Monday

Memorial Day

Introduction

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Mirror Image Fallacy: Managers who fail to manage diversity successfully inevitably fall into one of two traps. On the one hand they may have a personal tendency to assume that all people are basically the same. This belief that the whole world "is just like me" has been referred to as the mirror image fallacy. It is attractive because it makes the world seem much easier to comprehend. If owners of a firm believe that everyone in their company shares their abilities, interests, beliefs and values, they will consider it an easy task to organize their employees and encourage them to pursue a common goal. Because the mirror image fallacy is a fallacy, the owners will soon find hat the myriad differences among the people they employ will make their task far from easy.

Monday is the day of the week between Sunday and Tuesday. According to the traditional Christian, Islamic and Hebrew calendars, it is the second day of the week, and according to international standard ISO 8601 it is the first day of the week. In the West, it is the first day of the work week, whereas in most Muslim countries and Israel, it is the second day of the work week. The name of Monday is derived from Old English Mōnandæg and Middle English Monenday, which means "moon day".

Selene

Selene
Goddess of the Moon
Detail of Selene from a Roman sarcophagus
Abode	Sky
Symbol	Crescent, raised cloak, bull, rooster, dog, and torch
Consort	Endymion
Parents	Hyperion and Theia
Siblings	Helios and Eos
Children	Fifty daughters to Endymion; Pandia andErsa to Zeus
Roman equivalent	Luna

In Greek mythology, Selene (/sᵻˈliːni/; Greek Σελήνη [selɛ̌ːnɛː] 'moon';) is the goddess of the moon. She is the daughter of the TitansHyperion and Theia, and sister of the sun-god Helios, and Eos, goddess of the dawn. She drives her moon chariot across the heavens. Several lovers are attributed to her in various myths, including Zeus, Pan, and the mortal Endymion. In classical times, Selene was often identified with Artemis, much as her brother, Helios, was identified with Apollo. Both Selene and Artemis were also associated with Hecate, and all three were regarded as lunar goddesses, although only Selene was regarded as the personification of the moon itself. Her Roman equivalent is Luna.

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 Organizational Behavior

Securing Competitive Advantage

Some managers fail because they hold prejudicial stereotypes about people based upon sex or membership in a racial, ethnic or age group. There is a certain irony in the fact that many diversity training seminars, in their attempt to dispel the mirror image fallacy go too far and imply that all woman or all Asians or all African Americans differ from white males in one consistent manner or another. In most dimensions of ability and personality, there is wide variation within groups (among Hispanics or the disabled, for example), and these differences are often much more important than the sometimes trivial differences between groups, Managers who fail to pay attention to differences between people within these groups inevitably do damage to their employees, their companies and their own careers.

Names

The etymology of Selene is uncertain, but if the name is of Greek origin, it is likely connected to the word selas (σέλας), meaning "light".

Just as Helios, from his identification with Apollo, is called Phoebus ("bright"), Selene, from her identification with Artemis, is also commonly referred to by the epithet Phoebe (feminine form). The original Phoebe of Greek mythology is Selene's aunt, the Titaness mother of Leto and Asteria, and grandmother of Apollo, Artemis, and Hecate. Also from Artemis, Selene was sometimes called "Cynthia".

Selene was also called Mene. The word men (feminine mene), meant the moon, and the lunar month. It was also the name of the Phrygian moon-god Men.

Origin

The usual account of Selene's origin is given by Hesiod. In the Theogony, the sun-god Hyperion espoused his sister Theia, who gave birth to "great Helios and clear Selene and Eos who shines upon all that are on earth and upon the deathless Gods who live in the wide heaven." The Homeric Hymn to Helios follows this tradition: "Hyperion wedded glorious Euryphaëssa, his own sister, who bare him lovely children, rosy-armed Eos and rich-tressed Selene and tireless Helios." Here Euryphaëssa ("wide-shining") is probably an epithet of Theia.

Other accounts make Selene the daughter of Pallas, the son of Megamedes (possibly identified with Titan Pallas or of Helios.

"The wise man shows his wisdom in separation, in gradiation, and his scale of creatures and of merits is as wide as nature... The foolish have no range in their scale, but suppose that every man is as every other man." 

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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That statement captures the essence of managing diversity. Information on these differences can be used to secure competitive advantage for any organization.

Lovers and offspring

Endymion

Endymion and Selene, bySebastiano Ricci (1713), Chiswick House, England

Selene is best known for her affair with the beautiful mortal Endymion. The late 7th-century – early 6th-century BC poet Sappho apparently mentioned Selene and Endymion. However, the first direct account comes from the third-century BC Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes, which tells of Selene's "mad passion" and her visiting the "fair Endymion" in a cave on Mount Latmus:

"And the Titanian goddess, the moon, rising from a far land, beheld her [Medea] as she fled distraught, and fiercely exulted over her, and thus spake to her own heart: 'Not I alone then stray to the Latmian cave, nor do I alone burn with love for fair Endymion; oft times with thoughts of love have I been driven away by thy crafty spells, in order that in the darkness of night thou mightest work thy sorcery at ease, even the deeds dear to thee. And now thou thyself too hast part in a like mad passion; and some god of affliction has given thee Jason to be thy grievous woe. Well, go on, and steel thy heart, wise though thou be, to take up thy burden of pain, fraught with many sighs.' "

Quintus Smyrnaeus' The Fall of Troy tells that, while Endymion slept in his cave beside his cattle, "Selene watched him from on high, and slid from heaven to earth; for passionate love drew down the immortal stainless Queen of Night." The eternally sleeping Endymion was proverbial, but exactly how this eternal sleep came about and what role, if any, Selene may have had in it is unclear. According to theCatalogue of Women, Endymion was the son of Aethlius (a son of Zeus), and Zeus granted him the right to choose when he would die. A scholiast on Apollonius says that, according to Epimenides, Endymion, having fallen in love with Hera, asked Zeus to grant him eternal sleep. However, Apollodorus says that because of Endymion's "surpassing beauty, the Moon fell in love with him, and Zeus allowed him to choose what he would, and he chose to sleep for ever, remaining deathless and ageless". Cicero seems to make Selene responsible for Endymion's sleep, so that "she might kiss him while sleeping".

From Pausanias we hear that Selene was supposed to have had by Endymion fifty daughters, who possibly represented the fifty lunar months of the Olympiad Nonnus has Selene and Endymion as the parents of the beautiful Narcissus, but in other accounts, including Ovid's Metamorphoses, Narcissus was the son of Cephissus and Liriope.

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