...Digitised by COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA Copyright Act 1968 Notice for paragraph 135ZXA (a) of the Copyright Act 1968 WARNING This material has been reproduced and communicated to you by or on behalf of Monash University under Part VB of the Copyright Act 1968 (the Act). The material in this communication is subject to copyright under the Act. Any further reproduction or communication of this material by you may be the subject of copyright protection under the Act. Do not remove this notice. 13 11I11"11"1~"IIIII"III"~I""IIII~""II"11111 004113733 Metaphors of LeaderShip: An Overview ROBERT DUBIN I am not an expert on leadership. However, some knowledge of organizations and organizational behavior is claimed. It is from this perspective that I will engage in an over-view, not a re-view of the contents of this volume. One way to interpret an overview is to think of it as looking overliterally as looking beyond. It is in this sense that this overview is prepared. Initial Observations Two initial observations have struck me. 1) Leadership must ~urely mean followership. 12) Leadership is interestingto us because it occurs within organizations. Of clearly secondary importance for students of organizations is leadership expressed in informal groups, in natural groups, and in temporary groups. Yet, in this volume these simple points seem to slide by unnoticed and ignored to the peril of clarity in presenting and interpreting results. Another observation: 3) The...
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...with Sandra Bartky’s idea of a docile body and is further excluded from the supposedly supportive feminist community, and society in general, because of her disability as discussed by Garland-Thomson. Through this paper I will explain these feminist ideas of Bartky and Garland-Thomson and discuss how they are displayed throughout the three seasons of United States of Tara. United States of Tara was a three series television show broadcasted on ShowTime from 2009 to 2011. It displays the life of a woman named Tara and how her DID not only affects her life, but her husband’s, children’s, and sister’s lives. Tara has three main alters; Buck, T, and Alice. Buck is interesting in that he is a man in a woman’s body. He is the epitome of bad masculinity, but he is also Tara’s protector. When Tara feels taken advantage of or hurt, she transitions into Buck to deal with the pain. T is a sixteen-year-old rebel child whose promiscuity and outrageousness allow Tara to connect with her teenage daughter and have fun, even if it is not clean fun, such as drinking, smoking, and using Tara’s credit card. Alice is an old-time fifties housewife whose passions in life are to cook, clean, mother children, and please her husband. Alice appears when Tara feels overwhelmed by the struggles of parenthood and feels like she is not a good enough wife or mother. All through the series,...
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...together and tackle anything that gets in their way. Steinbeck uses nearly all of the characters in this novel to stress the importance of having a friend. The novel ironically starts off in Soledad, which means ‘Solitude’ but when translated into English it means lonely. George and Lennie are anything but lonely when they are together ‘guys like us, that work on ranches are the loneliest guys in the world… but not us, they aint got nothing to look ahead too. We got a future; we got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us’. They know that they always have each other’s back. They both care about each other, ‘because I got you to look after me George, and you got me’. Although George and Lennies friendship isn’t reciprocal, as George does far more for Lennie, they still stand by each other through right or wrong. Showing that through anything they take nothing more seriously than their friendship. ‘The incident in Weed’ where Lennie was accused of raping a girl, exemplifies the fact that Lennie did wrong but George is willing to look past it because their friendship is too strong. George and Lennies relationship is so rare because it is the only friendship in the novel, let alone true friendship. Nobody else on the ranch has a friendship like George and Lennie, which is why they are different and stand out from everyone else. For George and Lennie, as they make their way through the great depression, on the path to their dream, all they have is each other, and for them,...
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...Dr. Abdul Kalam's #Letter to Every Indian - Dated - 12/03/2014 Why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a Great NATION. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why? We are the first in milk production. We are number one in Remote sensing satellites. We are the second largest producer of wheat. We are the second largest producer of rice. Look at Dr. Sudarshan , he has transferred the tribal village into a self-sustaining, self-driving unit.. There are millions of such achievements but our media is only obsessed in the bad news and failures and disasters. I was in Tel Aviv once and I was reading the Israeli newspaper. It was the day after a lot of attacks and bombardments and deaths had taken place. The Hamas had struck. But the front page of the newspaper had the picture of a Jewish gentleman who in five years had transformed his desert into an orchid and a granary. It was this inspiring picture that everyone woke up to. The gory details of killings, bombardments, deaths, were inside in the newspaper, buried among other news. In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime. Why are we so NEGATIVE? Another question: Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? We want foreign T.Vs, We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported...
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...decision that Facebook.com is currently facing is with its long-term future and the negative effect of increased commercialization. Basically the issue is that the facebook company does not have such a great source of income from facebook.com. Therefore, the company’s future does not seem to stay stable and to overcome this issue the company is thinking about advertising on the facebook.com. The only issue with that is what if the Facebook member can not tolerate all these ads. In which, a bigger issue will rise if the members stop using facebook because then there will be no income at all! For example, some ways that facebook is getting income is by people buying gift credits, buying chip packages for poker, and some from advertising. Even though there is more, it does not fulfill the need to run the company since it takes tons of memory space to keep everyone’s information in. What factors are important in understanding this decision situation? The factors that are important in understanding the decision situation are extremely straight forward. The company needs to find a way to earn money in a manner that will not affect the users of facebook negatively. Basically saying that they need to get some advertising going on facebook.com for some income. However, the company must keep in mind that this does not affect the users. Another factor that is important is the privacy of each facebook member. Ethically all the client’s (members) information should be kept confidential. That...
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...tells you your right or wrong, and there is no doubt in your beliefs being false. On a morning just like any other, you take to your hunting trail. It is very common land and you can walk this with your eyes closed without running into vegetation. The birds whistle a common tune, and you can feel and understand what kind of mood they are in. It is quite, but you can still hear and comprehend so many things as the world talks to you. Movement catches your eye and suddenly a great whitetail bucks jumps across the ravine in a non challant manor chasing does. This buck is known in the tribe, and a kill would bring great spiritual power to the people. The buck pauses as he encounters a new scent, thus creating a opportunity to srike. The crisp red oak bow bends to a rate of optimal power, the arrow which took a day to create is perfection as it sits on the stand. The release is smooth and the feathers cut through the air speeding to the target. It is a clean kill, a sacrificed to be made that does not go un appreciative. The 180lb animal of dead weight promotes a challenge, being three miles away from the village, but no doubt haunts the mind. You begin your decent and happiness is the only feeling that emerges as one takes on the grueling task. You feel comfort in knowing the spirits are happy with you, and peace resides within. Upon entering the village cheers, dances, and celebration take place. It is a good day, and your...
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...Obviously, there were two parties that could be affected significantly by this embezzlement, Lee and Li and SANDISK Corporation. Besides, there were also some parties could be affected indirectly such as Lee and Li’s other clients, since this embezzlement will damage the reputation of Lee and Li, as a result they have reason to stop collaborating with Lee and Li and find another law firm. Moreover the shareholders of SANDISK Corporation and UMC could be another parties, because their share price might be drop once this embezzlement unveiled. Given the magnitude of the harm, only Lee and Li and SANDISK Corporation will be affected acutely in a long term. For Lee and Li, it is no doubt that this embezzlement will harm the firm’s reputation and make them start to lose clients more or less. Because people might see this embezzlement as a sign that there must be some problem in this law firm’s management and leadership. Consequently, the firm might go bankrupt even if they decide no paying SANDISK back. Similarly, this embezzlement will direct harm SANDISK assets and development in its Asian market, it will take SANDISK a lot of energy and time to recover. For other parties that will not be affected directly, their magnitude of the harm will be smaller and shorter compare to these two major parties. According to the three senior partners’ resume and the firm’s culture, it is reasonable to believe that their characters and experience will let them have ethical leadership behaviors...
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...White collar crime The phrase white collar crime was first used by Edwin Sutherland in 1939 during a speech to the American Sociological Society. He defined white collar crime as a "crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation."(Sutherland, “White-Collar Criminality."). Today, white collar crime refers to illegal offenses that are generally committed in the business or professional setting (white collar versus blue collar jobs) to achieve financial gain. Crimes that do not involve physical violence, and that relate largely to financial matters, are often called white collar crimes. Corporate corruption is out of control for two main reasons. First, big companies are now multinational, while governments remain national. Big companies are so financially powerful that governments are afraid to take them on. It is very important to study the cause and the possible solution for the increase in numbers of white collar crime; our focus needs to shift from Blue Collar Crimes to White Collar Crimes. U.S.A spends nearly $50 billion on fighting Blue Collar Crimes, not even quarter of that amount is spent on fighting White Collar Crimes. Hardly a day passes without a new story of malfeasance. Every Wall Street firm has paid significant fines during the past decade for phony accounting, insider trading, securities fraud, Ponzi schemes, or outright embezzlement by CEOs. A massive insider-trading ring is currently on trial in New York...
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...Dr. Abdul Kalam's Speech in Hyderabad Please read this article by giving 10 minutes from your busy life. Really good.... The President of India DR. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam 's Speech in Hyderabad . Why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse acknowledge them Why? We are the first in milk production. We are number one in Remote sensing satellites. We are the second largest producer of wheat. We are the second largest producer of rice. Look at Dr. Sudarshan, he has transferred the tribal village into a self-sustaining, self-driving unit. There are millions of such achievements but our media is only obsessed in the bad news and failures and disasters. I was in Tel Aviv once and I was reading the Israeli newspaper. It was the day after a lot of attacks and bombardments and deaths had taken place. The Hamas had struck. But the front page of the newspaper had the picture of a Jewish gentleman who in five years had transformed his desert into an orchid and a granary. It was this inspiring picture that everyone woke up to. The gory details of killings, bombardments, deaths, were inside in the newspaper, buried among other news. In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime. Why are we so NEGATIVE? Another question: Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? We want...
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...There is also another thing Columbus did that he does not take credit for, the slaughter of the Native American people. As soon as Columbus set foot on the land and saw the Native Americans he wanted to slaughter them, he eventually did so for filling his urge. As more and more settlers arrived they stole the land and continued to kill the Native Americans, now only a small fraction exist. Fast forwarding 400 years, sports teams started using Native Americans as mascots, supposedly to commemorate and remember the Native Americans. There are professional sports teams who...
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...Last Name 1 Student Name Mr. Patterson Acc. English III 24 May 2010 Barriers Influencing American Dreams Do obstacles in one’s life change one’s aspirations? If something hard or even Winston Patterson 5/17/10 9:49 PM Comment: TITLE SHOULD REFLECT OVERALL THEME OF ESSAYß Winston Patterson 5/17/10 9:35 PM Comment: Attention Getter unexpected occurs, does one turn his or her back on all that has been worked for? In an American society, there is an idea of a dream. Most people have dreams that differ from one another. Dreams are not limited only to society. Countless numbers of times in American literature, there are moments when an obstacle slows or possibly halts progression. Dreams can also be found in American literature; however, like the reality of society, barriers can be a component of having aspirations. Barriers create obstacles, whether emotional or physical, that make achieving a dream difficult or even appear to be impossible. In American literature dreams seem to be unattainable because of barriers. In all the years of literature, dreams, goals, and aspirations come in contact Winston Patterson 5/17/10 9:35 PM Comment: Broad Topic Winston Patterson 5/17/10 9:35 PM Comment: Narrow Topic Winston Patterson 5/17/10 9:36 PM Comment: Thesis Statement Winston Patterson 5/17/10 9:36 PM Comment: Clincher Sentence with a conflict. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby has a dream to be ...
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...which has resulted in people finding new ways to connect with friends, family and even strangers. Next to face to face contact, cell phones are the most common way that people choose to stay in touch with people and the world, but this uncontrollable need to avoid being disconnected has left many people paying obscene prices for their cell phone service every month. Despite these high, seemingly unreasonable costs that cell phone providers have decided to charge their customers, there are a number of things that people can do to avoid being broke and penniless after paying their bill. Here are five ways to reduce your monthly cell phone bill. Eliminate unnecessary services Just as people make unnecessary purchases at the grocery store or mall, they can do the same with their cell phone services. When looking for ways to reduce your bill, sit down and closely examine...
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...inevitably completely destroy marriage and the family unit, at some point in the future.(1) Our culture has changed; however, "traditional marriage" still has a place in the modern world, and is therefore not an outdated and archaic institution. If we look closely at those that believe otherwise, we will most likely find their choice to be founded on hurt, resulting from marriage, or a lack thereof. Indeed, “[the] CDC finds [that] more U.S. couples [are] living together instead of marrying” (Health Day, 2013); further, a cursory comparison between 2000 and 2013 statistics, gives the impression of an alarming trend toward cohabitation.(2) However, for the time being, the same statistics demonstrate that the majority of In the modern world, does "traditional marriage" still have a place, or are we seeing a fundamental change in our culture?either marry or break up; therefore, cohabitation is not (currently) intended (by the majority) to replace marriage. Although deceptively attractive, easy and convenient, in my opinion, cohabitation, is caused (at the root) by poor parenting, characterized by dysfunctional, unsupported and selfish parents that recycle and multiply unhappiness and an unfulfilled need for companionship, coupled with fear of commitment.(3) “Marriage is the most basic and fundamental part of our society, and as such it should be protected and honored. The biggest gift we can give our kids [as my parents have given my sister and I] is a solid marriage. Yet,...
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...101 Option Trading Secrets Also by Kenneth R. Trester The Complete Option Player The Option Player’s Advanced Guidebook Secrets to Stock Option Success 101 Option Trading Secrets K E N N E T H R. TRESTER Institute for Options Research, Inc. Lake Tahoe, Nevada Copyright © Kenneth R. Trester 2004 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission of the publisher. Printed in the United States. This publication is designed to provide accurate and authoritative information in regard to the subject matter covered. It is sold with the understanding that the publisher is not engaged in rendering legal, accounting, or other professional service. If legal advice or other expert assistance is required, the services of a competent professional person should be sought. From a Declaration of Principles jointly adopted by a Committee of the American Bar Association and a Committee of Publishers. We advise all readers that it should not be assumed that present or future recommendations will be profitable or equal the performance of previous recommendations. The reader should recognize that risk is involved in any option or security investment, and they should not assume that any formula, method, chart, theory or philosophy will result in profitable results or equal past performances. This...
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...Psychological Disorder Analysis Tammey Sweezer PSY/270 1 September 2013 Joan Rachmel Psychological Disorder Analysis Today we are going to meet Marla, a 42 year old, Hispanic, female. Her chief complaints are having trouble sleeping, feeling “jumpy all of the time”, and experiencing an inability to concentrate. Marla is an accountant, and these issues are causing problems at work for her. Hi Marla, How are you doing today? I am here, nothing to write home about. Thank you. Have you talked to your children lately? No, not for a while now, like they say got to have patience of Job. Why do you think that your children are acting this way? I could name a number of reasons, or blame their dad and stepmom. But to tell you the truth, I really do not know. I wish I did. I miss them and love them with all of my heart. I know that sooner or later they will come around and start talking to me again; and I will be here waiting for them. How is your sex life? *Laughing* Oh you are so funny. Am I supposed to have one of those? Is Frank still staying with you? Yes, but we are not doing anything. I do not trust him, so I do not see anything happening in the near future. I have been having some very vivid dreams, more like nightmares. Are you having nightmares because you do not trust Frank? No, I do not think so. Well, maybe I do not know. Danny used to cheat on my mom with anything that wore a skirt. I know this from firsthand experience. Are you okay? Do you need a Kleenex? Do you...
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