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Essays 1891 - 1920

Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein and the Concept of Leadership

Rico hails from a privileged background, and Heinlein makes it clear that only through Johnnies military indoctrination in Officer...

Welch as CEO of GE

immediately went to work at GE Plastics in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. In 1981, Welch became CEO and chairman for General Electrics...

Leadership and Motivation

some sort of motivational program, whether it is one that is planned and implemented or it is more informal as is the case in my v...

Natural Born Leaders

Leadership skills are something that can be learned throughout our lifetime. Life itself, in fact, is often the most effective to...

Corporate Leadership: Meg Whitman

for her considerable work and success as the CEO of eBay. However, Whitman was not always a part of this international internet ph...

A Change in the Leadership Style at Ford

This paper examines the way change took place in Ford, moving towards a more participative style. The first section assessing the ...

Leading with Ethics

Institute presents reports on an regular basis of the most ethical companies in the world and each report reaffirms the fact that ...

Development of Leadership

In five pages this paper discusses leadership enhancement and how strengths can be effectively developed. Ten sources are cited i...

Methods of Management

studies conducted on what makes an effective manager. As a matter of fact, industrial psychologists and behavioral scientists are...

Leadership Implications of Nonverbal Communication

In fifteen pages this paper discusses the leadership implications of nonverbal communication in a consideration of various techniq...

Kiersey's ESTJ Guardian Personality Type and Leadership Development

In five pages this paper discusses the ESTJ or guardian type of personality in an application of Kiersey's personality assessments...

'Gilgamesh,' 'Beowulf,' and Leadership

In 5 pages the leadership concept is examined within the context of these 2 Medieval stories. There are no other sources listed....

Leadership Skills and Community College President Performance - A Research Proposal

That said, a few quality studies have been carried out to attempt to isolate which particular leadership skills have the most impa...

Power and Organizational Culture

management, there exist several problems with the overall concept, including the extent of ambiguity in relation to definition and...

Leadershi Behavior and Style Evolution

In eight pages management and leadership styles are examined with a consideration of theories by Hersey and Blanchard, Blake and M...

Higher Education Vocations and Its Effects

In forty pages this literature review considers how higher education vocations are affected by such factors as motivation, the pro...

Small Group Communications in the Film St. Elmo's Fire

their dreams. Initially it would seem that the characters of this movie would hardly be called a "hot group." However, when we e...

Theories of Max Weber

this topic and explain why it is a necessary evil. Webers interest in the nature of power and authority, and his preoccupation wit...

Employee Retention Through Leadership

because they allow staff to operate with a greater degree of autonomy. When leaders and managers adopt a horizontal culture of aut...

ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND LEADERSHIP QUESTIONS

relationship between transformational leaders and their followers and implementation behavior (Michaelis et al, 2010). In ...

Colombia and La Violencia

In nine pages the liberal leadership of Jorge Gaitan is discussed in an examination of the La Violencia period of Colombian histor...

An Examination of Red Azalea by Anchee Min

in Shanghai and how quickly she had to take responsibility. She writes, "I was an adult since the age of five" (1). She goes on to...

Champion of Civil Rights: W.E.B. Du Bois

to the early twentieth-century social mainstream. Acceptance, however, does not initiate social change, and therefore the Jamaica...

Leadership Comparison

off 20 percent of its employees and eliminating layers of bureaucracy. He developed an initiative to eliminate bureaucracy called ...

ACTING AS A PERSON OF RESTORATIVE JUSTICE AND FORGIVENESS: AN ESSAY

the same time, she begins criticizing the other team members and also stoops to using mild racial slurs toward the others. Cathy o...

Virgin Group Leader

and valleys (biography.com, 2011). His leadership principles are: "people matter" and "small is beautiful" (de Vries and Treacy,...

Governance of Municipalities

are areas around a city that are not incorporated into that municipality. Each state has its own criteria for an area to be design...

Application of Leadership and Management Theories in a Financial Institution

The role of both leadership and management is discussed, looking at similarities and differences as well as various approaches to ...

Policing: Solving Problems

about the problem. Once the problem is discretely defined through analysis, the team would generate possible solutions through bra...

Postive Deviance, Quantum Theory and Leadership

change. In any clinical setting, it is beneficial to implement evidence-based practices. A plan needs to be developed that inclu...