Traits of Good Character Have you ever felt good when your teacher or friend said, “Thank you” or “You’re such a kind person?” How about knowing you did a good deed for someone? Respectable and moral traits demonstrate your behavior towards others and even yourself. Good characteristics can come from portraying trustworthy actions, respectful manners, responsible decisions, fair performances, caring deeds, and good citizenship. Not everyone can demonstrate all these traits, but everyone can at least show a few. Developing good behavior enhances your ability to communicate with others and can impact many peoples’ lives.
The good life should not only be defined in terms of achievement and accumulation, but is should also be viewed in terms of happiness and contentment. In regards to leisure, the Skidelsky brothers raise an interesting point. They are questioning a society's definition of leisure because people seem to mistake leisure for laziness. “Leisure, in the true, now almost forgotten sense of the word, is activity without extrinsic end” (18). Essentially, leisure is an enjoyable activity during which one does not feel stressed or pressured to earn a monetary reward.
Just as specialization of labor is efficient for families, it is also efficient for countries. Parry also reasons that free trade of labor and services is beneficial to economies. He draws on the widely held capitalist belief that free trade results in lower costs to consumers, and appeals to the reader’s assumed positive feelings about free trade. He asserts that if free trade of goods is beneficial to the consumer, so will be the free trade of services through offshoring. In these examples, he draws comparisons between practices and beliefs that are natural and common to us and offshoring, thereby attempting to increase our comfort
This really swung around their ethical dilemma that they were in, as there was no longer a struggle to keep the company from falling apart. Ryanair really focused on its core values (pg 121). They did this when Michael O’Leary stated “[We] guarantee our customers no fuel surcharges not today, not tomorrow, not ever.” This meant that they were really focused on satisfying and delighting customers. By focusing on this they felt they would be able to increase shareholder value, but also keeping their employees happy. When saying what type of social responsibility strategy Ryanair uses, I feel like they have somewhat changed.
Fast Food Nation I think the American Dream is being successful through diligent work. Not necessarily being rich and famous, but comfortable in your place. Like you know where you are and you know you can be better, or worse, but you would rather stay where you are. I think it’s a fact of being happy and proud of yourself and how far you’ve come and how much you’ve grown. Achieving the American Dream is a fact of being happy or not being happy.
Using the marginally compliant approach they’re purposed solution was technically compliant, but barely, example: If any judgment call is required, they will choose the less expensive solution. With this strategy they took the risk of every action and decision based on providing the lowest-cost solution that met program requirements. The strategy works, without any other possibility available they decide this strategy, which bring attractive savings for the customer and won the bid opening doors and make the subsidiary recognized for futures contract. Best Value The next example was working with a company whose cost structure made it not to be for the low bidder, so they adopted a best-value bid strategy. This strategy means you will able to convince the costumer that the value of
This issue makes me think of my father, who often tells me that in one of his most important business decisions, he relied on his ‘gut feeling’ instead of his rational self and still made one of his best decisions ever. Another human virtue in Rand’s list is productiveness, which I cannot argue with. Where would the world be without productive people? I am a strong believer in work and productivity- I think that human beings would perish without being productive and the only way for someone to
Regimes are instituted by the consent of the governed, and the emphasis is on liberty, not the power of the sovereign. The government is limited, and from an economic perspective, should have minimal influence over economic affairs. The government’s main responsibility is to protect private property, which is the key to unlocking the door of capitalism. Private property, which Marx abhors presumably because he lived in squalor most of his life, encourages individuals to be productive and creative. Note that the emphasis is on the individual, because free-markets enable the individual to prosper, and in turn, society improves for the greater good.
Encourage your staff members to excel and reward them appropriately. Support one another in times of personal crisis. Concerning clients, develop an open, trusting relationship that can last through the ups and downs of business. Do not go along with giving mediocre service. If a client makes a demand that is unfair simply say no.
Thanks to Gravity Payments, small businesses are now able to get the same benefits in a less bureaucratic and more efficient way. Some would say that Dan Price is the modern Robin Hood. I think he is better than that. He distributes money in a fair and legal way. He doesn’t need to fight or steal to help the poor.