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Machiavelli's vision of the new pragmatic prince

In the Prince, Machiavelli offers a guide for effective, pragmatic leadership. Rebelling against the lofty and religious ideal of a ruler who exhibits compassion, Machiavelli advocates a far more ruthless and utilitarian approach to leadership.

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Regime type, strategic interaction, and diversionary use of force

In the journal article of Ross Miller entitled, "Regime type, strategic interaction and the diversionary use of force," the author illustrated, through a comparative analysis of two regime types, how diversionary theory takes place under a democratic and autocratic leadership.

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Organizational misalignment at a faith-based hospital

The problems of the organization can be summarized in a few statements. The first of these is that the organization does not seem to believe any longer in the promises that it was set up with.

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Hospital staffing policies and employment growth in health care

Hospitals are in the clubs quadrant of the staffing policies matrix. Hospitals are in this sector because careers are slow-moving. This means that the focus is not on constant promotion.

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Management failures in hospital organizational structure and operations

The second problem is due to the large differences that exist among the members of the Board and as a result the CEO is not finding it possible to control these differences.

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Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and the definition of cult movements

In 1982 Ingrid D. wrote home to her mother, "I have joined a wonderful group of spiritually minded people and am living in an ashram.

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Five forms of power in employee empowerment and team effectiveness

Empowerment means giving the employees power of managerial process and permitting them to be self-supporting of the leader. Five forms of power can be used to inspire employees by empowering them. This facilitates them to move from one level of development to higher levels of development.

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Jesus's example of humility and service in John 13:1-17

John 13: 1-17 is presented in allegorical prose; the passage reads like an excerpt out of a story. There are no noticeable differences between the NIV or NASB versions of the passage.

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Essential skills for information technology project managers

Which skills do you think are most important for an information technology project manager? Can a project manager learn all of these skills, or are some innate?

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Planning the Bay Area APALSA Conference as external VP

One of my experiences where teamwork had been an important factor to achieve success was when my teammates and I, all of us hailed as representatives from different law schools, have to plan a conference, called Bay Area APALSA Conference participated by 9 law schools in the bay area.

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