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MGI Case Study

the MGI team. However, despite several meetings there appears to be disagreement and disharmony, this appears to focus on both cul...

Article Analysis/School Leaders

results indicate significant cohesion between the programs approach to leadership instruction and all four levels of the Kirkpatri...

Med/Surg Leader, An Interview

embarrassment in front of others, withheld pay increases, and termination" (Marriner-Tomey, 2004, p. 118). While conferring reward...

A FAILURE OF PROJECT SCOPE: VISTA AND GEOPLEX

certainly the case for AT&T with its doomed Geoplex project, and Microsoft Corp. with its latest OS, optimistically called "Vista....

Nursing Leadership Scenario

defining the leadership characteristics that would be the focus of this educational effort (Pintar, Capuano and Rosser, 2007). As ...

Do Leaders Make a Real Difference in an Organizations' Performance?

argued that leadership still has a key role in encouraging and promoting those who do spearhead success. In other words, is it myt...

Why Youth and Community Workers Should Understand Globalization

globalized commodity; that is, Coca Cola, Nike and other products are sold everywhere from New York to Paris to Peking (Smith and ...

Character Analysis of Creon from Antigone

decreed a heros burial for Eteocles, but that no one, on pain of death, can offer funeral rites for Polynices and that his body sh...

History Of Leadership Theories

theory (ChangingMinds.org, Trait, 2007). Trait theory still insisted that people were born with certain traits that "are particul...

Focus Paper: Leadership

vendors, and the people doing the work (Brown, 2002, pp. 2-3). This individual exemplifies the characteristics of what Collins d...

A Comparison of Two Books on Non-Profit Leadership

that is aligned with management theory and practice. Obviously, the focus here is on the nonprofit organization, but it is also tr...

An Analysis of Interviews with Principals

and believe that there must be strong leadership in any school. While I think that there are some principals who can be participa...

What Are The Differences Between Managers And Leaders?

of these roles. Management has the task of planning, controlling and putting systems and structures in place (Kotter, 1990). Leade...

History Of Leadership Models

considers the times, the Dark Ages, brutality was a common thing. The Hebrew leaders, Abraham, Joseph and Moses are well known to...

Successful Project Teams

of an organisation will also benefit, as the project will be undertaken with other long term goals in mind. For example, a project...

A Comparative History of F.D. Roosevelt and Mackenzie King

an attorney ("William Lyon Mackenzie King," 2002). Roosevelt was also born to privilege. His family had been members of the aristo...

Bill Lumbergh, the World’s Worst Manager

and emotionlessly micromanages his employees while engaging them with superficial small talk" (Office Space, 2008). Lumberghs la...

Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium Standards

studies (Green, 2004). Because of the changes facing school administrators and leaders, many believe that preparation programs f...

Johnson & Johnson

he or she should be open, accountable to others, real and approachable; they dont consider themselves better than others because o...

Leadership and Mahatma Gandhi

human tendencies that fall alongside the more admirable qualities. These qualities, in fact, can be credited with the less praise...

"The Autobiography Of Benjamin Franklin" - Leadership

a pertinent example of Franklins (1996) fundamental attitude for meeting a challenge. Hard work, he contended, was the lifeblood ...

NAFTA, Success or Failure?

the U.S. has lost roughly 3 million manufacturing jobs over the last decade, as illegal immigration continues (Engardio, et al 57)...

Effective Educational Leadership Today

the globe. Scoppio (2002) reported research regarding trends conducted in the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada. This a...

Communication and Leadership

to and with a group are the most essential in both unilateral and bilateral modes. Communication may also be formal or informal as...

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 ...

Ethics and Leadership

leadership the determination of what is ethical leadership and how it can be practiced and identified will be placed into a more m...

Applying Quinn's 8 Roles of his Competing Values Framework

This 7 page paper explores the 8 roles of leadership identified by Quinn in his Competing Values Framework (CVF), looking at each ...

Considering Michael Fullan’s Book “Leading in a Culture of Change”

says something interesting about leaders, namely that although we face difficult and complex problems in all areas of our lives, w...

Leader-Member Exchange

treat individuals as individuals. Truckenbrodt (2000) offers a definition of this theory: "The leader-member exchange theo...

CASE STUDY - HYPOTHETICAL U

help create and maintain a formal quality review process and provide the external controls (De Wit and Verhoeven, 2000). To ensure...