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The Great Leaders – The Great Speeches – Clarence Darrow

Spas Atanasov — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:19:57 +0000

Clarence Seward Darrow (April 18, 1857 – March 13, 1938) was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, best known for defending teenage thrill killers Leopold and Loeb in their trial for murdering 14-year-old Bobby Franks (1924) and defending John T. Scopes in the Scopes Trial (1925)...

The Great Leaders – The Great Speeches – Ich bin ein Berliner

Spas Atanasov — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:13:01 +0000

After Kennedys military service as commander of the Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 during World War II in the South Pacific, his aspirations turned political. With the encouragement and grooming of his father, Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., Kennedy represented Massachusettss 11th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1947 to 1953 as a Democrat, and in the U.S. Senate from 1953 until 1960...

The Great Leaders – The Great Speeches – Nixon – The Great Silent Majority

Spas Atanasov — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:33:35 +0000

Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th President of the United States (1969–1974) and the only president to resign the office. He was also the 36th Vice President of the United States (1953–1961). Nixon appeared on television on September 23, 1952 to defend himself, in a famous speech. He provided an independent third-party review of the funds accounting, along with a summary of his personal finances...

The Great Leaders – The Great Speeches – General Douglas MacArthur

Spas Atanasov — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:10:42 +0000

General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, GCB(January 26, 1880 – April 5, 1964) was an American general, United Nations general, and Field Marshal of the Philippine Army. He was a Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and later played a prominent role in the Pacific theater of World War II. He was a highly decorated US soldier of the war,receiving the Medal of Honor for his early service in the Philippines and on the Bataan Peninsula...

The Great Leaders – The Great Speeches – Woodrow Wilson

Spas Atanasov — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:36:41 +0000

Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856–February 3, 1924)[1] was the 28th President of the United States. A leading intellectual of the Progressive Era, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913. With Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft dividing the Republican Party vote, Wilson was elected President as a Democrat in 1912...

Europe on hold

Vasko Mihovski — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:18:42 +0000

The review of the European political and official establishment is that the effort of “deepening” the EU must continue and that priority must be given to ratifying the so-called Lisbon treaty before a British Conservative government can put a spanner in the works. We even have the curious spectacle of Labour and Social Democrat politicians pleading with the British Tories to stay aligned with continental Christian Democrats to support a more effective centre-right bloc.

Successful managers demonstrate courage, preciseness and commitment

Vasko Mihovski — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:59:52 +0000

These three characteristics of management are essential. Courage is necessary to bring about the change necessary to navigate the future, preciseness ensures that we keep our attention on what’s important for today to shape the future and commitment ensures that the change is sustainable within a long period of time.

Green On-line Marketing: 5 Approaches to Re-purpose Content

Vasko Mihovski — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:32:25 +0000

With the importance of content in on-line marketing, many businesses are hard pressed to come up with original various materials on a regular basis. There’s a belief that once you publish something, that all who matter will see it. That’s simply not true.

Better Meetings, Good Management

Vasko Mihovski — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:22:59 +0000

For meetings to operate effectively, managers must decide before the meeting which mode suits their communication needs. Tell, Sell and Test Mode meetings take less time than Consult and Join meetings. Its easy to see where managers often make mistakes. They enter meetings in the Tell or Sell Mode but sort of pretend they are in the Consult or Join mode. As a result, the group spends a lot of time talking about things that go nowhere.

The Great Leaders – The Great Speeches – D. Eisenhower

Spas Atanasov — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:46:44 +0000

Dwight David Ike Eisenhower (October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961 and a five-star general in the United States Army. During the Second World War, he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe, with responsibility for planning and supervising the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944–45. In 1951, he became the first supreme commander of NATO...