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Using DISC personality assessments to improve team leadership and performance

Leadership is both an art and a science. As a leader wishing to make a strong impact and achieve the organization's objectives, it is important to understand the individual components of the team. This process requires balance, experience and intuition.

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Leadership empowerment and organizational culture at MedShare

MedShare is an organization engaged in the provision of health care services. Recently, the company gave me an appointment as the Chief Financial Officer to manage the organization's financial operations and lead it to a successful path.

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Comparing the leadership styles of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs

The theories of leadership date way back to when dynasties existed and people were led by kings. The leader took control and made decisions whenever disputes arose.

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Leadership style of Ysela Llort at Miami-Dade Transit

My organization is Miami-Dade Transit, for which I am a bus operator. The Transit system is an independent operating entity within the government of Miami-Dade County. Leadership of this company is typically appointed, and this was the case of the current Director, Ysela Llort.

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Self-awareness and self-development in effective HRM leadership

Leadership, as it manifests in companies today, has evolved greatly from a century ago.

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Transformational and servant leadership in modern organizations

My personal definition of leadership is based on what is commonly called "transformational" or "servant" leadership. This is focused on building a good team of people as opposed to weeding out the people who may not fit in or may be struggling (Kouzes & Posner, 2012).

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Kouzes and Posner's four characteristics of effective leadership

A leader is who one is and a manager is what one does. Dr. Warren Bennis originally made that observation in studying the interaction of leadership characteristics including the level of emotional intelligence (EI) relative to traits of exceptional leaders (Bennis, 2001).

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Leadership development and training in the Dunkin Donuts internship program

When most people think of Dunkin Donuts, they will often associate it with the many franchises and the quality of the products they provide. This has helped the firm to become very popular and to reach out to new segments of customers in an ever changing marketplace.

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Leadership theories and styles in cross-functional teams

Research and practice in the field have revealed several types of leadership theories, such as trait, behavioral, situational contingency, participative, transactional, and transformational theories.

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Leadership styles of Lieutenant Colonel Yaron and Colonel David in Gaza evacuation

When Lieutenant Colonel was Yaron was called upon to volunteer as the operation commander in the operation mission to evacuate Israeli Settlement in the Gaza strip, he led the design engineering unit in the Air Force.

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