Employees want freedom from command and control bosses and task-based jobs and freedom to contribute their character and creativity and collaborative spirit in pursuit of a values-based mission worthy of their dedication.
But the company's backdown also raises another possibility: that, battered by its rising unpopularity and nervous about hostile legislation, the managed-care industry is fast retreating from the task it was put into place to perform: to control health-care costs.
"Overcautious customers tend to disable Poproxy manually in the Task Manager (accessed by hitting Control-Alt-Delete in Windows), others get weary of the program and decide to block it when their personal firewall reports that Poproxy is trying to connect to the Internet, " said Van der Grift.
The researchers found that the top performers (those who completed the task the fastest and the most accurately) were the rainy-day control group participants, who had seen neither the actual sun nor pictures of the sun before doing the task.
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When rifling through your inventory, picking a lock, or doing any other small time-consuming task, you basically lose temporary control over your character.
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"We are New Englanders, change doesn't come easy, " said Rep. Craig Miner, the Republican co-chairman of a legislative task force on gun control.
After completing the unscrambling task, the students took several tests of self-control.
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That incident has provoked a nationwide debate about gun laws in the US. Vice-President Joe Biden has said his task force on gun control will make its recommendations to President Barack Obama as early as Tuesday.
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The first task, which previous research has shown to deplete self-control, was tediously crossing out all the Es on a page from a statistics book.
Petraeus' task is two-fold, and neither outcome is in his control.
All reported that during the study they were able to reach their usual trance-like state during the psychography task and were in their regular state of consciousness during the control task.
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The harder task will be learning how to provide governance in areas that are more under the control of end-users.
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