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Emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills development annotated bibliography

Koda, S. (2001) Schooling your emotions. The Hindu. This article outlines the role that managing your emotions can play in your career success. The author offers strategies for the management of emotions and provides insight into some winning tactics.

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Essential qualities of effective leaders in Machiavelli's The Prince

According the Machiavelli, what qualities are the most important for an effective leader to possess? Why?

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Michie Slaughter's seven principles for building entrepreneurial organizations

Keys to Shaping the Entrepreneurial Organization," is a summary of all the things about making one's own way in business that the author, Michie P. Slaughter, learned from his mentors.

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Five actions for consolidating organizational change through employee autonomy

The five most successful approaches to consolidating change within an organization center on providing employees with the opportunity to gain autonomy, mastery, and purpose (Ramsey, 2010).

~3 min read

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Patrick Lencioni's five temptations of the CEO analyzed

With the proliferation of social networks, instant celebrity from Facebook, Twitter, Facebook and other social media outlets, these temptations are for many CEOs never been stronger.

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General Motors' recovery strategy following its 2009 bankruptcy

General Motors was taken over by the United States government in the spring of 2009 after filing the second-largest bankruptcy in the history of the United States.

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Using sociograms to identify leaders and popularity in group dynamics

As we observe different people in different positions to determine their interaction with each other we can clearly determine who the leader of a group is, who the person most others go to is, and who the person to whom nobody relates to is.

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Principal hiring practices and superintendent selection criteria

Within contemporary American public education, there are many variables that determine the nature and quality of educational instruction and institutional management. Undoubtedly, one of the most important is the school principal.

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Root causes of Chattanooga Ice Cream Company's sales decline

The Chattanooga Ice Cream Company is one of three divisions of the Chattanooga Food Corporation, founded in 1936 by the grandfather of its current division president, Charlie Moore (Sloane, 2003).

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Dell's business model and competitive challenges in 2008

For its entire existence, Dell has operated with the same strategy. The company is a differentiated producer of personal computers. The focal point of Dell's differentiation is that it custom-builds the computers to order.

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