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Leadership theories of Weber, Burns, and Goleman compared

The theories of leadership advanced by Max Weber, James MacGregor Burns and Daniel Goleman are some of the most influential and sophisticated notions in the field of leadership.

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Leadership styles of Kennedy and Khrushchev during the Cold War

This paper will begin by overviewing each of these powerful leaders. Following these overviews, the leadership styles will then be compared and contrasted.

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Herb Kelleher's democratic leadership at Southwest Airlines

Herb Kelleher is making waves in the air. As one of the world's foremost examples of democratic leadership, the co-founder and executive chair of Southwest Airlines is an exemplar for effective leadership behavior.

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Leadership challenges facing minority women school principals

When compared with corporate America, both the public and private American school systems may have more blatant glass ceiling settings because there are very obvious resistance movements towards gender and minority integration into administrative roles such as principals especially for positions in…

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Leadership strategies for managing organizational change and resistance

It begins by describing three internal and three external drivers of change. Factors a leader needs to weigh to implement change is then discussed. The kinds of resistance a leader may face are overviewed as well as strategies that can be used to manage resistance.

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Organizational structure and informal leadership at S& F. Online

Smith & Falmouth is a television shopping and mail order network with operations in the United States and Canada. S& F. Online is the electronic commerce division of this corporation. The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of S& F. Online is Irene Seagraves.

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Leadership theory across three centuries: great man, trait, and contextual approaches

Many experts have attempted to derive overarching theories of leadership to describe the properties of a social construct that has changed over the last three hundred years, here separated by benchmarks of hundred-year periods corresponding to the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.

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Leadership and hierarchy in Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander

I believe you have been led astray by the words master and commander (122, Chapter 4 p. 3).

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Leadership strategy and organizational communication in implementation

An organization needs implementation of strategy to happen on every level within the company structure in order to function.

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Leadership in healthcare: an interview with a chief operations officer

An interview was conducted with Ms. PC, Chief Operation Officer of a healthcare organization on August 12, 2005. The interview lasted approximately one hour.

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