Day: August 24, 2021

The task:(1) Watch the movie "Searching for Bobby Fischer" or several of the clips below. The whole movie builds to it, but the last nine minutes of the movie are critical. Josh is playing the final game of the tournament with his father (Joe Mantegna), teacher (Ben Kingsley), and life coach (Laurence Fishburne) in the stands. His teacher continues to utter the phrase dont move until you see it....

In this writing assignment you get to be creative, dig deep, and bring together a number of topics that we have been developing throughout the semester. As you recall, we began with what is essentially an organization chart that emphasizes the centrality of the customer, with the marketing mix sitting between the external marketing environment and the consumer. Malcolm Gladwell demonstrated how...

In the Queens Gambit, Beth learned quickly that she needed to develop a chess strategy that involved more than just reacting to her opponents moves and using a shortsighted strategy - while taking into consideration the position of all of her pieces on the board, she needed to think in terms of groups of moves (a series of moves rather than one move at a time). Some famous group moves mentioned...

After watching the Malcolm Gladwell Ted Talk "Choice, happiness, and spaghetti sauce"  let's take a deep dive on the following questions.  As always, please limit your responses to one page, single spaced, and preferably no more than 1 1/2 pages.  Here is the link for the Ted Talk: 1. What was was the "wrong message" everyone drew from Grey Poupon and why is it  so important...