A technique used by David G. Winter, a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan, draws on similar sources to judge leaders' motives, in particular their need for power, achievement and affiliation.
It's scarcely a reach to suggest that these men, each in their own ways, were desperately seeking external validation – proof of their own value and worthiness: more money, power, achievement, adulation or desirability.
The first factor proves principally correlated to power, achievement, and stimulation.
These types of values include power, achievement, hedonism, stimulation, self-direction, universalism, benevolence, tradition, conformity, and security.
We examine the FPR controllability and power achievement of all the methods through simulations, as well as their performance when applied to a real experimental dataset.
Schwartz (1992) identifies ten values (universalism, benevolence, conformity, tradition, security, power, achievement, hedonism, stimulation and self-direction) whose effects on behaviour are interpreted by analysing the structure of relationships, or rather, of the priority each value assumes with respect to the others.
A person with this disorder has a grandiose sense of self-importance and a preoccupation with fantasies of success, power, and achievement.
Radcliffe is about as removed from these weekend enthusiasts in athletic power and achievement as a runner is from a writer.
Here, Beyoncé declares her influence, power, and achievement ("I just might be black Bill Gates in the making"), do not come to her at the cost of her own cultural identity ("I got hot sauce in my bag, swag"); that she's far from detached of the realities of the modern black experience, political consciousness included.
Two other notable productions on view in Washington — a scintillating adaptation by David Ives of a little-known 18th-century French farce and a production of "Macbeth" from Synetic Theater — reminded me that the lust for money, power and achievement has been a fruitful subject for theater virtually since the art was invented.
One recent study, out last month in the journal Psychological Science, even suggests that the common societal values of power and achievement can lead to cheating in and of themselves: they create a competitive mindset that in turn makes us more likely to engage in unethical self-promotional behavior.
