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Journal of My Life (French: Journal de ma vie) is an autobiography by Jacques-Louis Ménétra, an eighteenth-century master glazier in Paris.Begun in 1764, when Ménétra returned from a journeyman's tour of the French provinces, Ménétra's text intersperses accounts of his life on the road and in Paris with tall tales, braggadocio, jokes, and accounts of his seductions and pranks.
In other words, the student's intelligence is not reliant on the master's, but the master's will strengthens the student's will, the student's self-confidence, to learn independently. "To emancipate an ignorant person, one must be, and one need only be, emancipated oneself, that is to say, conscious of the true power of the human mind" (15).
Elliott Jaques (January 18, 1917 – March 8, 2003) was a Canadian psychoanalyst, social scientist and management consultant known as the originator of concepts such as corporate culture, midlife crisis, fair pay, maturation curves, time span of discretion (level of work) [1] and requisite organization, as a total system of managerial organization.
“Every choice gives you a chance to pave your own road. Keep moving. Full speed ahead.” — Oprah Winfrey “Leadership means that a group, large or small, is willing to entrust authority to a ...
Requisite organization (RO) is a term and methodology developed by Elliott Jaques and Kathryn Cason as a result of the research in stratified systems theory, general theory of bureaucracy, work complexity and human capability over 60 years.
The results indicated a hierarchy of leadership styles and related subcomponents. Transformational Leadership characteristics were the most effective; in the following order of effectiveness from most to least: productive-inspiration, intellectual stimulation, and individual consideration.
The winner of the Conservative leadership contest will be announced on Saturday, following months of speeches, debates and gaffes. Here are some of the key quotes from the leadership campaign.
Jack Welch, who started out as an engineer at General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), and rose to be one of the most influential CEOs in modern business, has died.Welch was appointed GE chairman and ...