The E-Myth

EXCUTIVE SUMMARY A phenomenal best seller and a critically acclaimed book, Michael E. Gerber’s The E-Myth Revisited tells the story of a small business that is at a crossroads as what to do. Owned by a lady named Sarah, the business is all about pies. Sarah finds help through the narrator’s attempt to make her understand why her business is falling apart. The narrator explains the reasons and tells her what she can do about it. There are two key elements of this explained help. One is that Sarah needs to understand what is going on inside her, and then seek an understanding of what is going on ...

Sin Taxes

The government can increase its revenues through the use of taxation. However, the government has to argue out on which taxes to increase in order to increase its revenues; increasing taxes of basic commodities would be unethical since this would affect a vast population. On the other hand, increasing taxes on services and products seen as vices in society such as tobacco and alcohol would only affect a few individuals. The government has to decide whether to increase the tax on tobacco and alcohol. In this assignment, I will discuss that the society can mitigate tobacco and alcohol consumptio ...

Meal Substitutes

Meat and Meat substitutes: Women especially in their middle age and older who include lots of red meat in their daily diet are at higher risk of diabetes. According to a research done by Dr. Simin Liu of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston found a close association between red meat and the risk of type 2 diabetes, the insulin independent diabetes. The research result concluded that women who had consumed red meat were 28 percent more susceptible to diabetes. These include meat, poultry, eggs, and fish, etc. It is always better for diabetics to avoid these products and eat very less amount on ...

Pre-Colonial Islam

A number of reasons had contributed to the spread of Islam in Eastern Sudan during the pre-colonial period. The term ‘Eastern Sudan’ was used a long time ago to describe what is currently known as Republic of Sudan. This term existed until Sudan gained independence from the British colonialists. Islam had spread to Eastern Sudan because several factors compelled Arab conquerors from Egypt to shift to the regions, situated to the south of Aswan. The paper will study the role of trade and migration in the process of Eastern Sudan Islamization. The position of Islam and Muslims in the area will b ...

The Southern States

We will look at the first two amendments; 13th and 15th also known as reconstruction amendments as they were adopted after the civil war and they were intended to restructure the US and guarantee blessings to the whole male populace. We will also examine the 19th amendment that recognizes women’s right to vote who the other two above amendments are silent about. How and why they were proposed. The 13th amendment abolished slavery. Between the 18th and 19th centuries, slavery was an institution in the US whereby the Southern States relied on slaves to boost their agricultural economies by tend ...

Marketing Plan

Miami Metro Pediatrics is a clinic based in Miami. Pediatric care is an essential service that touches lives of many children, infants and adolescents in Miami Florida at significant and susceptible times. This involves illness, death and birth. In recent times, pharmaceuticals, technology and know-how have considerably improved how pediatric care is delivered and the prospects for recovery. Miami Metro Pediatrics Partners is involved in the provision of quality and comprehensive health care for infants, children and adolescents of up to 16 years of age. Its main services to the people living ...

Managing Outsourcing

The process of globalization influences employment, technological leadership and U.S. security. In the U.S, Outsourcing is a central element of globalization, best understood as a new form of competition. Understanding the economic basis of outsourcing can assist policy makers to focus on enhancing competitiveness and to establish new rules that is crucial in governing the nature of global competition. According to Grossman and Helpman (2004) the process of globalization refers to the tendency of transferring investment funds or businesses and national markets to move across border. In develo ...

Marketing Concepts

Political factors are one of the most powerful drivers of income in the hotel industry. Political changes affect the tourism arrivals all over the world, and the political instability is one of the major causes of hotel bankruptcy (Mennen 2007). Due to the fact that Sheraton is a popular hotel brand worldwide, it is unlikely that the whole chain would be affected if political forces will change the situation in several countries. Even warfare would still not result in major changes in hotel demand for Sheraton properties. However, economic factors are much stronger as they affect the purchasi ...

Cricket E-Zine

There are various channels that can be pursued in regard to the possible launching of the Cricket E-Zine. It is important to note that there are various factors that need to be considered in order to ascertain the viability of launching a Cricket E-Zine. With this in mind, one of the options that could be pursued would be to continue publishing the cricket magazine and yet fail to launch the Cricket E-Zine. A second option that could be pursued involves publishing both the cricket magazine and Cricket E-Zine concurrently. Finally, the third choice could focus on launching the Cricket E-Zine bu ...

Competitive Advantage

Almost all businesses face stiff competition for them to be sustained in the business. Therefore, when a business is more advantaged over the rest it is more competitive and it controls a larger market share hence being more competitive. For the business to attain such high competitive advantage it needs to strategize. Therefore, there is need to manage such achievement with what is refereed to as management of competitive advantages which will entail; protecting its Intellectual Property (IP), copyrights, cost competitiveness, promotion of the business, image enhancement, innovativeness, cont ...