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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...
Positive interdependence is a keystone of effective teams. Positive interdependence means that members of the team believe their s...
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...
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 ...
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...
differences as a central element in maintaining the necessity for particular action. Machiavellis perspectives on morality expres...
become outdated by the time the text reached print, but on the basis of principles that, according to the author, are "universal a...
leadership and attempt to present a more nuanced approach to the skills or qualities associated with leaders in the personal sense...
and its basic conceit, around which the paper will be based. The primary theme of Goodwins work is that the presidency of Abraham ...
sort of person who can truly identify with the values the organization wishes to promote, and so on (Brown & Mitchell, 2010). Th...
around the ten-dollar mark, but books that are significantly lower are often perceived as being of a reduced value and people may ...
equally useful lessons about leadership. With that in mind, this paper will explore the leadership actions of one of recent histor...
the value of leadership might strive to emphasize this capacity of emotional intelligence among all organizational leaders. This...
is Lou Platt, who was promoted to a position of leadership in 1992, after serving with the company for some 26 years (OToole, 2000...
social work, one can find many people idealistically devoted to causes that are important to them. It is not an easy path to becom...
organization when the leadership is shared between every member of the organization, with each member having responsibility and ac...
2009). Contingency styles consider the relationship between the leader and follower, the specific task, and power (Doyle & Smith, ...
more affordable, and in todays world, integrating computers into ones business architecture is a matter of necessity rather than p...
A typical response laments the lack of cohesion and "togetherness" in a workplace that results from estrangement from leadership. ...
is based primarily upon Christian morals and values, due to Sanders belief that this particular set of values is well suited to de...
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...
that Gately was flying with a chipped vertebrae and was in severe pain. One of Gardners leadership attributes is physical vitality...
for this element. Low to moderate maturity employees have low motivation and require more direction and more personal attention. M...