Using a sample of 114 leaders (described by 516 team members), we show empirically that the association between leader relational transparency and receptiveness to members is indirect (through respect) conditional on humility. When transparent expresses humility, he/she conveys respect perceived as more receptive employees toward him/her. The negative, however, when non-humble. Our paper contri...

The "Web," an attempt to organize the electronic world, has become the focus of a wide range of research activities from agents to information retrieval to virtual reality systems, and is a central focus of work presented at this symposium. Our work considers a more humble task: that of organizing our own electronic lives. We introduce a new metaphor, Lifestreams, for dynamically organizing a u...

Since its humble start as a model organism in two European laboratories in the 1940s and 1950s, the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe has grown to become one of the best-studied eukaryotes today. This article outlines the way in which interest in S. pombe developed and spread from Europe to Japan, North America, and elsewhere from its beginnings up to the first International Meeting devot...

fter almost ten years of being regaled by Kaiser Permanente (KP) historian Steve Gilford’s wonderful stories about Sidney Garfield, MD’s four-year sojourn in the Mojave Desert (1933-38), where the young surgeon literally laid the foundation of what would become KP, I was well primed for the long-delayed pilgrimage. Finally, last November, I at last had a legitimate excuse to fly down to Anaheim...

RCN general secretary Peter Carter is in no doubt that the overwhelming majority of today’s students start their courses with the right values. He says so from a position of strength, because he visits universities and meets cohorts of new recruits. He is also aware that students and newly qualifi ed nurses are more likely to blow the whistle on poor care than those who have witnessed it for ye...

Courage/Bravery—Bitty was determined to escape his cage and become free so that he could help the other canaries and the miners. He faced many dangers but never gave up fighting for what he believed. What causes would you fight for? What kind of power do you feel you have to change things that you think are unfair? Do you think that influencing legislators is a good way to change things? Why or...

INTRODUCTION On the occasion of the Silver Jubi lee Celebration of the N I M H A N S , this meeting together of neurologists, clinical psychologists, sociologists and psychiatrists is of significance. Although technically belonging to different disciplines, we all investigate the same subject, man . We all arc acutely aware of the complexities involved in the scientific t reatment of this subje...