As a result, strategy is fragmented and often reflects the narrow interests
of powerful individuals, rather than the proactive pursuit of best opportunities available to the organization as a whole.
The magazine just published their 15th annual ranking
of powerful individuals, in consultation with an invited panel of writers, artists, curators and critics.
These are not portraits of victims but
of powerful individuals who have taken their destinies into their own hands.
Goofan (aka Apple Hater) Nation is an internationally syndicated association
of POWERFUL individuals with almost religious LOVE for Google and their management.
20th Century Chinese history is, as Lee points - out, the story of several hundred millions of people dragged from the middle ages to the 21st Century in the space of eighty years purely on the basis of the motives
of powerful individuals in a society where the citizen must fight for the right to individuality - and even this slim hope was denied under the Maoist regime and the Gang of Four.
They are certainly not partnerships, vulnerable to the whims
of powerful individual lawyers; they are businesses, whose employees (many of whom are lawyers, but not all) support a defined culture of expectations and performance and adhere strictly to systems and management designed to maximize productivity and minimize waste.
Not exact matches
If done correctly, this sort
of influence can be a
powerful way to connect to
individuals and grow faith in a brand.
A simple rundown
of the employee's
individual benefits and what they cost the business is very
powerful.
The book's purpose is twofold: to explain how notions
of leadership have changed in recent decades (with flat organizations, a more democratic world and
individual - empowering technology, leaders — surprise — are not as
powerful as they used to be), and to expose the faults — and propose some fixes — for her own industry.
Vestager, arguably the most
powerful official in the EU due to her
individual power to rule on competition cases across the 28 - nation bloc, makes no secret
of her reliance on others at times to provide the evidence that can justify her inquiries.
Fox: I've been debating with this fellow [Nigel] Farage, creator
of the Brexit and promoter
of the Brexit, about the nation - state, about a
powerful government that controls borders but also controls
individuals.
But sometimes the most
powerful dreams are those
of a single
individual, maybe
of an
individual like Bruce Foster.
Enormous wealth is what allowed Woody Johnson to spend his seven years
of college drinking and pulling pranks and still emerge as a
powerful, respected
individual.
Here are eight entrepreneurs (and an inspiring ninth
individual who helps these entrepreneurs grow into
powerful for - profit companies) making a fortune and giving a portion
of it back.
Offers a unique history
of US health care that has never been told in depth through analysis
of the centers
of national politics,
powerful interest groups, and even
individual insurance companies and physicians» offices
In summary, Mr. Cunningham believes the
powerful management principles
of the Berkshire companies will not only inspire
individuals, but will ensure business longevity and success into the future.
The program has now reached over 6,000
individuals of all levels, from first year collegiate players through veteran pro athletes, teaching athletes and entertainment professionals the
powerful message
of building a sound financial plan alongside a successful career.
LinkedIn Groups are one
of the most
powerful sections
of LinkedIn, which is part
of the reason you should rely on your
individual accounts more than your company account in the first place.
Jackson fixed index annuities offer a
powerful combination
of growth, protection, and flexibility to help you create a retirement plan that fits your
individual needs.
Both currencies Bitcoin and Ether are mined by a network
of powerful computers and
individual transactions are securely encrypted.
Nodes are run by
individuals or groups
of people who contribute money towards buying
powerful computer systems, known as mining rigs.
It has long been established in the disciplines
of the social sciences that
individual and team motivation to achieve a goal or set
of goals are
powerful drivers influencing choices and decisions.
But the positions
of these interest groups and
powerful individuals says nothing about the popularity
of this measure with what should be the most important constituency — the American people.
Far from a mere libertarian fairy tale or a simple Silicon Valley exercise in hype, Bitcoin offers a sweeping vista
of opportunity to reimagine how the financial system can and should work in the Internet era, and a catalyst to reshape that system in ways that are more
powerful for
individuals and businesses alike.
We know Sullivan does not really believe this, because his entire argument in favor
of legalized homosexual marriage hinges on the recognition that public law is the most
powerful tool for shaping
individual attitudes.
I know even some believers are offended by some
of the things I write, but to them I'll simply say this: the Word
of God is the most
powerful thing that exists - both the written word and the Living word; and it's time to start believing God and to take hold
of the ident.ity that He has given you and live and use that ident.ity Lance Wallnau calls it the «believers edge» which unfortunately only 8 %
of the body
of Christ ever gets into - that rare realm that
individuals mature to the place where they have the power to co-create with God and bring the future into the present.
In fact, Niebuhr taught that the egotism
of the
individual only becomes more
powerful when collected into a group, to the extent that an
individual's egotistical will - to - live takes on the more evil will - to - power, that is, coercion becomes the modus - operendi
of the group.
This
powerful offering
of redeeming love is constantly renewed and applied to us in our
individual needs every time Mass is celebrated.
The message that comes through Snow most clearly is the hostility
of the most
powerful elements in Turkish society to anything authentically Western, particularly the claims
of individual conscience.
And I see how through this restless, wavering mass there pass
powerful psychic currents made up
of souls who are carried away by a passion for art, for love, for science and the mastery
of the universe, for the autonomy
of the
individual, for the freedom
of mankind.
Without this underlying social factor, the emergence
of the Bible's later evaluation
of the
individual is not conceivable; with it the way was opened for
powerful forces to operate in shaking personality free from its complete incorporation in the group.
A process God who is associated with the total self - actualization
of all
individuals would be limited, benevolent and
powerful.
This intercessory prayer in itself has a
powerful influence in that it focuses the feeling
of divine attention on the
individual.
In fact, I think my church community is a
powerful collection
of unusually gifted, passionate, authentic, wise, unique
individuals who can change worlds.
It might be argued that the survival success
of a species which bases its immediate actions, especially those in which the survival
of its
individuals is at stake, on a particular experience constitutes a
powerful argument for the general reliability
of that experience.
The 2nd Amendment guaranteed
individual citizens the rights to own arms JUST AS GOOD as those
of the regular soldiers they might have to oppose in an armed rebellion — the very sort
of armed rebellion that the writers
of the 2nd Amendment had recently successfully engaged in, defeating the most
powerful military force on the planet using their own guns, which were JUST AS GOOD as what the British regulars and their Hessian mercenaries had.
Unlike the work
of bulldozers, which Berry calls «a
powerful generalizer» that works against the impulse «to take care
of things, to pay attention to the details,» «good work is always modestly scaled, for it can not ignore either the nature
of individual places or the differences between places, and it always involves a sort
of religious humility, for not everything is known.
But according to Senator Gavin Marshall, chairman
of the «Left federal parliamentary Labor Party caucus,» writing in The Age, Gillard's decision to allow a «conscience vote» on «gay marriage» is «not democratic,» because it «exposes
individual parliamentarians to
powerful conservative lobby groups» and the retrograde opinions
of those «stubbornly opposed to all social reforms.»
The reflections
of the French Catholic writer François Mauriac, who succeeded in leading a conventional family life despite what he experienced as the
powerful lure
of alcohol, drugs, and homosexuality, demonstrate the gap between the austere piety
of the religious
individual and the tactful lifestyle that Tóibín detects in James:
Powerful interest groups in many places, especially large cities, are often antagonistic to the traditional religious values
of family, sexual self - control, objective morality, and
individual responsibility.
It issues in the
powerful urge to inquire into the nature and the cause
of the wealth
of nations» nations, not
individuals; all nations, not just one nation.
The intuition that I, with my conscious experience, am an actual
individual with the power
of self - determination, to make decisions and to cause my body to do my bidding, is reconciled with the equally strong sense that my body is real, and that it exerts
powerful causation upon me, in terms
of the speculative hypothesis that all actual occasions are occasions
of experience, so that interaction
of body and mind is not the unintelligible interaction
of unlikes (the unintelligibility
of which has led philosophers to deny the distinct actuality either
of the mind or
of the body).
The idea that society could be based on a mere coagulation
of individual interests, that the pursuit
of private vice could result in public virtue, was a radically new idea in the 17th and 18th centuries and one that did not sit well with other still
powerful traditions.
Man's will to profit and to be
powerful are impulses which can be given direction by I - Thou in the life
of the
individual and
of the community.
Economics should be just one part
of the good life; instead,
powerful economic forces now create pressures on
individuals and families to pursue material gain at the expense
of other important human ends.
By the time
of the Buddha, little remained
of the once important and
powerful Vedic gods who had again and again interfered in the life
of the
individual.
We're a culture that loves to carry on about innovation, progress and the «promise
of the future,» but doesn't seem to grasp the
powerful role hope plays in the lives
of individuals.
Their solution was to arm the
individual with certain inalienable guarantees, contained in the Bill
of Rights, and to disarm the government by constructing a system
of checks and balances to ensure that none
of the three branches — and in particular the executive — became all -
powerful.
Apparently, being
powerful enough to create the entire Universe and its billions
of galaxies, and being at least 13,700,000,000 years (age
of Universe) does not stop him having purely human emotions over the behaviour
of an
individual human on one
of «his» planets.
That is, while institutions are more
powerful than
individuals, exerting greater social force, their looser and intersubjective structures lend themselves to manipulation
of that social force by
individuals.