Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...contribution, the gift of John C. Whitehead, a prominent New York philanthropist, will be used to create the John C. Whitehead Fund for Not-For-Profit Management...
Harding Professor of Business Administration H. Kent Bowen said that the new gift might make it easier for students interested in public service to pursue...
Whitehead's gift comes at a crucial time for the University's on-going $2.1 billion capital campaign, according to William H. Boardman Jr., director of capital giving for the University...
...this century, scientists have worshipped the hardware of the brain and the software of the mind; the messy powers of the heart were left to the poets. But cognitive theory could simply not explain the questions we wonder about most: why some people just seem to have a gift for living well; why the smartest kid in the class will probably not end up the richest; why we like some people virtually on sight and distrust others; why some people remain buoyant in the face of troubles that would sink a less resilient soul. What qualities of the mind...
...regulation of emotion in a way that enhances living." Their notion is about to bound into the national conversation, handily shortened to EQ, thanks to a new book, Emotional Intelligence (Bantam; $23.95) by Daniel Goleman. Goleman, a Harvard psychology Ph.D. and a New York Times science writer with a gift for making even the chewiest scientific theories digestible to lay readers, has brought together a decade's worth of behavioral research into how the mind processes feelings. His goal, he announces on the cover, is to redefine what it means to be smart. His thesis: when it comes to predicting...