Negative Influences of Procrastination We’ve all had a paper due on a Wednesday that we had known about for the past two weeks, but for some unknown and involuntary reason, we choose to save it for a Tuesday evening, which turns into a Wednesday morning as we frantically work to finish an assignment we probably could have finished in class over a couple of days. We may have been preoccupied those couple of weeks, with a job, or sports; maybe even putting together a fundraiser of some sort. Or maybe
Procrastination: Why You Do It, When It Helps, and How to Stop Jim has appealed to his boss for months: “I’m ready for more responsibility. I’m ready to be taken more seriously.” Finally, his boss gave in. The motherload of projects lands on Jim’s desk. One with the power to make or break his career. One that can show his boss that he’s more than capable of becoming an office manager. On the outset, Jim is amped up and ready to get started. He reviews the parameters of the project. He delegates
The use of social media in classrooms has always been a very controversial topic. Hence not all the parents were happy that Ms. White had been using Facebook to communicate with her students. Even though Ms. White had timelessly repeated her good intentions she could not escape the ruthlessness of some of the more conservative parents. Today, however, was the day of the monthly Communicating our Word to Better Education school meeting. This month’s meeting was a discussion, to most a debate, on whether
A Brief Introduction To Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy By Wayne Froggatt Third Ed.(this version Feb 2005) Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) is based on the concept that emotions and behaviours result from cognitive processes; and that it is possible for human beings to modify such processes to achieve different ways of feeling and behaving. REBT is one of a number of therapies that come under the heading ‘cognitive-behavioural’. In the mid-1950’s Dr. Albert Ellis, a clinical psychologist
INTRODUCTION This paper seeks to identify and discuss the predicament of Development Administration as it relates to public administration in the Commonwealth Caribbean. It will seek to elucidate thought and provoke discussion on the topic by first of all taking a journey back to the period of colonial rule and the historical antecedents that impacted administration during that period. It will take a cursory glance at the independence period and the course of development taken by some of the Commonwealth
ECS8C_C01.qxd 22/10/2007 11:54 Page 597 CASE STUDIES ECS8C_C01.qxd 22/10/2007 11:54 Page 598 ECS8C_C01.qxd 22/10/2007 11:54 Page 599 Guide to using the case studies The main text of this book includes 87 short illustrations and 15 case examples which have been chosen to enlarge specific issues in the text and/or provide practical examples of how business and public sector organisations are managing strategic issues. The case studies which follow allow the