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Leadership styles and effectiveness in healthcare organizations

Innovations in technology and telecommunications in recent years have provided the healthcare industry with the ability to deliver high quality services that have improved the quality of life for Americans of all ages.

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Leadership influence processes exemplified by Andrea Jung and Indra Nooyi

The field of management theory has exploded as of late, with many new and different frameworks proposed to understand how and why leaders make the decisions they make, the effects that these decisions have on an organization as well as on the leaders themselves, and how to possibly make better…

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Leadership through solution-oriented decision making and innovation

What are the most valuable concepts in solution-oriented decision making? Solution-oriented decision making focuses on the need for leadership to promote innovative thinking at every level of an organization.

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Distinguishing leadership and management in organizations

There is a lot of confusion and debate around the topics of leadership and management. These two terms have often been interchanged and there is not much clarity in research with the management literature using varied definitions.

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How leadership behavior and strategy have evolved in the twenty-first century

A retrospective look at the business community will reveal that leadership is no longer today what is used to be one or two decades ago. Numerous new features have emerged, generally as a response to the developing requirements.

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Leadership as learned behavior, not innate ability

Leaders are born and made. This is what Kouzes and Posner believe in. However, an important dimension to their belief is the statement that leadership is not a gene. Rather than an innate set of skills and abilities, which is widely believed to be the case, leadership is honed.

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Situational leadership and contingency models in modern organizational theory

Leadership has been ongoing for centuries, but in modern times several theories have emerged that have become predominant leadership thought. One of these is situational leadership.

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Leadership strategies for managing distributed virtual teams effectively

Developing a virtual team is more than just assembling a global team of experts who over time have proven they can work for the most part autonomously on complex tasks yet also contribute to larger project-team goals.

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Leadership in academia: decision-making, influence, and organizational advancement

The issue of leadership in the American university is of the utmost importance as the university continues to meet the changing needs of contemporary society.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower's strategic leadership competencies during World War II

General Eisenhower is one of the most notable personalities in United States history who has managed to leave its imprint on both military as well as politics. Much has been said about Dwight D.

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