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Namaste,

I know school can be very stressful sometimes, its important to stay centered and continue to feed on positive energy. One of the best ways to stay level headed is to set aside time every day for meditation and reflection. Even just 5 minutes will keep your stress level down. I have found that while in school and working full time I have become very flexible. I think its important to be strong and send out good vibes to the world. I am graduating in 2 months and I am excited to start Graduate school in January at Palmer College of Chiropractic. I hope to incorporate my meditation and holistic knowledge into my practice one day. I look forward to working with you all. I am a transient student so I am just taking this class at FSCJ and I have no idea how to work blackboard and the other programs. Be patient with me. I came from FGCU in Fort Myers.

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We learned a lot about different managers in the technology industry. Steve jobs and Rodney Adkins. Steve jobs is the CEO of Apple and has revolutionized the technology field. Rodney Adkins has worked his way through IBM and was almost named the named the newest CEO of IBM. For now, he will just remain one of the top executives but not quite CEO.

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This is depicting the 89.1% of men that hold senior management positions in all global fortune 500 companies versus 10.9 % of women.

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This week was much easier week as far as workload in this class. This made me feel relieved because that was not the case in my classes at FGCU. This is my last semester before I graduate which means senior projects and presentations get to drive us a little bit crazy. This week in THIS class, I learned about management processes and the importance of communication. In any business, big or small, communication is very important. In fact I have learned this in many real life instances being a manager in retail. The most recent experience is work a Massage Envy and not having the most clear communication with my managers. This has caused trouble with out co-workers and clients.

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This case about Zappos was very interesting to me. Mainly because I love good customer service and DUHHH SHOES!!! I found it really awesome that not only is Zappos customer oriented but its also employee oriented. It takes its employees into great consideration and encourages them to use their ideas and suggestions to help improve the company! That's really awesome! How many times have you been ans employee somewhere and have wanted to change something for the good of the customers and lower status employees. Its great to impose procedures and policies when they aren't effecting you.

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If you haven't guessed, yoga is our hobby! :

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This assignment happen to be very popular this week. In one of my other classes at FGCU we also were using the SWOT model in a case analysis paper for a local agency. Determining the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of our research to help this agency better implement Electronic Health Records and while maintaining an overall excellent patient experience. Using SWOT in the assignment in this class, helped reinforce the SWOT concept.

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This week we focused on Everything from gender and multi generational diversity to business sustainability.
We had multiple discussions and an exciting project comparing and contrasting different businesses code of ethics. I look forward to the work ahead. This week had plenty of work to get us focused.

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This little image helped me write SWOT analysis for this class as well as my other class.

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Its Thanksgiving week! That means turkey, pumpkin pie, football and SHOPPING! I'm going to keep this one short and sweet. I completed the Employee satisfactory survey assignment. I am feeling pretty food about it. It made me think of my job and how things can be improved with a little communication with my leaders.

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So did anyone else feel like week 2 (Modules 2&3) was a lot of assignments for a 1 week time span? 7 assignments due between 11/2-11/6 not to mention having 4 other classes to worry about. Any ways, Week 3 was better! The discussion on the Marriott was very interesting. Being a global organization is not small thing. Also, taking on Starwood hotel is something to be proud of. Its interesting to see an organization like the Marriott, whom caters to discounted rooms for the frugal traveler, branch out and want to be apart of a more luxury hotel like Starwood.

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So this article was enlightening. It explains that CEOs can also be poor leaders. The concepts in chapters 13 and 14 allowed us to understand the life cycles of leadership and servant leadership just to name a few. The discussion had us analyze Mr. Apotheker's leadership activities. The conclusion we all developed was that he was a poor leader who failed his employees and corporation.

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This week we looked at Employee surveys and how they can positively effect the work place. Its important to know how your employees feel about their work environment, management teams, upper executives, and work training. These surveys were able to anonymously survey employees to get honest and impacting information.

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This is the final week of this class. That means working on the final project as well as finishing assignments and this board. Excited to be finished because I graduate next week

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My kind of Thanksgiving...

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This was a really interesting article. The discussion of how executive recruiters are necessary for big corporations. Beginning in 2008 (with the fall of the economy) many corporations began to faze out the use of recruiters however, in more recent years, the head hunters are back.

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I thought this was a cool image. It shows that they work hard to make the customer happy by "going beyond" what a typical retailer would do.

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This last discussion on Toyota Quality Control hit close to home for me. My father works in the car industry and has worked with many dealerships of various brands over the years. Cars have been in the family for many generations as my grandfather owned his own dealership. My father has not worked with Toyota cars, so we haven't had that recall impact him or our family. Its important that the cars we drive are quality and safe.