The Biocompatibility Manifesto: Biocompatibility for the Twenty-first Century

Toward an Airpower Manifesto for the Twenty-first Century

TO LEAD IS to choose. Choosing commits one’s group to courses of ac ­ tion and to consequences. In 1995 the leaders of the United States Air Force asserted that long-range planning in the Air Force was “broken” and that they would fix it. Doing so requires vision, asense of the evolving environment, and aprocess for link­ ing visions to strategies andtasks. Bureaucracy without vision mistakes a...

The Eight Managerial Competencies: Essential Competencies for Twenty First Century Managers

The objective of the present study was to identify managerial competencies. This study reviewed existing managerial competencies in a cultural context resulting in the development of a broad based psychometrically sound leadership questionnaire. The unit of analysis of the research was a theoretical and experimental research related to managerial competencies, provided from seventeen Iranian an...

Dentin adhesives for the twenty-first century.

The efforts of numerous clinical scientists have resulted in the development of tooth bonding systems that have changed the way clinical dentistry is practiced. The adhesion between polymeric restorative materials and dentin has been optimized to the point that little improvement can be expected within the next decade or even more. Already, the adhesion between the two substrates is greater tha...

Repositioning mission for the twenty-first century.

Medical education for the twenty-first century.

I T r WELL TO REMEMBER Til AT THERE IS NOTHI G IMMUTABLE ABOUT THE present structure of academic medical centers, whi h is not to ay that the sub tance of what they do will change, but their configuration may be different. All of you are familiar with the Flexner report and it impact on American medical education, so I will not repeat what you already know. But I would remind you of the prelude...