Napoleon. Bill Gates. George W. Bush. Osama bin Laden. Leaders and leadership are perennial topics of debate. What is leadership? How does one become a leader? Do we actually need leaders? In this Very Short Introduction, Keith Grint offers provocative answers to these questions, prompting readers to rethink their assumptions about what leadership is. Indeed, Grint argues that leadership is a very elusive quality, and that there are few definitive answers to be found, which explains why most books on leadership produce so much heat and so little light. But there are important questions to ask, questions which shed light on why leadership so resists definition.
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How To Prepare For The TOEIC Bridge Test
Choose Barron’s Method for Toeic Success - Read and understand the author’s overview of the Toeic Bridge Test - Devise your personal study plan for success - Test yourself with the manual’s practice questions in both listening and reading sections - Use the enclosed audio CDs to improve listening comprehension and pronunciation - Take the book’s full-length practice test and score your results- Review the answers and explanations for all test questions
How many languages are there? Are new languages still being discovered? Why are so many languages disappearing? In this Very Short Introduction, eminent linguist Stephen Anderson addresses such questions as he illuminates the science behind languages. Considering a wide range of different languages and linguistic examples, Anderson provides the basic facts about the world's major families of spoken languages and their distribution around the globe. He explores the basis for linguistic classification and raises questions about how we identify a language.
