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Distinguishing between management and leadership functions

There is an abundance of well-researched literature on the roles and functions of leadership and management. The perspectives vary from business, to military to education.

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Transformational and charismatic leadership in organizational change

A charismatic leader is often understood as a person who can best interact with those around him and his most powerful trait is that of making the people around him feel good about themselves.

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Humility versus professional will: cultivating level 5 leadership qualities

Level 5 Leadership: Which is harder to cultivate within yourself: humility or will? Personal humility and professional will are both excellent characters in a leader. In fact Jim Collins (2001) in his book Good to Great reported that these qualities are paramount in becoming a level 5 leader.

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Ethics and leadership in the Napster file-sharing controversy

During the early days of the Internet, one of the most popular activities online was downloading 'free' music from popular file-sharing websites such as Napster. The website provided access to seemingly innumerable popular songs in an easily-searchable database.

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The relationship between leadership practices and classroom learning outcomes

However, the exact relationship between learning and classroom leadership has not yet been defined. However, Drs. Brown (university of Saskatchewan) and Posner (Santa Clara University) investigate how the templates of learning and leadership interact and are related.

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Alan Mulally's creative leadership and innovation strategies at Ford Motors

Current Ford Motors CEO, Alan Mulally, provides a contemporary example of a corporate leader who has successfully applied business creativity and Innovation in connection with his recent assumption of leadership at Ford.

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Differences and overlap between management and leadership

Management and leadership are both essential aspects of modern business organizations. In principle, there are fundamental differences between them, but there is also significant overlap or similarity.

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The university as corporation, collegium, and community: tensions in contemporary higher education leadership

Since the Colonial college to the rise of the research university and forward to the complex post-secondary environment of today that is inclusive of community and technical college systems that have expanded and in which unique partnerships and alliances have formed between universities and…

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Psychological foundations of organizational leadership and success

In many ways, business organizations are reflections of those who create them and occupy positions of executive leadership and direction.

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Using the Keirsey temperament test to develop personal leadership beliefs

Teamwork is an essential aspect of optimizing organizational performance. According to the Keirsey Temperament test, I have an intuitive ability to facilitate teamwork and create a team atmosphere that can optimize organizational performance.

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