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some boards of directors are not focusing just on total returns but rather, are thinking about metrics such as executive-developme...

leaders (Emery & Barker, 2007). Contact personnel were from the banking and food store organizations. The third article by Brede...

around the ten-dollar mark, but books that are significantly lower are often perceived as being of a reduced value and people may ...

is Lou Platt, who was promoted to a position of leadership in 1992, after serving with the company for some 26 years (OToole, 2000...

Classical leaders tended to view the end as the ultimate goal, rather than focusing on the means to the end (Crawford and Brungard...

well, which was located 41 miles from the Louisiana coast (Hoffman and Jennings, 2010). The disaster struck on 20 April 2010 durin...

resources for competitive advantage. For some organizations, this means spending more on material resources. Truly competitive org...

This analytical paper concludes that the stress is different today, and this results in lax leadership at home, and stronger leade...

situation, whereas transformational leaders assign higher importance to people and emotional needs (Avolio & Yammarino, 2002). The...

Most academics promote the premise that one is born with leadership ability or not but management can be taught. When he discusse...

within the course of ones career as a leader. Differing models of leadership all hope to achieve the same outcome of conferring a ...

for this element. Low to moderate maturity employees have low motivation and require more direction and more personal attention. M...

that Gately was flying with a chipped vertebrae and was in severe pain. One of Gardners leadership attributes is physical vitality...

survey. Encouraging nurses to cultivate an inquiring attitude The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) indicates ...

expected to perform the task in their machine like manner. The tasks were broken down into the smallest components which would acq...

Leadership and Management In the past a leader and a manager were seen as one and the same thing, with the advent of scientific ma...

or some sort of business "disguise." Rather it is a state of being in which the ultimate conclusion is the melding of multiple ag...

leadership, managers let subordinates know what is expected of them, and what they can hope to receive if they meet specific objec...

This paper examines the corporate leadership climb of Jack Welch and the management techniques his autobiography provides with com...

be accomplished - such as within a department that has to keep pace with the rest of the organization - even individual managers c...

system that had failed (Keppler Associates, nd). Had the men become over-anxious, they would use more oxygen, thereby shortening t...

extend the list to five. Those functions are planning, organizing, staffing, directing and controlling. In the past, managers ha...

to be the same for leaders across contexts or cultures and second, some believe leadership skills cannot be taught or trained (Mar...

with equipment and teaching and directing from a distance, decision making and general management will be more effective. In term...

person they want to be (Drucker in Hesselbein et al, 1997). Charles Handy, another recognised management Guru cites the short-sigh...

This 8 page paper is written in 2 parts,. The first part looks at a Turkish business; Çolakoglu A.S, a yarn manufacturer, and exam...

et al, 2004). As the authors point out, an essential component of transformational leadership is to acknowledge and consider diff...

distrust, as such the style (Kotter, 1999) is one that does not seek to use an autocratic style and allows the employees to be hea...

to be so remote as to be unapproachable (Manchester 5). He is described as wrapping "himself in a cloak of dignified aloofness" (M...

to ensure that the rules were obeyed and the productively was maintained or increased. (Huczyniski and Buchanan, 2003). The focu...