Leaders
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The delivery of an excellent product requires the organization and its leaders to access the most valid and reliable data. This data becomes the basis for decision making. The nature of health care means that for the…

Sir Ian Blair left the Metropolitan Police amid a great deal of scandal over the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes. De Menezes was not guilty of anything, but was mistaken for someone else and shot. Blair and others in the Met attempted to cover up what had happened, because they did not want to be charged with any kind of crime. Ultimately, however, the Met was found guilty and fined a considerable sum of money. Blair also left.

Locke defends toleration as a political good, arguing for a widespread general acceptance of different religious beliefs. His view of toleration does have some limits, and he states that an individual is in the state of…

Southwest fosters its organizational culture of "Luv" by ensuring that the spirit of love manifests itself in everything that the company does. Southwest sees treating its employees like family as a key starting point…

The three centuries that comprise the Ming Dynasty are not easy to describe in the course of twenty pages of text. However, the author of this chapter does a stellar job of conveying the essence of the Ming Dynasty via…

The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir has been described as an existentialist roman a clef, or fictionalized reality of the intellectual impact of the Vichy government upon the leftist elite of French society.

This article describes the authors' research findings on the 360 feedback process. They have discovered six critical factors, or best practices, to help leaders in organizations get the most from their investment in the…

The Epic of Gilgamesh and Virgil's Aeneas exemplify ancient epic poetry. Both works trace the psychological evolution of a semi-divine male hero who meets with immense personal trauma and hardship.

Philosophy could be defined as the highest level of true clarity and understanding human thought can aspire to. It would thus seem strange to compare the ideal philosophical kingdom of Plato's Republic with George…

Drug trafficking in Latin America is linked to many violent crimes including murder. Many people believe that were drugs that arrive from Latin America be legalized that the situation would be much easier to cope with…