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Do Leaders Make a Real Difference in an Organizations' Performance?

argued that leadership still has a key role in encouraging and promoting those who do spearhead success. In other words, is it myt...

Why Youth and Community Workers Should Understand Globalization

globalized commodity; that is, Coca Cola, Nike and other products are sold everywhere from New York to Paris to Peking (Smith and ...

Servant Leadership

that the servant leader will bring harmony,, meaning and order (Sendjaya and Sarros, 2002). Both TDIndustires and Synovus are cons...

HOMER HICKAM JR.: EXAMPLES OF LEADERSHIP

a national science fair (Homer Hickam Online, 2006). With help from a supportive teacher and inspired by rocket genius Werner von ...

Considering Michael Fullan’s Book “Leading in a Culture of Change”

says something interesting about leaders, namely that although we face difficult and complex problems in all areas of our lives, w...

Focus Paper: Leadership

vendors, and the people doing the work (Brown, 2002, pp. 2-3). This individual exemplifies the characteristics of what Collins d...

A Comparison of Two Books on Non-Profit Leadership

that is aligned with management theory and practice. Obviously, the focus here is on the nonprofit organization, but it is also tr...

Character Analysis of Creon from Antigone

decreed a heros burial for Eteocles, but that no one, on pain of death, can offer funeral rites for Polynices and that his body sh...

History Of Leadership Theories

theory (ChangingMinds.org, Trait, 2007). Trait theory still insisted that people were born with certain traits that "are particul...

Gorbachev’s Reforms

capitalism. However, taking a perceptive that considers the goals that Gorbachev hoped to accomplish, that is, to provide the "sal...

An Analysis of Interviews with Principals

and believe that there must be strong leadership in any school. While I think that there are some principals who can be participa...

Who Really Makes Decision In Organizations?

same in all processes; to define the problem, to consider the alternatives, to evaluate the best course of action and to make the ...

Implications of Shell's Supply Chain Shift

supply Shells competitors as well, with items specific to the oil industry. Other suppliers are those offering more general items...

Does Leadership Impact on the Performance of an Organization?

Leadership in business is not really a topic until the twentieth century, before this it was a case of managing business; as such ...

Smither/Augustine As Mentor

the bulk of his presentation. However, he devotes the second chapter to setting the "stage of Augustines mentoring of spiritual le...

MANAGERS AND FUTURE SCENARIOS

- and what -- are these folks? In its most basic form, a stakeholder is an entity (an individual, group or business) that has a ve...

Richard Branson, Percy Barnevik and David Simon; Leadership Roles

a key role, and fits in with the idea put forward by Zaleznik (1977) where leaders will have followers and Kotter (1990) argues th...

Nutrition for Athletes

by telling them that everyones confused about what to eat, and then giving them solid guidelines. For instance, she says its impor...

CASE STUDY - HYPOTHETICAL U

help create and maintain a formal quality review process and provide the external controls (De Wit and Verhoeven, 2000). To ensure...

L.B.J. and the Longoria Affair

was grateful and Johnson, not wanting to miss the opportunity to make this a political event called the press and made many statem...

Barbara Kellerman: “Bad Leadership”

man was right" (Kellerman, 2004, p. 29). This is the dilemma which, Kellerman argues, no one wants to acknowledge: that bad, even ...

FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT AND LEADERSHIP ATTRIBUTES

achievement; capacity to motivate; courage and resolution; trustworthiness; decisiveness; self-confidence; assertiveness and adapt...

Applying Quinn's 8 Roles of his Competing Values Framework

This 7 page paper explores the 8 roles of leadership identified by Quinn in his Competing Values Framework (CVF), looking at each ...

Ethics and Leadership

leadership the determination of what is ethical leadership and how it can be practiced and identified will be placed into a more m...

Bill Lumbergh, the World’s Worst Manager

and emotionlessly micromanages his employees while engaging them with superficial small talk" (Office Space, 2008). Lumberghs la...

Communication and Leadership

to and with a group are the most essential in both unilateral and bilateral modes. Communication may also be formal or informal as...

PROJECT CASE STUDY - CARLY AND MORRIS

with Carly, as she never initiated a talk with Morris). Or they may not feel as though they have a safe outlet in which to vent th...

Servant Leadership: Application in Organizations

qualities of the ultimate Christian service leaders (Jesus and Paul) as including "personal sacrifice, humility, risk taking, and ...

The Effects of the 2008 Presidential Campaign

it is important to remember that the executive office is only one branch of government, and much has to do with which parties have...

Johnson & Johnson

he or she should be open, accountable to others, real and approachable; they dont consider themselves better than others because o...