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Fred I. Greenstein's analysis of presidential leadership styles from FDR to Obama

Fred I. Greenstein, The Presidential Difference: Leadership Style from FDR to Barack Obama, Third Edition. Princeton University Press, 2009.

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Fiedler's contingency theory and limitations in organizational leadership

The overarching claim of Fiedler's contingency theory is that leadership is defined more directly by the situation or context into which a leader is thrust than by the nature of the leader himself. The basic premise is that leaders will define themselves in low-stress and high-stress situations.

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Resilience: the most important area of modern military leadership training

The military life is invariably a stressful one and service in the modern military brings unique psychological and physical stresses to troops. According to Bartone & Armstrong (2009), the most important character that must be fostered in contemporary training is that of resilience.

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Peter Senge's personal mastery and mental models in leadership development

What is important about this is that the vision needs to be clear, along with the recognition of reality as a current situation that can and must change. The tension between these two is then what causes the individual to use his or her creativity to make changes towards the vision.

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Applying Pfeffer and Salancik's theory to CIA resource management and leadership

Pfeffer & Salanick (1978) proposed many important ideas in their examination of management theory's incorporation of external elements and controls. While the information contained in this reading are useful in some manner, their perspective remains incomplete and one sided in many ways.

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Dr. M's nursing leadership challenges in a rapidly expanding hospital system

The hospital has a very strong reputation within the community and an over hundred-year history. The hospital has just been purchased by a university hospital system with an equally stalwart reputation.

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Gandhi's idealism and practice of non-violence as leadership

Gandhi as the figure of a leader. In this sense, particular emphasis will be attributed not to certain political events in Gandhi's life but rather to conceptual ideas that shaped his purposes.

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Robert Utley's *The Lance and the Shield*: life and leadership of Sitting Bull

Most Americans have some vague idea of who Sitting Bull was - some image that can be dredged up out of memory of a solemn man, sitting very upright, with all the cares of a people written across his face.

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Transitioning organizational behavior from hierarchical management to team-based leadership

Traditionally, organizational behavior has been defined as understanding human behavior and the means of influencing individuals, singularly and in work groups. Hierarchical control and hierarchical referral have been common practice.

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Parkland Hospital: from Civil War reconstruction to modern leadership

The history of the City of Dallas would hardly be complete without consideration of Parkland Hospital and its contributions to the Dallas community. Parkland Hospital began in the Civil War Reconstruction era and has always maintained operations that were state of the art for the time.

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