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Failures of Leadership: Richard Scrushy

equally useful lessons about leadership. With that in mind, this paper will explore the leadership actions of one of recent histor...

Hewlett-Packard's Transformational Leadership

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

Cost Leadership

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

Organizational Ethics and the Value of Transformational Leadership

paper, one might well suppose they were an independent business consultant contacted by the leaders of Conglomo Corporation, an in...

Leadership and Social Work

social work, one can find many people idealistically devoted to causes that are important to them. It is not an easy path to becom...

Leading in Education

2009). Contingency styles consider the relationship between the leader and follower, the specific task, and power (Doyle & Smith, ...

Promoting Ethical Leadership

sort of person who can truly identify with the values the organization wishes to promote, and so on (Brown & Mitchell, 2010). Th...

Leadership and Spirituality

is based primarily upon Christian morals and values, due to Sanders belief that this particular set of values is well suited to de...

Transactional and Transformational Nursing Leadership

of the department and the achievement of goals by motivating staff through the offer of rewards (Sellgren, Ekvall and Tomson, 2006...

What Are The Differences Between Managers And Leaders?

This 9 page paper looks at the differences between managers and leaders, defining the role of managers and leaders and looking at ...

Educational Leadership Effectiveness

In five pages this essay considers what it takes to achieve effectiveness in educational leadership with an application of Scott's...

Successful Leadership Criteria

In eight pages this paper considers former CIA director William Casey's unsuccessful leadership compared with Southwest Airlines' ...

U.S. Army and Leadership Theory

In six pages this research paper examines the differences between transactional and transformational leadership and also applies t...

The Years 1960 to 1967 in the Life of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

In twelve pages an historical overview of Powell's career with emphasis upon his leadership of the House Committee on Education an...

Personal Qualities of Leadership Assessed

difficult and most people find it difficult to be open to the changes in their personal and work lives. The student could then de...

Attribution Theory, Leadership, and Organizational Behavior

Witte said, "We tried a more conciliatory management in 1995, both in the way we operated our mines, and in the way our head offic...

PRESIDENTIAL LEADERSHIP: AN ANALYSIS OF MCCAIN AND OBAMA

variety of different parties while promoting "their recombination in a loosely synthesized mix" (Skowronek, 1997, p. 449). Dwight ...

Organizational Leadership and Politics

ahead and enjoy the practices of the past (or those of recent government bailout recipients), but not to flaunt them too flamboyan...

Strategy, Leadership and Vision

own sake; vision provides a reason for undertaking time-consuming and often difficult change initiatives. Change Resistance...

Transformational Leadership/Nurse Retention

profession. The current nursing shortage-Why retention is important Basically, this shortage results from "massive disrupts in t...

Change Models And Leadership

are very similar and one will find the same or very similar components and steps across models. 2. Theory E and Theory O Leaders...

President John F. Kennedy’s Leadership

as being led into making decisions by events and circumstances rather than meeting them head-on. An example of this might be the ...

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 ...

Law Offices Of Jeter, Jackson, Guidry, And Boyer

more clients and are very likely to lose loyal employees. They should develop a plan to deal with Brad. a. The first step is to me...

Workplace Commitment and Transformational Leadership

A typical response laments the lack of cohesion and "togetherness" in a workplace that results from estrangement from leadership. ...

Struggling Organizations and the Power of Leadership

world, from London and Toronto to Tokyo and Bombay. The organization also makes extensive use of information technology in organiz...

Personal Reflection On Leadership

from easy to implement in an organization. Covey subsequently released a book called The 8th Habit, which has to do with personal ...

Roles in Education/Chapter Summaries

of community and religious leaders, as well as other stakeholders, is to facilitate and aid teachers in their jobs, not to try to ...

Personal Leadership Development Plan

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...

Co-Leadership

happen in small informal groups than in those groups within a formal organization or business firm. Even so, there are still found...