Essays 241 - 270
Childs (1972) it is the leader, in the form of the CEO that is responsible for making the strategic choices within an organization...
It was following this decision and an approach by IBM that the firm acquired IBMs PC division for $1,74 billion (Schuman, 2010)....
personal values, personality, and on other beliefs. A leaders philosophy of leadership will be observed in his leadership style an...
the principles of good business. Success in business depends largely upon the ability to quickly and efficiently adapt to these ch...
on the actions and behaviour of leaders, in this approach leadership was perceived in the context of human behaviour. This was an ...
draw a lesson from any situation, internalize that lesson, and then improve ones approach to leadership on the basis of those less...
is conducted in this day and age. Organizations that dont engage in network often find themselves severely hampered in key growth ...
change is likely to see resistance and the potential for failure increases. It is only when resistance to changes overcome that a ...
how it can impact organizational performance Leadership is one of the most important determining aspects of a companys success -...
organizations and people through a series of changes is vital if that change is going to be successful. Public security officials ...
Understanding the motivational contingencies of team leadership. Small Group Research, 41(5), 621-651. This is an important arti...
an interesting text on leadership in that it attempts to achieve a synthesis of classical leadership ideals with modern contempora...
(Team Technology, 2010). This premise would hold true in either sector. One example is the leadership of teams; when the team is j...
can be expressed as ones ability to pay attention to how ones rational decisions relate to ones values, as well as ones ability to...
Unfortunately, unlike quantitative skills such as financial analysis, risk assessment, project management, and so on, leadership i...
controversial. This is because, typically speaking, the study of ethics concerns itself with abstracted justifications of human ac...
have taken the front seat like at no other time in history. Many successful CEOs and executives have become celebrities in their o...
orders and who commands total discipline, like a military commander. It is not difficult to understand from where such a concept e...
A typical response laments the lack of cohesion and "togetherness" in a workplace that results from estrangement from leadership. ...
variety of different parties while promoting "their recombination in a loosely synthesized mix" (Skowronek, 1997, p. 449). Dwight ...
ahead and enjoy the practices of the past (or those of recent government bailout recipients), but not to flaunt them too flamboyan...
profession. The current nursing shortage-Why retention is important Basically, this shortage results from "massive disrupts in t...
as being led into making decisions by events and circumstances rather than meeting them head-on. An example of this might be the ...
own sake; vision provides a reason for undertaking time-consuming and often difficult change initiatives. Change Resistance...
of community and religious leaders, as well as other stakeholders, is to facilitate and aid teachers in their jobs, not to try to ...
I also typically have strong opinions as to how a job ought to be done. Therefore, my tendency has been to micromanage, take on th...
from easy to implement in an organization. Covey subsequently released a book called The 8th Habit, which has to do with personal ...
a key role, and fits in with the idea put forward by Zaleznik (1977) where leaders will have followers and Kotter (1990) argues th...
He is at once authoritarian and participatory. His orders to everyone were to reduce costs and increase revenue and he is open to ...
Leadership in business is not really a topic until the twentieth century, before this it was a case of managing business; as such ...