Apprentice leaders in training: ‘talking the walk’

Corporate psychopathy: Talking the walk.

There is a very large literature on the important role of psychopathy in the criminal justice system. We know much less about corporate psychopathy and its implications, in large part because of the difficulty in obtaining the active cooperation of business organizations. This has left us with only a few small-sample studies, anecdotes, and speculation. In this study, we had a unique opportunit...

Training the Future Leaders in Personalized Medicine.

The era of personalized medicine has arrived, and with it a need for leaders in this discipline. This generation of trainees requires a cadre of new skill sets to lead the implementation of personalized medicine into mainstream healthcare. Traditional training programs no longer provide trainees with all the skills they will need to optimize implementation of this revolution now underway in med...

Talking the Talk is Like Walking the Walk : A Computational

I describe an implemented computational model of verbal aspect that supports the proposition that the semantics of aspect is grounded in sensory-motor primitives. In this theory, aspectual expressions refer to schema-tized processes that recur in sensory-motor control (such as goal, periodicity, iteration, nal state, duration, and parameters such as force and eeort). This active model of aspect...

Predicting Criterion Performance in U.S. Navy Apprentice Technical Training

Outcomes of a revised apprentice carpenter fall prevention training curriculum.

Falls from heights are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among construction workers, especially inexperienced workers and those performing residential construction. This research reports changes in fall prevention behaviors following revision of fall prevention training in a union-based carpenters' apprenticeship program. We used a comprehensive needs assessment to identify gaps in app...