Professional Documents
Culture Documents
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Splendor
Thanks to her, Father Miguel Hidalgo moved forward [accelerative] the date in
which the Independence movement would start to the early hours of September
16th, 1810. Without her timely [opportune] notice, the struggle for
independence would have been discovered and the efforts of the conspirators
would never have achieved their ultimate purpose: Mexico’s Independence
from the Spanish Crown.
Maria de la Natividad Giron Josefa Ortiz is best known as Doña Josefa Ortiz de
Dominguez, “La Corregidora” (the Chief Magistrate) of Queretaro. She was the
daughter of the Spaniards Juan Jose Ortiz and Maria Manuela Giron.
She was born in Valladolid– what is now Morelia– in 1768 and was raised in
Mexico City. Her parents died when she was a small child so her older sister
Maria Sotero was granted [agree to] custody. Maria enrolled her sister in the
Colegio de las Vizcaínas, a very prestigious school to which she was accepted
because she was a criolla, creole, that is, the children of Spaniards born in the
New Spain.
While still a college student she met Miguel Dominguez, a widower who often
visited the school. They fell in love and were married secretly in 1791; they had
14 children.
[Widower definition is - a man who has lost his spouse - wife - or partner by death and
usually has not remarried.]
It is well known that Doña Josefa was vehemently against the abuse that the
Spaniards– that is, the European-born Spaniards – exercised over the natives
considering and treating them as second-class citizens. She always identified
with the native’s social problems, for they were relegated to secondary positions
in public administration as well as in the military.
Source:
<https://www.inside-mexico.com>
<https://www.inside-mexico.com/dona-josefa-ortiz-de-dominguez-mexican-
independence-heroine/>
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José María Morelos y Pavón was born in Valladolid (now Morelia) in 1765.
José María Morelos was the son of Creole Juana María Pérez Pavón and Manuel
Morelos a carpenter of indigenous descent.
In 1779 with the death of his father, José María’s life underwent [experienced]
major changes. Under the care of his uncle Felipe Morelos, he moved to
Apatzingán to a farm and where he farmed and herd [drive] mules. The latter
activity provided an income that could support his mother and sister.
When he was 25 years old in 1790, at the insistence of his mother, he left his
uncle Felipe and returned to Valladolid to enroll in the college of San Nicolas.
There he met [contacted, converged] the rector Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla.
He studied Latin and grammar, and two years later continued his studies at the
Tridentate Seminary, where he received instruction in philosophy and rhetoric.
On April 28, 1795 in Mexico City, he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
Morelos then began his career as a priest [ecclesiastic] and in March 1799 was
transferred to the parish [community] of Carácuaro, where he lived for more
than a decade living of contributions from parishioners [congregations] and
administering the parish.
During this period and after the death of his mother, he managed and grew the
cattle [in Spanish, ‘ganado (vacuno)’] business he had started with his uncle; he
transferred ownership of the family home to his sister and managed the estate
[property] of his mother. Also at this time he had two illegitimate children.
For five years Jose Maria Morelos fought as an insurgent. He headed four
military campaigns in addition to his work as a great political and social thinker.
He was known as a military genius, cruel and ruthless [unfeeling], able to stand
and defeat the Spanish army that significantly outnumbered [be more
numerous than] his men.
Jose María Morelos y Pavón is a national hero. In his honor, the state of Morelos
and city of Morelia are named after him and bills and coins bear [present] his
image today.
Source:
< https://www.inside-mexico.com/jose-maria-morelos-y-pavon-2/>
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Veracruz, Mexico
Veracruz, municipality, capital city, and is port … It is the largest and most
important city in the state of Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave. It holds the most
important maritime port in Mexico in the Gulf of Mexico.
During colonial times, Veracruz was of great importance since it was here from
where the ships departed to Spain loaded with gold, treasures and other
merchandise [products] in the denominated “West Indies Run.” This led
[guided] Veracruz to be attacked by pirates several times. In order to repel the
attacks, the city was surrounded by a wall and a series or forts and bulwark
[protection] were built. One of these forts was the San Juan de Ulúa Fortress,
built in 1590.
In 1607, the port received the status of city, ratified in 1640 by King Felipe II,
becoming then, one of the most ancient cities in Mexico. In that same year, the
Armada de Barlovento was created to defend the littoral from pirates. Veracruz
has been the seat [center, capital] of the Federation Executive Power twice – 1858
and 1914. In 1897, the Naval Academy was founded in this city by initiative of
Jose Maria de la Vega Gonzales, chief of the Naval Department.
Port of Veracruz
The Port of Veracruz is considered four times heroic because it was the scenario
of four of the most important events in the safeguard of the national sovereignty
where the population fought heroically against foreign invaders. …, Veracruz
was also scenario of the Mexican independence consolidation, after the
capitulation of Spanish forces which still remained at the San Juan de Ulúa
Fortress.
Nowadays [In our time], this port is known as The Gate [Access] of Mexico to
the World, since it is and has been the most important seaport since colonial
times. For twenty five years, it was the only port through which merchandise
could come in [enter] to and come out [became visible] from the continental
America to Europe. It is the seat [base] of the Third Naval Zone Headquarters
[Center of operations].
Source:
<http://www.semar.gob.mx/velero/2014/en/training-
cruise/veracruz.html>
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Battle of Veracruz
Source:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Veracruz_(disambiguation)>
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-Isla de Sacrificios: the name evokes the religious ceremonies that developed
pre-Hispanic men in this portion of land, surrounded by clear waters and exotic
coralbanks.
Later, during the so-called Pastry War in 1838 (the first war with France) was
the starting point of the attacks Gauls. Later, the area would be occupied by U.S.
troops who invaded Mexico twice.
The Island of Sacrifice is the most important of which are located off Veracruz.
Today, in his "face of sand" has been "seeded [established]" a large modern
lighthouse that guides ships head to port.
< http://english.realmexico.info/2011/09/isla-de-sacrificios-island-of.html>
Source:
<https://www.lugaresturisticosdeveracruz.com/puerto/isla-de-sacrificios/>
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Barack H. Obama
Everyone Is Watching
- By Brian Tracy
In more than fifty years of research, Dr. Edward Banfield of Harvard University
found that the key determinant of success, happiness, and character is a
person’s time perspective. This was defined as how far into the future you
looked when you decided on your present actions.
Superior men and women have a long time perspective. They think and project
weeks, months, and years into the future. They look at everything they do in the
present as part of a process that can have significant consequences in the future.
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Splendor
Knowing and loving God is our greatest privilege, and being known and loved
is God’s greatest pleasure.
Rick Warren.
You defeat bad thoughts by thinking of something better. This is the principle
of replacement. You overcome evil with good.
Rick Warren.
Great opportunities often disguise themselves in small tasks. The little things in
life determine the big things.
Rick Warren.
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.
John C. Maxwell.
God invites you to participate in the greatest, largest, most diverse, and most
significant cause in history – his kingdom. History is his story… Nothing
matters more, and nothing will last as long.
Rick Warren.
Shakira
Colombia, 15 Quotes
Shakira
Nina Garcia
4) I didn't go looking to Colombia for a dream - if I tell you that, I'm lying.
I went to Colombia because I needed the work!.
Nicky Jam
Nicky Jam
Nicky Jam
7) Like in every peace process, and especially in Colombia, there all kinds
of problems that will come through. Not only is the process by itself
very complicated but it has lots of underground complications.
Ingrid Betancourt
Ingrid Betancourt
Ingrid Betancourt
10) I moved to Oklahoma to learn English when I was 16 years old from
Colombia for six months; then I moved to New York.
J Balvin
Kali Uchis
Kali Uchis
Nicky Jam
14) It's always been my dream to be among the big names of Colombia.
J Balvin
Fernando Botero
Source:
<www.iteawww.org/TAA/Glossary.htm>
Source:
<www.michigan.gov/mdcs/0,1607,7-147-6879_9325-18616--,00.html>
Knowledge. The sum of the information and experience the teacher has
acquired or learned and is able to recall or use.
Source:
<www.wmich.edu/evalctr/ess/glossary/glos-e-l.htm>
It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their
appearance in the world.
Aristotle
In vain have you acquired knowledge if you have not imparted it to others.
Deuteronomy Rabbah
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Multidisciplinary Nature of Knowledge Management.
1) Organizational science.
2) Cognitive science.
3) Linguistics and computational linguistics.
4) Information technologies such as knowledge-based systems, document
and information management, electronic performance support systems,
and database technologies.
5) Information and library science.
6) Technical writing and journalism.
7) Anthropology and sociology.
8) Education and training.
9) Storytelling and communication studies.
10) Collaborative technologies such as Computer Supported Collaborative
Work and groupware, as well as intranets, extranets, portals, and other
web technologies.
Kimiz Dalkir
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People don't care how much you know--until they know how much you care.
John C. Maxwell
Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed
by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas?.
Margaret Thatcher
Some people dream of great accomplishments, while others stay awake and do
them.
Danielle Luedtke
Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little
chance you have of trying to change others.
Jacob Braude
Although there are many interesting areas within science, my supervisor told
me to focus on one thing and pursue it with supreme effort.
Unknown author
I tend to fall into the details and lose sight of the larger picture of how things
are supposed to work. These words remind me to refocus.
Eckart Ehlers
This piece of advice was given to me as I handed in my PhD thesis and was
moving to a new institution. It is something I try to keep in mind when planning
new research projects. The details can be interesting too, but never forget the
bigger picture and future implications.
Tony Sanford
Your reputation is more important than your paycheck, and your integrity is
worth more than your career.
Ryan Freitas
Graduation is not a single point along the continuum of life. Instead, graduation
is a series of continuing steps where additional education and life experiences
culminate in a life driven by a self-sacrificing desire to contribute to the well-
being of those people who are around you.
Byron Pulsifer
Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.
Dalai Lama
Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for
they lead step by step to the truth.
Jules Verne
A good deal of my research in physics has consisted in not setting out [plan] to
solve some particular problem, but simply examining mathematical quantities
of a kind that physicists use and trying to fit them together in an interesting
way, regardless of [not considering] any application that the work may have. It
is simply a search for pretty mathematics. It may turn out [attend] later to have
an application. Then one has good luck [fortune].
Paul A. M. Dirac
The engineer’s first problem in any design situation is to discover what the
problem really [in truth] is.
Unknown author
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get
busy and find out [discover] how to do it.
President Theodore Roosevelt
The more credit you give away [reveal], the more will come back to you. The
more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
Brian Tracy
Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current
job, industry, education, experience or interests.
Brian Tracy
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are
certain to miss the future.
President John F. Kennedy
Well, the packet [container] is both a wave and a particle until you take a
measurement. If you put a particle detector in its path, then it will register as
the passage of a particle. If you put an oscilloscope or oscillograph in its path, it
will show up [highlight] as a waveform. The result will depend on the means of
measurement − from which orthodox [conventional, traditional] quantum
physicists derive the message that it's act [action] of observation that determines
the outcome [result] of the observation, which in turn determines the nature of
the thing being observed.
Christopher Norris
… Contradictions are not merely eliminated; they become mistakes that are
regarded [observed] as a breakdown [interruption]. Thus today we must
expand Galileo’s description of modern scientific method by saying: to measure
everything measurable; to make everything which is not measurable
measurable; and to deny [refuse] everything which cannot be made measurable.
Pietschmann, H.
There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the incredible
[extraordinary] and those who believe that ‘belief’ must be discarded [removed]
and replaced by ‘the scientific method.’
Born, Max
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Psychology
- Some Precise Concepts
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Towards an argument
Esteemed students of the English language, if you are in the early stages of
your studies, obtain and learn about the theme of «The Connectors». ERD.
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Next, we finish our present section with a piece of gold. Piece named
«Teaching aims of a poem…». Enjoy the jewelry. M.C. Enrique Ruiz Díaz.
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2. The students may develop all the necessary links between the given poem
and their personal experiences.
5. The student may enjoy the aesthetical [esthetic, artistic, visual] reality,
which is endorsed [validated, permitted] in the poem.
6. The student may become familiar with the eternal humanistic values–
ethical and aesthetical–being part of a self-awareness process.
7. The student may acquire critical thinking through the study of a poem.
8. The student may perceive the value of the poetic wording [phraseology,
expression, language] – and of course, every wording–which contributes
in the formulation of a word scheme, which in combination with other
word schemes, creates a functional whole. [Attention: Leadership & 100
and 5 Stars].
10. The student may understand that the poet is active and present, has a
fighting [rebellious] spirit, feels empathy [identification] for the fellow
[colleague], is not influenced by compromises, distinguishes the
“beautiful” from the “fake [false]” and strives [make every effort] against
injustice.
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«"The teaching of Life Skills with Literacy" - (A Training Manual) ». Editorial:
«ERASMUS Strategic partnership - “Skills for Life: Literacy” (2014-2016)».
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IBM Corporation, about Complexity
Insight and foresight [prevision] are linked with leadership. It’s insight that
helps to capture opportunity. Zhou Ming
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The next generation, as natives of the digital world, will have revolutionary
implications for politics, the public sector and the way we do business. The
citizen will drive change and bring social revolution, not evolution. Peter Gilroy
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We cannot globalize without diversity. It leads to new ideas and improves our
ability to scale [ascend, clear], so we would like to form a matrix organization
globally. Motoki Ozaki
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You must be a part of, and not apart [distant] from, the society in which you
operate and this requires humility. The day of the business tycoon [magnate] is
gone. Managers are appointed; leaders are elected. It’s not a question of people
following you — they need to be a part of you. Ian Tyler. - [Leadership & 100
and 5 Stars].
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How will you develop the critical capabilities to enhance [increase] creativity
among your leadership team?
In what ways can you explore, reward [recompense] and globally integrate
diverse and unconventional points of view?
What is your approach to challenge every element of your business model to
get the most from currently untapped [unexploited, available] opportunities?
How will you leverage [influence, motivate] new communication styles,
technologies and tools, both to lead a new generation of talent and encourage
breakthrough [development, innovation] thinking?
- [Leadership & 100 and 5 Stars].
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Our products need to anticipate need, rather than respond to a request. Michael
D’Ascenzo
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Technology is already impacting our clients’ behavior. Currently [At this time],
clients are price checking over four continents using today’s technology.
Michael Ward
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Our customers want personalization of services and products. It is all about the
market of one [unique, individual]. Tony Tyler
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How will you engage customers in new ways that increase interest and
loyalty to generate new demand and revenue [income, profits] sources?
How can you involve customers more effectively and directly in product and
service development?
Can you hear the voice of your customers through the vast amount of data?
Can you understand and act upon [on] the information?.
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Simplification and standardization are key strategies that we have been using
for several years to reduce existing and future complexity. Brenda Barnes
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When things look very simple, you need to look for a competitive edge. When
things are complex, you simplify to get the competitive advantage. Graeme
Liebelt
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The challenge [test, encounter] is the short window of time that exists to take
advantage of a situation or strategic opportunity. Norman Gerber
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The right partner for a changing world - At IBM, we collaborate with our clients,
bringing together business insight, advanced research and technology to give
them a distinct advantage in today’s rapidly changing environment. Through
our integrated approach to business design and execution, we help turn
strategies into action. And with expertise in 17 industries and global capabilities
that span [cover, extend over] 170 countries, we can help clients anticipate
change and profit [make money] from new opportunities.
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About IBM Global Business Services Strategy & Change - IBM Global Business
Services offers one of the largest Strategy & Change organizations in the world,
with over 3,250 strategy professionals. IBM Strategy & Change practitioners
[experts] help clients develop, align [associate] and implement their vision and
business strategies to drive growth [development] and innovation.
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About the IBM Institute for Business Value - The IBM Institute for Business
Value, part of IBM Global Business Services, develops fact-based strategic
insights [understandings] for senior business executives around critical
industry-specific and cross-industry issues [matters, subjects]. This Global Chief
Executive Officer Study is part of our ongoing [constant] C-Suite Study Series.
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The OECD
- Organization for Economic Co-operation and
Development
The OECD helps governments to foster [cultivate] prosperity and fight poverty
through economic growth, financial stability, trade and investment, technology,
innovation, entrepreneurship and development co-operation. It is helping to
ensure [safeguard] that the environmental implications of economic and social
development are taken into [towards] account [explanation, report]. Other aims
include creating jobs for everyone, social equity [justice] and achieving clean
and effective governance.
For more than 40 years, the OECD has been one of the world’s largest and most
reliable [consistent, trustworthy] sources of comparable statistical, economic
and social data. OECD databases span [extend over] areas as diverse as national
accounts [financial records], economic indicators, trade, employment,
migration, education, energy, health and the environment. Much of the research
and analysis is published.
Over the past decade, the OECD has tackled [faced] a range of economic, social
and environmental issues while further [beyond, ahead of] deepening
[developing] its engagement with business, trade unions and other
representatives of civil society. Negotiations at the OECD on taxation and
transfer pricing, for example, have paved [covered] the way for bilateral tax
treaties around the world.
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Our core values make us who we are. As we change and grow, the beliefs that
are most important to us stay the same—putting people first, pursuing
excellence, embracing change, acting with integrity and serving our world.
Being part of Marriott International means being part of a proud [full of pride]
history and a thriving [prosperous] culture.
Source:
<https://www.marriott.com/culture-and-values/core-values.mi>
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The 7 core principles that are the foundation of our Philosophy and the means
to achieving our values are: (1) Reason, (2) Integrity, (3) Honesty, (4)
Independence, (5) Justice, (6) Productivity, and (7) Pride. The first part of the
Booklet [Brochure, Catalogue] explains these principles and why they are of
crucial importance to CBN [Canadian Bank Note]. The latter part, applying the
Fundamental Concepts, illustrates how the principles apply to some of our
more important management practices.
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1. Reason
To achieve our goals requires that we think clearly and make good choices. We
must size up [evaluate] situations, solve problems, make decisions, and provide
for contingencies. In other words, we must think logically and be focused on
reality. The design of our products and processes must be thought through in
great detail so that our customers can rely on [be certain of] them. To keep our
customers, our products must meet their specifications and perform better than
those of our competitors.
Our focus on reason does not mean that we should not be passionate about our
work. Emotion provides the motivation to accomplish many tasks. However, it
is important that this emotion comes from sound [complete] reasoning based
on a solid understanding of the facts and not on hollow [insignificant] wishes
and conflicting goals. The right emotions are those that arise from well thought-
out goals and values, and flow from the self-confidence that results from
knowing that we are following the right and just course of action.
Rudyard Kipling in his famous poem “If” captures well the balance between
reason and emotion.
“If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it
on you...you’ll be a Man, my son!”
Achieving a sense of control over our lives and business increases our self-
esteem and results in positive, motivating emotions.
We should not accept that our ability to think is fixed [immobile] at birth by our
IQ. To the contrary, there is much evidence that we can improve our reasoning
ability by training and by taking the effort to think. There is also much truth in
the saying “Use it or lose it.” - [Leadership & 100 and 5 Stars]
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2. Integrity
Integrity means acting in accordance with our beliefs and principles. It means
keeping our promises to others but it requires more; it mandates being true to
ourselves and to what we stand for [signify, represent], to our convictions and
to our values. Integrity means following through on our commitments to deliver
high quality products on time and it means meeting deadlines [time limit] and
budgets [financial plan] for projects. Practicing integrity requires confidence—
confidence in our ability to do the right thing and in our ability to perform.
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3. Honesty
Clear thinking requires access to facts as they are, not as we wish or pretend
them to be. If we hide [put out of sight] from the facts, we will never make the
changes that continuous improvement necessitates. Honesty requires a focus on
reality and a passion for getting at the facts.
Sergeant Friday in the old Dragnet series is famous for saying, “Just give us the
facts ma’am, nothing but the facts.”
Honesty means not faking [falsifying] reality. Honesty above all requires
courage because facing the facts is not always pleasant [enjoyable] and can meet
with the disapproval of those who hear them. People will not deal with [take
care of] us if they cannot trust us, and they won't trust us if they cannot believe
what we say.
Both business and personal success are based on being able to tell the truth—
say what you mean [signify, propose] and mean what you say. Facts must be
understood in a context and as we are not omniscient [well-informed] we can
always make honest mistakes. When we do, we must correct the errors.
Nevertheless [However], we should always courageously face the world as it is.
Honesty must be one of the pillars of our success at CBN [Canadian Bank Note],
so that those with whom we deal [do business], both inside and outside of CBN,
know that we speak the truth.
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4. Independence
Each of us is responsible for our actions and our character, and thereby [in that
way] for our successes and our failures. At CBN, we must strive [make every
effort] to continuously improve, to do better than we have in the past, and to
surpass our competitors. Doing better requires creative ideas and these can only
come from individuals who think for themselves, and strive to always
understand the world for themselves. Working in groups and on teams is the
only way to get some work accomplished but even then ideas do not come from
groups, they come from the individuals on the team. As individuals and as a
company, we must trail-blaze [make tracks of light] and be leaders in thought
and action. Just because the crowd [multitude] says it’s so, doesn’t make it so.
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5. Justice
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6. Productivity
Productivity measures the value that each of us contributes to the results of CBN
[Canadian Bank Note]. Each of us must contribute more in value than it costs to
have us on the payroll [employees, labor force]. Ultimately, our economic value
is determined by our customers. What our customers are willing to pay depends
on how the customer values our products and services compared to those
offered by our competitors.
Productivity requires that we continually improve our work and supply our
customers with outstanding [excellent] competitive value. Knowing how
productive we are requires measurement. Profitability [Effectiveness,
Productivity] and return on shareholders’ equity [fair play] are good measures
of productivity since they are powerful indicators of our competitiveness. We
need to be willing to be measured and compared, as keeping score is a necessary
part of doing better work.
Hard work and creativity are essential ingredients to being more productive.
We need to know our strengths [powers, potencies] and contribute according to
our abilities. Specialization improves productivity by expert employees
focusing on the work they do best. All of us need to recognize the need for a
variety of different skills to produce our products. This cannot happen without
extensive co-operation and teamwork.
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7. Pride [Self-importance]
Pride is the emotional reward that we get for living by our principles. In this
sense, pride occurs as a result of practicing the other six principles. If we practice
integrity and stay true to our word, or if we improve the production process,
we feel proud of ourselves and of CBN [Canadian Bank Note].
Our pride in CBN makes us want CBN to act more fairly, to be more honest and
to have the best possible reputation with our customers. Each of us must
perform our work in a manner so as to be able to be justly [reasonably, correctly]
proud of what we have accomplished. CBN must be the kind of organization
with which each employee and customer can be pleased to be associated.
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Commitment to Education
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Inside Public Sector Leadership
1. Your value as a bureaucrat is to give the Minister solutions that are going
to serve them well.
Chris Trumpy
2. You need a certain amount of self confidence in these roles and the ability
to separate having self-interest from being self-serving.
Ingrid Bergmann
6. The urgent is what faces politicians every morning and it often isn’t
important, but it does need to be managed. You can only focus on the
important when the urgent has been cleared off [leaving] the schedule.
Joy MacPhail
8. The advent of social media has changed the game in very important ways
– put your phone away [absent] when something irritates you!.
George Abbott
10. Be really deliberate and strategic about your own learning plan. Take
ownership of your own path. What do you want to get out [leave] of your
own career?.
Lynda Tarras
Louis Kahn.
BARBARA KLEIN: And I’m Barbara Klein with the VOA Special English
program PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Today, we tell about Louis Kahn. He is
considered one of the most important American building designers of the
twentieth century.
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For example, Kahn was very interested in the look and feel of the materials he
used. He used brick and concrete in new and special ways. Kahn also paid
careful attention to the use of sunlight. He liked natural light to enter his
buildings through interesting kinds of windows and openings. Kahn’s work can
also be identified by his creative use of geometric shapes. Many of his buildings
use squares, circles and three sided shapes called triangles.
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Jesus Christ
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The Bible
16 “Woe to you, blind guides, who say, ‘If anyone swears [affirms] by the
temple, it is nothing; but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is under
obligation.
17 Fools and blind ones! Which, in fact, is greater, the gold or the temple that
has sanctified the gold? 18 Moreover, ‘If anyone swears by the altar, it is
nothing; but if anyone swears by the gift on it, he is under obligation.’
19 Blind ones! Which, in fact, is greater, the gift or the altar that sanctifies the
gift?
22 and whoever swears by heaven is swearing by the throne of God and by the
One sitting on it.
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16 ¡Ay de vosotros, guías ciegos!, que decís: Cualquiera que jure por el templo,
no significa nada; pero cualquiera que jure por el oro del templo, queda
obligado.
18 También decís: Cualquiera que jure por el altar, no significa nada; pero
cualquiera que jure por la ofrenda que está sobre él, queda obligado.
20 Pues el que jura por el altar, jura por él y por todo lo que está sobre él;
21 y el que jura por el templo, jura por él y por Aquel que habita en él;
22 y el que jura por el cielo, jura por el trono de Dios y por Aquel que está
sentado sobre él.
Jesus Christ
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Catechism [Religious education]
Faith is a grace
When St. Peter confessed that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God, Jesus
declared to him that this revelation did not come "from flesh [epidermis, skin]
and blood [body fluid]", but from "my Father who is in heaven". Faith is a gift
of God, a supernatural virtue infused [inculcated] by him. "Before this faith can
be exercised, man must have the grace of God to move and assist him; he must
have the interior helps of the Holy Spirit, who moves the heart and converts it
to God, who opens the eyes of the mind and 'makes it easy for all to accept and
believe the truth.'"
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Faith and science: "Though faith is above reason, there can never be any real
discrepancy between faith and reason. Since the same God who reveals
mysteries and infuses [inculcates] faith has bestowed [presented] the light of
reason on the human mind, God cannot deny himself, nor can truth ever [all the
time] contradict truth." "Consequently, methodical research in all branches of
knowledge, provided it is carried out [performed] in a truly scientific manner
and does not override [dominate, take priority over] moral laws, can never
conflict with the faith, because the things of the world and the things of faith
derive from the same God. The humble [respectful] and persevering
investigator of the secrets of nature is being led, as it were, by the hand of God
in spite of himself, for it is God, the conserver of all things, who made them
what they are."
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Faith is a personal adherence of the whole man to God who reveals himself. It
involves an assent [agreement] of the intellect and will to the self-revelation God
has made through his deeds [activities, performances] and words. "To believe"
has thus [consequently] a twofold [double] reference: to the person, and to the
truth [veracity]: to the truth, by trust in the person who bears [supports] witness
[observe] to it. We must believe in no one but God: the Father, the Son and the
Holy Spirit.
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The Bible.
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend, that you may know
prudence.
3 For I also was my father's son, tender [loving], and as an only son in the sight
of my mother:
4 And he taught me, and said: Let thy heart receive my words, keep my
commandments, and thou shalt live.
5 Get wisdom, get prudence: forget not, neither decline from the words of my
mouth.
6 Forsake [Desert] her not, and she shall keep thee: love her, and she shall
preserve thee.
7 The beginning of wisdom, get wisdom, and with all thy possession purchase
prudence.
8 Take hold on [keep] her, and she shall exalt thee: thou shalt be gloried by her,
when thou shalt embrace [include] her.
9 She shall give to thy head increase of graces, and protect thee with a noble
crown.
10 Hear, O my son, and receive my words, that years of life may be multiplied
to thee.
11 I will shew thee the way of wisdom, I will lead thee by the paths of equity:
12 Which when thou shalt have entered, thy steps shall not be straitened
[compressed], and when thou runnest [firmest], thou shalt not meet a stumbling
[uncertain] block.
13 Take hold on [persevere] instruction, leave it not: keep it, because it is thy
life.
14 Be not delighted in the paths of the wicked [severe], neither let the way of
evil men please thee.
15 Flee from it, pass not by it: go aside, and forsake it.
The Holy Bible. Proverbs 4 – 1:15. - Translated From The Latin Vulgate
Diligently Compared With The Hebrew, Greek, And Other Editions In
Divers Languages. Douay-Rheims Version. 1609, 1582.
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Some Ancient English Words
wilt = will; shalt = shall; mayst = may; hath =has; thy = your; thee = you;
thou = you; thereof = of this, of that; shew = show; ye = you, the
Esteemed reader: here, words with a very quick idea of their significance.
Therefore, if you requires more knowledge, you must search for grammatical
knowledge.
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La Biblia.
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25 Los propios deseos matan al perezoso, | pues sus manos se niegan a trabajar.
He led them by a straight [conservative] way to a city where they could settle.
Psalm 107:7
Your statutes are my heritage forever; they are the joy of my heart.
Psalm 119:111
Do not add to what I command you and do not subtract from it, but keep the
commands of the Lord your God that I give you.
Deuteronomy 4:2
In the ultimate analysis science is born of myth and religion, all three being
expressions of the ordering spirit of the human mind.
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