Frederick W. Smith graduated in 1965 from Ivy League Yale University. During his time at Yale, the young Smith wrote an important document about routing systems that were used by aerial consignors when transporting packages, cargo, and documents. He came to the conclusion that the systems were economically inadequate at the time. Smith wanted to create a system in which packages and other cargo were effectively delivered at guaranteed times and organize the shipments by priority. He realized…
Ted Kaczynski Ted Kaczynski was a pro-nature terrorist using extreme methods to spread his message to the masses. His methods involved a series of bombings spanning almost two decades, his main goal was to spread his message, which he eventually did with a book he wrote called “Industrial Society and Its Future.” Seventeen years and fifty million dollars later, the FBI found Ted Kaczynski in a shed with live letter bombs, journals, homemade guns, and abandoned car parts he used to make bombs…
seventh largest airline in the United States based on passenger traffic. The airline carries more passengers between Alaska and the lower 48 states than any other airline (Alaska Airlines, 2016). The impressive, young fleet of aircraft includes 150 Boeing 737 aircraft and 52 Bombardier Q400 owned aircraft. The airline has also committed to expanding its fleet to 159 by the end of 2017. There are six commemorative aircraft in the fleet and four Disneyland designed aircraft that pay tribute to the…
Introduction A company needs to improve continuously to grow and many organizations strive to better themselves to gain an edge in the market. Although many companies try to improve continuously, they fail to achieve their motive because they are not committed to learning. When there is no significant learning in the company, they tend to repeat the old practices and the change in improvements are temporary or short-lived. In order to grow as a company, one needs to build a Learning…
The time is nearly two a.m. on this early Thanksgiving morning and I have some pretty hard-core breaking news from Portland’s KGW Station. They were informed late yesterday night that there was a hijacker on board Boeing 727 with a bomb! Yea, a flipping guy hijacked the flipping plane, the dude demanded 200 Gs. Do you guys know what I could do with that amount of ends?’ the guy paused and begun laughing ‘Anyway the dude ended up jumping out of the back of the plane…