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Organizational failures and communication breakdown in the Falklands War

A sequence of national political and economic reorganizations and institutional realignments that culminated in systemic leadership failures during the Falklands Island conflict ultimately persuaded the Galtieri Junta to relinquish power in 1983.

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Multidimensional scaling in marketing research and applications

The next section compares MDS with factor analysis and cluster analysis. The third section identifies actual applications of MDS in the marketing research literature and the last section is devoted to a hypothetical situation in which MDS is used in a snack food market.

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Alfred Adler's birth order theory and personality development

It is ironic to consider that Austria would be the seat of so much ignorance and hatred leading into the start of World War II. Indeed, for many years prior, this would be a fertile context for intellectual achievement.

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Verbal threats and physical violence: linguistic and psychological patterns

Legal systems such as those used in the United States and Europe make a clear distinction in criminal law between what people say and what people do.

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Hermeneutical analysis of psychotherapy as a cultural artifact using metabletics

The world and the events that are contained therein are not static; everyone would acknowledge this as fact. A simple reading of history would say that this is so. Also, due to evolutionary variability, living things (animals and plants) have changed over the course of world history.

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Carl Jung's theory of archetypes and the collective unconscious

Carl Gustav Jung was born July 26, 1875 in Switzerland, where he lived for the entirety of his life.

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Apuleius's Golden ass and post-Jungian psychotherapy for masculine integration

Jungian psychologists, and those who have followed them and constitute the much more loosely defined group of post-Jungian psychologists, have long found a rich source for clinical interventions in the realm of myth and fairy tale.

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Workplace communication effectiveness through Holland's personality theory

Different personality types, in combination with the typical stresses of a workplace, make effective communication an essential skill to develop. Yu (2010, p.

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Ontological and axiological assumptions in Levinson's developmental stage model

The ontological basis of Levinson's model is fundamentally a social constructivist model because he focuses on the ability (and even the necessity) that individuals have to make meaningful their own experiences.

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William Glasser's choice theory and language of control

This book is about choice theory, developed by William Glasser. Brief History of the Theorist; training and background information.

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