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He does not seesaw between the world’s richest man and the world’s second richest man for nothing. Ignore for one minute the fact that he was wont to already sell what he was beta-testing (didn’t others follow suit, anyway?). Many might disagree but a mark of Bill Gates’ leadership and the tremendous impact it made is in the area of marketing. [...]

Managers have subordinates that they can pass on and delegate a breakdown of the main tasks to. They also have authority to carry out the goals of the organization in either an authoritarian way where the subordinates can act as robots or in a transactional way where he makes sure that following orders has its rewards. The essence of a manager is stability [...]

On January, the latest issue of American Psychologist will feature the results of a study whose startling conclusion is that people will follow orders to hurt a fellow human being, when placed in some situations. The situation seems to be the primordial concept in the scheme of things. Depending on the situation that an ordinary man finds himself in, [...]