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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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Gandhi's charismatic leadership qualities and their influence

Some of the qualities admire in this great man includes his great belief in himself. Mahatma Gandhi did not have a peculiar physique; he was a poor orator, lived a simple life, and did everything to avoid publicity.

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Impact of poor leadership on healthcare worker morale and patient care

The study will concern itself with "the impact of poor leadership in the healthcare industry on workers' morale and patient care."

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Fred Olsen's leadership of the Olsen Group shipping company

The shipping business constitutes one of the most lucrative undertakings in the different regions of the globe. It has been associated with some of the most influential names in the history of this world.

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Bruce Reid's leadership challenges at Blake Memorial Hospital

Background- Bruce Reid is Blake Memorial Hospital's new CEO. He faces an incredibly challenging task of dual priorities -- returning the hospital to fiscal health and improving the quality of care at the hospital. He finds that indeed the hospital services are of rather poor quality.

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