Application Essay, Management Tipping Points (Essay Sample)

[student’s name]
[professor’s name]
[course]
[date]
The Importance of Tipping Point in Public Sector Risk Management
A tipping point is "that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire" ADDIN CSL_CITATION { "citationItems" : [ { "id" : "ITEM-1", "itemData" : { "author" : [ { "dropping-particle" : "", "family" : "Gladwell", "given" : "Malcolm", "non-dropping-particle" : "", "parse-names" : false, "suffix" : "" } ], "container-title" : "Gladwell.Com", "id" : "ITEM-1", "issued" : { "date-parts" : [ [ "2014" ] ] }, "title" : "The Tipping Point", "type" : "webpage" }, "uris" : [ "/documents/?uuid=9b8b50fa-2529-46c6-8610-653517e6489b" ] } ], "mendeley" : { "previouslyFormattedCitation" : "(Gladwell, \u201cThe Tipping Point\u201d)" }, "properties" : { "noteIndex" : 0 }, "schema" : "https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json" }(Gladwell, "The Tipping Point”). It is often likened to a health epidemic such as flu – it is contagious, can have little causes but have big effects, and it happens dramatically instead of gradually ADDIN CSL_CITATION { "citationItems" : [ { "id" : "ITEM-1", "itemData" : { "author" : [ { "dropping-particle" : "", "family" : "Gladwell", "given" : "Malcolm", "non-dropping-particle" : "", "parse-names" : false, "suffix" : "" } ], "id" : "ITEM-1", "issued" : { "date-parts" : [ [ "2000" ] ] }, "publisher" : "Oxford University Press", "publisher-place" : "Oxford", "title" : "The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference", "type" : "book" }, "locator" : "9", "uris" : [ "/documents/?uuid=3a8a4b3e-a148-49e6-8d3b-d13dce9558fe" ] } ], "mendeley" : { "previouslyFormattedCitation" : "(Gladwell, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference 9)" }, "properties" : { "noteIndex" : 0 }, "schema" : "https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json" }(Gladwell, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference 9). Malcolm Gladwell believes that there are three factors for change to happen: the Law of the Few, the Stickiness Factor, the Power of Context ADDIN CSL_CITATION { "citationItems" : [ { "id" : "ITEM-1", "itemData" : { "author" : [ { "dropping-particle" : "", "family" : "Gladwell", "given" : "Malcolm", "non-dropping-particle" : "", "parse-names" : false, "suffix" : "" } ], "id" : "ITEM-1", "issued" : { "date-parts" : [ [ "2000" ] ] }, "publisher" : "Oxford University Press", "publisher-place" : "Oxford", "title" : "The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference", "type" : "book" }, "locator" : "27", "uris" : [ "/documents/?uuid=3a8a4b3e-a148-49e6-8d3b-d13dce9558fe" ] } ], "mendeley" : { "previouslyFormattedCitation" : "(Gladwell, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference 27)" }, "properties" : { "noteIndex" : 0 }, "schema" : "https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json" }(Gladwell, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference 27). It could lead to a shift in consciousness of individuals, which could then affect the stability of well established institutions. In the case of the government, it can lead to the rise and fall of regimes.
Knowing the anatomy of tipping points is important because it helps governments to control the direction of change, which is really at the heart of public risk management. Tipping points are inevitable but unpredictable occurrences ADDIN CSL_CITATION { "citationItems" : [ { "id" : "ITEM-1", "itemData" : { "author" : [ { "dropping-particle" : "", "family" : "Nathan", "given" : "Andrew J.", "non-dropping-particle" : "", "parse-names" : false, "suffix" : "" } ], "container-title" : "Journal of Democracy", "id" : "ITEM-1", "issue" : "1", "issued" : { "date-parts" : [ [ "2013" ] ] }, "page" : "20-26", "title" : "China at the Tipping Point? Foreseeing the unforeseeable", "type" : "article-journal", "volume" : "24" }, "locator" : "20", "uris" : [ "/documents/?uuid=3b010d43-534c-4d1c-b85a-ac0111d97daa" ] } ], "mendeley" : { "previouslyFormattedCitation" : "(Nathan 20)" }, "properties" : { "noteIndex" : 0 }, "schema" : "https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json" }(Nathan 20); it has the potential to introduce new innovations that benefit citizens, or if it not managed properly, could lead a country to chaos. The danger of tipping points was aptly summarized by ADDIN CSL_CITATION { "citationItems" : [ { "id" : "ITEM-1", "itemData" : { "author" : [ { "dropping-particle" : "", "family" : "Chopra", "given" : "Deepak", "non-dropping-particle" : "", "parse-names" : false, "suffix" : "" } ], "container-title" : "San Francisco Chronicle", "id" : "ITEM-1", "issued" : { "date-parts" : [ [ "2011", "2", "14" ] ] }, "title" : "Is Egypt a tipping point or a \"Now what?\"", "type" : "article-newspaper" }, "uris" : [ "/documents/?uuid=68a8d841-3b50-4b1b-ae3f-4a10dcdd778c" ] } ], "mendeley" : { "manualFormatting" : "Deepak Chopra", "previouslyFormattedCitation" : "(Chopra)" }, "properties" : { "noteIndex" : 0 }, "schema" : "https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json" }Deepak Chopra in his article: Is Egypt a Tipping Point or a "Now What”?:
The day after a tipping point is always full of danger. Post-Soviet Russia lost an empire, witnessed the rise of mobsters and oligarchs, spun into widespread corruption, and eventually defaulted on the ruble. Freedom came at the price of unleashing forces that an authoritarian system had kept under control, or at least under wraps.
In the case of Egypt, the sudden change in consciousness of the "young, frustrated, internet-savvy generation" ADDIN CSL_CITATION { "citationItems" : [ { "id" : "ITEM-1", "itemData" : { "URL" : "/cerni020311.htm", "accessed" : { "date-parts" : [ [ "2014", "4", "30" ] ] }, "author" : [ { "dropping-particle" : "", "family" : "Cerni", "given" : "Paula", "non-dropping-particle" : "", "parse-names" : false, "suffix" : "" } ], "container-title" : "Countercurrents.Org", "id" : "ITEM-1", "issued" : { "date-parts" : [ [ "2011" ] ] }, "title" : "A Perfect Storm: Tipping Points, Critical Mass, And Dynamics Of The Egyptian Revolution", "type" : "webpage" }, "uris" : [ "/documents/?uuid=321b6287-2410-4359-9fc0-4d379e349146" ] } ], "mendeley" : { "previouslyFormattedCitation" : "(Cerni)" }, "properties" : { "noteIndex" : 0 }, "schema" : "https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json" }(Cerni) led to the downfall of a 30-year authoritarian regime. Everyone thought it was for the best. That was, until the Egypt military toppled its first democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsy and took over government leadership. Today, Egypt is once again in the international news because of the verdict of death imposed on 529 Muslims, supporters of Morsy, charged with the murder of a police officer and destruction of public property ADDIN CSL_CITATION { "citationItems" : [ { "id" : "ITEM-1", "itemData" : { "author" : [ { "dropping-particle" : "", "family" : "Cullinane", "given" : "Susannah", "non-dropping-particle" : "", "parse-names" : false, "suffix" : "" }, { "dropping-particle" : "", "family" : "Fahmy", "given" : "Heba", "non-dropping-particle" : "", "parse-names" : false, "suffix" : "" } ], "container-title" : "CNN", "id" : "ITEM-1", "issued" : { "date-parts" : [ [ "2014", "3", "25" ] ] }, "title" : "Hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood supporters face death sentence: Will Egypt carry it out?", "type" : "article-newspaper" }, "uris" : [ "/documents/?uuid=fdc22446-e230-415c-8ba9-6ded3ff43b98" ] } ], "mendeley" : { "previouslyFormattedCitation" : "(Cullinane and Fahmy)" }, "properties" : { "noteIndex" : 0 }, "schema" : "https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json" }(Cullinane and Fahmy). As new dissent arise in Egypt, everyone is asking, when will the Egyptian revolution end? How will the new military rulers manage the rising unrest of its people and the international community?
Meanwhile, one can contrast the occurrences in Egypt from the methods used by the Chinese Community Party in maintaining hold over its people. Unlike Egypt, China provided its people a venue for dissent which is harmless to government rule. "Everyone knows about ...