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1. Early Life and Family

               For those who are not familiar with the individual standing before you today, I am the eldest daughter of the deceased. Plenty of things can be said about my dad but one thing that stands out was his love for his family and friends. My father was born on the 22^nd of February 1970 at St Mary’s hospital. He was the son to Harry Williams and Lorna Williams. He was the first-born child in a family of four children. Of the four siblings, he had a heart of gold as one rainy afternoon on his way home from school; he came home in the company of puppy with a sprained leg muscle and offered to care for it until it was fully recovered and later adopted the puppy. His love for nature was unparalleled and he would mostly engage in tree planting activities and other environmental conservation activities. For his efforts in environmental conservation, he was awarded The Eagle Scout Award at a local festival in 1982.

   Education

    He attended junior school at Beverly Hills and later moved to Langley falls for his high school studies. After high school, he enrolled at the University of Wisconsin where he studies theatre and creative arts for his bachelor’s degree and later for his doctorate at the same institution where he graduated in 1995 to join the film industry. While working as an intern, he met Caroline Brianne whom he married in 1999. Together they had their first child the following year and have been together until the time of his demise. In his early days, he showed great interest in soccer. He played for his high school as a goal keeper and captain. In his final year in high school he led his team to several victories and honors. Under his leadership, his team managed to qualify for the national high school championships held Boston and emerged runners up in the tournament. He was awarded the golden glove as the best goal keeper in the tournament and eventually signed for the Major League Soccer side Los Angeles Football club where he played and won several honors until his retirement from professional sport in 2005.

   Work

               He moved to Los Angeles, California where he worked with Hollywood as an actor from 1996 to 2016. In 2003, he was shortlisted for the prestigious Oscars awards for his pivotal role in a film depicting America’s struggle for independence from the British. He was twice awarded the Independent Spirit Awards while working for Hollywood.  In 2016, he later moved to New York where he signed a ten year contract with the film giant HBO that would see him feature in films till 2026. In 2017 he was decorated with the highly coveted Saturn Award for his role as a director with the HBO under the category of Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films.

   Sickness and Death

   Early March 2020, he started developing respiratory complications. He was diagnosed and treated for Pneumonia at a local clinic. He discharged from the clinic and continued to receive home based care while still attending to his career which he loved with all his heart. In July of the same year, his condition deteriorated but his strong will and passion for his work still had him going to the office to attend to his career. On the 10^th day of September 2020, he breathed his last at the wee hours of the morning while lying next to the love of his life Caroline in his home in New York.

    

    

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Assessing Risk and Reward

The Nissan Motor Company is one of the leading automobile makers in the world. The Japanese carmaker has primarily enjoyed a successful run, allowing it to enter various regional and international markets such as the United States. However, the changing business environment was not favorable to the company in 2019. Notably, the cooperation recorded losses amounting to 7.8%. The experience pushed the management into making tough decisions, requiring almost all of its North American workforce to go for unpaid leaves.

In late 2019, the company announced that the decline in sales necessitated a two-day unpaid leave for the North American workers. The stated days for the vacation were January 2 and 3^rd    (Chicago Tribune, 2019).  Notably, this move was a crucial decision for the company because of its conflicting impacts. Whereas on the positive side, it could help the firm minimize expenses, it threatened to affect the public perception of the company regarding employee welfare.

The rewards for the decision involved cutting expenses by not paying the workers on leave, which eventually would translate into reduced expenses. Another reward was that the decision could allow the company to optimize performance by evaluating employee performances then developing new milestones. However, on the low side, the company risked affecting its public image and brand name, especially in the North American market. As per Chakravorti (2010), the way an organization treats its employees influences the firm’s public perception. Thus, Nissan risked eliciting a negative public perception. With a distorted public image, the company could fail to revive its declining sales.

I would have advised the management of Nissan to utilize the Predictive Analytic perspective in determining the right decision to take. Ideally, the approach tries to predict what might happen in the future if particular decisions or actions are undertaken at the moment (Traymbak & Aggarwal, 2019). Looking at the situation at Nissan, the company needed to develop a goal such as increasing sales. After that, they would have made decisions aimed at realizing the set goal. In this regard, the predicted outcome could give the management an overview of whether more risks existed or significant rewards could be realized.

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