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Collective leadership
Money & Business

Collective leadership

...world history. The scene was set in Plato's Republic, which focused on the exceptional leader-- qualified, respected, and admired. And it's an approach that's continued to this day with companies using psychometric tests to recruit the most suitable individual to lead. But this individualistic approach has been described by Alvesson and Sveningsson as narrow and...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
What does an engineer look like?
Science, Maths & Technology

What does an engineer look like?

...world quickly and make judgements. Most of us been brought up in a white-dominant, hetero-normative, patriarchal society. We’ve been steeped in it since birth and it’s hardly surprising that we may all revert, however subconsciously, to ingrained societal norms. But we’re also all capable of understanding where these stereotypes come from, challenging them and...
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Meetings with a polite Opium Eater: Charles Knight on Thomas De Quincey
History & The Arts

Meetings with a polite Opium Eater: Charles Knight on Thomas De Quincey

...world, yet with a heart for mendship as warm as that of a schoolboy. De Quincey, vast as were his acquirements, intuitive as was his appreciation of character and the motives of human actions, unembarrassed as was his demeanour, pleasant and even mirthful his table-talk, was as helpless in every position of responsibility, as when he nightly paced "stony-hearted Oxford...
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The 'what now Wednesday' after the Super Tuesday before
Society, Politics & Law

The 'what now Wednesday' after the Super Tuesday before

...world to comment on the results and what they mean for the presidential race going forward. [Bumper sticker reading "IDK Not Trump Tho 2016"] A 'not Trump' bumper sticker What now for the Republicans? Bryan Cranston, Ph.D. Candidate in Politics and History, Swinburne University of Technology In 2015, political pundits universally agreed that Donald Trump could not win the...
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Percy Shelley: Polemicist
History & The Arts

Percy Shelley: Polemicist

...world by an 18 year old radical. First and foremost the young Shelley issues a pointed condemnation of the militaristic stance of the British establishment, along with stanzas that are vehemently anti-monarchist and implacably opposed to the abuses of wealth that were prevalent at the time: “Man must assert his native rights, must say; We take from Monarchs’ hand the...
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Florida just wants it over
Society, Politics & Law

Florida just wants it over

...World Series final between the Chicago Cubs and the Cleveland Indians, in which the former ended a 108-year losing streak. Early voting means that for millions of people, the election is already over: their votes are cast. They just want a result. Of course, there are still plenty of people making calls, putting up (and sometimes tearing down) yard signs, trying to...
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Can you predict the outcome of a Brexit deal with a little logic and a bit of arithmetic?
Science, Maths & Technology

Can you predict the outcome of a Brexit deal with a little logic and a bit of arithmetic?

...world where trade is underpinned by the mutual recognition of standards which are constantly and collectively updated, interpreted and litigated. Even if EU laws are copied into British law via the ‘great repeal bill’, that means little without the cooperation mechanisms which make them operative. You may say that your pharmaceutical product confirms to our safety...
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Do fictional characters shift perceptions of transgender people?
History & The Arts

Do fictional characters shift perceptions of transgender people?

...world of the story (what media scholars call “transportation”) and the emotions evoked by the storyline. We found that “Royal Pains” viewers who saw Anna’s story had more supportive attitudes toward transgender people and policies, and we found a cumulative effect of exposure to transgender entertainment narratives. The more portrayals viewers saw, the more...
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