NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE DETERMINANTS OF NATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS Mercedes Delgado Christian Ketels Michael E. Porter Scott Stern Working Paper 18249 http://www.nber.org/papers/w18249 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge‚ MA 02138 July 2012 The authors would like to acknowledge invaluable guidance from Antonio Ciccone‚ and essential data analysis by Rich Bryden. Albert Bravo-Biosca‚ Aart Kraay and Giuseppe Iarossi offered very helpful suggestions
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The ability to know‚ identify and solve group problems. Leadership to me means being competent‚ hardworking and compassionate‚ but alongside this are some extra work of a leader and that is to be able to know when there is problem‚ how to identify the problem and how to solve the problem (keep in mind that to solve a problem has to be permanent‚ and not
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Describe the personal characteristics that enable leaders to be effective • Leadership Definition Diverse people look to the terms management and leadership in diverse way. Some use them for the same meaning and see them as synonyms. While others see leadership is extremely different from management and are opposite because they believe that cannot be a good manager and good leader at the same time. The third part of people or individuals hold the stick from the middle and realize that there
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can have. When semester started I receive hour for helping my neighbor rank there yard every two weeks. Then‚ I receive more hours by helping the civitan at the ball party. Also‚ I helped my grandma and aunt with their illness because they health issue with their body. In 10th grade I became part of drama club and we did play off of high school musical. I became a part NASA and AISES in 10th grade the reason was so I learn more about my Indian culture and history but with AISES I love science so
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The Pentagon’s definition of strategic intelligence: Intelligence that is required for the formulation of strategy‚ policy‚ and military plans and operations at national and theater levels. From World War II until the end of the Vietnam War‚ the CIA and NSA were meeting their missions of providing strategic intelligence. The U2 program was the most famous project that both agencies used to great effect. The program showed the true state of Russia’s Air Force and provided strategic intelligence
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NSA: National Security or National Stalkers? In 2010‚ it became legal for the National Security Agency (NSA) to access private email logs‚ social media accounts and other internet databases (Risen & Poitras‚ "N.S.A. Gathers Data on Social Connections of U.S. Citizens). Risen and Poitras (2013) explain that the intention of this change was to help protect the United States (U.S.) from future terrorist attacks and was for the general purpose of national safety. It is unclear how many terrorist attacks
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OBJECTIVE Leadership can be defined as the ability to influence‚ motivate and enable other people to contribute toward the effectiveness and success of the organization. The main objectives to make this report is to apply and relate the public figure leadership style with this subject. From what I learn there are 4 leadership style in path goal model: directive‚ supportive‚ participative and achievement oriented. There are related to the employees and the situation occur. According to the founder
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Leadership This essay will analyze the topic of transformational leadership. The development of the transformational leadership theory will be illustrated in the beginning. Then‚ it will put emphasis on what kinds of behaviors good transformational leaders should have‚ and how they motivate their followers. At last‚ it is worth talking about the issue that why might someone resist following a transformational leader. This essay will demonstrate and clarify the discussion of transformational leadership
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Relevant facts According to an article in the November 2nd‚ 2012 issue of the Jamaica Observer‚ entitled “Marksman fires security guards involved in Utech beating” A male student was reportedly caught on campus in “a compromising position” with another male student in a bathroom. Incensed fellow students are said to have pursued the pair‚ one of whom escaped‚ while the other sought refuge in the guard room at the entrance of the Papine campus where he was attacked by the apparently homophobic
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policy and financial support for nonprofit culture in the United States. The goal of this study was to assist us in bringing new and useful information to the policy debate about the contributions and needs of the cultural sector at the national‚ state‚ and local levels. The study was inspired in part by a pair of landmark reports on the performing arts
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