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...The basic hypothesis explored in this paper is that organizational culture and institutional agendas significantly affected the rise and fall of the Twenty-third Air Force. The significance of this research effort is clear considering the 1 October 2003 merger of Combat Search...

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...1 INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2 UNDERSTANDING ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22 3 HERITAGE AND CULTURE OF AIR FORCE SPECIAL OPERATIONS FORCES . . . . . . . . . .29 N...

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...ART II Analysis and Findings 6 DYNAMIC THEMES: LEADERSHIP, NEGOTIATION, AND DOMESTIC POLITICS . .169 Leadership. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 Organizational Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 Communication Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 Personal Relations and Networking . . . . . .186 Decision Making as Negotiation . . . . . . . .188 Domestic Politic...

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...The book is a descriptive overview of the culture of the villages. It contains material on the villagers' housing, rice farming and other means of livelihood, community life, festivals, weddings, funerals, sorcerers and healers, as well as village Buddhism. The autho...

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...Matti Sarmela LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the postlocal world Helsi... ...LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World ... ... Part II. COMMUNITY CULTURE Part III. VILLAG... ...more development Villages and houses Place for a human community 51 Culture of the river valleys 51 * Lampang Province and City 52 Three vi... ...a culture (TV) - mass events (festivals) - cultural services Meritocracy - organizational integration and identity - language of technosystems, offici... ...consumption and supranational applications. As a system superculture is an organizational, professional culture, technocracy and meritocracy relying ... ... knowledge - community, independent organization - organizational dependence - economic self-sufficiency ... ... the rice growers and village communities become (1) technologically, (2) organizationally, (3) intellectually and (4) ideologically dependent on cen... ...tricted to the community only. In minimal ecosystems institutionalized or organizational inequality is still "undeveloped", and there are few status ...

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...n that moment I realized freedom. According to the perverse values of our culture, I had been robbed of the root of my identity. And with the loss o... ...e, The Money Will Follow and Living Happily Ever After. In her work as an organizational psychologist, she has studied many people who have become s... ...nking and being that are moving us towards the millennium, as "the rising culture" brings sweeping social changes to the global human society. $8.9...

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...reality. Equipment and technology do not constitute the only developments, however, because today’s cyber warriors emerge from a society and military culture very different in many respects from those of past generations of warriors....

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... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Values Crisis? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Harnessing a Different Military . . . . . . . . . . 3 Cultures in Conflict . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 2 TRADITIONAL MILITARY CULTURE . . . . . . .7 Professionalism and Homogeneity . . . . . . . .7 Fra...

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...n. Whether as children we were taught at a church Sunday school or some other religious institution, or weabsorbed simple social assumptions from the culture we live in, none of us grow up in a religious vacuum. Through most of history the majority of people appear to have been reasonably satisfied with the religious culture which went hand in hand with their social struct...

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...r religious institution, or we absorbed simple social assumptions from the culture we live in, none of us grow up in a religious vacuum. Through most ... ...rity of people appear to have been reasonably satisfied with the religious culture which went hand in hand with their social structure. It has been on... ...f the meaning and feeling-value of symbols in personal life, as well as in culture generally. Jung was, with Sigmund Freud, a cofounder of psychoanaly... ...ssible to have a truly unbiased view. By virtue of having grown up in some culture every student inevitably has bias and preconceptions. Never- theles... ...e other. On the relatively few occasions that studies of another religious culture such as Islam were made, it was largely for the purpose of finding ... ...wentieth centuries. 16 An intermixture of the same religious, cultural and organizational movements from which modern Judaism developed, also gave bir... ...centuries, eastern Christianity—in both an ideological, and to some degree organizational, sense was mixed with Arab traditions, and promulgated prima... ...quire or depend upon the performance of rituals or (except in the original organizational stages controlled by Gautama) obedience to the commands of a...

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...Our music, our culture, our science, and our economic welfare all depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclo...

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...about. We are mak- ing bad decisions that will have a negative effect on our culture, our kids’ schools, and our communications networks; on free spee... ...28/08 11:04 AM Page xii there are powerful counterweights in both law and culture to the negative trends I describe here. There are lots of reasons... ...ary communication to others, free as the air to common use.” 12 Our art, our culture, our science depend on this public domain every bit as much as th... ...en intellectual property and the public domain is important in every area of culture, science, and technology. As a result, it ranges widely in subjec... ...one could turn a business method into something patentable by specifying the organizational or information technology structure through which the busi... ...to answer that question. I offer a partial explanation for the cognitive and organizational blindnesses that have brought us to this point. I argue th... ...this point. I argue that we have much to learn from the history, theory, and organizational practices of the environmental movement. The environ- ment... ...he idea said, “Ugh, governance by food fight.” Anyone who has ever been on an organizational listserv, a global production process run by people who ar... ... @ 10 symposium, x, 249n4, 293; and mixture of theory and practice, 242; and organizational diversity, 242–247; and politics of intellectual property,...

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...This work is about a Korean American teaching in his homeland, feeling lost in Korean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca New York who manifests a more open and le...

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...reans or did they yearn for bigger and better things seduced by the American culture that came to them through the cinema and the music and through hi... ...sion toward the rock-a-by song by telling herself that it was the collective culture in the earliest of all primitive American, if not western minds, ... ... reasons for the specific elements of a myth (the cryptic reason why a given culture might have chosen a serpent god or the son of god over the sun go... ...asting within the brevity of a human's lifespan); and historians of recorded cultures thread together implication, meaning, and motive from a few tang... ...ved that in a world of nonsense spoken by barbarians little outside of human culture had a positive worth except for friendship, and if he needed to l... ... the rectory she was supercilious and fulminated her derision of those whose organizational name was a misnomer, they whose congregations were foreign...

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...Organizational change strategies for acquisition are essential due to the enormity of change required of the acquisition community. The Congress and the DOD have made many previous attempts at acquisition reform, but most hav...

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.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 Tammy S. Schultz 10 How to End “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”: A Roadmap of Political, Legal, Regulatory, and Organizational Steps to Equal Treatment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199 Aaron Belkin, Nathaniel Frank, Gregory M. Herek, Elizabeth L. Hillman, Diane H. Mazur, and Bridget J. Wilson ...

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..., up bringing, wealth, and social responsibilities. A succession of societies and cultures discriminated against the ignorant, criminals, atheists... ...with its proponents in the exact sciences as well - ran deeper than that. The very culture of commerce was thoroughly permeated and transformed. It... ...ogical narcissism is not an isolated phenomenon. It is embedded in our contemporary culture. The West's is a narcissistic civilization. It upholds ... ...issism is often blurred by educators and parents. Both Christopher Lasch in "The Culture of Narcissism" and Theodore Millon in his books about pe... ...its. Social thinkers like the aforementioned Lasch speculated that modern American culture - a self-centred one - increases the rate of incidence o... ...Encyclopedia Britannica 2005 Edition mentions some additional considerations: "... Organizational factors, which include the objectives, policies, ... ... will win, there is no question in mind. Not only because they constitute a better organizational model but because they are more adept at processi...

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...their projects have been handled with best of the process and what is the grading/rating can be given. The current Model of CMMI is more suitable for Organizational unit/Enterprise wide appraisals; however engagement level rating needs better design or new recommendation on how do the process areas are selected and used.There is a growing need for Engagement level Maturity...

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...services whose importance is only enhanced by the "free for all" Internet culture. Content intermediaries grade content and separate the qualitat... ...ers, movers and shapers. These two neglected aspects of Internet hype and culture led to the trouncing of erstwhile promising web media companies wh... ...ny and in Subiaco, Italy) shunned it and regarded it as a major threat to culture and civilization. Their attacks on printing read like the litanies... ...ny other factors which determine the interaction of free and paid content. Culture plays an important role as do the law and technology. But as long ... ...rtaining to the sales of pharmaceuticals. NDCHealth tried to emulate an organizational element of the IMS Health database. The Court is faced with... ...termine status, control, and access in the Internet industry. A revealing organizational chart. The Internet Weather Report measures Internet perfo... ... all but the most determined and savvy hackers. The Intranet is an inter-organizational communication network, constructed on the platform of the I... ...n forecast. The development of measures to safeguard server routed inter-organizational communication (firewalls) is the solution to one of two obs... ..., there is no question in mind. Not only because they constitute a better organizational model but because they are more adept at processing the raw...

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...ully. II. Issues in the Calculus of Rights IIA. The Hierarchy of Rights All human cultures have hierarchies of rights. These hierarchies reflect c... ...es, not primary ones. There have been periods in human history and there have been cultures devoid of either or both. The primary asymmetry seems t... ...with its proponents in the exact sciences as well - ran deeper than that. The very culture of commerce was thoroughly permeated and transformed. It... ...dependent. In some cases, pain is perceived as positive and is sought. In the Aztec cultures, being chosen to be sacrificed to the Gods was a high h... ...alitatively. Perhaps complexity is not simply more simplicity. Perhaps there is no organizational principle tying them to one another. Complexity i... ...e and Futurology We construct maps of the world around us, using cognitive models, organizational principles, and narratives that we acquire in the... ... around which human nature - or its more explicit manifestations - revolves. These organizational principles must possess comprehensive explanatory... ...anet from all but the most determined and savvy crackers. The Intranet is an inter-organizational communication network, constructed on the platfor... ..." (see next chapter). The development of measures to safeguard server routed inter-organizational communication (firewalls) is the solution to one ...

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...ully. II. Issues in the Calculus of Rights IIA. The Hierarchy of Rights All human cultures have hierarchies of rights. These hierarchies reflect c... ...es, not primary ones. There have been periods in human history and there have been cultures devoid of either or both. The primary asymmetry seems t... ...with its proponents in the exact sciences as well - ran deeper than that. The very culture of commerce was thoroughly permeated and transformed. It... ...dependent. In some cases, pain is perceived as positive and is sought. In the Aztec cultures, being chosen to be sacrificed to the Gods was a high h... ...alitatively. Perhaps complexity is not simply more simplicity. Perhaps there is no organizational principle tying them to one another. Complexity i... ...e and Futurology We construct maps of the world around us, using cognitive models, organizational principles, and narratives that we acquire in the... ... around which human nature - or its more explicit manifestations - revolves. These organizational principles must possess comprehensive explanatory... ...anet from all but the most determined and savvy crackers. The Intranet is an inter-organizational communication network, constructed on the platfor... ..." (see next chapter). The development of measures to safeguard server routed inter-organizational communication (firewalls) is the solution to one ...

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...l Program" demanded a recognition of a Macedonian nation with its own language and culture. They stopped short of insisting on an independent state... ...nded mind games Macedonia was subjected to by the Big Powers. Misirkov believed in culture as an identity preserving force. And the purveyors and c... ...ved in culture as an identity preserving force. And the purveyors and conveyors of culture were the teachers. "So the teacher in Yugoslavia is oft... ...Some wished to be incorporated in Bulgaria, the civilized and advanced society and culture. Others wanted an independent state - though they, too, ... ...banon and Bosnia). The influx of volunteers put pressure on the leadership - both organizational and pecuniary. The KLA - an entrepreneurial start... ...tently raided by KFOR), strewn throughout Kosovo and beyond. Its chain of command, organizational structure, directorates, operational and assembly... ...so. Often, politicians are nothing but a loyal reflection of their milieu, their culture, their society and their times (zeitgeist and leitkultur...

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...rovided a three-category classification device, as did Enis (1973), classifying on organizational goals and audience types. Hunt (1976) also took s... ...st terms available. By contrast. exchanges of social products occur in political, organizational, educational, leisure, health care, family and a mu... ...virtually everywhere and all the time, but under different labels -public service, organizational development, human interaction (for example a marr... ...n has "a marketing department or equivalent.” Perceptions were sought relating to organizational goals, terms associated with marketing, familiarit... ..., in the final analysis, little difference was found between personal feelings and organizational policy with respect to goals. The nine categories ... ...belongs. This is particularly true in considering persuasive communication across cultures. The second is congruity theory, according to which inte... ...ong a population "constantly beset by internecine quarrels among at least 14 major cultures" (Martin 1968, p. 54). These appeals fell on deaf ears ... ... In the great blooming, buzzing confusion of the outer world, we pick out what our culture has already defined for us and we tend to perceive that wh... ...nd to perceive that which we have picked out in the form stereotyped for us by our culture" (p.31). Paul Bloom and William Nove1li (1979) point o...

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...hael T ushman shed some light on why. Ma- ture firms can acquire “stabilizing organizational routines”: “internal biases for certainty and predictable ... ...ure to inno- vate disruptively is not simply an issue of management, but the organizational inability of large firms to respond to changes in consumer ... ...as individuals and members of social and political clusters, inter- act with culture, and through it with each other. It makes culture more transparen... ...uction more participatory, in the sense that more of those who live within a culture can actively participate in its creation. We are seeing the possi... ...its creation. We are seeing the possibility of an emergence of a new popular culture, pro- duced on the folk-culture model and inhabited actively, rat... ...itical evaluation of cultural materials and tools. The practice of producing culture makes us all more sophisticated readers, viewers, and listeners, ... ...ii–xvii (1997); Rebecca Henderson, The Inno- vator’s Dilemma as a Problem of Organizational Competence, 23 J. P I M. 5, 6–7 (2006). ... ...roduct, with appropriate support and training, as they lack the financial and organizational capacity to undertake such tasks themselves. See generally... ... (curating a user-contributed library of particularly no- table instances of organizational censorship on Wikipedia). 4. See generally James Surowieck...

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...et.com.mk Philosophical essays and Musings http://www.narcissistic-abuse.com/culture.html World in Conflict and T ransition http://samva... ...alitatively. Perhaps complexity is not simply more simplicity. Perhaps there is no organizational principle tying them to one another. Complexity i... ...d Entities". Social Entities are not universal, they are dependent on the society, culture and period that gave them birth. In contrast, numbers ar... ...ecome a hypercluster during the phase of materialization. This also is the field's organizational principle: The potentials are aligned along the ... ...knin to Adam Anderson 1. Do you believe that superstitions have affected American culture? And if so, how? A. In its treatment of nature, Weste... ... majority - are still into esoteric practices, such as Astrology. But the official culture and its bearers - scientists, for instance - disavow suc... ...mic activity by making the right decisions and then acting on them in a society or culture permeated by the occult. Esotericism skews the proper al... ...alitatively. Perhaps complexity is not simply more simplicity. Perhaps there is no organizational principle tying them to one another. Complexity i...

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...that authorizes him to be, not only in an ideological sense but also in an organizational one, the leader of the movement to which he has dedicated h... ...c. It seems that all this can be observed in the diversity of the popular culture indicated by Camille Paglia: our concealed paganism. the modernist... ...h the comment that, if postmodernism has assimilated forms of the popular culture, paradoxism shows a return to the formalistic elitism under which ... ... been. Paradoxism is, undoubtedly, a form of aristocratic spirit in the culture, even if it shows a libertine language. Its “commonplace” experien... ...stressingly popular national “Cantare” (Song), the digestive pill of the culture of consumption. Dadaism, avant-garde, modernism have countersigned ... ...eriment like that of paradoxism not only couldn’t have been accepted in a culture strongly distortedly controlled, but even would have been consider...

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...e was also required to maintain a rigorous teaching schedule in American Indian Culture and Artifacts. In addition, he had contracted to finish a fi... ... a living memory. The visitors to the museum were usually enthusiasts ofIndian culture, curious, or just plain lost. It was near closing time when ... ...iver Song knows that 1 have a strong attraction to Na­ tive American history and culture." Alana shifted her legs and revealed the other tanned thigh... ...epresented the University's inter­ est and concern in preserving American Indian culture. The security guard at the entrance to Matloch's estate spok... ...cheology from Gonzaga University. Your Doctoral Thesis was on American In­ dian Culture and Artifacts. Let's see ... " Matloch thumbed through some ... ... he supposed, Rapini had once cared for him. He had seen and marveled at Hawk's organizational and leadership abilities which engendered loyalty and...

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... was never considered a possession of her father, son or husband in the Tamil culture. She was free to choose her husband unlike in the Manuvadi cul... ...Aryan religion banned education to Sudras. R 2 : Superstition In every culture, superstition was a negative force that eclipsed the scientifi... ... Manu Dharma, which are the basis of Jati, are not in any way related to our culture. They do not even exist in our language. Our people have not w... ...16-1-1950] Aryan domination The Aryans became successful by imposing their culture on us. By destroying our culture they began to rule us. Becaus... ...n us. By destroying our culture they began to rule us. Because we forgot our culture and accepted the Aryan culture now we have been made into low ... ... 373 16. Craiger, J.P., R.J. Weiss, D.F. Goodman, and A.A. Butler, Simulating Organizational Behaviour with Fuzzy Cognitive Maps, Int. J. of Computa...

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...and illegal fac- tions; effectiveness limited by ideological differences and organizational inadequa- cies Member of: FAO, G-77, GATT, IADB, IAEA, IBA... ...force: 1.66 million (1980); 732,806 (1980) in salaried employment; 54% agri- culture, 25% government, 9% industry and commerce, 8% services Government... ...men 59.5, women 65.1 Literacy: 82% Labor force: 26 million (1984); 73% agri- culture, 11% industry and commerce, 10% services, 6% government; 8% unemp... ...n 53.3, women 56.8 Literacy: 45-55% Labor force: 1,985,000 (1985); 78% agri- culture; 18% mining, manufacturing, construction; 4% transport and servic...

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... time on the road, and elsewhere listening to radio. The new breed of FM culture, has increased this a hundredfold. So, it is in the radio sector t... ...6. Because the cinema plays such an important role in shaping the popular culture, and because actresses and actors are seen as icons and role-model... ...r, J. P., Deborah F. Goodman, Jason Weiss and Adam B. Butler, “Simulating Organizational Behavior with Fuzzy Cognitive Maps,” International Journal... ...cal Quarterly, 4 (1990) 28-40. 460 42. Jha, A., Sexual Design in Indian Culture. Vikas Publishing Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi (1979). 43. Joel Gittelsho...

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...the solidarity between their peoples while respecting their history, their culture and their traditions, DESIRING to enhance further the democratic an... ...tribution to education and training of quality and to the flowering of the cultures of the Member States; (q) a policy in the sphere of development co... ...rticle 92(3): — the following point shall be inserted: “(d) aid to promote culture and heritage conservation where such aid does not affect trading co... .... At the latest by 31 December 1996, the EMI shall specify the regulatory, organizational and logisti- cal framework necessary for the ESCB to perform... ...tions of the Member States.” 37) The following shall be inserted: TITLE IX Culture ARTICLE 128 1. The Community shall contribute to the flowering of t... ...ture ARTICLE 128 1. The Community shall contribute to the flowering of the cultures of the Member States, while respecting their national and regional... .... At the latest by 31 December 1996, the EMI shall specify the regulatory, organizational and logistical framework necessary for the ESCB to perform i...

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... of followers and some degree of approval from millions more? The history, culture, and body of beliefs from which Bin Ladin has shaped and spread his... ...onvert to Islam, and end the immorality and godlessness of its society and culture:“It is saddening to tell you that you are the worst civ- ilization ... ...ls led most independence movements, and clerical influence and traditional culture were seen as obstacles to national progress. After gaining independ... ...d little if any attention to the rest of the world’s thought, history, and culture.The secular education reflected a strong cultural preference for te... ...abroad, lacked the perspective and skills needed to understand a different culture. Frustrated in their search for a decent living, unable to benefit ... ...is”—studying technical communications systems and codes as well as foreign organizational structures, including those of terrorist organizations. Cold... ...as Mohammed Atef, occupied undisputed leadership positions atop al Qaeda’s organizational structure.Within this structure, al Qaeda’s worldwide terror... ...erterrorism objectives. It would then detail the proposed expenditures and organizational changes required to acquire and implement these capabilities... ... 1996; Dec. 19, 1996; Dec. 19, 1996); on roles and responsibilities of the organizational component (Dec. 19, 1996); on objectives and direction (Jan....