Is Too Much Initiative A Bad Thing?

Gerardo Gamino Ms. Hoffman AP English Language 15, February 2013 Nothing Brings More Pain than Too Much Pleasure Benjamin Franklin argues that an overly excessive amount of something good is bad. I firmly agree with Franklin’s claim, and have seen the justification of this concept in American society, history, literature, and my own personal experiences. American society is notorious for the advocation of excess wealth and pleasure and the unanimous goal of expanding knowledge and possession

stereotypes only because they think they should act, talk, or dress a certain type of way. It is wrong that people think someone should act this or that way based off their gender, nationality, or personality. The people that have those beliefs are too narrow-minded and ignorant to see other people’s points of views and to think of other’s feelings. People should stop labeling others and instead grow and develop into a community that aims for equality and respect for one another. People tend to prejudice

Change initiatives are a near constant subject at my work place. It seems as though we are always discussing, brainstorming, and planning changes to improve things. Change does actually happen occasionally at the lower levels of the organization in shop-specific settings. The success rate for these attempts is still dangerously low however. In the larger scale, on a whole-organizational level, these change initiatives rarely actually work and usually never make it past the initial identification

instill in me. Through his example, he encouraged me to take initiative in everything I do, he demonstrated how maintaining unquestionable integrity in small things as well as larger things, and finally, he showed me the importance of making an effort to help and encourage individuals I interact with. Initiative is unquestionably an important character trait of a leader. As a young child, my dad demonstrated what it truly means to have initiative. He would work long shifts sometimes seven days a week

characteristics of high performance. Ownership is about taking initiative and doing the right thing for the business. It’s about taking responsibility for results and not assuming it’s not someone else’s responsibility. At minimum, taking ownership means that if you recognize something is material to achieving results, that you take the initiative to bring it to the attention of the right people. If ownership is about taking initiative, accountability is about follow through and getting done

leader, I understand the meaning of recognition and praise when one is doing a good job, which too is significantly important. A leader is not always the first to have an idea, but should be the one who is always seeking out new solutions. One way of being a productive leader is discovering new ways to accomplish a set of tasks while maintaining a positive attitude. If a soldier is demonstrating a bad attitude because he feels that he can not accomplish a task then my job as a leader, would be

Technology is one of the biggest advancement in the history of our universe, and the powers of it are good and bad. People mainly gain from the use of technology and its many uses. Without technology today, the world would be a much, much different place because of the major setback in communication and other activities and resources. The things that technology impacts are family, education, and health. Family is one area technology impacts life in general. “88% of Americans adults have

Ntankah Village Women Common Initiative Group is a wonderful grassroots foundation that helps to improve the lives of women within rural Cameroon communities. This grassroots organization improves women’s lives in a variety of ways and it evolves as issues arise. Some of the main needs the organization focuses on includes the position of women within society, as well as tackling issues related to HIV/AIDS. The grassroots organization was formed in 1996 by both men and women in order to better the

social responsibility. This will bring in extra money for the initiative making it easier for the project to have more funds to start the renovations on houses that are in desperate need of renovations. The funds for this project will be held in a local bank with the lowest fees for month no maximize profits. The recycled wood will be used first; the other profits will be used to buy the supplies needed to finish the projects. The initiative will always accept building supplies to help with the repair

people too strictly it can cause mistrust, which can cause a collision between the people and the leader. A leader should want his people to feel powerful instead of powerless by restraining them. Lau-tzu says, when the leaders “work is done the people should say “amazing: we did it all by ourselves!” (207). This accomplishment made by the people will encourage them to serve towards greater things on their own. Lau-tzu says, “Throw away morality and justice, and people will do the right thing. Throw