Consequence of charismatic leadership Max Weber a sociologist defines charismatic as “resting on devotion to the exceptional sanctity‚ heroism or exemplary character of an individual person‚ and of the normative patterns or order revealed or ordained by him”. Another theory of charismatic leadership was proposed by Conger and Kanungo (1987) based on the assumption that charisma is an attributional phenomenon. However a refined version of the theory was presented by Conger(1989) and by Conger and
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The Consequences of Our Actions What if I told you that everyone in the world is connected? Or if the actions of a man in Iowa could affect the life of a woman living in California? According to Martin Luther King‚ Jr.‚ “ We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality‚ tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly‚ affects all indirectly.” In other words‚ a single action of one person has the power to affect hundreds‚ thousands‚ or even millions of people. Different authors
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various tragedies of war. In the case of Billy Pilgrim‚ he decides to make a fantasy world inhabited by the Tralfamadorians. This helps him create a more enjoyable experience while a prisoner of war. Fantasies of the Tralfamadorians help Billy work out and make sense of the traumatic war experiences he encountered. Billy has the ability to re-write the events of war in his fantasy that are more appealing to him. In the novel Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut‚ Billy copes with the guilt of war by adopting
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Moneyball is the story of a dynamic change agent who rallied a small group of undervalued professional baseball players and executives to overturn convention and rethink how Major League Baseball (“MLB”) was managed and played. In 2002‚ Billy Beane‚ General Manager of the Oakland Athletics (“Oakland A’s”)‚ faced a critical situation—his baseball team was consistently losing the battle for talent. The best players were being lured to wealthier teams with more lucrative contracts. Constrained by a
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Timothy Cho 02/04/13 Professor Close English 102 G2 Elliot Ness: Hero or Great Story Teller? In Elliot Ness’ memoir The Untouchables‚ the author personally narrates the story of how the name “Untouchables” came to be. After being released from prison‚ Al Capone was starting trouble again in the streets of Chicago. Capone tries to bribe the police officers trying to take down his operation but Ness and his team refused the bribes. Being proud of this accomplishment Ness immediately goes
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?The Consequences of Being Smart The good and bad sides of intellect and knowledge have baffled people for centuries. From the beginning of time‚ man has struggled to draw the line between knowledge and science‚ and religion‚ and have fought countless battles over it. However‚ this is no one-sided matter. The benefits and consequences of intelligence and knowledge are determined only by how it is being used. In the novel Frankenstein‚ or the Modern Prometheus‚ this conflict of interests tore and
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Tradition is existing knowledge. A tradition is a group of related ideas that have lasted for a long time. In some cases people have spent that time trying to improve the ideas. We’ll call that a dynamic tradition because it changes over time. In other cases‚ the focus has been on keeping the tradition exactly the same over time. We’ll call that a static tradition because it does not change. Although these approaches are contradictory‚ some traditions are mixed. Dynamic traditions are important
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are made right or wrong based solely on their consequences. This means that a person would look to the consequences of a certain action to determine whether or not that action is right or wrong. A ‘right’ action would be one that leads to the best results where as a ‘wrong’ action would be one with less than ideal consequences. According to this basic theory‚ one would always choose the ‘right’ action because it leads to the most favorable consequences. Though this theory can sound appealing‚ I do
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He was only a little African boy that had just moved to Australia recently with his family due to the fact that his mother was a doctor and wanted to study higher medicine although it was a tradition in their culture that if you married a man you were required to move to where the man lives. so this little boys new step dad lived in Australia. He had been looking forward to going to Australia because he had never been to such a place. He was very keen on seeing all the kangaroos hooping up and down
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sacrificed their life. Billy Budd‚ Sailor‚ by Herman Melville‚ contains one hero named Billy Budd‚ the "angel of God" (1906). Claggart and Captain Vere contain some of the heroic characteristics‚ still Billy is the singe character that obtains all of the traits of a hero‚ and therefore is the most qualified to fill that position. While Melville strains to put some heroic attributions within each character of the story‚ Billy is the most prominent of all who are mentioned. Thus‚ Billy Budd is the one
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