IT IS EASY TO FEEL ambivalent about Nigeria. In my experience, the people are outgoing, warm, and welcoming. They exude confidence and pride. For scholars and other friends of Africa who sometimes feel compelled to combat misguided stereotypes that the continent and its people are helpless and hopeless, nothing could serve as a stronger counter than witnessing ambitious, vibrant, and entre…
To create a variety of high-quality skill-development exercises, which build lead- ership skills that can be used in students’ personal and professional life. • To offer behavior-modeling leadership skills training. • To make available a video package, including 7 Behavior Model Videos and 12 Video Cases. • To suggest self-assessment materials that are well integrated and illustr…
The first version of this book was written 15 years ago, in 2006 (in Dutch). Since then, a lot has changed when it comes to the development and applica- tion of research methods in Public Administration and Public Management. The academic rigour of research has increased through the application of systematic analysis, with both quantitative data – see for example the rise of experimen…
Communication in Everyday Life: The Basic Course Edition With Public Speaking has been written to provide students with a new kind of introduction to the central issues and topics of communication. Accordingly, it can serve as the course textbook for general education courses in communication, as the course textbook for survey courses taken by communication majors, and as a resource for anyo…
Pancasila bagi bangsa Indonesia merupakan falsafah bangsa dan pandangan hidup. Syarbaini (2009) menjelaskan bahwa nilai- nilai Pancasila adalah falsafah hidup atau pandangan hidup yang berkembang dalam sosial-budaya Indonesia. Nilai Pancasila dianggap nilai dasar dan puncak atau sari budaya bangsa. Oleh karena itu, nilai ini diyakini sebagai jiwa dan kepribadian bangsa. Dengan mendasar…
The Handbook is designed primarily to be used by groups with a facilitator. The facilitator will take you through the sessions and will help to organize activities and assess your progress. Your facilitator may even organize additional materials, activities and discussions. However, it is also possible for groups or individuals without a facilitator to work through the Handbook. You and your…
This research has been supported by grants from the government of Den- mark, the government of France, the government of Japan, and the gov- ernment of Singapore. Our gratitude goes first to the companies that agreed to be inter- viewed. Major contributions to the case studies were made by Mr. Jacques Car- bou, Ms. Kris Day, Mr. Takaji Hishiyama, Professor Iwao Taka, Dr. Eric Teo, …
The job of a leader is to give others a sense of purpose and self-worth. This is impossible to do with any conviction if you don’t understand your own strengths and weaknesses, or if you are uncertain about the direction in which you want to take your professional and personal life. Improving self-awareness is an essential part of growing into a more effective leader and becoming alert t…
In a 2003 issue of Medical Humanities, Stephen Pattison outlined his vision for the medical humanities as a field of study that: [W]ould prize diversity of forms . . . It should aspire to be a “broad church” of many languages and kinds of performance and analysis, in which bridges are built and conversations occur that reveal things to participants that they could not have learned with…
During several past years countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia have introduced important anti-corruption reforms. However, corruption remains high in the region. This report identifies progress achieved in the region as well as remaining challenges which require further action by countries. The report analyses three broad areas of anti-corruption work, including anti-corruption pol…