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  2. Alasdair A. K. White - Wikipedia

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    Alasdair Antony Kenneth White (born May 24, 1952) is a British management theorist best known for his work on performance management from a behavioural perspective and in the field of deconcentrated and networked organizations. Along with John Fairhurst, White developed the White-Fairhurst Performance Hypothesis relating to the performance life ...

  3. Peter Drucker - Wikipedia

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    Peter Ferdinand Drucker (/ ˈ d r ʌ k ər /; German:; November 19, 1909 – November 11, 2005) was an Austrian American management consultant, educator, and author, whose writings contributed to the philosophical and practical foundations of modern management theory.

  4. Self-handicapping - Wikipedia

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    The second way that people self-handicap is by coming up with justifications for their potential failures, so that if they do not succeed in the task, they can point to their excuses as the reasons for their failures. This is known as claimed self-handicapping, in which the individual merely states that an obstacle to performance exists ...

  5. J. L. Austin - Wikipedia

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    Note that rhemes are a sub-class of phemes, which in turn are a sub-class of phones. One cannot perform a rheme without also performing a pheme and a phone. The performance of these three acts is the performance of a locution—it is the act of saying something. John has therefore performed a locutionary act. He has also done at least two other ...

  6. Unessential Listening - Wikipedia

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    The Happy Country & Western Song; Bad Management Fads; The First Ever Radio Prank; Andy's Deposit; Disc two. Save The Pandas; Hottest 100 Ads; John Bucknell Trio; Shops Closing; Security Guards; Faker Song; Horgs' Thoughts; Shooting Cannons in Afghanistan; Love Songs And Dedications; Blast From The Past: Andy Is A Lord; Moosie's Affair; Dentist ...

  7. Lyric poetry - Wikipedia

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    A bhajan or kirtan is a Hindu devotional song. Bhajans are often simple songs in lyrical language expressing emotions of love for the Divine. Notable authors include Kabir, Surdas, and Tulsidas. Chinese Sanqu poetry was a Chinese poetic genre popular from the 12th-century Jin Dynasty through to the early Ming.

  8. Jar of Flies - Wikipedia

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    Jar of Flies is the third studio EP by American rock band Alice in Chains.It was released on January 25, 1994, by Columbia Records.The band's second acoustic EP, after 1992's Sap, it was the first acoustic EP in music history to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, with the first week sales exceeding 141,000 copies in the United States.

  9. Carly Simon - Wikipedia

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    Carly Elisabeth Simon (born June 25, 1943) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and author. She rose to fame in the 1970s with a string of hit records; her 13 Top 40 U.S. hits include "Anticipation" (No. 13), "The Right Thing to Do" (No. 17), "Haven't Got Time for the Pain" (No. 14), "You Belong to Me" (No. 6), "Coming Around Again" (No. 18), and her four Gold-certified singles "You're ...