A Historiometric Examination of Machiavellianism and a New Taxonomy of Leadership

Although researchers have extensively examined the relationship between charismatic leadership and Machiavellianism (Deluga, 2001; Gardner & Avolio, 1995; House & Howell, 1992), there has been a lack of investigation of Machiavellianism in relation to alternative forms of outstanding leadership. Thus, the purpose of this investigation was to examine the relationship between Machiavellianism and a new taxonomy of outstanding leadership comprised of charismatic, ideological, and pragmatic leaders. Using an historiometric approach, raters assessed Machiavellianism via the communications of 120 outstanding leaders in organizations across the domains of business, political, military, and religious institutions. Academic biographies were used to assess twelve general performance measures as well as twelve general controls and five communication specific controls. The results indicated that differing levels of Machiavellianism is evidenced across the differing leader types as well as differing leader orientation. Additionally, Machiavellianism appears negatively related to performance, though less so when type and orientation are taken into account.Yeshttps://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/manuscript-submission-guideline

Studies in insulin action and hepatic glucose cycling

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Neoproterozoic Re–Os systematics of organic-rich rocks in the São Francisco Basin, Brazil and implications for hydrocarbon exploration

The São Francisco Basin contains a remarkable archive of Neoproterozoic strata and its hydrocarbon-bearing strata are receiving increasing attention as global oil and gas exploration targets progressively deeper and older rocks. New Re–Os geochronology for the Paracatu Slate Formation of the Canastra Group, Brazil, yields a depositional age of 1002 ± 45 Ma. This age represents the first successful application of the Re–Os system to rocks of this group and indicates excellent agreement with a previously published U–Pb detrital zircon age (Rodrigues et al., 2010). Together with TOC values of ca. 2 wt.% (despite greenschist metamorphism), it might be argued that the São Francisco Basin has had the potential for hydrocarbon generation since the Tonian (1000–850 Ma). In addition, we also report an imprecise Re–Os age (1304 ± 210 Ma) for the Serra do Garrote Formation, a further potential source rock of the Vazante Group. We suggest, based on petrological evidence, that the Re–Os systematics were disturbed by post-depositional fluid flow that was most likely associated with Vazante ore deposit mineralization. An attempt to determine a Re–Os date for the Sete Lagoas Formation, a putative post-Sturtian cap carbonate, is precluded owing to low Re abundances (≤100 ppt). Major environmental changes in the aftermath of the Jequitaí glaciation, particularly the development of palaeotopography such as subglacial tunnel valleys, may account for the apparent random distribution of TOC enrichment in these Cryogenian/Ediacaran post-glacial deposits. This scenario might thus have major implications for the hydrocarbon prospectivity of this post-glacial succession

New Strategies in Asymmetric Synthesis Based on γ-Alkoxybutenolides

In this paper we assess overall accuracy in survey self-reports on giving to charitable organizations, direction of bias in self-reports, and the influence of this bias on relationships. We compare donations to one specific health charity reported in the Giving in the Netherlands Panel Study 2003 with donations recorded in the database (n =191). We find that (a) reported donations are significantly higher than recorded donations; (b) reported amounts contributed are correlated very strongly with recorded contributions; (c) differences between amounts reported and amounts recorded are positively related to education, religious affiliation, and the tendency to social desirability, and negatively to household income. This suggests that effects of education are overestimated and effects of income and religious affiliation are underestimated using self-reports on donations rather than archival records