P25: Talent and Perseverance

Passion and perseverance.

Note: This article, expressing the thoughts of Gail S. Fidler, was being developed jointly by Mrs. Fidler and Nedra P. Gillette at the time of Mrs. Fidler’s death, April 26, 2005. It was completed using notes recorded during an extensive interview and reminiscence session the 2nd week in February. Fidler, G. S., Gillette, N. P. (2005). A firm persuasion in our work—Passion and perseverance. Ame...

Causal Reasoning and Belief Perseverance

Craig A. Anderson, University of Missouri, Columbia ,i t t f'. f i , ~ ~ In 1980 my wife and I moved to Houston. In those days Houston was "boomtown." While the rest of the country was mired in an economic recession of disastrous proportions. Houston's economy was growing by leaps and bounds. In the auto industry states, particularly Michigan. Houston newspapers were in great demand. not for th...

Slow wins: patience, perseverance and behavior change

607 ISSN 1758-3004 10.4155/CMT.11.59 © 2011 Future Science Ltd The converging of climate disruption, energy descent and economic instability is stressing civilization, perhaps foreshadowing a downshift to a lower level of complexity [1]. It is easy to despair at the unsustainability of human behavior; however, such despair may come from taking too narrow and pessimistic a view of human nature, ...

Talent Management: the Construction of Talent

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Perseverance, Information and Stochastically Stable Outcomes

One bargainer from a nite population X, is matched at random with a bargainer from another nite population Y. They simultaneously precommit to "minimal" shares of a unit surplus. Populations di er in their degree of perseverance, parameterized by 2 (0; 1). If the players precommit to x and y such that x+ y 1, then player i gets his demand xi as well as a fraction i of the unbargained surplus (1...

BRAIN DRAIN, TALENT Brain Drain, Talent Mobility and Academic Networking