Complacency
Essays

International Drug Trafficking number of drugs including cocaine, opiates, cannabis, and synthetic drugs such as MDMA (ecstasy) and methamphetamines are considered illegal in most parts of the world.

In the business world today, the focus has increasingly been on employee well-being. The reason for this is the changing view of the employee as a person with needs rather than only an automaton to complete a certain…

World is Flat: a Brief History of the Twenty-First Century, New York Times columnist discusses the impact that globalization has had on the world economy. However, Friedman does not discuss the increasing interlock of…

To gain from past experiences in real-world setting, this paper provides a review of the relevant peer-reviewed and scholarly literature to identify timely and salient lessons learned for emergency management professionals following the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. An analysis of the various lessons that were learned is followed by a summary of the research and important findings concerning these lesson learned in the conclusion.

My assumptions about leadership have changed over time. I used to believe that leadership was simply a matter of having strong motivational skills. That remains a part of the role, but as I have become more interested…

The current state of organizational behavior and change

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, many observers in the West were heard to lament the passing of the "good old days" of the Cold War when the enemy was clearly known and its geographic borders…

While change is inevitable in everyone's life, the reaction we choose to change is completely our own decision. The book, Who Moved My Cheese? By Spencer Johnson begins with a class reunion where friends discuss how…

Virtually all of Flannery O'Connor's short stories contain the receiving of grace by an unworthy protagonist at the tale's climatic moment. The hero of "Parker's Back" gets a Catholic, Byzantine tattoo of Christ on his…

This critical review examines Fritz Stern's book Dreams and Delusions: The Drama of German History. In this collection of essays, Stern attempts to provide a renewed sense of urgency to the study of history by pointing out the historical reasons for the rise of Nationalism Socialism. While he does not provide anything truly novel, he does restate an important message concerning the need to remember history and examine it critically so as to avoid the mistakes of the past.