The Office: How to Succeed in Business without Really Trampling....
"Servant leadership" is a philosophy based on empathy rather than power plays. Guess what? It can be good for the bottom line.
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Jonathan V. Last is a staff writer at The Weekly Standard.
Articles by Jonathan V. Last
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What Law & Order Taught Us
The magnificent warhorse of a series ended Monday night. Jonathan V. Last lists the lessons viewers can take away from one of TV's longest-running shows.
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The More, the Wiser?
Is the crowd really smarter than the lonely genius? It depends ...
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The More, the Wiser?
Is the crowd really smarter than the lonely genius? It depends ...
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The Good Soldier
How does West Point teach cadets to risk life and limb on the battlefield? Purely physical courage is not enough.
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The Limits of the Purpose-Driven Life: Can Twenty Million Readers Be Wrong?
Purposefulness is a crucial, if often unexplored, virtue. Both individuals and society require a sense of purpose if life is to involve more than, in the one case, taking one step after another on a treadmill and, on the other, standing for something other than accumulating a larger gross national product. One of the many ways in which human beings are different from other animal species is the degree to which we are able, should we opt to do so, to incorporate a sense of purpose into our actions.
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