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It is obvious that the best leaders lead by example and understand the requirements for building the best types of teams. What preparatory steps need to be taken when first creating a temporary team in order to ensure that the team can function effectively? Provide ample examples to support your suggestions. Discuss with other students whether or not their steps will work and offer suggestions for improvement.
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Read the following information. Answer one of the Leading Questions and provide a specific example to support your answe. Please use class material to support your examples.
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Do you or your family own any Tupperware? Chances are the answer is yes. Tupperware, invented in the 1940s, consists of the ubiquitous plastic bowls and other kitchen storage containers that keep food fresh because of its unique way of "burping" air out of the container A Tupperware party, a sales meeting usually in someone's home, is held every 2. 5 seconds resulting in annual sales of over 51.1 billion.' But the pervasive influence of Tupperware in American kitchens during the past half century almost didn't happen. The inventor of Tupperware, Earl Silas Tupper, was a genius in creating new products, but he didn't know how to sell them. Then Tupper met Brownie Wise, an energetic person with a gift for sales Their meeting and working together is a testament to how people with different skills and talents can create something that neither one could do on their own. Wise was a marketing genius; Tupper was a brilliant inventor. Through Wise's sales ideas (home Tupperware parties), Tupperware became a household word and the Tupperware business flourished. Without Wise, Tupperware would probably be a forgotten product. But because of their collaboration, great things happened.2 Working together and with teams of salespeople, Tupperware became a household word.
Leading questions
1. Brownie Wise and Earl Tupper each had different talents: Wise was the salesperson and Tupper the inventor. When have you been part of a group or team that included people with different talents and backgrounds that accomplished more than was possible if the individual group members had worked alone?
2. When you have worked with people who were different from you, what strategies have you used to bridge the differences? What would you like to learn that would help you collaborate with people who have different skills, talents, and backgrounds than you?
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What is the volumetric weight of the sand
: If it is known that the density of the sand particles in the material of the previous problem is 2600 kg/m3, then what is the porosity n? And the void ratio e?
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Five functions of management mean
: Write a two page paper on what the five functions of management mean and how you would utilize each of them to successfully put together and lead this project team.
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How does the social concept of race relate to each group
: How has U.S. society used each group's culture to construct the group identity? How has each group been stereotyped? How accurate are these stereotypes? How does the social concept of race relate to each group? What prejudice has each group faced?
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What is the volumetric weight of the saturated sand
: It would be possible to fill the pores of the dry sand of the previous problems with water. What is the volume of the water that the sand could contain, and then what is the volumetric weight of the saturated sand?
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Explain what strategies have you used to bridge differences
: What strategies have you used to bridge the differences? What would you like to learn that would help you collaborate with people who have different skills, talents, and backgrounds than you?
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Why is planning an important activity
: Why is planning an important activity? What are some of the advantages of effective planning? What could be some disadvantages?
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What is the subsidence of the soil
: The soil in a polder consists of a clay layer of 5 meter thickness, with a porosity of 50 %, on top of a deep layer of stiff sand. The water level in the clay is lowered by 1.5 meter. Experience indicates that then the porosity of the clay is redu..
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What would you advise the company to do
: Complexity of Operations and the Effect on Cost In the mid-1990s, a large consumer goods manufacturer moved its customer-based department and specialty stores to mass merchandising in a a variety of retail stores, large and small.
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On what side of the tower would that clay layer be thickest
: A possible explanation of the leaning of the Pisa tower is that the subsoil contains a compressible clay layer of variable thickness. On what side of the tower would that clay layer be thickest?
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