Jimena de la Peza The Persuit of Happiness Review What is the pursuit of happiness? Which is the best way to achieve happiness? Jonathan Haidt gives an answer to these questions in his book “The Happiness Hypothesis” covering religious, psychological, philosophical, and scientific experiments and thoughts. He finds “modern truth in ancient wisdom” by connecting his research with the theories of important thinkers from the past like Plato, Buddha, and Freud, and he proves the importance of positive psychology no matter what year we live in. The purpose of this book is to teach and promote ways of achieving happiness by learning to control what he calls “the elephant” and dealing with the unconscious and emotional part of the brain.
REGENT UNIVERSITY The Understanding and Practice of ServantLeadership Servant Leadership Research Roundtable – August 2005 Larry C. Spears President & CEO The Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership The servant-leader is servant first. It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. The best test is: do those served grow as persons; do they, while being served, become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become servants? —Robert K. Greenleaf The mightiest of rivers are first fed by many small trickles of water, and an apt way of conveying my belief that the growing number of individuals and organizations practicing servant-leadership has increased from a trickle to a river.
Part l - The Set Up Get in the Habit • Gives some information about the author himself and why he wrote this book • Explains what the purposes of the 7 Habits are and what they mean • How the 7 Habits can help you through life • Paradigms and Principles • Starts off with a list of the Top 10 All-Time Stupid Quotes • It explains what a Paradigm is and Paradigms of Self • Explains what the Paradigms of Others is and Paradigms of Life • Explains what the meaning of Friend-Centered, Stuff-Centered, Boyfriend/Girlfriend-Centered, School-Centered, Parent-Centered , and Other Possible Centers are • Then it explains what Principle-Centered—The Real Thing is • After that it explains what Principles Never Fail is • Last but not least it explains A Word About Baby Steps Complete baby step # 3 • One limiting paradigm that I have of myself is that I don’t think I can give a physical presentation in public. What I did was that I volunteered at one of my sport practices to show an example of a position we had to learn. Complete baby step # 5 5. When I have nothing to do, I either go for a run, exercise, or walk my dogs to occupy my time and energy. Part ll – The Private Victory 3.
Chapter Fourteen: Transformational Leadership “The first requirement for … charismatic leadership is a common or shared vision for what the future could be.” - Berlow, 1974 Transformational Leadership • Transformational leaders use their personal values, vision, passion, and a commitment to a mission to energize and move others – Charismatic leaders by definition are transformational, but not all transformational leaders are charismatic McGraw-Hill/Irwin © 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Reading 39: Dimensions of Transformational Leadership: Conceptual and Empirical Extensions • The Nomological Network - Affective Commitment - Continuance Commitment - Role Breadth Self-efficacy - Interpersonal Helping Behavior - turnover Intentions McGraw-Hill/Irwin © 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Practical Implications • Managers can have a powerful positive effect on employees by expressing positive encouraging messages to their staff. • Intellectual stimulation was positively associated with affective attachment to the organization and attachment based on the recognition of costs or losses associated with leaving the organization. McGraw-Hill/Irwin © 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
(Meenakshi, 2012). In this essay I am going to explore and analyse personality trait theories, specific key examples and case studies of personality in practice, and the mechanisms of effective leadership; to formulate and finalise how personality traits influence leader emergence and performance. Early leadership theories and philosophies were formed on the basis that outstanding performance leaders differed in important ways from average people due to their unique extraordinary personalities (Humphrey, 2013). This is evident in early research by the historian Thomas Carlyle as he once stated “The history of the world was the biography of great men”, (Judge, 2002). In the ever-changing dynamic business world, Ford, Carnegie and Rockefeller, personified the industries they dominated, with Thomas Edison and Alexander Bell embodying the scientific entrepreneurial spirits; and the works of Florence Nightingale revolutionising health care and modern nursing.
analysis Truth, writing and national belonging in Romulus, My Father | by Brigitta Olubas | © all rights reserved | Raimond Gaita's acclaimed 1998 memoir of his father, Romulus, has recently returned to public consciousness with the release this year of the Richard Roxburgh film starring Eric Bana. In this essay I want to make use of this occasion of a revival of interest in Gaita's story to return to the memoir and to consider the ways it raises questions of truth in relation to the specifics of the lives it depicts in the context of the vexed and shifting terrain of national belonging. These questions were further rehearsed and explored by Gaita, in the years between the publication of the memoir and the release of the film, most pertinently for this discussion in his 2004 Quarterly Essay, "Breach of Trust: Truth, Morality and Politics", which explores the pressing question of political mendacity in the light of a larger consideration of the nature of human and national belonging, and I want to draw on this writing in my discussion of the memoir.1I begin by considering the ways memoir's foregrounding of the workings of memory (over, for instance, narrative) grant it a special propensity to open up the question of the temporality and the porousness of the self, to explore the question of the self in time and in relation to the other, and to consider the relation between these ideas and understandings of individual selfhood and those of community and national belonging. Central to these issues in Gaita's memoir is the relation between the parent and the child, a relation that by its nature is constituted in temporal terms, and one that in the end cannot accommodate a refusal of otherness. In these terms, Romulus, My Father foregrounds a foundational interimplication and interanimation at work in the self produced in and through memoir, a self that is spread
The Journal of Value Inquiry (2005) 39: 325–344 DOI: 10.1007/s10790-005-5451-3 C Springer 2007 Why Happiness is of Marginal Value in Ethical Decision-Making JAMES LISZKA Department Philosophy, University of Alaska Anchorage, 3211 Providence Dr., Anchorage, Alaska 99508, U.S.A.; e-mail: JamesLiszka@uaa.alaska.edu In the last few decades psychologists have gained a clearer picture of the notion of happiness and a more sophisticated account of its explanation. Their research has serious consequences for any ethic based on the maximization of happiness, especially John Stuart Mill’s classical eudaimonistic utilitarianism. In the most general terms, the research indicates that a congenital basis for homeostatic levels of happiness in populations, the hedonic treadmill effect, and other personality factors, contribute to maintain a satisfactory level of happiness over the long run for a large percentage of any population, and relatively independently of the circumstances of the population. Consequently, although there are certainly ethical reasons to address the conditions of persons and populations, it is of marginal value to base such decisions on improvements in their levels of happiness. The happiness of others is not a sensible criterion for ethical decision-making.
He married at the age of sixteen to Yasodhara, who gave birth to their son, Rahula. “Buddha’s answer to the problem of suffering was contained in his doctrine of the Four Noble Truths: (1) There is suffering; (2) suffering has specific and identifiable causes; (3) suffering can be ended; (4) the way to end suffering is through enlightened living as expressed in the Eightfold Path (Moore & Bruder, 2008).” Immanuel Kant is another great philosopher whose ideas have lived through the decades. Kant invented one of the most famous moral arguments for God’s existence. Kant criticized the ontological, teleological, and cosmological proofs of God and believed that God’s existence cannot be proved. However, Kant believed in God and assumed this was done by the rational, moral side of an individual.
Thunderbird's mission is "We educate global leaders who create sustainable prosperity worldwide." State your personal mission and how it is aligned with Thunderbird. Explain how you developed your personal mission, either from your own life experiences, or by the examples of others. (Limit 500 words) In a single sentence, my personal mission is to strive to eliminate the inequity in education in India. While basic literacy in India has surged in recent decades, opportunities for good education are still largely the realm of the Indian middle class.
English Language Teaching www.ccsenet.org/elt The Interpersonal Metafunction Analysis of Barack Obama's Victory Speech Ruijuan Ye Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou Guangdong, 510006 E-mail: leafnn@126.com Abstract This paper carries on a tentative interpersonal metafunction analysis of Barack Obama's Victory Speech from the Interpersonal Metafunction, which aims to help readers understand and evaluate the speech regarding its suitability, thus to provide some guidance for readers to make better speeches. This study has promising implications for speeches as follows: (1) Positive declarative clauses are recommended to convey information and convince the audiences with positive facts. (2) Modal verbal operators with high modal commitment can show the addresser’s firm determination to finish tasks and build up the addresser’s authority. (3) The frequent applications of “we” and “we”-“you”-“we” pattern help to create an intimate dialogic style, which can shorten the distance between the addresser and the audience and further persuade the audience to share the same proposal of the addresser. Keywords: Discourse Analysis, The Interpersonal Metafunction, Speech.