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Developing creativity through the four P's of leadership

Someone who is not creative probably will not be able to lead effectively, because so much of what it means to be a good leader correlates with what it means to be a creative person.

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Improving Toyota's quality control department through reorganization and leadership

With morale and performance diminishing at Toyota's quality control department, a change in the way things are done is crucial.

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Maurice Williams and crisis management in foster care leadership

Maurice Williams is the former director of Treatment Foster Care. He points out “hundreds of problems that need to be solved” each and every day (“Structural Framework: Authority and Supervision,” 2013, p. 1).

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Career progression in business intelligence and data warehouse leadership

Current Position · Head the company’s Business Intelligence reporting function, which brings its BI/Data Warehouse software development division and corporate heads together, in order to drive strategy, and devise and execute decision support systems.

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Virtue ethics and emotional intelligence as foundations for effective leadership

Aligning with the interests and concerns of one’s people is part of what helps to make a leader effective, as Calhoun and Damm (2015) point out. The other part of what makes a leader effective is vision and ability—and the two go together, just like a theory and experiment go together.

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Kotter's change management model and stakeholder engagement in school leadership

Change management theory, especially Kotter’s 8-step model, acknowledges the essence of formulating a vision for change (Duignan, 2007). A vision for change lays down the state the organisation desires to achieve in the future.

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The United Methodist Church's moral compass and leadership improvement

A moral compass refers to the attributes that individuals and groups use to guide their lives with a sense of purpose and direction.[footnoteRef:2] Although different faiths subscribe to various types of “moral compass points,” the moral compass advocated by the United Methodist Church provides a…

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Country Joe's Sporting Goods competitive strategy and leadership transition plan

Executive Summary The vision, mission and value statements of the company. The vision statement of the Country Joe’s Sporting Goods and More, Inc. (hereinafter alternatively “the company”) is broadly “THE GREAT OUTDOORS … PASS IT ON!” (emphasis in the original) (Our mission, 2017, para. 2).

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Comparing ASCD and Seven Sides approaches to educational leadership

An abundance of resources and tools online is available to help aspiring educational leaders like me to understand the roles and responsibilities of administration and leadership.

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My personal code of ethics: the Golden Rule and servant leadership

Introduction A company’s code of ethics should support the organization’s core principles and a personal code of ethics should reflect an individual’s core principles and ideals.

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