The industrial economy in developed countries is transforming into a new “economy of the information age”. For nearly every company, complex, often radical and dramatic transformation needs are created. Executive programs in continuing education, however, are usually focussing on business “administration” rather than on business transformation. For a successful management of change projects, it...

Because the Annual General Meeting of the Academy of Canadian Executive Nurses (ACEN) was moved to November from September, this report covers a 14-month period. During this time, ACEN has taken on a new identity on the national front. We have implemented the decisions taken at the last annual meeting related to changes in membership categories and fees, establishing a national office and incre...

Because of the availability of new knowledge about the neurobiology of developmental brain injury, information that epidemiology and modern brain imaging is providing, the availability of more precise measuring instruments of patient performance, and the increase in studies evaluating the efficacy of therapy for the consequences of injury, the need for reconsideration of the definition and clas...

please provide the name of that mentor.The cost of the program is registration for and travel to the 2 ADFM winter meetings and travel to the ADFM fall meeting held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Association of American Medical Colleges. Applications will be reviewed by the ADFM executive committee and the ADFM fellowship co-directors. Applicants are notifi ed by late November re...

It is difficult to disagree with the general argument that successful health reform requires a significant degree of policy capacity or that all players in the policy game need to move beyond self-interested advocacy. However, an overly broad definition of policy capacity is a problem. More important perhaps, health reform inevitably requires not just policy capacity but political leadership an...

Executive information system (EIS) is defined as a computer-based designed to provide executives with internal and external that easily accessible relevant management activities. The application of EIS in companies or organizations expected be able help the work leaders making right decisions. One them development branch leadership IPNU-IPPNU Pretek. This organization community under auspices N...

The Neolithic was marked by a transition from small and relatively egalitarian groups to much larger groups with increased stratification. But, the dynamics of this remain poorly understood. It is hard to see how despotism can arise without coercion, yet coercion could not easily have occurred in an egalitarian setting. Using a quantitative model of evolution in a patch-structured population, w...

There is a trend in health systems around the world to place great emphasis on and faith in improving 'leadership'. Leadership has been defined in many ways and the elitist implications of traditional notions of leadership sit uncomfortably with modern healthcare organisations. The concept of distributed leadership incorporates inclusivity, collectiveness and collaboration, with the result that...

Previous research has shown that good looks, particularly being deemed attractive or competent-looking, can provide an electoral advantage. There is also evidence to support the notion that more dominant looks are associated with military success. To date, there has been little research into the effect of looks on political leadership success in a non-democratic setting. This project explores t...