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COMPARE & CONTRASTPAPER–PaulCollege Writing Pilot
Program in ADMN575 Purpose of this Assignment: 1.Gauge student’s written skills
in terms of basic grammar, spelling, and punctuation as well as more
intermediate and advanced compositionalskills of organization, use of textual
evidence, and rhetorical effectiveness 2.Provide an illustration of two
different management styles or personal philosophies from well-known business
figures, enabling students to encounter important organizational
behavior-related issues through the eyes of successful managersof the past and
present. Structure:
Required
Read two short excerpts from the books The Autobiography
of Benjamin Franklin, and Zero to One, by PeterThiel.Both Thiel and Franklin could
be called philosophers of self-management, and both would say that success can
be planned. But they don’t think about planning in quite the same way. In the
two excerpts, we can observe how Franklin and Thiel think about the
emotions and moods that support or facilitate successful planning. Both also
discuss how moods can coalesce into attitudes and habits of behavior, and both
identify particular attitudes and behaviors that can lead to downward spirals
that point away from success. Explain the differences and similarities between
Franklin and Thiel’s philosophies of self-management, paying particularly close
attention to those emotions, moods, attitudes, and habits which theyidentify as
especially helpful or harmful to planning successfully.
Format
Format: The paper should contain600–900 words,12 point
font, double line spacing. Review and grading process: Each paper will be
scored according to a uniform rubric and returned to the student with both
in-line corrections and marginal comments via Speedgraderas well as a page of
more substantive comments explaining common grammatical or punctuation errors.
These comments will also provide guidance as to the structure and clarity of
the paper and suggestions for ways to make it more cogent. The student will
then revise their paper and re-submit it to be re-scored. The
degree to which the paper improves from the first draft to the second draft
will determine the student’s grade. In cases where the student scores above a
certain threshold on the first try, their score rather than improvement will
determine their grade, but they will still be expected to turn in a second,
improved draft.
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Article comparison: “Autobiography
of Benjamin Franklin” and “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, Or
How to Build the Future”
Success
is planned, with the support of the right emotions, attitudes, and behavior.
Thiel and Masters assert that “The most contentious question in business is
whether success comes from luck or skill.” In business planning, for example,
organizational planning provides an individual with the necessary framework
that can fully support the growth of a business venture with the ability to
compete and react to challenges. A person can only succeed due to planning,
where the course for achieving specific goals and objectives is well documented
and analyzed. An individual possessing the right emotions, attitudes, and
behavior can plan for the success of a business or life by reviewing current
operations so that to identify the areas to be improved. Successful people
appreciate the need of planning since it involves the process of envisioning
the future targets of life.
In both excerpts the authors support
the idea that emotions and moods facilitate or support successful planning in
business. According to Theil and Masters, the right attitude enables
individuals to plan for the future by taking time to understand and comprehend
it in advance. On the other hand, if an individual expects a future that is
indefinite characterized by randomness, then there is no need of planning. Lack
of planning enables substance to be trampled by the process. Conversely, Pine
argues that “I judged it would be well not to distract my
attention by attempting the whole at once, but to fix it on one of them at a
time.” In the Autobiography of Benjamin
Franklin, the author argues that his habitual tendency enables him to plan
for the definite future, considering most of the
dysfunctional in the world result from lack of planning.
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