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Arnold Glasgow: Motivational Problem Solving Quotes

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

Marie Curie: Motivational Problem Solving Quotes

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Peter Ginter: Motivational Problem Solving Quotes

Often, the greatest challenge facing an organization is recognizing and acting on opportunity rather than

solving a problem.

John F. Kennedy: Motivational Problem Solving Quotes

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is

beyond human beings.

Henry J. Kaiser: Motivational Problem Solving QuotesProblems are only opportunities in work clothes.

Norman Vincent Peale: Motivational Problem Solving Quotes

Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong.

Scott Peck: Motivational Problem Solving Quotes

Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to

the growth and development of the spirit.

Norman Vincent Peale: Motivational Problem Solving Quotes

The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs"

but goes right to work on the creative "how".

Carl Jung: Motivational Problem Solving Quotes

The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can

never be solved, but only outgrown.


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What you do speaks so loudly I cant hear what you are saying.

Henry Adams

People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.

For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.

Mother Teresa

Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.

Paulo Coelho,The Alchemist

The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most ofwhat we

have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Mahatma Gandhi

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

Mahatma Gandhi

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters

Albert Einstein

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips

where I have opened my heart.

Charles Dickens

Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to

understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not

common, but it is essential for right thinking...

Leo Tolstoy

Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.

George R.R. Martin,A Game of Thrones

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the

fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

Franz Kafka
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[H]iding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes

you a liar.

Jenny O'Connell,The Book of Luke

Let's tell the truth to people. When people ask, 'How are you?' have the nerve sometimes to answer

truthfully. You must know, however, that people will start avaoiding you because, they, too, have kneesthat pain them and heads that hurt and they don't want to know about yours. But think of it this way: If

people avoid you, you will have more time to meditate and do fine research on a cure for whatever truly

afflicts you.

Maya Angelou,Letter to My Daughter

Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Living with integrity means: Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships.

Asking for what you want and need from others. Speaking your truth, even though it might create

conflict or tension. Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values. Making choices

based on what you believe, and not what others believe.

Barbara De Angelis

The answer is good things only happen to you if you're good. Good? Honest is more what I mean... Be

anything but a coward, a pretender, an emotional crook, a whore: I'd rather have cancer than a

dishonest heart.

Truman Capote,Breakfast at Tiffany's

Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?

John Steinbeck,The Winter of Our Discontent

You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.

Victor Hugo,Les Misrables

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

Dr. Seuss,Horton Hatches the Egg

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Oscar Wilde
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"When you're green inside, you're clean inside." Dr. Bernard Jensen

"If people only knew the healing power of laughter and joy, many of our fine doctors would

be out of business. Joy is one of Nature's greatest medicines. Joy is always healthy. A

pleasant state of mind tends to bring abnormal conditions back to normal." CatherinePonder

"It is time to lay to rest the notion that germs jump into people and cause diseases."

Emanuel Cheraskin, M.D., D.M.D.

"It is not... That some people do not know what to do with truth when it is offered to them,

But the tragic fate is to reach, after patient search, a condition of mind-blindness, in which

The truth is not recognized, though it stares you in the face." Sir William Osler, physician,

1849-1919

"If we doctors threw all our medicines into the sea, it would be that much better for our

Patients and that much worse for the fishes." Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendel Holmes,MD

"And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent

names for Our diseases." Plato

"Doctors give drugs of which they know little, into bodies, of which they know less, for

Diseases of which they know nothing at all." Voltaire

"One-quarter of what you eat keeps you alive. The other three-quarters

keeps your doctor Alive."

(Hieroglyph found in an ancient Egyptian tomb.)

"You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep-

seated need to believe." - Carl Sagan

Science alone of all the subjects contains within itself the lesson of the danger of belief in the infallibility

of the greatest teachers in the preceding generation." - Richard Feynman

Some people say, "How can you live without knowing?" I do not know what they mean. I always live

without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know." - Richard Feynman

We can't define anything precisely. If we attempt to, we get into that paralysis of thought that comes to

philosophers one saying to the other: "you don't know what you are talking about!" The second one

says: "what do you mean by talking? What do you mean by you? What do you mean by know" - Richard

Feynman

Limits exist only in the mind

Bad schools, crime, drugs, high taxes, the social security mess, racism, the health care ? crisis?

unemployment, welfare state dependency, illegitimacy, the gap between rich and poor. What do these
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issues have in common? Politicians, the media, and our so-called leaders lie to us about them. They lie

about the cause. They lie about the effect. They lie about the solutions.

-Larry Elder

"A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops."

-- Henry Brooks Adams

"Hunger makes thief of any man."

-- Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."

-- Derek Curtis Bok

"Half of the world's misery comes from ignorance. The other half comes from intelligence."

-- Baslo
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How to Write a Case StudyWhat Is a Case Study?

A case study is a puzzle that has to be solved. The first thing toremember about writing a case study is that the case should have a problemfor the readers to solve. The case should have enough information in it thatreaders can understand what the problem is and, after thinking about it andanalyzing the information, the readers should be able to come up with aproposed solution. Writing an interesting case study is a bit like writing adetective story. You want to keep your readers very interested in the situation.

A good case is more than just a description. It is information arranged insuch a way that the reader is put in the same position as the case writer was atthe beginning when he or she was faced with a new situation and asked tofigure out what was going on. A description, on the other hand, arranges all theinformation, comes to conclusions, tells the reader everything, and the readerreally doesn't have to work very hard.When you write a case, here are some hints on how to do it so that yourreaders will be challenged, will "experience" the same things you did when youstarted your investigation, and will have enough information to come to someanswers.There are three basic steps in case writing: research, analysis, and theactual writing. You start with research, but even when you reach the writingstage you may find you need to go back and research even more information.The Research Phase:1. Library and Internet research. Find out what has been written before,and read the important articles about your case site. When you do this,you may find there is an existing problem that needs solving, or you mayfind that you have to come up an interesting idea that might or might notwork at your case site. For example, your case study might be on anational park where there have been so many visitors that the park'seco-system is in danger. Then the case problem would be to figure outhow to solve this so the park is protected, but tourists can still come. Or,you might find that your selected site doesn't have many tourists, andone reason is that there are no facilities. Then the case problem mightbe how to attract the right kind of businesses to come and build arestaurant or even a hotel -- all without ruining the park.Or your case study might be on historic sites that would interest tourists

IF the tourists knew where the sites were or how to get to them. Or2

maybe your case study is about how to interest people in coming to yourcountry so they can trace their familys historic roots (origins). Once you have decided on the situation or issue you would like to coverin your case study (and you might have several issues, not just one),then you need to go to the site and talk to experts.2. Interview people who know the place or the situation. Findknowledgeable people to interview -- they may be at the site itself or theywork in a government office or company that deals with the historic


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preservation. In addition to people who work in the site, talk to visitors.When you are interviewing people, , ask them questions that will helpyou understand their opinions, questions like the following:"What is your impression of the site (maybe its an old fort, or a burial site, or an excavation of historic interest)?"

"How do you feel about the situation?""What can you tell me about how the site (or the situation) developed?""What do you think should be different, if anything?You also need to ask questions that will give you facts that might not beavailable from an article, questions like:"Would you tell me what happens here in a typical day?""What kind of statistics do you keep? May I have a copy?"How many businesses are involved here?"When you ask a question that doesn't let someone answer with a "yes"or a "no" you usually get more information. What you are trying to do isget the person to tell you whatever it is that he or she knows and thinks --

even though you don't always know just what that is going to be beforeyou ask the question. Then you can add these facts to your case.Remember, your readers can't go to your site, so you have to "bring it tothem."The Analysis Phase:1. Put all the information in one place. Now you have collected a lot ofinformation from people, from articles and books. You can't include it all.So, you need to think about how to sort through it, take out the excess,and arrange it so that the situation at the case site will beunderstandable to your readers. Before you can do this, you have to putall the information together where you can see it and analyze what isgoing on.2. Assign sections of material to different people. Each person or groupshould try to figure out what is really important, what is happening, and3

what a case reader would need to know in order to understand thesituation. It may be useful, for example, to put all the information aboutvisitors on one chart, or on a chart that shows visitors to two differentsites throughout a year.3. Try to formulate the case problem in a few sentences . When you dothis, you may find that you need more information. Once you aresatisfied with the way you have defined the problem you want yourreaders to think about, break the problem down into all its parts. Each

one represents a piece of the puzzle that needs to be understood beforethe problem can be solved. Then spend some time discussing thesewith the others in your group.For example, suppose:a. Your heritage site doesn't have many visitors, but many people saythey would like to visit if it had servicesb. There is unemployment in the village around the site,c. The town is big enough to be able to accommodate many more


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visitors, andd. The surrounding environment (animals, trees and plants) need to beprotected from too many visitorse. The town is far away, but there are no places to eat or sleep aroundthere

f. The government owns the location, but the government does notwant to own and operate either a restaurant or a hotelAsk yourselves: How much information do people who will read your casestudy need to have in order to be able to discuss items a through f?One answer to "a." is that they need to know data about past numbers ofvisitors, and they need to know what evidence exists that more people want tovisit but are discouraged from going there. Your evidence will come from thearticles and statistics you have gathered, and from the interviews you havecompleted.Once you have broken down the problem into pieces, you can analyze theinformation you now have and see if you can think about possible answers to

each of the pieces. If you have enough information, then you can think abouthow to write the case study itself.Writing the Case Study:4

1. Describe the problem or case question you want the reader to solve.In a detective story, the crime happens right at the beginning and the detectivehas to put together the information to solve it for the rest of the story. In a case,you can start by raising a question. You can, for example, quote someone youinterviewed. For example, suppose you interviewed a tourist official and shetold you she thought more people should be interested in visiting, and shecant understand why they dont come. Then you could write something like this,The historic town of XX is located in the mountains of country X. Thetown tourism supervisor, Mrs. Joan Smith, said that she thought "manymore people should visit here, but they just dont come. I dont know why

maybe we don't have the right kinds of places for them to eat or sleepand it's too far to travel in one day from the nearest big city."The case writers wondered what would have to happen in order to makethe town more attractive to tourists..Because you are the authors, you and your fellow students, can write questionslike this and set the stage for the rest of your case story. What your introductiondoes is give clues to the reader about what they should be thinking about.Once you have told the reader what one person associated with the tourist area

thinks the problem is -- how to make the place more attractive --you can givethem the information they need to come to their own conclusions2. Organize the sections of the case. You will probably need to organize yourinformation under topics like the following:a. Introduction to the problemb. Background on the place -- where is it, how big, what climate, etc. -- thispart should be a brief, overall description. Think about having 2 pages ofwritten material, photos, or even a video, so that your readers can really


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get a feel for what the place. looks like. Summarize the main features ofthe place. What makes it special?c. Visitors to the place -- you want to make the reader do some work, soyou can say that the number of visitors are shown on a table or chart youhave compiled. You might want to include a chart that shows the

number of visitors that come to another similar kind of place that doeshave facilities. This will let your readers make some comparisons. Ifpossible, include information you received when you talked to visitors -what did they like, dislike? What did visitors think should happen tomake the place more attractive?5

d. Government Policy -- include information about what government policyis with respect to this place. What is allowed, what is not allowed. Canpolicy be changed, and by whom?e. Business Opportunities in -- you have already said there are not enoughfacilities for tourists. Well, now you need to provide information on what itmight cost to put a nice restaurant for tourists. Suppose in one of yourinterviews, you talked to a business person who said that it would cost$25,000 to put a snack bar by the historic site. You need to give yourreader that information, but that's not all. You also have to provide someinformation about what a typical snack bar menu would have, how muchthe food would cost to make and sell, and what price the owner wouldhave to put on each item so that the price would not be too high forpeople to pay. And your reader has to figure out how many people wouldhave to eat there in order for the snack bar to make money. This is wherethe statistics come in. Are there enough people who visit now that thesnack bar cold expect to make money? How about the number ofvisitors to the other similar palce -- what if that same number of peoplecame. How would the snack bar do then?f. Potential employees. You can't add facilities without adding people tostaff them. Are there enough people in the local community to fill thenew jobs that would be added? Do they have the right kind of educationand training to fill those jobs, or would the snack bar owner, or the newhotel owner, have to train people, or bring people in from otherlocations? Could the local school system provide the necessarytraining?You don't have to do all the calculations for the reader, but you need to do themyourself so that you know the reader will have enough information in the case todo them. For example, before you can decide whether a snack bar might be a

good idea, you have to estimate whether you could get more visitors --and howmany more. Can you match the number that go to the other similar place thathas facilities? Or is your location so much farther to travel that you don't thinkthat many more people would come. And just how many people have to use thesnack bar in order for the owner to get back his $25,000 investment and alsomake some profit to pay himself a salary? This kind of analysis is reallylooking at the question of what kind of business opportunities are there. Woulda souvenir shop be a good idea?


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Did you do this kind of analysis before writing? If not, then you will have to stopand think some more. Maybe you will need to find more information before youcan continue writing.g. Environmental Implications for Animal and Plant Life of Changes in theArea. Since you already know that more visitors will cause a change, an6

important factor to consider is what will be the impact on plants andanimals. Some places protect the plants by only letting visitors walk onspecial paths and visitors cannot pick any flowers or plants. Others sayvisitors can't feed the animals, or rules say visitors must hire a guide ifthey are going into certain areas. Whatever the situation, you need toconsider this question very carefully.Other sections of the case. Depending on the case you are researching andwriting, the sections of the case will need to be organized so that each type ofinformation is in its own section and understandable to the reader. You mightnot use all the sections described above, but certainly your case study will needto consider the business and economic implications of tourists for your area,and equally important, the implications for the plant and animal life. Tourismhas economic implications and environmental implications. Good planningmust take both into account.Conclusion. Your case will need a conclusion. Rather than putting in youranswer in the case, leave the reader with some more questions. For example,you might have learned that there is a government policy that says "No privateenterprise is allowed to change any part of the historic site." So you mightconclude with a paragraph like this:The mayor and tourism minister discussed with the case writers whetheror not it would be a good idea to prepare a plan for putting a snack barinside the old fort without changing the way the building looks. The plancould be used to show the government that a policy change to allowprivate enterprise would be a good idea. "Is there enough value inadding jobs in the village?" asked one of the case writers. Another said,"I think there is enough evidence that expansion would be the right thingto do." Still another case writer disagreed. What is your conclusion?By ending your case on a question like this, you let your readers discuss thesituation themselves. If you have written a good case, they will have enoughinformation to understand the situation and have a lively class discussion.The whole purpose of writing cases and sharing them with others is to shareexperience without all of us actually having to be in the same place. There is atrade-off between developing a place to make it more accessible to tourist so

local jobs can be created and on the other hand protecting the environmentfrom too many visitors. And this is a question that faces more than one country.But how the trade-off is resolved can vary from country to country. One country'ssolution might be useful for another country to know.7

Making Sure Your Case Can Be Used in Another CountrySince different countries have different languages and cultures, you need toprepare a Note for the Instructorgives additional background material that the


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teacher might need to know in order to help guide the student discussions.It is often interesting to record any changes that actually occurred after or whilethe case was being researched and written. Once students have learnedabout a situation, they find it is very interesting to learn more. But thisinformation should be separate from the case study so that it doesn't influence

the class discussions.If your case uses special terms, words, or refers to cultural customs thatpeople in another country might not recognize, information about them shouldbe put in the case (at the end in an appendix) or in the Note for the Instructor.

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