"In this culmination of five decades of acclaimed studies in presidential history, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin offers an illuminating exploration into the early development, growth, and exercise of leadership. Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the man make the times or do the times make the man? In Leadership in Turbulent Times, Goodwin draws upon...

Almost everyone has faced the frustrating task of negotiating with government-local, state, national, or foreign-at some point in their lives. Whether they are applying for a building permit from their local zoning board, trying to sell software to the U.S. Defense Department, looking for approval for a merger, or planning to set up a business in Limerick or Bangalore, businesspeople confront a unique set of challenges when dealing with any form of...

A powerful guide to the art of leadership from former White House advisor to four presidents, CNN analyst, and founder of the Harvard Center for Public Leadership - David Gergen.

This volume represents the first section of F. A. Hayek's comprehensive three-part study of the relations between law and liberty. Rules and Order constructs the framework necessary for a critical analysis of prevailing theories of justice and of the conditions which a constitution securing personal liberty would have to satisfy.

2064 details a 50-year strategic plan to establish Islamic Shari'ah (divine legal framework) under the leadership of a rightly guided global Caliph (head of state). Non-Islamic desires that are predominant in the world's secular societies have led to social, economic, and moral degradation. 2064 provides a strategic framework to reverse troubling socio-economic trends from an Islamic perspective. The 2064 strategy is not covert nor does it violate...

South Korea has, been one of the great success stories of postwar economic development, rising from one of the poorest nations on earth in the 1960s to become the world's eleventh-largest economy by 1996. But, Korea's model of economic development began to unravel in 1987. When the authoritarian rule, that helped propel, economic performance gave way to increasing public pressure for democracy, the Korean economy was, confronted with fundamental transformations....

El trabajo es algo fundamental en la vida de las personas y quienes para su fortuna lo tienen les permite lograr un determinado estilo de vida. Los individuos que integran la fuerza laboral, pueden encontrar en el trabajo respaldo económico, pero al mismo tiempo una fuente de motivación o desmotivación, de satisfacción o insatisfacción y de felicidad o infelicidad laboral.Mientras que el desempleo por su parte genera sentimientos de fracaso,...

An Ad-valorem levy has been placed on your property tax bill. You may or may not have heard of a Business Improvement District, but you are now a rate-payer for a public-private partnership. How do you participate? What are they about? This textbook will prepare you and your group so that you can effectively participate.

In this study, author Jayson Reeves examines the role that monopolies and market-controlling businesses play in the United States, considering the good, bad, and more complex aspects involved. Drawing on his experiences as a former partner in a civil engineering firm, he takes a birds-eye view of the key people, businesses, and regulatory agencies that have played major roles in government and industry. Unlike some other writers, he doesnt overlook...

The Book of Answers contains complete answers, expert advice and guidance for questions, situations or life events that a federal employees or retirees experience, leading this publication to be appropriately nicknamed, "The What If Book." What if? - it's a question we have heard time and again from our readers who simply don't know what effect a change in status (marriage, divorce, illness, outside work, leaving government, etc.) will have on their...