Leader? The guide Best Practices for Tobacco Control Programs has among the best practices there is opportunity to glean what effective leadership looks like from an outcome perspective. For example, on page 64, the following tasks are identified as success factors: • Strategic planning • Recruiting and developing talent • Coordinating program implementation • Developing a fiscal management system • Coordinating across programs • Educating public These are all important functions, illustrating that leadership needs to do

.. The superior man is broad and fair; the inferior man takes sides and is petty... A superior man shapes the good in man; he does not shape the bad in him. It is said that a disciple once asked Confucius to define the conduct of one's entire life with a single word. The Chinese philosopher replied: "Is not reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself

GOOD VS. EVIL AND CATHY'S ROLE When you come across a fictional character that possesses true evil attributes and has not got a single good bone in his/her body, you are likely to respond in one of the two ways. That is, you would either reject the character terming it too monstrous to be believable or you would view it as a literary device used by the author to highlight his

Bad Ideas The past few decades have literally burst at the seams with the amount of knowledge available to most of the world. This, of course, has been through telecommunications and the Internet. While these cultural changes have certainly changed the way information is both available and delivered, there are some challenges to that information that require a change in approaching the ideas put forth. Namely, the vetting of said

.....leadership traits and scores as ascertained and scored using the Northouse LEAD structure and its associated guidelines. The scores that will be summarized and described in here will include leadership and leadership styles, overall strengths and weaknesses, emotional intelligence, dealing with conflict and tension, power and interactions, motivation of others, team development/enforcing of ground rules, developing creativity, team effectiveness, what has been learned and so forth. Each individual scoring realm,

Thus, there are many types of idea generation tactics that can help workers and managers come up with innovative ideas for their businesses. I think the process of idea generation can be difficult, but I also think that these methods make it easier. The methods I have chosen to focus on in this paper are free association, forced relationships, and brainwriting. All of these ideas have both positive and negative