Whale Done-Book Review

David Kirby’s book describes the complex issues of whales in captivity. The death of a SeaWorld trainer brought up many objective reasons of the training practices of this business were not effective at keeping trainers safe in the water. Currently this debate is still being tested in a court of law. OSHA claims that even with the precautions that SeaWorld tries to use, it still cannot guarantee the safety of trainers in the water. This cultural topic has been gaining ground, and recently prompted a movie based off this book titled, Blackfish. The audience of this book includes animal activists, followers of David Kirby, and people that are interested in the topic of killer whales in captivity. Rob Grom was contracted to create a book

John Longridge agrees to take care of his friend’s three pets, Luath, a young Labrador, Bodger, an old Bull Terrier, and Tao, a Siamese cat while the family is out of the country. Everything is fine until Longridge lives on a trip and the pets decide to find their way home on their own through the outback of the Canadian wilderness. Each of the pets faces an almost life ending peril during the trip. Bodger is attacked by a baby bear, Tao almost drowns in a river, and Luath suffers from severe infection from porcupine quills. Along the way the three friends encounter many different people, some are helpful and others are downright mean to them. But at the end of the story, they are reunited safe and sound with their family. The themes of

For years the killer whale, also known as Orcinus orca, has been drawing the attention of the public through the entertainment industry. These marine mammals have been bringing in billions of dollars to amusement parks such as Sea World, but at what cost? An idea that these killer whales can live happily and content while in captivity may be going through the minds of the public, but this cannot be further away from the truth. To have such complex creatures in captivity is not morally correct and there are many points against it, such as their level of emotional competence, violence between the killer whales, violence of killer of whales towards trainers, shorter lifespans, physical harm, and their level of intelligence. After taking a look at how these creatures function and the conditions they are put in while in captivity, there is no question about whether or not these mammals should be kept in captivity; an experience such as this affects these marine mammals just about the same as it would affect a human because of their high highly developed emotions and complexity. Since these industries do not have a natural authority over these creatures no matter the cause, the best thing they could do for these killer whales is to stop capturing them and return those who are capable back to the wild.

With success come some of the greatest stories of how people got to that spot. If you do try for something almost never will you be rewarded for that particular thing. This plays a role in both of the following books. In Whale Talk TJ must give this team and swimming his all to get what he wants in getting his team a varsity letter. When new requirements set back the team from getting their varsity letter TJ take it upon himself to lead and set an example for the rest of his team. Notably, in the book Summer Ball after Danny finds out about what people actually think about him. He takes accepts it and goes harder in camp. He takes nothing for granted anymore.

Megan Bergman’s story “Yesterdays Whales” discusses a woman’s choice to have an abortion, which is a highly debated topic in today’s society. In 2015, 50% of the people in the US were said to be pro-life and 44% of people said to be pro-choice. Becoming pro-life means that you would believe a pregnant women must have the baby and that it would be wrong to abort it. Deciding to be pro-choice is not viewing someone negatively if they want to abort it. There are so many different opinions on the matter, which have changed throughout the years. Of course everyone has different opinions about it but whatever their decision is, they should be confident about it. People really should make decisions for themselves rather than letting others choose their fate. Just one decision could change your whole life in just one second. Although there is good and bad in choosing pro-life there can also be both in choosing pro-choice. Although there is controversy, Bergman does an excellent job portraying throughout her story that women should have a choice for their own bodies.

Organizations pursuing this type of business strategy try to develop a competitive advantage based on product innovation. The strategy requires employees to continually develop new products and services to create an organization’s advantage in the market. These companies create and maintain an environment that encourages employees to bring new ideas into the company.

The Killer whale was put on the IUCN list in 1989, in 1969 Keanu Allen (a trainer) describes being threatened by young female Keanu, she would open her mouth and show him her teeth, 3 deaths had happened between human and killer, and 1 known fact between woman and killer is that a killer whale had killed its own trainer at SeaWorld's Shamu Stadium in Orlando,

In the film ‘Whale Rider’, directed by Niki Caro, an old man named Koro Apirana is in search of a young man to take his place as chief. He has to change many of his views and beliefs to be able to become more accepting of his granddaughter, who shows the true potential of the new leader that he had been looking for. Throughout the movie, Koro has to learn that the world isn’t the same as it used to be. He must learn to love and accept his family, and that his opinion might not always be right.

After I read the article “Whale Done,” I found a few practical concepts that can help me develop skills as a “multiplier” leader. The article explains concepts about improving performance of employees by introducing Wes Kingsley, who goes to the SeaWorld, learns how to train employees with skills that are used to train whales. The first and most important step to train employees is to gain trust from them, and in order to build trust, leaders need to accentuate the positive by giving them more attention when employees correctly complete the task. On the other hand, when people do something that causes a negative result, the leader should ignore the it, and redirect them to obtain the desired result. Also, as employees realize more expectations

Because of our different personalities and experiences, we handle employees differently, and I would not try to teach one set method. I would just say that we cannot tolerate obnoxious, oppressive, abusive, tyrannical despots (assholes). Please be sure that you always treat your employees the way you want to be treated…QuikTrip employees expect and deserve intelligent, positive, considerate, factual supervision… I am more tolerant of poor operations than I am of poor treatment of employees.” Memo from Chester Cadieux, President and Chairman 8 Retail Leader of the Year Chester Cadieux and QuikTrip”, ibid.; see footnote #5 9 Lecture “ Generations in the Workforce” Chris Rumsey, Summer 2009, Coles College of Business 10 “QuikTrip Corporation and its Employee VolunteerProgram” ww.allbusiness.com/society-social/philanthropy-volunteers/6715881-1.html

Ishmael meets Queequeg and they get hired together and board the whaling ship Pequod, whose captain searches for the whale that bit his leg off. Ahab offers a gold doubloon as a reward to motivate his crew to search for the whale with as much passion as he does. During the hunt, they try to kill any other whales they see, Ishmael gives a run down on whaling, the crew come across bad omens, and they meet ships devastated by Moby Dick in their search for the whale. After a three day chase of the whale, Moby Dick destroys the Pequod and kills every crew member, except for Ishmael, who survives by clinging to Queequeeq’s coffin, and is then rescued by a ship that lost some of its crew to Moby Dick.

know what your EMPLOYEES are doing; or YOU do not CARE. You have created expectations

The necessity of create novelty to become a distinct competitor is fundamental. The company based their development in knowledge as source for innovation and utilize it accomplishing competitive advantage.

I. Introduction 1. There are several basic approaches to competing successfully and gaining a competitive advantage, but they all involve giving buyers what they perceive as superior value compared to the offerings of rival sellers. 2. This chapter describes the five basic competitive strategy option for building competitive advantage and delivering superior value to customers – which of the five to

Innovation offers the companies a competitive advantage. Presently and within the future, more than any time in history, the key to competitive advantage is innovation. However innovation will facilitate businesses meet all of their strategic challenges, not simply competition; to illustrate, in confronting accelerating rates of change, globalization, apace advancing technology, a additional numerous workforce, associated a modification from an industrial to a knowledge-based economy. Meeting all of those challenges helps the firm attain competitiveness, and meeting these challenges suitably depends on innovation. Innovation allows a firm to workout its challenges in distinctive ways in which build competitive advantage either through relative differentiation, a relative low-priced position, or few acceptable level of each. Innovation cannot assure success, however success cannot be achieved within the end of the day without it.