epub |eng | 2016-01-18 | Author:Robert M Gates

Evaluating subordinates in business has its own pitfalls, and judging intangible qualities such as people skills can be as fraught with difficulty as in the public sector. But many jobs ...

epub, mobi |eng | 1996-01-01 | Author:Matthew Spalding & Patrick J. Garrity & Daniel J. Boorstin [Spalding, Matthew & Garrity, Patrick J. & Boorstin, Daniel J.]

Mather’s work became a survey of diseases. One of the proposals for its printing called it “An Essay upon the Common Maladies of Mankind: offering, first, The Sentiments of Piety, ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-07-28 | Author:Grint, Keith [Grint, Keith]

So what kinds of characters do leaders seem to be now? Kaplan’s analysis suggests an even more stereotyped model – CEOs are not just THWM but also archetypal alpha-males: aggressive, ...

epub | | 1974-08-31 | Author:Robert Nozick [Nozick, Robert]

b) There is no system S such that SB—Sw < UB - Uw, and UW SW ≤ (UB—UW) (SB - SW). (Notice b) comes to: There is no system S ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-10 | Author:Kantor, Jodi [Kantor, Jodi]

PERHAPS THE STRANGEST THING ABOUT the relationship between the president, the first lady, and the advisers was the sheer expansion it measured in the Obama union. That was the singular ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-12-11 | Author:Delia Davin

Chapter 5 The Great Leap Forward and its aftershocks Mao’s impatience with the pace of economic growth in China was increased by his second and final visit to the Soviet ...

epub |eng | 2015-08-24 | Author:Anthony Seldon

TWENTY-FOUR Warfare Over Welfare May 2010–December 2014 ‘We will all need to hold our nerve,’ Welfare Secretary Iain Duncan Smith tells Cameron early in the New Year. ‘Everything is happening ...

epub |eng | 2015-08-23 | Author:Pond Eyley, Claudia; Salmon, Dan & Dan Salmon

CHAPTER 11 Media relations Politicians are fair game, and Helen Clark was the subject of more than her share of satire, including even a semi-affectionate play, On the Conditions and ...

epub |eng | 2015-10-04 | Author:Michael Ashcroft & Isabel Oakeshott [Ashcroft, Michael & Oakeshott, Isabel]

239 Osborne later denied that it was. 240 Janan Ganesh, p. 174. 241 Private information. 242 Ibid. 243 Tim Bale, p. 335. 244 Daily Mail, 29 August 2007. 245 Private ...

epub |eng | | Author:Arkady Ostrovsky

NTV seized on Chechnya several months before the war actually started. ‘Starting from June, there was hardly an Itogi programme that did not mention Chechnya,’ Kiselev recalled.19 In September, NTV’s ...

azw3 |eng | 2015-10-12 | Author:Arnn, Dr. Larry [Arnn, Dr. Larry]

10 THE CONSTITUTIONALIST Churchill wrote that a Municipal Trust would be more dangerous than the Beef Trust. Something must be done, he thought, for the victims of the Beef Trust ...

epub |eng | 2010-09-27 | Author:Hattersley [Hattersley]

CHAPTER 24 THE PATRIOT Politicians who want to avoid war have always taken refuge in wishful thinking. Speaking at the Mansion House banquet on 17 July 1914 - three weeks ...

epub |eng | 2006-06-21 | Author:Robert Scheer

In his view, it was war, as he stated back in 1951: “The Russians sent their first team, their ace string, here to take us over … We were up ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2011-01-07 | Author:John J. Mearsheimer [Mearsheimer, John J.]

WHEN STRATEGIC COVER-UPS ARE LIKELY Stipulating when strategic cover-ups are more or less likely is somewhat complicated because this kind of deception involves two kinds of behavior—hiding incompetence and masking ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Peter Schweizer [Schweizer, Peter]

The cluster of donors and advisers to the Clintons who rely on warlords and corrupt dictators is not confined to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, or Sudan. It extends ...