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Carley Fiorina's leadership and the Compaq merger at Hewlett Packard

Carley Fiorina arrived at Hewlett Packard in 1999 after having a successful career at Lucent and AT&T. Even before she moved into the CEO's office, she had several obstacles that she had to overcome. Fiorina took over HP at the height of the tech boom.

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Drucker and Collins on ethical leadership and results

Peter Drucker believes that leadership is not just about making tremendous speeches to gain popularity among the workers. It boils down to results and not an individual attribute. Many of the leaders in governments and companies in the world fail in regard of many people expectations.

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Transition to team leadership and implementing a lessons learned process

Change is often inevitable. Indeed, in today's increasingly competitive marketplace, businesses must embrace change or perish. Change in this case could assume various dimensions including the implementation of various cost cutting measures, adoption of new technology, etc.

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Kaiser Permanente's email security breach: leadership response and investigation

Why did Kaiser Permanente leadership react so quickly to mitigate the possible damage done by the breach?

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Transcultural nursing and effective leadership in multicultural healthcare settings

Healthcare practitioners have a wide range of theoretical models to draw on in formulating clinical interventions, and nurses in particular have numerous grand theories that can help guide their practice in challenging settings.

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Passive-aggressive personality disorder in organizational leadership roles

Many behaviors that are emotion driven are aimed at increasing favorable input, or avoiding/minimizing unfavorable input. These behaviors are often determined by how an individual perceives their current needs are being met.

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The relationship between leadership and organizational climate

I would think being part of an organization with an integrated purpose, strong focus on the advancement of the individual, and respect for others would be a great place to work.

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South Africa's economic leadership and institutional infrastructure in Africa

South Africa is the economic leader in the continent in terms of industrial output and mineral production (Brand South Africa 2012). It produces a large part of the electricity in Africa. Its natural resources are robust.

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The relationship between personality types and transformational leadership effectiveness

Most of the time, it is really not that difficult for some people to easily recognize differences of the other people. Others' working ways can be totally different from one's own. At times they can even be annoying.

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Environmental adaptation and transformational leadership in schools

The environmental approach is described as a reactive process because it focuses on what has already taken place (or is taking place) in the current environment and uses that to determine what should be done next.

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