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Using sociograms to identify leaders and popularity in group dynamics

As we observe different people in different positions to determine their interaction with each other we can clearly determine who the leader of a group is, who the person most others go to is, and who the person to whom nobody relates to is.

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Principal hiring practices and superintendent selection criteria

Within contemporary American public education, there are many variables that determine the nature and quality of educational instruction and institutional management. Undoubtedly, one of the most important is the school principal.

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Root causes of Chattanooga Ice Cream Company's sales decline

The Chattanooga Ice Cream Company is one of three divisions of the Chattanooga Food Corporation, founded in 1936 by the grandfather of its current division president, Charlie Moore (Sloane, 2003).

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Dell's business model and competitive challenges in 2008

For its entire existence, Dell has operated with the same strategy. The company is a differentiated producer of personal computers. The focal point of Dell's differentiation is that it custom-builds the computers to order.

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Disney Pixar and the third renaissance of animated film

The Disney name has both enjoyed periods of immense success and widespread acclaim and has endured stretches of quality decline, reputation tarnishing and management shakeup.

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Evaluating the credibility and authority of the AONE Institute website

Being a company-owned Website, the AONE information is not credited to a single author. However, there are two links under "About the Institute," which include lists of names for the staff and advisory board associated with the institute.

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Comparing Lewin's, Bridges', and Bennis's models of organizational change

Innovation and change are threads that run through all organization in spite of industry, size, and age. With today's globalization, organizational change is inevitable.

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Factors in the increasing empowerment of American non-commissioned officers

The objective of this work is to analyze the three most important factors that have led to the ever-increasing empowerment of the American Non-Commissioned Officer (NCO) over time.

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Mao Zedong: separating the man from the myth

Mao Zedong is both one of the most influential and one of the most controversial figures of the twentieth century. This should not be too surprising; influence often comes with controversy attached.

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Managing teacher resistance to ninth grade curriculum implementation

SCENARIO: You are aware that your current English department chair, Mrs. Negal, is extremely critical of the changes made to the ninth grade curriculum for the coming school year.

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