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Clara Barton's leadership and contributions to nursing

Clara Barton. It is through reviewing her life, and understanding her leadership skills, that nurses can better discover how to become leaders themselves.

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Change management strategies in educational leadership and institutional culture

Current educational landscapes are rapidly changing as accountability looms over public schools. School leaders must develop strategies to increase achievement with all learners. Successfully managing these charges requires skills in change and innovation (Kotter, 1996; Dundon, 2002; Fullan, 2001).

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Corporate fraud and leadership failure at Tyco International

Tyco International grew into a conglomerate under Kozlowski's ruling. The executive's goal was at all times to maximize profits, regardless of the means. As such, he was the mastermind behind numerous and dubious acquisitions and mergers.

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Organizational culture and leadership in higher education institutions

This study examines a spectrum of organizational culture and leadership, organizational change, and system-wide organizational development theories with a focus on the underlying methods of achieving performance excellence in a university entity.

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Joel's leadership qualities and organizational behavior in real estate

Joel is a manager at a small real estate firm. He spends his free time playing golf and poker with his friends, some of who are firm members.

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Trait theory and psychodynamic approaches to leadership

Report of approximately 2000 words, detailing recommendation that show the theoretical views on leadership applied to a practitioner context within an organisation.

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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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