The Secret Ambition of Deterrence

Higher-Ambition CEOs Need Higher-Ambition Boards

The ambition of the European Respiratory Journal.

C ounterculture icon Timothy Leary once said: ‘‘Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition’’ [1]. As incoming Chief Editor of the European Respiratory Journal (ERJ), I will bluntly state that the ambition of the Journal is not to seek to be equal with other respiratory publications but to be the best possible publication available to help, inform and open new horizons to junior and estab...

The dynamics of deterrence.

Because punishment is scarce, costly, and painful, optimal enforcement strategies will minimize the amount of actual punishment required to effectuate deterrence. If potential offenders are sufficiently deterrable, increasing the conditional probability of punishment (given violation) can reduce the amount of punishment actually inflicted, by "tipping" a situation from its high-violation equili...

The Representation of Secret in Masnavi Manavi

        Being one of the significant mystic books, Masnavi Manavi has a prominent place in presenting ontology of human being. As though by its revelation, one can reach many mystic and human concepts. Some of the important issues in this work include knowing the secret and secret keeping. The most profound place in Masnavi is where secret and secret keeping are mentioned. Molavi, himself as a...

Running Head : AMBITION On the Value of Aiming High : The Causes and Consequences of Ambition

Ambition is a commonly mentioned but poorly understood concept in social science research. The current study sought to contribute to understanding of the concept by developing and testing a model in which ambition is a middle-level trait (Cantor, 1990)—predicted by more distal characteristics but due to its teleological nature, more proximally situated to predict career success. Using a seven-d...