization structure as a factor in innovation: A review of the literature

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There are several approaches to the organization of an activity. Some of the better known methods are by function, project or a matrix. Each of these methods is investigated in terms of its effect on...

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This is interesting to me because Apple is organized like a start up. In each department, you have one person in charge. I would love to be a part of a business like this. Or even this Organization because there is no micromanagement.

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This article helped me understand a little more what the Organization Structure is.  It provides the means for clarifying and communicating the lines of responsibility, authority, and accountability.

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Another chart showing the Operative and Managerial functions of HRM. Every Organization should have something similar to this.

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This chart breaks down what Human Resource Management consists of. It affects all different areas of an Organization . It helps with your career planning as well.

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One thing I take away from this article, is that the author said only communication can communicate. To me that means communication is everywhere, and you have to use it to communicate with anything.

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What is Communication? - Luhmann - 1992 - Communication Theory - Wiley Online Library

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Professor of sociology at the University of Bielefeld, Postfach 8640, D‐4800 Bielefeld I, Germany. His recent publications in English include Essays on Self‐Reference (Columbia University Press, 1990) and Political Theory in the Welfare State (De Gruyter, 1990). The present article is a slightly revised version of a paper delivered at a symposium of the Internationale Gesellschaft fur Systemische Therapie, Heidelberg, 1986.

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I liked this video on communication. It showed that we communicate several different ways. Like using gestures, signals, sounds, words, and colors.

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This movie represent how to motivate sale employees. People will have different opinions on it, but when it comes to the sale world, there is no better way to motivate your employees.

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As a former manager, I found it difficult to motivate my employees. It is hard to get someone to work hard for low pay. One thing this video has taught me is to always give good advice and keep on encouraging the employees.

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"Only a fool would follow someone who is lost" This article was interesting because it gave different examples of what leadership is. Just because you have the title, don't make you an effective leader. You must be aware and understand everything around you.

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How do I define leadership?
Leadership is the ability to adapt the setting so everyone feels empowered to contribute creatively to solving the problems.
Leadership is an ability, meaning a leader has a capacity to do something through talent and skill. Talent is natural ability and skill is proficiency gained through training and experience. Talent certainly helps, but it isn't required. I know many people whose natural leadership ability was close to zero but through training, experience, and most of all, persistence, became great leaders.

Leadership is adaptive, meaning that the leader makes adjustments. A leader who fails to adjust to the territory will lose their way. Only fools willingly follow someone who is lost.

Leadership acts on a setting, meaning a leader adjusts the state of the surroundings and people. A leader carefully observes those states and discerns significance looking for how to adapt the setting most effectively.

Leadership empowers, meaning a leader inspires confidence and self-esteem. And that inspiration comes in many flavors. Some leaders inspire by bold talk; others by soft talk; and others by their example. There are many ways to empower rather than a single way.

Leadership acts on people's feelings, meaning a leader finds ways to link to people's instinct or intuition. Leaders help everyone feel empowered, which in many organizations with bad histories is a leap of faith. If a leader can also provide concrete evidence that helps the empowerment, wonderful. But evidence usually comes after the leadership actions produce the desired results.

Leadership creates contribution, which means every member gives something. Sometimes that may be sharing an idea. And sometimes that may be holding an ideas in reserve and allowing someone else to arrive at the same idea and share it.

Leadership is about solving the problems, which means closing the gap between things as desired and things as perceived. Everyone works on the solution to intermediary problems while keeping in mind the ultimate problem - closing a gap for the client or customer.

Leadership fosters creativity, meaning imaginative use of limited resources. A leader that enables people to use their imagination is a step closer to solving problems faster, better and cheaper.

Leadership is often attributed to a single individual. It's easier to communicate success stories that way. People like simple stories that contain cause and effect even when they are wrong.

The more complex story reinforces that everyone on a team can be a leader. The most successful teams create chain reactions of leadership. Adaptation triggers long chains of further adaptations that ultimately solve seemingly impossible problems.

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I owe a deep debt of gratitude to Jerry (Gerald M.) Weinberg for the ideas behind this post. He epitomizes this definition of leadership. His books, workshops, and teaching have deeply influenced me. My definition for leadership is an adaptation of the one he uses in his book On Becoming a Technical Leader, which I highly recommend reading. You will find Jerry's writing a source of empowerment.

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