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Steve Jobs' leadership and Apple's rise to world's most valuable company

There are two current events that make a discussion of Steve Jobs career an especially interesting endeavor. The first is that the co-founder and notorious Apple visionary stepped down as the company's chief executive (Zweig, 2011). Shortly after Jobs stepped down he passed away.

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Self-reflection on the Entrepreneurial Dynamic Leadership Process model

I have found the Entrepreneurial Dynamic Leadership Process (EDLP) model to be very helpful and relevant in reviewing my own leadership experiences and behaviors so far in my life. I really appreciate the model's emphasis on self-leadership.

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Position management and leadership discretion in organizational bubbles

As I mentioned in first email, the topic for our discussion today is "position management." Just to be sure we are on the same page, let me define that for us.

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Solon's reforms and leadership in ancient Athens

Greek Society, despite it being an ancient civilization, was a very complex society, which functioned under laws and a Constitution.

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Women's resistance and leadership in Latin American independence movements

Women played an unheralded, unsung role in the history of Latin America. Just as women's roles in global history has been relegated to domestic servitude, much of what women did in Latin America was household-related. Farming was also a female duty (Chasteen).

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Alan Mulally's leadership transformation of Ford Motor Company

Alan Mulally has transformed Ford Motor Company from a firm that only a few short years ago was floundering in an industry-wide morass of mismanagement, inefficiencies and no sense of direction.

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Churchill's leadership and speeches during the Battle of Britain

"If we fail, then the whole world, including the United States…will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age." Winston Churchill was truly one of the great communicators of history at a time when inspiring leadership had never been needed so much.

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Ethics and leadership challenges in the U.S. Army

Ethics matter in any kind of business or organization, but they are especially significant when it comes to the U.S. Army (Blackburn, 2001). The reason behind this involves the chain of command and the risk to life and limb that are such large parts of military life.

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Level three leadership and employee engagement effectiveness

An effective leader takes into consideration the thoughts and values of those directly answerable to him. He is capable of influencing the basic values, assumptions, beliefs, and expectations that his/her subjects subscribe to with regard to how the world should be.

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Aligning performance management with leadership strategy at Porter Novelli

For Porter Novelli, even as the company advanced its objectives and improved its market orientation, its Human Resource strategy appeared to lag behind. It is for this reason that the firm began to investigate ways of linking its Human Resource orientation with its overall business strategy.

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