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an interesting text on leadership in that it attempts to achieve a synthesis of classical leadership ideals with modern contempora...
orders and who commands total discipline, like a military commander. It is not difficult to understand from where such a concept e...
Unfortunately, unlike quantitative skills such as financial analysis, risk assessment, project management, and so on, leadership i...
controversial. This is because, typically speaking, the study of ethics concerns itself with abstracted justifications of human ac...
have taken the front seat like at no other time in history. Many successful CEOs and executives have become celebrities in their o...
A typical response laments the lack of cohesion and "togetherness" in a workplace that results from estrangement from leadership. ...
world, from London and Toronto to Tokyo and Bombay. The organization also makes extensive use of information technology in organiz...
of the department and the achievement of goals by motivating staff through the offer of rewards (Sellgren, Ekvall and Tomson, 2006...
transformational leadership (Bass, 1990). Transactional leadership, in general, is a leadership approach focused on processes and ...
however, it is important that leadership development include everyone in the organization (Putney, 2011). It is, of course, unreas...
social work, one can find many people idealistically devoted to causes that are important to them. It is not an easy path to becom...
film, McNamara discusses several of the primary lessons to be learned from wartime experience, which are covered in detail in his ...
equated with a leaders pattern of interactions that actually serves to make the group more powerful, developed and satisfied. Such...
well, which was located 41 miles from the Louisiana coast (Hoffman and Jennings, 2010). The disaster struck on 20 April 2010 durin...
a transformational leadership model being fostered. This is the model this student wants to adopt, however, she needs more knowled...
DePree adopted a model of leadership that pictures the leader as both inspiring and serving (Budman, 2002). Such a framework for l...
are they afraid of difficult situations. They learn from these. Effective leaders are first to adopt innovations. Leaders step bac...
no longer met the demands of the business environment" (Lawler and Worley, 2006; p. 1). They had failed to change at a time when ...
and one they refer to as an "integrated approach" (NESGFOA, 2006). Agencies using the just-in-time approach are training people ...
there will be a greater level of collectivism in areas which have are communist culture, such as China, is Muslim areas and those ...
service rather than on profit. Chappell has indicated that he wants his managers "to know that there are alternatives to plotting...
with humanity, that is, to be humanistic in ones orientation refers to the principles of humanism, which has been given a variety ...
2001 at its Fayetteville, North Carolina call center (Hold the Phone, 2002). DiversityInc Magazine rejects euphemism, whit...
Sacrificial leadership: Jesus sacrificed Himself for all of mankind (Chandra, 2004). Servant leadership is most often associated...
to ensure that the rules were obeyed and the productively was maintained or increased. (Huczyniski and Buchanan, 2003). The focu...
ability to empower and grow people" (Gokenbach, 2003, p. 8). Over the past decade, there have been numerous studies that have fou...
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...
et al, 2004). As the authors point out, an essential component of transformational leadership is to acknowledge and consider diff...
person they want to be (Drucker in Hesselbein et al, 1997). Charles Handy, another recognised management Guru cites the short-sigh...