Although leadership and the exercise of power are distinguishable activities, they overlap and interweave in important ways. Consi...der a corporate chief executive officer who has the gift for inspiring and motivating people, who has vision, who lifts the spirits of employees with a resulting rise in productivity and quality of product, and a drop in turnover and absenteeism. That is leadership. But evidence emerges that the company is falling behind in the technology race. One day with the stroke of a pen the CEO increases the funds available to the research division. That is the exercise of power. The stroke of a pen could have been made by an executive with none of the qualities one associates with leadership.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged to be married, and lies with her, he shall give the bride-price for her and make he...r his wife. But if her father refuses to give her to him, he shall pay an amount equal to the bride-price for virgins.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One has to have run a household before one can know the price of rice and firewood, and one has to have raised children before one... can understand a parent's love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »