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Gung ho (/ ˈ ɡ ʌ ŋ ˈ h oʊ /) is an English term, with the current meaning of 'enthusiastic or energetic', especially overly so.It originated during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) from a Chinese term, 工合 (pinyin: gōnghé; lit. 'to work together'), short for Chinese Industrial Cooperatives (Chinese: 工業合作社; pinyin: Gōngyè Hézuòshè).
Tangled Webs shares this sense of tongue-in-cheek, self-mocking, gung-ho fun in a non-stop barrage of increasingly hostile situations hung extremely loosely around a sketchy plot. Liriel, the oddest Drow you ever met and Fyodor, her Beserker boyfriend, hex and hack their way through an overly long sea voyage from Skullport to Ruathym .
In 2015 the book was revised and released as The New One Minute Manager. [12] Leadership and the One Minute Manager: Increasing Effectiveness Through Situational Leadership® (1985) (in which he coined the term seagull manager) Raving Fans: A Revolutionary Approach to Customer Service (1993) Gung Ho! Turn On the People in Any Organization (1997)
Carlson adopted the phrase "gung ho" from Rewi Alley's Chinese Industrial Cooperatives. [3] Carlson often had leftwing political views, prompting General David M. Shoup to say of him, "He may be red, but he's not yellow." [4] When Carlson left China in 1938, he was commended by the commander in chief of the Asiatic Fleet for his services.
Gung Ho! (full title: Gung Ho!:The Story of Carlson's Makin Island Raiders) is a 1943 American war film directed by Ray Enright and starring Randolph Scott.The story is based somewhat on the real-life World War II Makin Island raid led by Lieutenant Colonel Evans Carlson's 2nd Marine Raider Battalion.
Ribbons of shame usually refers to a Japanese management practice of giving ribbons with criticisms to those employees who fail to meet the expectations of the management. [1]
Vol. 2: The Tao of Gung Fu — A Study in the Way of Chinese Martial Arts [2] Vol. 3: Jeet Kune Do — Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way [ 3 ] Vol. 4: The Art of Expressing the Human Body [ 4 ]
His secondary military specialty is firefighter. He is recruited into the G.I. Joe Team from his firefighting job, after he single-handedly put out an entire forest fire. When it is discovered that the "Mega-Monsters", a recently emerging threat, are vulnerable to fire, Blast-Off is assigned to the "Mega-Marine" team under the command of Gung-Ho.