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The values considered most important by fast-trackers for middle managers were generosity, sharp-wittedness, and reliability; for slow-trackers, tolerance, adaptability, and self-control were most important for middle managers.
The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008
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Bass, Burger, et al. 1979 found that for several thousand middle managers from 12 countries, fast-trackers considered the values of generosity, fair-mindedness, sharp-wittedness, and steadiness as more important for top management, whereas slower-climbing managers considered tolerance and adaptability more important.
The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008
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The values considered most important by fast-trackers for middle managers were generosity, sharp-wittedness, and reliability; for slow-trackers, tolerance, adaptability, and self-control were most important for middle managers.
The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008
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Bass, Burger, et al. 1979 found that for several thousand middle managers from 12 countries, fast-trackers considered the values of generosity, fair-mindedness, sharp-wittedness, and steadiness as more important for top management, whereas slower-climbing managers considered tolerance and adaptability more important.
The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008
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Don't you expect I appreciate level-headedness and sharp-wittedness and applicationousness just as much as Remsen?
The Half-Back Ralph Henry Barbour 1907
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They seem to have formed a link between the helpless idiot and the boisterous madman, sharing the eccentricity of the latter and the stupidity of the former, generally adding, however, a good deal of the sharp-wittedness of the knave.
Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character Ramsay, Edward B 1874
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The winning goal was enabled by the sharp-wittedness of Vladimir Weiss, who took a quick free-kick to release the Croatian forward.
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The sharp-wittedness as well as the style of the author, both serving the vivid description of the - by German standards - unimaginable circumstances this inmate was living in struck him completely.
Indybay newswire 2009
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a rising and vigorous class, proud of their sharp-wittedness and the influence which their position and resources gave them; they were well informed, through their connection with the Continent, with regard to the progress of the reformed doctrines; they had high character, earnest feelings, and political as well as religious aims; and they naturally ranged themselves against the hierarchy as its strong and avowed enemies.
Luther and Other Leaders of the Reformation 1823-1886 1883
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