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I am often asked whether contemporary people can learn about leadership from the Mosaic experience . Everyone recognizes the effrontery of implying that Moses has specific advice about current difficulties . No one expects to hear what ...
I am often asked whether contemporary people can learn about leadership from the Mosaic experience . Everyone recognizes the effrontery of implying that Moses has specific advice about current difficulties . No one expects to hear what ...
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In the end , no one I can think of ( of course , this may be a defect of my historical imagination ) dealt with anything as broad as the range of Mosaic leadership . Mao made one transformation and tried another — but not three and not ...
In the end , no one I can think of ( of course , this may be a defect of my historical imagination ) dealt with anything as broad as the range of Mosaic leadership . Mao made one transformation and tried another — but not three and not ...
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By “ Mosaic , ” I mean “ pertaining to Moses , " as in “ Mosaic community ” ( referring to Jews ) or “ Mosaic law ” ( signifying the body of rules laid down through him in the Bible ) . I also intend the other dictionary definition ...
By “ Mosaic , ” I mean “ pertaining to Moses , " as in “ Mosaic community ” ( referring to Jews ) or “ Mosaic law ” ( signifying the body of rules laid down through him in the Bible ) . I also intend the other dictionary definition ...
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Contents
Introduction Why Me? Why Moses? Why Leadership? | 1 |
Passive People Passive Leader | 27 |
Pharaoh What Not to Do | 62 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The Nursing Father: Moses as a Political Leader |
| Author | Aaron B. Wildavsky |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | University of Alabama Press, 1984 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 30 Jul 2010 |
| ISBN | 0817301682, 9780817301682 |
| Length | 262 pages |
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