It is the fact that the fund contributed by the United Nations helped many people improve their living conditions but it did not solve the problems fundamentally. Arc and social enterprises are organizations that also assist to solve social problems but they are different from United Nations.

Even though the United Nations donated fund to help poor people, it just solved the problems in a short-term. People need other social organizations, such as Arc or social enterprise, to help them understand how to change themselves for getting better quality of lives. The goals of the United Nations and either Arc or social enterprise are not the same.

Social Enterprises tackle intractable social issues in the world and we can find them in all sorts of system, whether nonprofit or for-profit companies. Compared with the United Nations, social enterprise aims at eliminating all social problems and transforming the world. Social entrepreneurs use inspirational ways to encourage those people who need help and find opportunities to create social value. They focus on the final results of their actions, look forward to improving the whole social system and bring strongly positive impact in the world.

In addition, different from the United Nations, who just offered financial supports to poor individuals, Arc Initiative works toward creating various programs that build business management and leadership capacity in different areas, including South Africa and Ethiopia. Arc Initiative set up many workshop in developing countries and teach participants the most popular business skills, tools and strategies. With the help of Arc Initiative, people living in developing countries can get business education, including how to manage your money, how to run on a business and how to employ staff, and are able to assess to the business world. Arc Initiative not only provides chances for people to strengthen their business knowledge, but also  help them build better futures.

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After read the article regarding the new seat plan created by Westjet, I agree with phoebe’s opinion. As an international student who will always need to travel by plane for a long distance, the important factors that I select airline are safety and comfort level. Therefore, I will choose an airline with higher reputation and large legroom.
According to the new plan of Westjet, it will change their seats into newer and thinner seats, which suggests that the total quantity of seats will increase. Actually, it is reasonable for company to make this decision. Due to the fact that when seats become smaller, there will be extra spaces left that allows Westjet to set up additional seats inside the cabin. As a result, with the increasing amount of available seats, more individuals can get the tickets. Finally, the revenue of selling tickets will exceed the costs of installing new seats so the company will definitely earning more profits. This logical reasoning seems right for a profit maximizing company; however, for passengers, it totally makes no sense. As I mentioned before, most passengers have the same idea with me. They hope their seats have a lot of space, contributing to reducing fatigue for the trip. Thus, when the seats become thinner in Westjet planes, passengers may change into other airlines because Westjet can not satisfy their needs any more.
Consequently, I agree with phoebe’s point of view on the seat changing plan of Westjet. Although this plan may help the company gain more profit in short-period, in long-term, company fails to promote customer retention
so the total profits will decline again.

Links http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/westjet-floats-idea-of-thinner-seats-and-more-of-them-1.2824709
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As one of the biggest supermarkets in the world, Tesco is facing financial problems right now. According to the news, the company found that profits have been overstated and at the same time,shopping habits  were changed, which caused the decreasing of demand.  To solve these problems, there are five suggestions that experts offered to Tesco.

All five suggestions are really useful for the company because they all mention basic problems that Tesco has right now and give some good advices to solve them directly. Although these suggestions are different, they all have a same idea: it is important for Tesco to change its marketing strategy and to expand its targeted customers. For example, in the first and third suggestion, which are revamp out-of-town superstores and increase national prices, both experts believe that Tesco should expand its markets and also customer segmentations. I think this suggestion is really useful because the competitions in the industry is intense. Many discounters and convenience stores sell the same products in lower price and as a result, many customers are willing to buy items in these stores instead of supermarkets. Therefore, Tesco has to divide its customer segmentations into two main groups. The first one is people who want to buy bulk of goods in supermarkets and another one is a group that consists of customers who look for buying lower-priced food. Only in this way can Tesco reduce buyer power and attract more consumers.

Other recommendations target to other areas, in the last advice about restoring the trust of shareholders. The expert mainly focuses on management aspect and encourages the company to satisfy shareholders for making sure that these investors won’t distrust the company.

Sources from http://www.bbc.com/news/business-29627479

In the blog, Jackie Huba shares some important ideas, which she got from Lady Gaga. During the interview, Gaga talked about how she has been treated by the media when her first two albums released and because of her special style, many critics could not accept her songs and created negative comments. However, Lady Gaga did not give up. She said that she regarded her own music as art and wrote music for her fans, who enjoyed her songs, instead of those critics. This is also the advice that Gaga offered to Jackie Huba. “Keep unleashing your creativity on the world. Some things will appeal and some won’t. Stay true to your passion and don’t give up. It will be the legacy of your work that you will be able to look back on.” I find this blog is really interesting not only because I am also a fan of Lady Gaga, but also because Jackie applied Lady Gaga’s advice in a real business world.
From what Jackie wrote, I understood that businesspeople should create different ideas and fight for making them become true. Often, when someone disagrees and offers opposite view toward your idea or plan, most people will start to self-doubt and hesitate to continue following through. As a result, they will give up their own ideas and follow others’ plans. In fact, the decision of giving up should not be existed in businesspeople’s minds. When they create a new idea or plan, they should believe in their passions and keep on realizing plans. Therefore, this blog is useful for me because it teaches what should a businesspeople need to do if he or she wants to become successful.

source from http://jackiehuba.com/2014/08/i-met-lady-gaga-and-heres-her-advice-for-you.html

There are so many leaders who lack of ability to manage their staff. They actually have no ideas about how to manage a company and how to set up relationship with their employees. In fact, it’s not their faults to be ignorance on leading team because some of the workers are promoted into leaders by their extraordinary accomplishments; however, being a good manager asks individual has enough knowledge about management instead of their original specific skills, which means that they have to change their way to do things in order to adapt to the new job. This is not an easy work to do. Managers have to alter their minds and always experience tough problems. For example, from the news, the author mentions that the “accomplishment defines differently,” and leaders’ job satisfactions “become more vicarious and intangible.” As a good leader, one should understand clearly about his or her responsibility — encourages members to finish work efficiently and praise their accomplishments at the same time. Actually, managers’ satisfactions come from seeing their employees “grow and develop” that leads to the success of the whole company rather than their own achievements.
This idea is definitely right. The responsibility of a leader and an employee is totally different. Employee just needs to develop a specific skill and finish own part of work as good as possible. Leaders have to figure out solutions for many long-term issues and develop ways to improve the total ability of staff. They should remember that the resources they have is their workers and the best way to solve problems of relationship is communication.

Source Link: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/careers/leadership-lab/why-are-so-many-managers-useless-as-leaders/article20864299/