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Lansing's Endurance: Shackleton's 1914 Antarctic Expedition

An analysis of Alfred Lansing's "Endurance," exploring Shackleton's ill-fated 1914–1915 Antarctic expedition, its planning, failure, and survival story.

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Boeing's long-term strategic planning process and customer relationships

Boeing's planning process is usually oriented to a long-term time horizon. The company's two main industries are in defense and in civilian aircraft. Each of these industries is characterized by complex products, long lead times for new product development and customers that accept these terms.

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Strategic management, benchmarking, and leadership styles in public institutions

The objective of this work is to examine strategic management and the essential elements of strategic planning and to examine the concept behind benchmarking and how benchmarking can achieve the improvement of public sector efficiency and effectiveness.

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PEST analysis of Australia and Singapore: advertising opportunities

Although much of the world suffered severe economic setbacks during the recent global recession, two of the hardiest economies have proven to be that of Singapore's and Australia's.

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Team leadership model applied to product introduction conflict

The launch of any new product is a highly collaborative, team-centric activity that requires the orchestration of efforts across many different departments. Leading a product introduction requires use of many of the skills and concepts of the Team leadership Model.

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Singapore's authoritarian pragmatism and business-friendly governance model

Singapore's government is best described as a Socialist Democracy, which makes it somewhat similar to the governments of Northern Europe ("Introduction to Singapore's Political System").

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Geography, economy, and the rise of British naval dominance

Great Britain's geography, society, economy and politics are all ideally intimately connected.

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Evidence-based medicine implementation challenges and success factors

The process of evidence-based medicine is similar to any occupation within the healthcare discipline. However, differences emerge as a result of different theoretical models and practice domains used.

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Leadership challenges and strategies in criminal justice organizations

Leadership in criminal justice or private security organizations requires special skills, and presents unique challenges.

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Investigating an unmarked can through observation and measurement

What kind of sound does the can make when you slowly turn it upside down and right side up again?

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