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Results of a recent survey of 74 chief executive officers indicate that there may be a link between childhood pet ownership and future career success. Fully 94% of the CEOs, all of them employed within Fortune 500 companies, had possessed a dog, a cat, or both, as youngsters.
The respondents asserted that pet ownership had helped them to develop many of the positive character traits that make them good managers today, including responsibility, empathy, respect for other living beings, generosit
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― Rational Choice in an Uncertain World: The Psychology of Judgement and Decision Making
― Rational Choice in an Uncertain World: The Psychology of Judgement and Decision Making
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All I'm saying is that it's shortsighted to blame TV. It's simply another symptom. TV didn't invent our aesthetic childishness here any more than the Manhattan Project invented aggression.
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Discussions about Schopenhauer's metaphysics.…more
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