The book chronicles a leader who is unassertive in cabinet, nearly powerless in hiring or firing ministers in a broad coalition and passive to a fault before colleagues' disdain.
No amount of personality screening will change that; and nor, probably, should it.Similarly, attempts to build a rapport with senior managers before acting decisively can be counter-productive if that makes a new CEO unassertive.
CANADIANS used to think of themselves as being quiet, modest and unassertive.
On his return to Sheremetyevo, to reach his departure gate the visitor must negotiate a bewildering series of queues, starting with one to get into the building: if he is unassertive, he will still be standing in one of them when his plane takes off.
Outside in the open air, though, flowers of any kind will be virtually an endangered species.Most of the two dozen designer gardens at Chelsea will follow the trend of the 1990s: structures, materials and water features will hold sway, with unassertive grasses, foliage plants and decorative vegetables filling the gaps between them.
Russia, unassertive after the Crimean War, was no longer inclined to support Denmark and now backed Austro-Prussian conservatism.
This view together with ritual and linguistic differences became the basis for the split between the two subsects, the Vadakalai and the Tenkalai, who held that God's grace is unconditioned and that the human soul is as unassertive as a kitten carried by its mother.
His slight figure, unassertive manner and understated rehearsal technique disguised a steely pursuit of perfection – but he placed his trust in his musicians and reserved their energy for the concert itself.
Though impeccably tender, it was too unassertive on the palate when competing with Madeira jus and truffled mash.
The subjects may sound harsh, but the painting of them is neither violent nor graceful, simply unassertive and unconfident, caution suggesting uncertainty.
The soft, all-over, evenly unassertive dabs of paint, with which the whole image is composed, equate the figure and the background.
