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This study examined escape rooms as a teaching strategy for developing four leadership competencies associated with communication. The results indicate that escape rooms are an effective teaching strategy for communication competency development in leadership education. One hundred and five participants engaged in an escape room experience followed by a discussion focused on the competencies. The findings indicated a significant positive change from pre-test to post-test in all four student leadership competencies measured, including verbal communication, listening, advocating for a point of view, and conflict negotiation. Leadership educators should consider escape rooms as a pedagogical tool for competency development and may wish to explore alternative serious games to align with their learning objectives.

Develops an original 12‐step management of technology protocol and applies it to 51 applications which range from Du Pont’s failure in Nylon to the Single Online Trade Exchange for Auto Parts procurement by GM, Ford, Daimler‐Chrysler and Renault‐Nissan. Provides many case studies with regards to the adoption of technology and describes seven chief technology officer characteristics. Discusses common errors when companies invest in technology and considers the probabilities of success. Provides 175 questions and answers to reinforce the concepts introduced. States that this substantial journal is aimed primarily at the present and potential chief technology officer to assist their survival and success in national and international markets.

A SPLENDID conference, I thought. True, there were those who complained, those who thought some of the papers were elementary and those who thought that we had come a long way to learn very little. I don't agree at all. Some of the papers did, I admit, deal with basic considerations but it does nothing but good to re‐examine the framework of our services from time to time. In any case other papers were erudite, and for the first time I have seen an audience of librarians and authority members stunned, almost, into silence.

Die Arbeitsgemeinschaft Touropa, die sich aus den bedeutenden Organisationen: Reisebüro Dr. Degener, Hapag‐Lloyd‐Reisebüro, Deutsches Reisebüro (DER) und Amtliches Bayerisches Reisebüro zusammensetzt, besitzt im deutschen Fremdenverkehr eine starke Stellung. Erstmals 1954 führte die Touropa ihre jährliche grosse Arbeitstagung im Ausland durch. Für diesen Kongress wählte Dr. Degener, der dynamische Leiter dieser Organisation, die Seele der Touropa, Luzern als Stand‐ und Arbeitsort. Während einer Woche weilten gegen tausend Fachleute und Journalisten in unserer Stadt, und seit dieser prächtig verlaufenen und denkwürdigen Touropa‐Versammlung erfreuen wir uns besonders angenehmer Beziehungen zu Dr. Degener und zu seinen tüchtigen Mitarbeitern.

Officially, of course, the world is now post-imperial. The Q’ing and Ottoman empires fell on the eve of World War I, and the last Leviathans of Europe's imperial past, the Austro-Hungarian and Tsarist empires, lumbered into the grave soon after. Tocsins of liberation were sounded on all sides, in the name of democracy (Wilson) and socialism (Lenin). Later attempts to remake and proclaim empires – above all, Hitler's annunciation of a “Third Reich” – now seem surreal, aberrant, and dystopian. The Soviet Union, the heir to the Tsarist empire, found it prudent to call itself a “federation of socialist republics.” Mao's China followed suit. Now, only a truly perverse, contrarian regime would fail to deploy the rhetoric of democracy.