Nations Need To Understand Their

During The Boom Years, It Was So Easy To Lose Sight Of Basic Values. For Example, There Was Lots Of Nonsense Said And Written About The So-called "new Economy." Some People Said All Economic Laws Have Been Overturned! Then All The Problems Developed. Corporations Were Heavily Fined For Illegalities. Many Of Their Senior-level Executives Were Indicted, Convicted, And Sent To Prison.

Powerlessness Corrupts: Absolute Powerlessness Corrupts Absolutely.

If Networks Of Women Are Formed, They Should Be Job Related And Task Related Rather Than Female-concerns Related. Personal Networks For Sociability In The Context Of A Work Organization Would Tend To Promote The Image Of Women Contained In The Temperamental Model - That Companies Must Compensate For Women's Deficiencies And Bring Them Together For Support Because They Could Not Make It On Their Own. But Job-related Task Forces Serve The Social-psychological Functions While Reinforcing A More Positive Image Of Women.

Perpetuating Success Or Sliding Into Decline Is The Result Of Many Intersecting Forces That Reinforce One Another Directly And Indirectly. They Are Both Cause And Effect Of Winning Or Losing. Winning Generates Positive Forces, Losing Generates Negative Forces.

Not Everyone In An Organization Is In A Position To Accumulate Power Through Competent Performance Because Most People Are Just Carrying Out The Ordinary And The Expected - Even If They Do It Very Well. The Extent To Which A Job Is Routinized Fails To Give An Advantage To Anyone Doing It Because 'success' Is Seen As Inherent In The Very Establishment Of The Position And The Organization Surrounding It. Neither Persons Nor Organizations Get 'credit' For Doing The Mandatory Or The Expected.