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26. The urgent presents itself in tangible shape and form, whereas the emergent is subtler in its appearance. Entrepreneurs need to pre-sense emergent reality, thus they require more than ordinary attentiveness. However, information consumes the attention of the recipient, and urgent information is by nature more demanding of attention than emergent. Yet it is an awareness of the emergent that frequently distinguishes the successful leader, the individual who can see through the reactive demands of day-to-day urgency to act rapidly upon the emergent trends that, if capitalized upon, can ensure commercial triumph. One way of ensuring time to identify the emergent is to make time for reflective moments in work life in order to restore the quality of attentiveness and see through the fog of the immediate. It is easier to spot an emergent trend than an urgent issue. F The present tends to be governed by the immediate demands. T It is easy to lose sight of the strategic issues given the demands that immediate issues make. T Some doctors claim that any information received from a patient during a medical consultation is subject ethically to absolute confidentiality and can in no circumstance be revealed without the patient’s permission. Without such a rule, they believe that patients would not supply all of the information needed to treat them. Most however, believe that their obligations to society override their obligations to their patients; for example, being prepared to report to the police a patient who persisted in driving, despite the existence of a condition that rendered them unsafe. One reason for such a conflict is that whilst courts recognize the confidentiality of exchange between lawyers and clients, this is not extended to doctor and patients. A doctor would report to the police a patient who was a danger to others. C Patients rarely give permission for a doctor to discuss their medical details with others. C Doctors are in agreement about the ethics and practice of patient confidentiality. F Private airline companies have always been determined to operate a transport system that is safe for passengers, whilst still remaining competitively priced and commercially viable. However, a private sector business can only remain viable if it generates profits for its shareholders. Recent reports suggest that if all aircrafts were fitted with military derived ground-to-air missile defense system, and at all airports there was infallible screening for weapons and explosives then the system would be much safer. However, totally effective screening would preclude all possibility of profit, and current systems are still very thorough, whilst also providing a good cost-benefit ratio. Military aircraft are safer than commercial craft. C More effective airline security systems than are currently in use are available. T Current airline security systems provide the best possible mix of cost against benefit. C Full employment is a concept, which is often referred to but seldom defined. Beveridge’s
description comes close to what most economists understand by the term. In his view full
employment means that “unemployment is reduced to short intervals of standing by, with