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Risk leadership and organizational change: a book review

Brungardt, CL & Crawford, CB (1999). Risk Leadership: The Courage to Confront and Challenge. Longmont, CO: Rocky Mountain Press.

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Transformational leadership and change management at Cincom Systems

New developments in an industry are as disruptive as the fundamental re-ordering of their economics with a corresponding shift in the balance of political power that defines boundaries of influence.

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Gender consciousness and leadership bias in managerial selection

Without actually considering misogynists, it is a fact that there is a general tendency to doubt a woman's capacity of being a leader, although this has clearly been proven wrong by the actual facts.

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Military leadership attributes and inspiration: Rommel and Schwarzkopf

Over the last several years, the issue of effective military leadership has been continually brought to the forefront. This is because there has been a transformation in the way technology and battlefield tactics are being utilized.

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Participative leadership style: effectiveness and organizational contexts

Each and every leader exhibits a certain pattern of behavior which dictates the way he or she reacts to people or situations. It is this behavior pattern that further determines the approach a leader adopts in seeking to influence others towards goal accomplishment.

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The leadership style and influence of Jack Welch at General Electric

The biggest difference between managers and leaders is the way in which they motivate the people who work or follow them. Leaders have management jobs, but they realize that they cannot buy loyalty, especially to get people to follow them down a difficult path, and so they act as leaders too.

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Team leadership at Sony: case study in project management

Many organizations have inspired to a team-based structure within the last twenty years. In some cases the teams are independent or leaderless. But few companies have grown to be really victorious with their independent teams.

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Three mandates of strategic leadership in organizational transformation

As we reflect to the course material, there are several mandates emerge about the strategic leaders. First, the most basic roles in strategic leadership is defining the vision and the direction of business, a construct that serves as the foundation for organization behavior.

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Emotional intelligence and workflow management in leadership effectiveness

"Primal Leadership" by Daniel Goleman applies the concepts of emotional intelligence to leadership. The book postulates that a leader must spread positivity and radiate energy and enthusiasm and not negativity and dissonance in order to lead an organization towards success.

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Instructional leadership paradigm in public school administration

According to the article, "Leadership Characteristics that Promote School Change," authored by the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory, one of the most currently problematic aspects of the paradigm of leadership offered for public school administers is that in all educational organizations…

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