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Healthy People 2020 diabetes objectives: community engagement and leadership approaches

The Healthy People 2020 diabetes objectives are aimed at reducing the economic burden that diabetes mellitus puts on victims. They are also designed to improve the quality of life of people suffering from the condition and those that are at high risk of developing the health complication.

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Balancing righteousness and gain in commercial real estate leadership

I went into commercial real estate in New York City in order to take over for my father's company, which is what he had always wanted and encouraged me to do.

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Team dynamics, leadership, and conflict resolution in workplace groups

This is a really helpful concept because a lot of emphasis in today's business world is placed on the need to work in groups -- but sometimes working with a group is not the best idea.

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Ethics, leadership, and corporate social responsibility in African organizations

The evolution of the modern business environment has led to the rapid development of the concept of leadership as well as the expectations that are placed on contemporary for-profit and not-for-profit organizational leadership.

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Developing creativity through the four P's of leadership

Someone who is not creative probably will not be able to lead effectively, because so much of what it means to be a good leader correlates with what it means to be a creative person.

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Improving Toyota's quality control department through reorganization and leadership

With morale and performance diminishing at Toyota's quality control department, a change in the way things are done is crucial.

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Maurice Williams and crisis management in foster care leadership

Maurice Williams is the former director of Treatment Foster Care. He points out “hundreds of problems that need to be solved” each and every day (“Structural Framework: Authority and Supervision,” 2013, p. 1).

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Career progression in business intelligence and data warehouse leadership

Current Position · Head the company’s Business Intelligence reporting function, which brings its BI/Data Warehouse software development division and corporate heads together, in order to drive strategy, and devise and execute decision support systems.

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Virtue ethics and emotional intelligence as foundations for effective leadership

Aligning with the interests and concerns of one’s people is part of what helps to make a leader effective, as Calhoun and Damm (2015) point out. The other part of what makes a leader effective is vision and ability—and the two go together, just like a theory and experiment go together.

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Kotter's change management model and stakeholder engagement in school leadership

Change management theory, especially Kotter’s 8-step model, acknowledges the essence of formulating a vision for change (Duignan, 2007). A vision for change lays down the state the organisation desires to achieve in the future.

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