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...considerable evidence that fails to confirm that trait’s importance. Context is often more important than traits. The athletic child who is the natural leader on the playground may lose that dominant position when the group returns to a well structured classroom. For example, in January 1940, Winston Churchill was regarded as a failed politician, but after the British defeat in France, he was seen as a charismatic leader who could rally the nation. Churchill’s traits did not change in 1940; the situation did.The traits-centered approach has not vanished from modern studies of leadership...
...considerable evidence that fails to confirm that trait’s importance. Context is often more important than traits. The athletic child who is the natural leader on the playground may lose that dominant position when the group returns to a well structured classroom. For example, in January 1940, Winston Churchill was regarded as a failed politician, but after the British defeat in France, he was seen as a charismatic leader who could rally the nation. Churchill’s traits did not change in 1940; the situation...
...Despite some struggles late in the day on Saturday, the Crimson came out sailing well on Sunday in much windier conditions. In the first three races of the day, Garrity teamed up with junior crew Winston Yan, while Palmer worked with Stokes, and sophomore skipper Teddy Himler and Konstadt were a duo out on the water for Harvard...
India's Mohandas Gandhi staged highly publicized fasts throughout his life, first to protest colonial rule and later to protest Hindu-Muslim violence. He once broke a fast when a group of tearful rioters laid their machetes at his feet. In 2006, newly declassified government records show that Winston Churchill would have preferred to let Gandhi die in prison during his 1942 hunger strike; his war cabinet managed to convince him that this would have been disastrous...
...guidebook published by HSA, as its main source of information. The book has reviews of over 900 establishments in Cambridge and Boston. “There are lots of good reviews, but would you ever bring a guidebook with you when you went out?” said Winston X. Yan ’10, co-creator of Rover. Rover uses GPS to pinpoint locations of interest according to the user’s specifications. It sorts all hits by distance from the user and displays relevant contact information for the selected establishment as well as maps of the surrounding...