General David Petraeus

(noun)

General David Howell Petraeus (born November 7, 1952) is the former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Prior to his assuming the directorship of the CIA, Petraeus was a four-star general serving over 37 years in the United States Army. His last assignments in the Army were as commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and Commander, U.S. Forces Afghanistan (USFOR-A) from July 4, 2010 to July 18, 2011.

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  • Terminations

    • To be fired is generally thought of to be the employee's fault, and therefore is considered in most cases to be dishonorable and a sign of failure.
    • In addition, with a few exceptions, employees who voluntarily leave generally cannot collect unemployment benefits.

  • Leadership

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    • Petraeus (center), U.S.

  • Neoclassical Paintings

    • The works of Jacques-Louis David are widely considered to be the epitome of Neoclassical painting.
    • David soon became the leading French painter and enjoyed a great deal of government patronage.
    • Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, a Neoclassical painter of history and portraiture, was one of David's students.
    • Mongez and Antoine-Jean Gros, another of David's students, tried to carry on the Neoclassical tradition after David's death in 1825 but were unsuccessful in face of the growing growing popularity of Romanticism.
    • In this untraced oil on canvas, Benoist (then Leroulx de la Ville) paints a section from David's acclaimed Neoclassical painting of Justinian's blinded general Belisarius begging for alms.

  • McClelland's Need Theory

    • David McClelland describes three central motivational paradigms: achievement, affiliation and power.
    • Psychologist David McClelland developed Need Theory, a motivational model that attempts to explain how the needs for achievement, power (authority), and affiliation affect people's actions in a management context.
    • He also believes that although individuals with a need for achievement can make good managers, they are not generally suited to being in top management positions.

  • Painting

    • Neoclassicism in painting gained a new sense of direction with the sensational success of Jacques-Louis David's Oath of the Horatii at the Paris Salon of 1785 .
    • David rapidly became the leader of French art, and after the French Revolution became a politician with control of much government patronage in art.
    • David's many students included Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, who saw himself as a classicist throughout his long career, despite a mature style that had an equivocal relationship with the main current of Neoclassicism..
    • A new generation of the French school developed personal Romantic styles while still concentrating on history painting with a political message.
    • Francisco Goya is today generally regarded as the greatest painter of the Romantic period, "the last great painter in whose art thought and observation were balanced and combined to form a faultless unity. " However, Goya also maintained a connection to classicism, and as well as foreseeing the Realism of the later 19th century.

  • The Second Generation

    • The influence of Italy plays an important role in the work of the later generation of Flemish painters.
    • Hans Memling succeeded Christus as the next great painter of second generation in Bruges.
    • After the death of Hans Memling, Gerard David became the leading painter of the area.
    • David is known as the informal ending of the reign of the Flemish School in Bruges.
    • David was a direct student of Memling, whose influence is visible in David's stylistic solemnity, the great realism in his rendering of the human form, and the orderly arrangement of his figures.

  • Rome

    • The Roman Republic was proclaimed on February 15, 1798, after a general of Napoleon had invaded the city.
    • The preeminent painters of the Neoclassical movement, Jaques-Louis David and Jean Ausguste Dominique Ingres, both spent extended time in Rome.
    • Both David and Ingres won the award.
    • The preeminent painters of the Neoclassical movement, Jaques-Louis David and Jean Ausguste Dominique Ingres, both spent extended time in Rome.

  • Salesperson Personalities

    • According to David Jobber, there are three types of personal selling: order-takers, order-creators, and order-getters.
    • In contrast, personal selling uses personal contact with target markets to generate new sales.
    • According to David Jobber, co-author of "Selling and Sales Management", there are three types of personal sellers: order-takers, order-creators, and order-getters.
    • Personal selling can be found in many different positions and in many different sectors, but its primary purpose is to generate revenue (and subsequently profit) for companies.

  • Statistical Literacy

    • The most famous statement, "Unbelievable jobs numbers...these Chicago guys will do anything..can't debate so change numbers," was made by former Chairman and CEO of General Electric.

  • Statistical Literacy

    • The experiment is described here: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/333911/description/Saffron_takes_on_cancer.