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AMBITION WAS LONG an object of disapproval, an occasion for shame. 'We cannot pronounce the word 'ambitious"-wrote La Mothe Le Vayer in the mid-seventeenth century-'without leaving a stain on the person of whom we speak, so unfailing is its negative implication.' As an 'unruly passion for glory and fortune' (so defined in Antoine Furetiere's dictionary of 1690), ambition was conceived as a form of concupiscence, not for worldly goods (like avarice) or sensual pleasures (like lust), but for power and what would have been called success. Its goal was being rather than having. It diverted attention from the one real good, since (again according to Furetiere) 'true ambition seeks only the reward of admission to heaven'. Adapted from the source document.

This is a this is a lively account of ambition, and the forces driving and constraining it. It explores the toxic aspect of preoccupations with recognition, power and money, and how society, families and schools can help shape positive ambition. The book also It also explores the influence of gender, race, class, and national origin, and prods individuals to think more deeply about the forces driving their ambitions and whether those ambitions meet their deepest needs and aspirations.

Within the representative bureaucracy literature, there are a variety of individual or professional incentives that may discourage movement from passive to active representation. This study presents two of these incentives by explaining the potential effects of professional socialization and individual career ambition. Using 3 years of survey and performance data from public schools, this research explores how professional socialization and ambitions of career advancement may promote specific behaviors that potentially support or discourage effective representation. The results indicate that professional socialization actually promotes representation by African American and Latino bureaucrats. The impact of Latino representation across values of professional socialization is also significantly different from that of White managers. The results also demonstrate varying effects for bureaucratic career ambition, as the effect of Latino administrators on student performance is minimized for administrators with higher levels of ambition. For African American administrators, the opposite is true as Black administrators with high levels of ambition are related to increasingly positive student performance. These results add to our understanding of representative bureaucracy by exploring how different values will interact with a minority bureaucrat's decision to represent the interests of minority clients.

L'accès à l'espace reste un enjeu stratégique majeur pour de nombreuses puissances tant pour des raisons géopolitiques, techniques ou économiques. L'espace est un des facteurs clés des équilibres et sa maîtrise un atout pour des ambitions nationales.

In this episode, James and Adam discuss another topic covered by the Assemble You course library - harnessing an ambitious mindset. Adam took a risk starting his new business at the time he did - his family circumstances made it particularly precarious to leave a 9-5 and self-finance a start-up. James left a job he enjoyed at a company he'd loved to join Adam and Rich. In this episode, they discuss those decisions, as well as: other obstacles to ambition, and how and when to be more ambitious.