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Lessons Learned Essay University of Maryland University College Turnitin Originality Similarity Index: MGMT 670 April 22, 2013 Introduction Long or short term projects or activities in most cases adjourn with a lessons learned or "hot wash" activity so as to provide information on what went right, what went wrong, and to provide a performance rating of the team members. Lessons learned provide value to project/team members, as it allows for the way ahead for identifying potential risks, challenges, or even opportunities that the group may encounter when accomplishing the tasks at hand. DigiCam effectively participated in a virtual business simulation game focused on marketing , business strategy, and competing with several digital camera ...show more content... Overall, the differentiation strategy didn't work for DigiCam, while each of the five competitors basically buried us with their own competitive pricing. After differentiation proved futile, DigiCam also attempted a low–cost strategy. A low cost strategy over rivals has enormous competitive power, sometimes enabling a company to achieve faster rates of growth (Thompson, 2010, p.90). To do so, DigCam sought to attract a significant number of buyers by having lower prices in all markets, with the exception of Latin America where the company controlled the dominant share of the market. Although DigiCam met buyer's expectations and increased profit and revenue, the company still failed to overcome the strategic moves conducted by the rival digital camera companies. Offensive and Defensive Strategies Offensive strategies enable organizations to go the attack in order to take advantage of the weaknesses of competitors. DigiCam made efforts to employ an offensive strategy focused on increasing the company's net revenue and profits. Since the company was already strong in Latin America and doing well in North America, DigiCam took aim to increase sales in those two areas requiring market growth: Europe–Africa and Asia–Pacific. DigiCam employed offensive efforts to increase sales Get more content on StudyHub.Vip

What I Have Learned Essay What I Have Learned When I think about what counts as learning to me, I think about my life. Just being able to live in this world to me is a learning experience, because I feel that my life is full of lessons and I believe that it takes lessons to learn in life. I feel that I have learned to understand learning more and to also understand the value of learning. As I get older I can comprehend subject matters more than I could ever do before. I am learning to be more serious and I find myself not taking life for granted anymore. I also feel that maturing counts as learning for me because growing up I was continuously being called immature . For me, maturing counts as learning because I find myself doing things I never thought I ...show more content... I feel that I have to get rid of bad habits in order to make room for better habits that I need for everyday life . I am learning better habits everyday. Even though I did bad on my first exam I feel that counted as learning for me because now I know what it takes for me to receive a high grade on any test I take. The biggest learning experience to me so far is life itself. I feel that way because there is so much to learn in life. It takes growing up for me to learn in life. I am now beginning to understand the value of learning because a year ago I did not appreciate learning. I did not value it like I value it now. I took it for granted as if learning could just be given to me. I realize now that it has to be earned. My attitude in high school was bad because I really did not feel I was learning, so I took it for granted. In high school I felt as if the teachers were jokes and I also felt they did not care about educating me properly. I am now starting to learn the value of an education. I now look forward to learning new things everyday. I feel that I am beginning to have a passion for learning. I never thought that I would feel this way about learning because I never did appreciate it like I do now. I now actually yearn to learn; I feel that I need to learn new things. Every assignment I have done in college is teaching me something new. I think I feel this way because I am maturing and I now view learning differently than I did Get more content on StudyHub.Vip

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lesson learned Essay "Lesson Learned" As I was standing in front of the judge many emotions proceeded to give me a nudge, my heart sank and the tears rolled down my face as if I was trying to fill a river. I knew I was going to be jailed for the bad decision that I had made when I decided to get behind the wheel of my vehicle. After my sentencing I was escorted to the booking room where they proceeded to take my fingerprints, height, and my photo. After ...show more content... The one blanket that the jailor had given to me was not enough to keep me warm in a place so cold. The privacy I had was very little. The shower and toilet was located in the corner of the cell but they were not isolated enough to where the other inmates could not see me. I undressed and dressed inside the shower to have some privacy. I even tried to have privacy by hanging up a blanket from one corner of a wall stand to another but I got in trouble by the jailor. All of these things just seemed so horrible and degrading to me. My first few nights being in the cell called J–1 was scary. There were three other woman in the cell that was always yelling or fighting over ridiculous things like the television. Around the corner I could hear the accused killer "Cowboy Mike" always singing the country songs that he liked so much or the banging of his coffee cup against

the bars of the cell when he was angry. One time he even used the shower curtain rod to try to escape from his line cell. Even further down the line there was an accused rapist and of course he had to put his two cents in by always screaming that the devil was coming after him. All I could think is how scary this was and I wanted out. Not two days from now nor thirty days I wanted out right then! I was separated from the outside unable to touch or hold the people that were so dear to me. It was a lonely feeling; I would hate to see anyone Get more content on StudyHub.Vip

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Lesson Learned Essay Lesson Learned There are so many events that change one's life that it is rather difficult to try and decipher which of those events are most important. Each event changes a different aspect of your life, molding how one's personality turns out. One of these events occurred when I was about twelve years old and I attempted to steal from a Six Flags amusement park. My reasoning for stealing wasn't that I didn't have the money, or even that I wanted what I stole all that badly, it was that all of my friends had stolen something earlier that day and didn't get caught. After getting caught I resolved, because the consequences are just not worth it, never to steal or give into peer pressure again . It all began when a couple of friends ...show more content... Then out of nowhere, the ride releases and starts roaring around the track. As always the ride ended far too soon and we set off for the next ride, "Twister Two." On the way to "Twister Two" one of my friends suddenly had a candy bar in his possession. When he was asked how he got it, he simply replied, "I stole it." It was so amazing to me that he could do that, and act as if it was no big deal. To me stealing would be a thing that needed to be planned and executed, but to him it was just another place that he ripped off. He explained that it is easy to do, "you just grab what you want, wait 'til no one's looking, and then walk out." This is when I first began pondering the idea of stealing. I had never stole before because I knew it was against my morals, but there was that rebel in me that wanted to try it. He, on the other hand, had probably stolen so many times that he could do it with his eyes closed, and he had never been caught. Lucky him. While in line for the next ride, I began debating whether or not I should try to steal something before the end of the day. That thought was immediately shook of by the rattle of the roller coaster that we were standing under. It always looked so unstable, with the entire thing made of wood instead of metal, and the whole track would wobble and click when the cart flew by. That was another ride that we would always need to get to early because the line would grow to Get more content on StudyHub.Vip

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Personal Lessons Learned From an early age I was taught the importance of personal integrity and the importance of being adaptable and prepared for any stressful situation that life may throw at you. During my time as a boy scout I was constantly taught to be prepared and to also to always be at the service of others. At the end of our camping trips we would be told repeatedly to "leave this place, better than when you found it" and this lesson has translated into my own life. I want to make the world a better (safer) place than when I found it. As I grew up, these lessons continued to play a key role in the decisions I made and have made me into the man that I've become today. While in middle school and into high school I had the opportunity to be exposed to many cultures that were different than my own. I volunteered weekly through my church in a predominately Hispanic community that was located in the Port of Houston. The neighborhood was extremely impoverished and many of the students were involved in gangs, or had one or more parents that were incarcerated. The more I worked with these young men and women, the more I learned about myself and that the lesson I learned years prior of making the world better than when you found it rang true. This community was not like the neighborhood that I lived in, and I was definitely ...show more content... Ideally, it would be with the CIA because I enjoy working with the best and brightest, and feel that I would thrive in an environment working with some of the world's best. I am extremely drawn to complex tasks and finding innovative solutions to overcome obstacles. I also excel in high–stress scenarios and work well under pressure. Working for the DO sounds exactly where I would be able to use my knowledge and analytical skills to the best of my ability to improve global Get more content on StudyHub.Vip

Lessons Learned Jhesson Ynoa Eng11 – 1857 May 10, 2010 In the essays that we have read this semester, the authors were effective in helping their readers to learn something from the authors various subject matters, which could be used in the readers' own lives. I have chosen four essays that I have read this term from which I have learned from. The four essays I decided on are: "Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell , "Sex, Lies, and Conversation" by Deborah Tannen, "What Really Scares Us" by David Ropeik, and "Delusions of Grandeur" by Henry Louis Gates , Jr. In George Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant" Orwell writes of his experience in British ruled India in the early Twentieth Century. At the time, he was a young, inexperienced soldier stationed ...show more content... Women don't mind another point of view as long as it is in the form of a suggestion or inquiry rather than as a direct challenge. All these differences in this essay begin to clarify why men and women have such different expectations of communication. Tannen suggests, once men and women understand these differences, improvement in communication will come naturally. In the future one can use the information in this essay to recognize his or her differences when it comes to conversation and learn to alter their behavior to improve communication with their partner, rather than right and wrong which can lead to breaking up or divorce. In David Ropeik's "What Really Scares Us", Ropeik argues that Humans perceive risk through emotions rather than reasoning even though we obtain a highly advanced brain which gives us the power to reason. Ropeik says that the reason humans perceive risk emotionally before reasoning is because our brains are biologically built to fear first and think second. The brain has two parts that are built mainly for reasoning and emotion. One of these parts is called the prefrontal cortex, behind your forehead, which is the area where we do a lot of our reasoning and thinking. The other part, which is the brain's key emotion center, is the amygdala. Because of the way the brain is built, information gets to the amygdale first before getting to the prefrontal cortex. In that case a person would react Get more content on StudyHub.Vip

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English Lessons Learned Often people tend to overlook the many lessons we can learn from everyday things and situations. However, the lessons that you can learn can prove to be very beneficial, and sometimes even be used for something in your own life. For example, in my English class we've been reading Eudora Welty's, One Writer's Beginnings, and throughout the book she teaches the reader a lot of lessons if you pay close attention. Welty taught me on a writer's level how to key in on a subject, expand my vocabulary, and find something/someone who inspires you. First, staying focused as a writer can sometimes be a challenge. Writing is one of those things that usually takes time, especially when it comes down to a big assignment. However, a writer has to be able to overcome and persevere to stay focused through the process and finish it. Welty writes, "Still illiterate, I was ready for them, committed to all the reading I could give them" (Welty 6). As long as a writer can stay focused and key in on the subject, they will be able to compose a great piece work no matter what it is. Following, all writers should have a wide variety of vocabulary. With this being said , it tends to make writing flow much easier for them, but at the same this also makes their work ...show more content... Most of the time, an author books tells how someone influenced them to become a better writer. In addition, this gives a background on a author and can tell certain things that influenced the writer's novel. Welty addresses, "Attached to them are what I've borrowed, perhaps unconsciously, bit by bit, of a persons I have seen or noticed or remembered in the flesh – a cast of countenance here, a manner of walking there, that jump to the visualizing mind when a story is underway" (Welty 99). Welty gives an insight on how some writers tell how they became inspired or how someone encouraged them to do a novel or Get more content on StudyHub.Vip

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Lesson Learned Paper Lessons Learned Paper Steven University of Phoenix Lessons Learned Paper Critical Thinking I learned so much more about critical thinking then I ever knew before I attended this class. I learned about critical thinking in previous classes and I thought I had a good understanding of the subject. I now understand that information was the foundation for this class. In class this week, I learned to use critical thinking to identify assumptions and situatedness in people's writing and speaking. I learned that everyone makes assumptions, and a certain amount of assumptions are good. I was taught early on that assumptions are bad. I remember the old saying, to assume will make an ass out of you and me. I now see that was a very ...show more content... I can use my knowledge of situatedness in leadership roles and in building relationships in my professional and personal lives. By understanding another's situatedness I can see the world through their filters. By understanding how others view the world, I can use that information to inspire and motivate them. I always view personality test of any employees that work for me. I would never hire anyone without giving him a personality test first. I have found that qualified people are easy to find, but to find a qualified person whose personality fits into the organizational culture is another story. Certain personality types are needed for certain positions and personality test provides a window into that person's mind. I learned in a business class when earning my BS degree in Business Administration to perform a Myers–Briggs personality test in my mind on everyone I associate with. It does not take long while speaking with someone to determine whether they are an introvert or an extrovert, and so on. The Myers–Briggs personality test give my insight into that persons thought process, which allows me to motivate and inspire them more effectively. By looking at one's assumptions and Situatedness I should have a deeper insight into one's inter–being. I can use my knowledge of assumptions and Situatedness to build or not build relationships with others. I believe in diversity, but there are times when I need to be around like minded Get more content on StudyHub.Vip

Lessons Learned I have put my thoughts into words expressing my feelings for you. Forgive me if I stumble. Recently I learned a lesson I think every child should learn at an early age. The way to love someone is to realize you could lose them. I had always assumed that being my Mom meant you would be with me forever. When you received your diagnosis of cancer, I was heartbroken. I suddenly realized that I could lose you. I know you were not scared of dying, but the idea paralyzed me. I could not imagine my life without you. Loneliness came over me as I dealt with our new fate. I watched as your body succumb to the evil face of cancer. Your chestnut hair, sapphire eyes, and a smile that could win the hearts of the world started to wither. Your strength and ...show more content... Smelling a roast cooking in the oven takes me back to your kitchen on a Sunday morning, one of my favorite places. So much happened in your kitchen. I will never forget the aromas of your wonderful meals and the patience you had while teaching me to prepare them. I was around eight years old when you bought my first sewing machine and gave me sewing lessons. I was in heaven. You no longer had scrap sewing materials to throw out. I loved taking your discarded fabric, choosing a pattern, and creating something new. My first finished product was a nightgown made from least a dozen different colors and prints. Not one matching I must say. You were proud, and I was happy! In my eyes, I was just like you. I feel as if you left a piece of yourself with me. Now I can say I am more like you each day, and I could not be prouder. Lovingly attending to my every need, you helped me become the person that I am. You were always unselfish, putting your wants and needs aside to help others, including me. You were the best mom I could have dreamed of, for which I am grateful. Those who knew us best always said that we didn't act like Mother and Daughter. They thought we were more like best friends. Little did they know, we were Mother and Daughter, who were also best Get more content on StudyHub.Vip

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