Examples of General David Petraeus in the following topics:
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Terminations
- To be fired is generally thought of to be the employee's fault, and therefore is considered in most cases to be dishonorable and a sign of failure.
- In addition, with a few exceptions, employees who voluntarily leave generally cannot collect unemployment benefits.
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Leadership
- David H.
- Petraeus (center), U.S.
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Neoclassical Paintings
- The works of Jacques-Louis David are widely considered to be the epitome of Neoclassical painting.
- David soon became the leading French painter and enjoyed a great deal of government patronage.
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, a Neoclassical painter of history and portraiture, was one of David's students.
- Mongez and Antoine-Jean Gros, another of David's students, tried to carry on the Neoclassical tradition after David's death in 1825 but were unsuccessful in face of the growing growing popularity of Romanticism.
- In this untraced oil on canvas, Benoist (then Leroulx de la Ville) paints a section from David's acclaimed Neoclassical painting of Justinian's blinded general Belisarius begging for alms.
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McClelland's Need Theory
- David McClelland describes three central motivational paradigms: achievement, affiliation and power.
- Psychologist David McClelland developed Need Theory, a motivational model that attempts to explain how the needs for achievement, power (authority), and affiliation affect people's actions in a management context.
- He also believes that although individuals with a need for achievement can make good managers, they are not generally suited to being in top management positions.
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Painting
- Neoclassicism in painting gained a new sense of direction with the sensational success of Jacques-Louis David's Oath of the Horatii at the Paris Salon of 1785 .
- David rapidly became the leader of French art, and after the French Revolution became a politician with control of much government patronage in art.
- David's many students included Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, who saw himself as a classicist throughout his long career, despite a mature style that had an equivocal relationship with the main current of Neoclassicism..
- A new generation of the French school developed personal Romantic styles while still concentrating on history painting with a political message.
- Francisco Goya is today generally regarded as the greatest painter of the Romantic period, "the last great painter in whose art thought and observation were balanced and combined to form a faultless unity. " However, Goya also maintained a connection to classicism, and as well as foreseeing the Realism of the later 19th century.
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The Second Generation
- The influence of Italy plays an important role in the work of the later generation of Flemish painters.
- Hans Memling succeeded Christus as the next great painter of second generation in Bruges.
- After the death of Hans Memling, Gerard David became the leading painter of the area.
- David is known as the informal ending of the reign of the Flemish School in Bruges.
- David was a direct student of Memling, whose influence is visible in David's stylistic solemnity, the great realism in his rendering of the human form, and the orderly arrangement of his figures.
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Rome
- The Roman Republic was proclaimed on February 15, 1798, after a general of Napoleon had invaded the city.
- The preeminent painters of the Neoclassical movement, Jaques-Louis David and Jean Ausguste Dominique Ingres, both spent extended time in Rome.
- Both David and Ingres won the award.
- The preeminent painters of the Neoclassical movement, Jaques-Louis David and Jean Ausguste Dominique Ingres, both spent extended time in Rome.
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Salesperson Personalities
- According to David Jobber, there are three types of personal selling: order-takers, order-creators, and order-getters.
- In contrast, personal selling uses personal contact with target markets to generate new sales.
- According to David Jobber, co-author of "Selling and Sales Management", there are three types of personal sellers: order-takers, order-creators, and order-getters.
- Personal selling can be found in many different positions and in many different sectors, but its primary purpose is to generate revenue (and subsequently profit) for companies.
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Statistical Literacy
- The most famous statement, "Unbelievable jobs numbers...these Chicago guys will do anything..can't debate so change numbers," was made by former Chairman and CEO of General Electric.
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Statistical Literacy
- The experiment is described here: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/333911/description/Saffron_takes_on_cancer.