NANYANG BUSINESS SCHOOL MBA 2012-2013 TRIMESTER 1 B6018 LEADERSHIP AND ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR Course Coordinator/Instructor: Assoc. Prof Lim Beng Chong Office: S3-B2B-63 / E-mail : bclim@ntu.edu.sg Class Schedule: Wed evenings 6:15pm - 9:30 pm (or Saturday mornings 9:00 am -12:00 noon for extra/postponed sessions) Class Venue: NTU @ one-north SR 502 COURSE DESCRIPTION A leader is a man (woman) who has the ability to get people to do what they don’t want to do‚ and like it – Harry S. Truman (1954)
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Elizabethan era romantic comedy‚ A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ William Shakespeare reveals with a motif of the magic of a special violet flower the effects of love make people irrational‚ and can happen to anyone. Love has effects that make one irrational. The play shows several times with the magical effects of two different flowers how irrational love can make people. The characters under the effects of the magic flower‚ Demetrius‚ Queen Titania‚ and Lysander ‚ fall in and out of love throughout the events
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Controlling Irrational Fears After 9/11 Article Analysis The premise for the author’s argument is that America’s high level of panic after 9/11 was actually excessive in relation to the number of deaths. The conclusion is that Americans actually aided the success of the terrorists by giving in to their desire to shake us up so badly. The author’s second premise is that our country’s misguided response to 9/11 was to start throwing money around in the hope of preventing further attacks. The
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Book Report – Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior The book‚ Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior‚ by Ori Brafman and his brother‚ Rom Brafman dives into the way that we make decisions. Why do humans make the horrible decisions we do when logic would tell us to act otherwise? There are several psychological influences that sway our decision-making ability according to the Brafman brothers. The authors look at several different factors‚ with a lot of fascinating and logic-breaking
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How do we perceive ourselves? Are we attractive? Capable? Consistent ? Responsible ? Actually‚ most people seem to have positive views of themselves. In reality‚ perceiving ourselves is one of the important things to cognize our attitudes through observing our behavior. This essay aims to point out how to observe our positive self perception and prove the statement that we are not rational in perceiving ourselves through different behaviours such as attractiveness‚ self-serving biases‚ group polarization
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When reading the essay Controlling Irrational Fears After 9/11‚ the first argument to catch my eye was directed around the strong reaction to the number of deaths‚ 2800‚ on 9/11. Americans immediately began to react to the catastrophe of that day. The supposed reason behind this reaction is the number of deaths in the single day when not so much as one bullet was discharged to cause one of the deaths. The author of the essay used two premises to prove the conclusion that the number of deaths was
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shares. His society believes that everything must be done for the good of everyone. In the end of the book he decides that it is better for man to worry about themselves first. The main point of Rand’s essay‚ “How does One lead a Rational Life in an Irrational Society?” is that we as people need to make moral judgements. Equality made a moral judgement to no longer follow the ideas of the society that he left. I believe that it was correct for Equality to denounce the morals of his old society‚ especially
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Wall-E “Irrational love defeats life’s programming.” This is a quote from Andrew Stanton‚ the director of Wall-E and it is pertaining to the storyline of Wall-E. Basically he means that love is powerful enough to conquer all things even the programming that society does on humans and machines. The movie’s main character is of course Wall-E‚ while his love interest has the name Eve. The two have been tasked the job of cleaning up a trash-filled earth. All humans now live in a spaceship so
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Can violent games make a gamer act irrational? Does it lead to a dangerous situation? How does it affect the behavior of the participant or player? Since the 1950s‚ Social scientists have been debating and studying the effects of media violence while since the 1980s‚ they have been more directly studying the effects of video games on behavior of the participant.This topic seems so important today because the games nowadays are more realistic and bloodier than ever. Video games are definitely becoming
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Changing My Irrational Thoughts To Deal With My Breakup Generally speaking‚ the first love breakup is one of the toughest to overcome - I am not an exception. As a matter of fact‚ I took half a year to recover from my breakup which was truly an isolating and suffocating
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