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1 Mastering the Context Leaders have a significant role in creating the state of mind that is the society. They can serve as sym ...
The world’s hunger for leadership has been growing for years. There is no doubt that a charismatic new leader took the world sta ...
half-million popular votes. The election was decided, for the first time in American history, by the Supreme Court, leading to a ...
famine, or depression. The third of the scientist’s key prob- lems that could bring about the destruction of society is the qual ...
There are three basic reasons why leaders are important. First, they are responsible for the effectiveness of organiza- tions. T ...
brought against top executives at Tyco International, ImClone Systems, and Adelphia Communications. WorldCom, Global Crossing, a ...
Yale, apparently to gain in formation that would help it steal top applicants away from its rival. Scandal also touched governme ...
Everything’s in motion. Digital technology and international competition are altering the shape and thrust of American busi- nes ...
to keep market share in a growing field of rivals. Cable net- works such as HBO and Showtime produce much of the best original p ...
a trend that is likely to continue as the European Union begins to exercise its true collective clout. European nations will in- ...
The business world has undergone a series of sea changes in recent decades. Remember the futurist speculation that was all the r ...
the westernized world continues to shape global politics, and peace in the Middle East is as elusive as ever. As the late John G ...
by the mid–1970s, America had lost its edge. America lost its edge because it lost its way. We forgot what we were here for. The ...
But in the early 1920s, when Calvin Coolidge said, “The business of America is business,” hardly anyone disagreed. The idea of p ...
children won’t be able to afford college. Meanwhile, certain so- cial and environmental problems continue to haunt us. Poverty a ...
This, then, was the context, at least until the election in 2008 of a young president promising change and renewed hope. What th ...
described as “the societal disease of our time”—short-term thinking: “It’s asking what the poll is saying, not what’s great for ...
just as relevant today: “Corporate America may talk, on an in- tellectual level, about what it’ll take to succeed in the twenty- ...
limits or logic. Life on this turbulent, complex planet is no longer linear and sequential, one thing logically leading to an- o ...
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