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things get done and how, it is the personality of the organization. This firehouse has lapsed into a culture based on competition ...

Westerners tend, in general, to be more forceful in their communication styles than do those of Asian background. A Japanese work...

What is particularly interesting about these observations as they relate to such works as Carson McCullers A Member of the Wedding...

and maintain the number one position they need to understand the market, the position within that market and the influences that a...

school and through friendships. The student has been involved in the pharmaceutical industry in the past and likely knows many peo...

He is at once authoritarian and participatory. His orders to everyone were to reduce costs and increase revenue and he is open to ...

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

In five pages this report examines ethical leadership and the responsibilities that define such leadership. Four sources are cite...

the same growth and development experiences they give men (Pinder, 2005; Stelter, 2002). There is an ongoing debate that suggests...

This should and will be changed later but right now, they have a deadline set. The COO will need to begin by letting the three man...

teams and why it is essential, there is nothing better than teaching through example. The book does not end there. In fact, the an...

a loose canon, and the others are not sure they want her around during the IPO process. Meanwhile, marketing director Char...

provides guidance in decision making as well, ensuring that the organization stays on the track that its leaders have predetermine...

goals. However, most, if not all projects involve four phases: the initiation of the project, planning the projects activities, ex...

The writer chooses four modern business leaders and contrasts their different approaches to leadership to demonstrate the variety ...

undesirable, the style works. Jobs is a great leader because he combines the basic functions of management and does them well with...

to success. This is an aspect that authors Rooke and Torbert (2005) introduced some years ago, is the concept of "action logic," i...

deciding what to do about it (Taylor, 2009, p. 44). Mulally has made some risky moves, such as increasing the companys debt in o...

One of the theories from the mid-1990s that is still getting a lot of press is Golemans introduction of emotional intelligence as ...

and people were referred to as sheep: "When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless,...

by a strong set of values resolves issues before we even really think about them. A person cannot really be a good leader withou...

because it tries to find a resolution that is acceptable to all parties (Bizman and Yinon, 2004). Part of the leadership plan wou...

about coping with change" (Bencivenga, 2002). These definitions seem to encompass what other authors and theorists and even practi...

of people". This is a view with agrees with Drucker, who does not believe that leaders can be defined merely by personality, but t...

he said that management is about "coping with complexity [while] leadership is about coping with change" (Bencivenga, 2002). Tea...

specific area being considered, e.g., organizations, business, economy, culture, political or other areas, has flourished and grow...

Childs (1972) it is the leader, in the form of the CEO that is responsible for making the strategic choices within an organization...

and involvement in decision making. This is a very common sense type approach. It makes sense that a highly motivated and highly...

personal values, personality, and on other beliefs. A leaders philosophy of leadership will be observed in his leadership style an...

It was following this decision and an approach by IBM that the firm acquired IBMs PC division for $1,74 billion (Schuman, 2010)....