It did not accept direction about what issues it should take up or how to do them.
For there to be a net benefit, commensurate with the cost of resourcing the board, its members will have to be doers rather than talkers, willing to accept direction in relation to often unglamorous investigative, researching and writing tasks.
The old model also depended on people's willingness to accept direction from above, but Nordic populations are becoming more demanding.Small is powerfulThe Nordic countries have a collective population of only 26m.
He set out to convince the military & political leadership in Washington that the only way the US could avoid being beaten in Vietnam was to change its strategy drastically & coerce Saigon into accepting direction from him & other officers in the field.
This shortcoming might push us to understanding our receptivity to direction and interpretation not in dispositional terms but rather in normative terms: other things being equal, we ought to accept direction and interpretation from our friends precisely because they are our friends.
They need anger-management and conflict-resolution skills, and they have to be able to accept direction".
But they are also willing to accept direction and ask for help when necessary -- and look for opportunities to help others.
When workers join an organization, they sign on to accept direction and decisions from a boss who they understand to have more information and expertise in a given area, such as strategy or finance.
Like Renk [ 33], these authors emphasize the importance of interventions that are able to change parental perception of children's adjustments in a positive, accepting direction.
