Charismatic Personality Research Articles

Frieda Gross und ihre Briefe an Else Jaffé. Ein bewegtes Leben im Umfeld von Anarchismus, Psychoanalyse und Bohème by Esther Bertschinger-Joos Freud's ‘Outstanding’ Colleague / Jung's ‘Twin Brother’: The suppressed psychoanalytic and political significance of Otto Gross by Gottfried M. Heuer (review)

Book Reviews 123© Max Weber Studies 2017. explicitly grounded on a rejection of the very possibility of legal sociology . Halpérin, finally, offers an interesting and convincing defense of the view that Weber’s and Kelsen’s conceptions of the structure of legality, if read together in such a way as to make up for their respective shortfalls, may be more relevant to the practice of legal history than legal historians have commonly recognized. These two volumes contain a wealth of very valuable contributions on the intellectual background and the historical context of Weber’s and Kelsen’s work on the juridico-political. The second volume also offers some very good analysis of the relationship between Kelsen’s pure theory of law and Weber’s legal sociology. As pointed out above, the two volumes are not of equal interest to those who—as political theorists, legal philosophers, theorists of public law, or philosophers of social science—might turn to Weber’s and Kelsen’s texts because they are interested in their continuing systematic relevance. In particular , there is little explicit engagement with the question of the value of the rule of law, and of the role legality can or cannot play in the constitution of legitimate political order. Weber’s and Kelsen’s reflections on that issue, as I am sure the editors of the two volumes would agree, have the potential to invigorate contemporary critical legal thought. In light of this interest, the contributions to the collections under review here could have done more to establish productive connections between Weber’s and Kelsen’s work and contemporary problem-oriented debates on the juridico-political. Lars Vinx Bilkent University Esther Bertschinger-Joos, Frieda Gross und ihre Briefe an Else Jaffé. Ein bewegtes Leben im Umfeld von Anarchismus, Psychoanalyse und Bohème (Marburg: Verlag LiteraturWissenschaft.de, 2014), 335pp. (pbk). ISBN 978-3-936134-43-8. €19.95. Gottfried M. Heuer, Freud’s ‘Outstanding’ Colleague / Jung’s ‘Twin Brother’: The suppressed psychoanalytic and political significance of Otto Gross (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2017), xvii + 252pp. (pbk). ISBN 978-1-138-89969-8. £31.99. If we were to choose one life that in its multiple relationships touched on all aspects of Wilhelmine society, that person could probably be Frieda Gross. Born in 1876 and brought up in a bourgeois household 124 Max Weber Studies© Max Weber Studies 2017. in the Austrian city of Graz she was denied by her parents, through gender convention, entry into professional or vocational education. Intelligent, with striking looks, and an outgoing personality she moped around Graz, having finished her boarding school education in Freiburg i. B., looking for love, a man, and a vocation to do good in the world. That man, eventually, was Otto Gross, who she describes as ‘different from the others’, ‘impractical’, ‘shy’, ‘otherworldly ’ and ‘crazy’. They married, a Catholic wedding, in Graz in 1903. Gross was a charismatic personality - this was Weber’s first use of the term, which he used to describe Gross when they met in Heidelberg in 1907. Gross was recognised as being superlatively intellectually gifted by his father Hans, a professor in criminal law and criminology, and by Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. Otto Gross’s great ambition was to combine Nietzsche’s philosophy with the new psychoanalytic theory of Freud. Trained as a doctor of medicine and lecturing in Graz in psychiatry, in 1907 he moved to Munich as an assistant in Emil Kraepelin’s new psychiatric clinic. As two strongly affective personalities Otto and Frieda were enraptured with each other, role playing: ‘you be the mother’, ‘you be the queen’, ‘you be the beloved’, ‘you be the comrade’. Frieda was his constant interlocutor as Otto worked out a highly original variant of Freud’s theory of repression. Otto Gross’s brilliance came with a cost. In a letter (1902) to Else Jaffé Frieda wrote, ‘you have to realize that he has two ideals, two passions, the love of concepts and the love of Frieda’. He required a constant stream of patients for face to face psychoanalytic encounters, and he did not discriminate between hospital patients or acquaintances, friends and lovers he met in the cafés...

Sir Harold Walter Kroto. 7 October 1939 — 30 April 2016

Harry Kroto received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1996 for his discovery of several new allotropes of carbon and in particular the now-famous C 60 , whose atoms are arranged in the spheroidal shape of the truncated icosahedron and which he named as buckminsterfullerene after the architect famous for his design of geodesic domes. Earlier in his career he made important discoveries concerned with the production of small, semi-stable molecules by pyrolysis methods and their characterization, mainly by means of microwave rotational spectroscopy. He was proud to have discovered by this means the compound CH 2 =PH because it contains the first known example of a carbon–phosphorus double bond. He later also made notable contributions to the field of materials chemistry, especially through his work on carbon nanotubes. Harry used his charismatic personality to very good effect in furthering the public understanding of science and was particularly good with children in this context. He also had strong views about science and religion which led him to become a campaigning atheist. He was a loyal and supportive friend and led a very happy family life with his wife Margaret and their two sons.

ФОРМУВАННЯ КОРПОРАТИВНОЇ КУЛЬТУРИ ЗАГАЛЬНООСВІТНЬОГО НАВЧАЛЬНОГО ЗАКЛАДУ: УПРАВЛІНСЬКИЙ АСПЕКТ

The article is devoted to the corporate culture of an educational institution as a factor in the success of its operations. The quality of educational services, relationships in the teaching staff, the atmosphere of schools that meet the requirements of our time, the demands of the public, have a high reputation and are competitive in the educational market depends on the level of formation of corporate culture. However, the problem of the formation and development of corporate culture schools for a long time remained unnoticed today still at the periphery of research practices. Today in Ukraine corporate culture has not been reflected in the regulatory legislation and education based on the general cultural level of society, morality, business practices, etc., whose condition is caused by the level of economic development. The management of corporate culture is open and clear enough for most school leaders, and therefore there is a need to disseminate information on the role of corporate culture, mechanisms of implementation and management of its formation. The main structural elements of organizational culture seen in the mission, values, standards system to ensure the process of training, education and development of children; the attitude of teachers to the goals, objectives, results of work of educational organizations; communication and informal rules of behavior, choice of appropriate leadership styles, conditions for creativity teachers, traditions, rituals and ceremonies that are accepted in school; staff attitude to themselves as members of the teaching kolekyvu, opportunities for their personal development. We believe that the culture of an educational institution should be considered first, as a system of collective values, norms and traditions of life common students and teaching staff, and secondly, as an integral characteristic of individual school community; Thirdly, as the most important factor of socialization of students. A key step in the formation of corporate culture is to define the mission and vision of the educational institution. In the mission and goals of the institution should have reflected the basic values that are specified in the concept of school. An important role in the corporate culture of an educational institution plays a presence bright, charismatic personality of the head of school. The researchers emphasize that the most successful developing corporate culture in educational institutions, led by creative director are ready to innovate, informally linked to a function that can create a team which interact on an equal footing teachers, students their parents and the public.

Stefan Jentsch (1955-2016)-Maestro of the ubiquitin family.

Stefan Jentsch reclining in his favorite Le Corbusier chair. Photography by Axel Griesch, with permission from Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried/Munich, Germany. ![][1] With immense sadness, the scientific community along with family and friends mourns the death of Stefan Jentsch, who passed away on October 29, 2016, after a brief struggle with rapidly progressing cancer. Stefan was an iconic figure who shaped the field of ubiquitin modification for three decades with passionate curiosity, creativity, and continuous excitement for mechanistic concepts. It is difficult to single out one particular discovery of Stefan's. His highly innovative and rigorous work led to several landmark findings in research topics crossing the borders between ubiquitin biology, DNA repair, RNA splicing, and autophagy. Stefan's visionary work, charismatic personality, and groundbreaking achievements inspired many students and colleagues across the world. Stefan was born and raised in Germany in the western part of Berlin. The city's division at that time early on stimulated Stefan's interest for history, archaeology, politics, … [1]: /embed/graphic-1.gif

In Memoriam

In Memoriam

Exploring the nature of science through courage and purpose: a case study of Nikolai Vavilov and plant biodiversity.

IntroductionHistorical biographies facilitate teaching the ‘nature of science’. This case study focuses on how Nikolai Vavilov’s unrelenting sense of purpose, courage, and charismatic personality was maintained during violent revolutionary change in Russia.Case descriptionThe rediscovery of Gregor Mendel’s laws of inheritance provided Vavilov with a scientific foundation for crop improvement, this foundation was later bolstered by Vavilov’s personal drive to conserve plant biodiversity. As he advanced theories and pragmatic approaches for genetic improvement and conservation of plants, political leaders in Russian came to reject Mendel’s principles and eventually Vavilov’s work.Discussion and evaluationThis rejection occurred because Joseph Stalin was desperate for a quick remedy to the famine and suffering from forced collective agriculture. Vavilov’s work continued, modernizing Russian crop research while inspiring other scientists to save seeds stored in the world’s first gene bank. Three themes illustrating the nature of science help examine Vavilov’s life: explaining natural phenomena, uncompromising human endeavor, and revising scientific knowledge.ConclusionsThe case study concludes with four questions to stimulate student inquiry and self-guided research. They also deepen student understanding of Vavilov’s personal sacrifices to ensure use and conservation of plant biodiversity.

Robert Lowell in love

Robert Lowell was known not only as a great poet but also as a writer whose devotion to his art came at a tremendous personal cost. In this work, his third on Robert Lowell, Jeffrey Meyers examines the poet's impassioned, fraught relationships with the key women in his life, including his mother, Charlotte Winslow Lowell; his three wives -- Jean Stafford, Elizabeth Hardwick, and Caroline Blackwood; nine of his many lovers; his close women friends -- Mary McCarthy, Elizabeth Bishop, and Adrienne Rich; and his most talented students, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath.Lowell's charismatic personality and compelling poetry attracted lovers and friends who were both frightened and excited by his aura of brilliance and danger. He loved the idea of falling in love, and in his recurring manic episodes he needed women at the center of his emotional and artistic life. While he idealized his loves and encouraged their talents, he never fully grasped his wives' and lovers' deepest needs and feelings, and his frenetic affairs and tortured marriages were always conducted entirely on his own terms. Robert Lowell in Love tells the story of the poet in the grip of love and gives voice to the women who loved him, inspired his poetry, and suffered along with him.

Andrey Sheptytsky – an Educator and a Caretaker of the Ukrainian Youth

Metropolitan of Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church (UGCC), a prominent public figure Andrey Sheptytsky made a great contribution to the development of the spiritual and cultural heritage. Metropolitan Andrey was a charismatic personality who devoted his life to the service of God and Ukrainian people. Upbringing and caring of the youth occupied a significant place among his vital interests. He considered the young people the driving force and the great hope of the Ukrainian society to have bright future in the native Fatherland. Metropolitan’s upbringing mission is seen as the forming of the harmonious person on the Christian principles. He paid a great attention to the family, emphasized the role of education and teachers. He also concentrated on the problems of the poor people and orphans. Sheptytsky developed all aspects of the national and educational system. He established different educational institutions and supported the patriotic youth organizations activity. He also was a patron and an inspirator of a great deal of good events where the Ukrainian youth took part.

A tribute.

Dr. Kapil Rajiv Sharma, who was working as the Professor and head of the Department of Pediatric Dentistry at H. P. Government Dental College and Hospital, Shimla, left for heavenly abode on June 19, 2015, following a massive cardiac arrest during the duty hours at Indira Gandhi Medical College (IGMC), Shimla. His death is an irreparable loss to the department and to the family, which can never be compensated by any means. He was gifted with a charismatic personality filled with good human qualities,immense values and tremendous contribution to his subject and department. This kind-hearted man will always be remembered for his noble deeds, who left an indelible impression on everyone.

In Memoriam: Louis J. Guillette, Jr.

In Memoriam: Louis J. Guillette, Jr.

Symposium in Honor of Hilary Koprowski's Scientific Achievements

It is my honor to write the forward for The Journal of Infectious Diseases supplement dedicated to Hilary Koprowski. Hilary Koprowski, MD, was a scientific force whose achievements in virology and immunology defined 20th-century science and saved numerous lives. During Koprowski's time as director of The Wistar Institute from 1957 to 1991, Wistar reached international prominence for its vaccine research and first earned its designation as a National Cancer Institute–designated cancer center. A dynamic and larger-than-life figure, with a network of prominent scientists as well as industry and institute heads that stayed fiercely loyal to him, Koprowski found ways of trailblazing scientific inroads and helping solve some of the greatest health challenges of the time. Koprowski had a great gift for identifying talent and bringing the best and brightest scientists together. Because of his leadership, Wistar developed vaccines against rubella (German measles) and rabies, and these vaccines are still the gold standard for preventing these once-devastating diseases. A distinguished virologist, Koprowski developed the first polio vaccine, which proved successful in clinical trials in Eastern Europe and the Belgium Congo. Koprowski's eye for talent, coupled with his bold, charismatic personality, created a scientific synergy at Wistar that transformed science and helped shape the Institute into what it is today. In addition to his reputation as a world-renowned scientist, Koprowski was also a talented pianist, who attended the Warsaw Conservatory of Music and graduated from the Santa Celia Conservatory of Music in Rome. This balance of scientific accomplishments and musical vitality gave him a confidence and persuasiveness to push boundaries as a vaccine pioneer. It also created a quality of life and culture at Wistar that attracted brilliant people who believed they would be successful with his support and leadership. Call him a Renaissance man, a risk taker or a scientific wunderkind, Koprowski's leadership and scientific acumen was transformational. Throughout his 3-decade career at Wistar, he demonstrated extraordinary direction and commitment. His contributions to The Wistar Institute drove cutting-edge research and discovery daily, keeping the Institute as relevant and vital as it was when it was founded in 1892.

Beyond Belgium: Jacques Steenbergen's Contribution to Competition Law and Policy

For a competition agency to be visible and successful, it needs a face and a voice that are known and recognised beyond its remit as an authority in competition advocacy and sound economic judgement. Until not so very recently, it would have been unusual for the President of a national competition authority in the European Union (EU) to be well known beyond its jurisdiction. An exception to this rule—in the past—may have been the case of Italy, where a former Prime Minister was appointed as President of the authority in 1994. But even a number of years later, it would have been rare for competition law practitioners in a given country to be acquainted with the policies of other national competition authorities, let alone their staff. With the installation of the International and the European Competition Networks, this has now changed and this is, in particular, the merit of a small number of very well-known and charismatic personalities at the top of these agencies. One of these outstanding competition chiefs is Prof. Jacques Steenbergen, the President of the Belgian competition authority. He has now turned 65, and for this occasion, his friends and colleagues have put together an impressive Festschrift, which is called Mundi et Europae Civis. In recognition of Steenbergen’s exemplary professional track record as a leading academic, a private practitioner, a legal secretary at the European Court of Justice, and from 2007 onwards as the head of the Belgian competition authority, a further subtitle of the book in 21st century parlance could have been: Curriculum portarum versatilium. The 19 pages of bibliography collating the publications of Jacques Steenbergen place on record that competition law practice should not be isolated from other legal disciplines. Jacques Steenbergen has contributed articles on topics as varied as corporate restructuring, product liability, consumer protection, foreign trade law, constitutional law as well as on all aspects of Belgian and EU competition law. With hindsight, an article published in 1984 sounds almost prophetic: ‘The Court of Justice and governance in an Economic Crisis’, which Steenbergen co-authored with Mertens de Wilmars, the then President of the European Court of Justice. In the last almost 10 years of his professional career as the head of the Belgian competition authority, Steenbergen has been instrumental in making this authority an important hub in the network of European competition authorities, always somewhat of a primus inter pares given it’s not only geographic proximity to the European Commission. Three contributions in the Liber Amicorum authored by Bruno Lasserre, Andreas Mundt, and Wouter Wils are dedicated to this topic. There are further contributions on the institutional role of a national competition authority by Roger Witcomb on the situation in the United Kingdom as well as by Chris Fonteijn and Annetje Ottow on the independence of competition authorities from a global and from a Dutch perspective. The book provides an excellent panopticum of most of the current topics around competition policy and practice as well as other key issues on the EU political agenda such as political governance in the Euro crisis (contribution by Frans Vanistendael) and of the challenges of a new trade policy (contribution by Hugo Paemen). Other articles cover issues of procedure such as the contribution by Koen Lenaerts on the interplay between regulation number 1049/2001 and competition law-specific rules on access to documents alongside the contribution by Piet Van Nuffel on whether confidential business information enjoy the specific protection of a fundamental right. The book takes a keen interest in the prospective development of competition policy and practice into new areas of the law such as the inter relationship between sustainable development and competition law (articles by Jan Wouters/Laura Beke, David D’Hollander/ Kolja Raube, and Rene Smits). The book is rich in linguistic variety with articles in English, in French, and also in the Dutch language. It is an important source of reference and an ideal lectuur for a relaxing yet edifying extended weekend in the Hautes Fagnes.

Tariq Ramadan: fashion or fiqh? The powerful charisma of an advocate of Islam in the West

Why is Tariq Ramadan, who built his reputation on his vision on Islam in European society, so popular in Morocco? During my interviews with several Moroccan students and young professionals about the thinking of Swiss Muslim intellectual Ramadan, I discovered that they were not so much interested in his ideas about Islam. They like Tariq Ramadan because they're impressed by his presence, his ability to speak up and put forward his personal opinions, and his role in the media as a porte-parole of Muslims, defending them against prejudices and verbal attacks by Westerners. Tariq Ramadan meets all the characteristics of Alexandre Dorna's leader charismatique (Dorna 2008). The Swiss philosopher essentially thanks his stardom in Morocco to his charismatic personality and the modern martyrdom he embodies by defending – on his own – the image of Islam in the West.

Salient features of Jinnah's politics

Purpose – Jinnah was, to some extent, a successful leader in obtaining his goals of becoming the only spokesperson for Muslims in India and gaining a piece of land for Pakistan but the main question is whether these achievements can be attributed to transactional or transformational strategies. Has he managed transactional or transformational change in terms of political culture? This point will be discussed in the paper. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – A documentary analysis of behaviors, statements and incidents of Jinnah and other relevant personages. Findings – The research shows that Jinnah was neither a transformational nor a charismatic leader. Therefore, his success cannot be attributed to his transformational ideology or charismatic personality. The political maneuvers that he adopted by frequently changing his espoused values and theories-in-use are the sources of his transactional success. Moreover, it is the international events and the vested political interests of the British are among the significant reasons that brought him success. Research limitations/implications – In this work, a detailed comparison has not been made between voluminous theories of leadership because it is beyond the scope of this research. Moreover, it is not the intention of the paper to compare his leadership with that of other leaders; however, the future research in this direction might be useful. Indeed, the relevant leadership examples have been selected from the All India Congress with the major point of reference being the All India Muslim League – the party that brought him real recognition and fame. Practical implications – It is stressed in the research that overt success is not a sufficient criterion to categorize a leader in a specific category without analyzing espoused theory and theories-in-use. The study will help those researchers who are interested in understanding the current political culture of Pakistan. The research will be helpful in enhancing the debate within the theme of leadership, especially transformational, transactional and charismatic. Moreover, the paper will encourage other researchers to compare Jinnah's leadership with that of other political leaders of the world. Originality/value – The research is original as Jinnah's leadership from the perspectives of transformational and transactional leadership styles and the espoused theory and theories-in-use has, so far, not been discussed. It presents significant new arguments and information, which will be in the interest of researchers.

American Body: Fitness and the Commodification of Exercise

American Body:Fitness and the Commodification of Exercise Sarah Schrank (bio) GETTING PHYSICAL: The Rise of Fitness Culture in America. By Shelly McKenzie. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 2013. MAKING THE AMERICAN BODY: The Remarkable Saga of the Men and Women Whose Feats, Feuds, and Passions Shaped Fitness History. By Jonathan Black. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press. 2013. There are few, if any, places in the United States today where fitness is not a major pursuit. Whether Americans are actually engaged in arduous regimens for rapid weight loss or training for taxing contests of human endurance is almost beside the point. Fitness has become part of our built environment as gyms, martial arts, yoga, Pilates, and cross-training facilities, and their brightly-lit signs, are now cornerstones of strip malls, gentrified downtowns, and the “lifestyle centers” that mix commercial and residential use. The reflective tape of running shoes glinting in one’s headlights is a familiar feature of night driving. [End Page 23] Television, whether traditional network channels or new streaming services like Hulu, relentlessly advertises weight-loss products, fitness training programs, and celebrity exercise DVDs. Smartphones carry apps that allow us to track our fitness progress while national political discourse is periodically marked by support for, or outrage against, organic vegetables in public school lunch programs, calorie listings on franchise menus, and restricting the size of the Big Gulp. Meanwhile an “obesity epidemic” is the tagline on many a news story and a source of concern among feminist critics who worry that such increased surveillance and medicalization of the body is a sanctioned way to “fat” shame and reify sexist, racist, and class hierarchies.1 American attitudes toward the regulation of food and diet are complicated and political but they generally boil down to whether or not fitness is a private or a public concern. While the books under review here point out that today’s obsessive interest in fitness is nothing new, I would suggest that its intensifying significance on the national cultural and political stage is closely related to contemporary debates over healthcare and whether or not access to modern medicine is a privilege of status or a right of citizenry. As such, the American body plays a bigger role in the body politic than ever before. Meanwhile, there is surprisingly little medical consensus on what fitness actually means. Is it having a body mass index (BMI) that falls within accepted norms? Is it living a long life? Is it being free of major disease? Does it mean being able to run one mile or twenty? Is fitness the same as having visible muscle tone? Does it simply mean being happy? What is the difference between fitness and health? What is “wellness”? Debates rage throughout the medical community and even a cursory search through the major academic American medical journals will show little agreement between kinesiology, nutritional science, neuroscience, clinical psychology, biology, gastrointestinal science, internal medicine, or any of the myriad subfields contained within, as to what a general definition of fitness is or what our dietary goals should be. Should we be eating fat or not? Will gluten melt our brains? Should our raw vegetable intake be 40 percent or 90 percent of our diet? Is twenty minutes of cardiovascular exercise every day enough? Or is ninety minutes three times a week adequate? It quickly becomes clear how a charismatic personality with a spectacular six-pack and a media-friendly face—who offers a step-by-step, pay-as-you-go training program to the better body that equates a better life—can attract millions of Americans with access to credit. It is much easier to buy the promise of fitness and happiness than to figure it out on your own and is preferable to not doing anything at all. There are obvious reasons why fitness is consistently a multibillion-dollar industry in the United States. And yet it is also remarkably capricious; the megastar of exercise infomercials today may overnight find him or herself tossed on the fitness dust heap alongside a million unwanted Tae Bo videos. In Making the American Body: The Remarkable Saga of the Men and Women Whose Feats, Feuds...

The Virgin Way: Everything I Know about Leadership

The Virgin Way: Everything I Know about Leadership Sir Richard Branson Penguin Group (USA) LLC (2014) 352 Pages, Hardcover, $29.95Have you ever envisioned working for a company where the sky is literally the limit, and your boss is standing next to you encouraging you to jump head first into the unknown? Do you thrive on unconventional approaches to business, people management, and organizational leadership? Do you dare to dream big? If you answered yes to any, or all, of these questions, then this book may be the motivation that you need to take the next step. Screw it, let's do it! is the approach that the ingenious Sir Richard Branson takes in his brilliantly entertaining handbook for leadership and management The Virgin Way: Everything I Know about Leadership. Author of more than a dozen books on business and entrepreneurship, Sir Richard Branson has no qualms about openly discussing some of his most legendary successes, epic failures, and all of the vitally important lessons that he learned along the way.Branson began to build his commercial empire at the age of sixteen after dropping out of school to pursue his entrepreneurial dreams. More than four decades later, his reign extends over more than one hundred entities that comprise the Virgin Group. The Virgin Way: Everything I Know about Leadership provides the reader with an inside look at Branson's unconventional approach to leadership which can be summed up into four major categories that have impacted the way that he has triumphantly conducted business. Part One, entitled LISTEN, begins with and introduction to Branson's early history as an entrepreneur and discusses how his upbringing encouraged him to pursue his dreams and never question his instincts. He then transitions to topics of great importance such as the art of active listening, customer service and satisfaction, the finely honed craft of K-I-S-S (keep it simple stupid) - why less is often more, and ends the section with a candid discussion on why the majority of all corporate mission statements are anything but inspirational on virtually all levels. This section is a phenomenal icebreaker for this book, and really gets the reader prepped for the underlying issues that Mr. Branson raises throughout the remainder of the book. Section Two (LEARN), Section Three (LAUGH), and Section Four (LEAD) all follow suit using Branson's real life anecdotes to further explore topics that are essential to leadership in the 21st century. He delves into meaningful issues in such areas as hiring the right employees, creating a strong corporate culture, collaboration, and decisionmaking.The Virgin Way: Everything I Know about Leadership is a very straightforward and lighthearted management and leadership guide that is overflowing with valuable narratives and real life experiences from the well-known Sir Richard Branson. Branson's charismatic personality and zest for life added a personal touch to this book that few business periodical authors are able to capture, and his smooth conversational writing style kept me, as the reader, on my toes and always wondering what he would come up with next. …

Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam-"A Man Beyond Science".

Dear Sir, The extraordinary charismatic personality of Dr. Kalam has sensitized every individual in our nation. His reach to the people was beyond the bar of caste, color and creed. An ordinary man, who came from a humble family of Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu, India, reached to the highest national rank by being the 11th President in Indian Republic. He has been a very sincere worker of his field and was a continuous source of inspiration for all generation of people. Among the awards which he deservingly earned in his lifetime, few of them include Padambhushan (1981), Padma Vibushan (1990), Bharat Ratna (1997) King Charles Medal-II (2007) and many more. However, the greatest award was the respect he commanded among common man and specially youth for whom he is an unyielding source of inspiration. His speeches and his perspective towards “Science and its Utilization for People” are a worth beyond words. He graduated from Madras Institute of Technology in aerospace engineering and later remained associated with Defense Research and Development Organization for nearly 40 years. He started his career with a project of developing a small helicopter for Indian army. Dr Kalam developed India’s first indigenous Satellite Launch Vehicle (SLV-3) which successfully placed the satellite, Rohini in the near orbit of earth in July 1980 and made India an exclusive member of Space Club. Subsequently, he played important role in development of missiles like Agni and Prithvi which made India a self sufficient in its Defense Power. He was called as “Missile Man” for his contribution in missiles development. Dr Kalam has played a pivotal role as Chief scientific Advisor to Prime Minister between July 1992 to December 1999, it was during this time that “Pokhran-II” the nuclear test was conducted. His hard work in this field made India a Nuclear Power. Dr Kalam had significant contributions to medical science which are less discussed in Indian media and literature. He advocated, the role of biotechnology in medical science research, emphasized the use of science and technology for the benefit of common man. India’s first indigenous low cost cardiac stent was developed by him in collaboration with Dr. Somaraju Bhupathiraju known as Kalam-Raju stent during 1994 – 1996. It reduced the cost of stents by 1/4th compared to prevailing market rate. Approximately 2000 Kalam-Raju cardiac stent has been fitted to many needy patients and showed the path of affordable health care [1]. Although, the medical field has progressed to drug eluting stents, this invention was a landmark in its time. In 2012, they developed a tablet computer for purpose of rural health care service, which was named the ‘Kalam-Raju tablet’. One of his great achievement was the development of light weight calipers for polio affected children by using carbon-carbon and carbon-polymer materials (glass-filled polypropylene which are used in missiles) during 1995 – 1996, thus reducing weight of the caliper to 1/10th of the original weight. Over 50,000 children were benefitted with these calipers which reduced their pain significantly, while walking. Throughout his life, he took up the mission to ignite and inspire young minds towards national spirit by meeting school students across the country. He has also written many thought provoking and inspirational books such as “ Wings of Fire”, “ Ignited Minds” and “ India 2020”, which has become house hold names with youth of India. During the last decade, Dr. Kalam has addressed over five million youth below the age of 17 and inspired them to become an active participant of India Vision 2020. He had addressed several Children Science Congresses across the country. Though, everyone who is born has to leave for the heavenly abode, but Dr. Kalam has left the legacy of his scientific achievements, thoughts and teachings as a source of inspiration for generation to come in future India and the world. Today, we really are gratefull to the almighty for giving us the opportunity to live in an era when we could share the sunlight with such a great personality. May his soul rest in peace.

George Dionisios Dracoulis

Nuclear physicist George Dionisios Dracoulis had a vibrant and charismatic personality. As a meticulous researcher, he was known for the reliability of his results—if George had measured it, then you knew it was right. And he took his wit and wisdom outside the laboratory when he served as a respected science adviser to the Australian government. He passed away at home in Canberra, Australia, on 19 June 2014 after a short battle with cancer.George Dionisios DracoulisPPT|High resolutionBorn in Melbourne, Australia, on 19 December 1944, George pursued his undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the University of Melbourne, from which he received a PhD in nuclear physics in 1970. After a three-year postdoctoral research position at the University of Manchester in the UK, he returned to Australia to take a research position at the Australian National University in Canberra, where the world’s largest tandem Van de Graaff heavy-ion accelerator was under construction. George played an integral, and soon leading, role in the accelerator’s development and exploitation as a research facility. As head of the university’s department of nuclear physics from 1992 until his retirement in 2009, he established it as one of the most respected nuclear-physics laboratories in the world.In retirement, George continued as an indefatigable researcher. He traveled the world to perform experiments and speak at conferences until diagnosed with kidney cancer in March of this year. In addition to having a network of friends and colleagues around the globe, George enjoyed extended visits to Stony Brook University in New York, Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, and the University of Surrey in the UK.George made seminal contributions to the understanding of nuclear structure: the way different nuclear shapes can coexist; the way nuclear vibrations, especially octupole vibrations, can couple to neutron and proton excitations; and the way metastable excited states, or isomers, can be used to probe nuclear spin and shape properties. He was renowned for the thoroughness of his experimental approach, which he combined with a deep physical understanding of nuclear phenomena.Among the numerous awards George received were the Australian Academy of Science’s 2003 Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal for outstanding contributions to our understanding of the structure of atomic nuclei and the Australian Institute of Physics’ 2004 Walter Boas Medal for excellence in physics research.George served as a member of the Australian Prime Minister’s Select Task Force on Uranium Mining, Processing and Nuclear Energy in 2006. As professor emeritus, he remained active in public education and continued to engage with the media and in the public discussion of nuclear energy and nuclear technology. George also continued his nuclear-physics research work until only a few weeks before he died.George will be greatly missed by his family, friends, and colleagues around the world.© 2014 American Institute of Physics.

Dr Leavis's Seventeenth Century

WHY, IT MIGHT REASONABLY BE ASKED, hark back, in the second decade of the twenty-first century, to a body of writing some of which is now over eighty years old, and might, on the face of it, seem remote from our current concerns?1 There are two related reasons. The first is that, though Leavis regularly portrayed himself as an embattled outsider, a prophetic voice in vehement and profound opposition to the dominant academic and educational orthodoxies of his day, he was in fact a figure at least in some respects far more (to use one of his own favourite terms) ‘representative’ of his times than he was prepared to admit. The insistent moral tone and charismatic personality which, along with his other considerable gifts, made Leavis so potent an influence on criticism and literary education in his own time tend to disguise the extent to which some of what he had to say was, in fact, common currency in his day. In many respects, ‘Dr Leavis's Seventeenth Century’ might more aptly be described as ‘The 1930s’ Seventeenth Century'.

Pandemic Prophecy, or How to Have Faith in Reason

In scientific discourse, as well as in public debates, scientists are often presented as charismatic prophets with a message for the people. My aim, in this article, is to explore the place of prophecy in today’s politics of pandemic preparedness in the United States. How is the category of the unknown invoked in scientifically inspired prophetic proclamations? At stake in such an inquiry are the ways in which a prophetic existence is capacitated or incapacitated at the threshold of the known and the unknown. What does it take for the prophet’s voice to be recognized as reasonable and accepted as authoritative? Charismatic personality and discursive authorization play significant roles, to be sure. But the efficacy of pandemic prophecy must also be situated in relation to the temporal sensibilities and anxieties to which they respond. What is the architecture of these sensibilities and anxieties?