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

Author: I. Mitroff

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-02-14

Total Pages: 123

ISBN-13: 1137412054

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 Legacy of Desegregation

Author: R. Maples

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-03-21

Total Pages: 145

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 Reflective Practitioner in Professional Education

Author: L. Lawrence-Wilkes

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-04-01

Total Pages: 84

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.

The Indian Law Legacy of Thurgood Marshall

Author: F. Knowles

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-03-28

Total Pages: 84

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.

Contemporary Capacity-Building in Educational Contexts

Author: Patrick Alan Danaher

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-02-26

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 1137374578

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Education is generally supposed to help learners to develop new capacities and to be able to apply them in work and life - yet we still know very little about how to build useful capacities. This book investigates nine research projects, exploring why particular capacities are successful in some situations but not in others.

Membership in Service Clubs

Author: Divya Wodon

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-04-04

Total Pages: 167

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?

Author: E. Webb

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-04-11

Total Pages: 112

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.

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).

Toward a Metatheory of Economic Bubbles: Socio-Political and Cultural Perspectives

Author: N. Dholakia

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-02-24

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 1137361794

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Historically, bubbles have been understood primarily in financial-economic terms. In this exciting new work, Dholakia and Turcan argue that bubbles are also a socio-political and cultural phenomena, with intense and accelerating interactions of engineered hype and feverish expectations.

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.