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...situation did.The traits-centered approach has not vanished from modern studies of leadership but it has been broadened and made more flexible. Traits have come to be seen as consistent patterns of personality rather than inherited characteristics. This definition mixes nature and nurture, and means that “traits?? can, to some extent, be learned rather than merely inherited. We talk about leaders being more energetic, more risk-taking, more optimistic, more persuasive, and more empathetic than other people, but these traits are affected partly by a leader’s genetic makeup and partly...

Author: By Joseph S. Nye | Title: Nature and Nurture in Leadership | 6/3/2009 | See Source »

...traits-centered approach has not vanished from modern studies of leadership but it has been broadened and made more flexible. Traits have come to be seen as consistent patterns of personality rather than inherited characteristics. This definition mixes nature and nurture, and means that “traits?? can to some extent be learned rather than merely inherited. We talk about leaders being more energetic, more risk-taking, more optimistic, more persuasive, and more empathetic than other people, but these traits are affected partly by a leader’s genetic makeup and partly by the environments...

Author: By Joseph S. Nye | Title: Nature and Nurture in Leadership | 6/2/2009 | See Source »

...cost of financial aid, most recently requesting financial data from Harvard and 135 other institutions in January.The parents weekend event had its lighter moments, with Faust and Pilbeam drawing applause after a question about gender-based styles of leadership.“I worry about essentializing female traits??I mean I don’t think Margaret Thatcher worried a lot about being too masculine,” she said to laughter. “I’m very collaborative, I often listen to people—all those things could be considered as feminine. But don?...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks and Nathan C. Strauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Faust Addresses Junior Parents | 3/10/2008 | See Source »

...recognize the need for audience outreach with activities such as group readings, open-mikes, and the Internet as means of wider dissemination of their work, and there’s almost unanimous agreement that the lack of awareness of poetry in the U.S. is not due to innate human traits??it’s just that our culture and education systems have changed. “It’s a cultural phenomenon in a sense. There are other countries where people are more aware of poetry, which just seems to have to do with certain cultural values...

Author: By Eric W. Lin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Roses are Red, Violets are Blue... | 2/8/2007 | See Source »

...motivating sentiment remains elusive.Although some lyrics are slightly cheerier than those on past albums, most of the words on “Dreamt…,” when read separately, are as ghostly and strange as ever before. This constitutes one of Linkous’s most endearing traits??somehow, he submerges his terrifying poetry such that the finished product rests beneath a veneer of tonal sanity. The nightmarish qualities of the lyrics come as a surprise when read; set to music their hazy imagery often fades beneath threadbare melodies, engendering a soothing, tidal feeling...

Author: By Henry M. Cowles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: CD Review: Sparklehorse, "Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain" | 10/5/2006 | See Source »

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