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Joseph's virtues and faithful leadership in ancient Egypt

In his adult life and prophetic ministry, Joseph not only exemplified several fundamental virtues but also more directly served the will of God by extracting the Israelites from famine-struck Canaan and establishing them for a few generations among the Egyptians.

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The four functions of management and transformational leadership traits

The four traditional roles of managers are planning, organizing, leading and controlling. In reality, the managerial role is much more complex than these distinct four phases indicate as they often overlap, one over the over, in rapid succession.

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Hitler's purge of the SA leadership on the Night of Long Knives

Summary of Evidence. "The Night of the Long Knives" (also known as "Operation Hummingbird" or "Rohm-Putsch" in Germany) occurred on the days between June 30 and July 2, 1934, when the Nazi regime committed a series of political executions.

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Fred Smith's military-influenced leadership style at FedEx

Fred Smith started FedEx in the early 1970s, only two years removed from service in Vietnam in the Marine Corps. Still the leader of the company today, Smith has built one of the world's most successful logistics firm on leadership principles derived from his experiences in the Marines.

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Bass and Avolio's theory of transformational leadership in organizations

Improving Organizational Effectiveness Through Transformational Leadership by B.M. Bass and B.J.

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McMaster's analysis of military leadership failures during early Vietnam War decision-making

New York: HarperCollins, 1997. Pp. 446. . Illus., notes, biblio., index. $27.50. ISBN:0-06-018795-6. The Vietnam War was a traumatic experience for the United States. America lost 58,000 dead, hundreds of thousands wounded.

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Shirley Peddy's art of mentoring and organizational leadership

Mentoring is a subset of leadership, an experience too often relegated to the context of situations too soft to be considered corporate. However, Shirley Peddy shows that mentoring is one of the core facets of enterprise-level leadership.

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Golda Meir's multinational upbringing and political leadership

Golda Meir's multinational upbringing, along with her visionary spirit, made her one of the most influential leaders in the twentieth century.

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Principal Ruth Pohlman's instructional leadership at Rush Strong Elementary

Ruth Pohlman, the principal of Rush Strong Elementary in Jefferson County, Tennessee, brings several decades of experience as an educator and an administrator with her every day to her job at the kindergarten through eighth-grade institution.

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INTJ personality type and suitability for financial leadership roles

According to my Jungian personality type analysis, I am classified as an INTJ (Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking, and Judging) individual. An INTJ is someone who is skeptical, critical, independent, determined, and often stubborn, and quite task-oriented.

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