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Franklin Roosevelt's transformative leadership during the Great Depression and World War II

Discuss why a consideration of Franklin Roosevelt's leadership at a former point in time is important to an understanding of leadership today.

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Emotional intelligence in primal leadership and organizational performance

Goleman et al. (2001) revealed much useful information in discussing their ideas about primal leadership. Eventually this group developed an argument about emotional intelligence and discussed this idea as an extremely important, yet mostly overlooked component of workplace leadership.

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Sir Richard Branson's authentic and transformational leadership style effectiveness

Describe Branson's leadership style in terms of the leadership models addressed in Chapters 10 and 11 and evaluate the likely effectiveness of that style in the U.S. today.

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Organizational change cycle: leadership, vision, and implementation stages

As literature (Anderson 2001, Gelinas 1998, Olson 2001, Smith 1997) refers that process of organizational change starts from establishing a committed leadership through the need for and vision of the change to taking action, supervising the improvement and closing out the change.

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Women's activism and leadership in the Arab Spring revolutions

The Arab Spring was a rude awakening for the world. It brought to light how simmering discontent among the masses can erupt into a volcano on the pretext of a seemingly insignificant event.

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Lloyd Blankfein's leadership at Goldman Sachs and moral responsibility

Llyod Blankfein is the current chief executive officer (CEO) of Glodman Sachs and has held that position since 2006. Blankfein is a native of the Bronx (New York City) attended Harvard Law School, graduating in 1979 with a Juris Doctor degree.

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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.

~6 min read

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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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