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Fred Smith's military-influenced leadership style at FedEx

Fred Smith started FedEx in the early 1970s, only two years removed from service in Vietnam in the Marine Corps. Still the leader of the company today, Smith has built one of the world's most successful logistics firm on leadership principles derived from his experiences in the Marines.

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Bass and Avolio's theory of transformational leadership in organizations

Improving Organizational Effectiveness Through Transformational Leadership by B.M. Bass and B.J.

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McMaster's analysis of military leadership failures during early Vietnam War decision-making

New York: HarperCollins, 1997. Pp. 446. . Illus., notes, biblio., index. $27.50. ISBN:0-06-018795-6. The Vietnam War was a traumatic experience for the United States. America lost 58,000 dead, hundreds of thousands wounded.

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Michael Abrashoff's "It's Your Ship": leadership and management transformation

Abrashoff, Michael D. it's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy. New York: Warner Books. 2002.

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Who moved my cheese and leadership styles in nursing

Johnson, Spencer. (1998). Who moved my cheese? New York: Putnam. According to the author of Who moved my cheese, humans can learn a great deal from the animal community about coping with change. Human beings invest a strong sense of ego in the physical and symbolic trappings of success.

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Martin Luther King Jr.'s nonviolent leadership during the Civil Rights Movement

When searching for role models, it is difficult to imagine a more inspiring person than Martin Luther King, Jr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a moral leader and one that more- in a perfect world - people should strive to be like.

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Shirley Peddy's art of mentoring and organizational leadership

Mentoring is a subset of leadership, an experience too often relegated to the context of situations too soft to be considered corporate. However, Shirley Peddy shows that mentoring is one of the core facets of enterprise-level leadership.

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Women's exclusion from religious leadership and spiritual authority

Women have been systematically oppressed and excluded from participation in political, social, economic, and religious life. In some situations, violence against women has been ignored or even condoned.

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Golda Meir's multinational upbringing and political leadership

Golda Meir's multinational upbringing, along with her visionary spirit, made her one of the most influential leaders in the twentieth century.

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Dennis and Goldsmith's three-pronged leadership paradigm and power balance

Dennis & Goldsmith text takes a clear position on what leadership should be. The first chapter for example identifies leadership as a three-pronged paradigm that balances ambition, competence and integrity.

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