Everybody’s Business: Reclaiming True Management Skills in Business Higher Education
Everybody’s Business: Reclaiming True Management Skills in Business Higher Education

Author: I. Mitroff

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-02-14

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13: 1137412054

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Everybody's Business is a succinct analysis of the factors that led to the founding of American business schools and why they are the way they are. Mitroff, Alpaslan, and O'Connor consider why current business schools do not give students the knowledge and the tools they need to deal with today's complex, messy problems and systems.

The Reflective Practitioner in Professional Education
The Reflective Practitioner in Professional Education

Author: L. Lawrence-Wilkes

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-04-01

Total Pages: 95

ISBN-13: 1137399597

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How important is it to be a reflective practitioner in education today? This book examines the reflective practitioner role and the scope of reflective activities in professional practice, revealing that critical thinking is rooted in a philosophical debate about notions of truth linked to differing learning approaches.

Leveraging Legacies from Sports Mega-Events
Leveraging Legacies from Sports Mega-Events

Author: J. Grix

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-04-17

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 1137371188

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This volume offers a panoramic and interdisciplinary view of the growing field of Sports Mega-Event studies. Contributions explore leveraging strategies and the legacies from previous sports megas (London, Seoul, Sydney, Vancouver) and recent and future 'emerging' states and their hosting strategies (India, China, Qatar, Russia, Brazil).

Membership in Service Clubs
Membership in Service Clubs

Author: Divya Wodon

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-04-04

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 1137444754

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Membership in Service Clubs provides the first rigorous assessment of the activities of Rotary, a global service organization founded in 1905 that implements projects and helps build goodwill and peace throughout the world.

Media in Egypt and Tunisia: From Control to Transition?
Media in Egypt and Tunisia: From Control to Transition?

Author: E. Webb

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-04-11

Total Pages: 123

ISBN-13: 1137409967

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This book examines the mass media systems of Egypt and Tunisia under the pre-uprising regimes, with a focus on the last decade of the Mubarak and Ben Ali periods, as well as on how media are adapting to the political transitions underway. Findings are based on extensive interviews with journalists.

The Psychodynamics of Enlightened Leadership
The Psychodynamics of Enlightened Leadership

Author: Ian I. Mitroff

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-06-10

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13: 303071764X

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This open access book provides a comprehensive look at the pluses and minuses of leadership in times of an unparalleled crisis, such as the COVID-19 global pandemic. It examines the COVID-19 crisis in terms of psychodynamics, crisis management, and especially from the standpoint of complex, messy systems. It analyses how leaders need to think and act differently to cope better with—and potentially prevent—future crises.

The Fall of Global Socialism
The Fall of Global Socialism

Author: D. Jayatilleka

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-04-20

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 1137395478

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This radical new perspective from the Global South casts a fresh light on a major aspect of contemporary history and in doing so suggests an alternative interpretation of twentieth century revolutions, Socialism, left thinking and radical politics.

Justice and Responsibility—Sensitive Egalitarianism
Justice and Responsibility—Sensitive Egalitarianism

Author: R. Robinson

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-04-03

Total Pages: 113

ISBN-13: 1137381248

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This text explores the place to locate the cut between those inequalities for which it is fair to hold one responsible, and those for which it is not. The argument traces a thread of intellectual history, identifying a rejection of strong property rights which we inherit from Locke, and find in contemporary defenders of entitlements such as Nozick.

The Legacy of Desegregation
The Legacy of Desegregation

Author: R. Maples

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-03-21

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 1137437995

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The book analyzes the struggle of African Americans to gain access and equity in higher education in the United States. It chronicles some of the history prior to court ordered segregation and traces the mandate to desegregate by following the Adams v. Richardson (1973) case, which ordered the dismantling of dual systems of higher education.

The Indian Law Legacy of Thurgood Marshall
The Indian Law Legacy of Thurgood Marshall

Author: F. Knowles

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-03-28

Total Pages: 131

ISBN-13: 1137433396

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The book tracks the development of Justice Thurgood Marshall's rationale and reason regarding Indian law. Drawing from Marshall's career preceding his appointment to the Supreme Court, it is anticipated that Marshall's views In Indian law would be consistent with his previous role as a champion of the disenfranchised in America.