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Ongoing leadership development as organizational competitive advantage

Leadership development needs to be agile enough to meet the changing needs of an organization, yet stable enough to be consistent with the best practices and proven frameworks.

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Leadership styles and roles in a breast cancer support group

The first is the autocratic type, in which the leader makes use of a highly controlling style and seeks minimal input or participation from other group members. This would not be an appropriate leadership style to use for an interactive support group of any kind.

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Comparing four contemporary leadership theories and their applications

There are a number of different theories to describe the best approach to leadership.

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Ethical leadership, adaptability, and organizational success

Leadership success [...] common measures and best practices in measuring leadership success. Being a successful leader is more than knowing how to motivate others. A successful leader must be ethical, moral, and exhibit high values, but they must be motivational to their staff members, as well.

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Leadership style and psychological strengths in organizational change

This website offers a serious, research-based assessment of some of the ways in which management style and decision-making strategy affect people's willingness to follow a leader. This seems to be an aspect of leadership that is often overlooked, especially within the literature of management.

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Leadership and cost control in hospital management reform

To some degree, leadership's thinking in health care has been in torpor. Rather than rigorously rethinking, health care management has been asleep at the wheel. In the midst of a battlefield, too many leaders have been settling for survival over winning. One sees it in some hospital mergers.

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Fiedler's contingency model of leadership effectiveness

The necessity of leadership has determined several experts in the field to study the subject and to identify a series of characteristics that leaders should have in comparison with managers.

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Leadership characteristics that improve high school reenrollment rates

Over the last several decades, the state of the U.S. education system has been in consistent decline. Part of the reason for this is: the change in the way that people are living their lives and how various curriculums is delivered by educators / administrators.

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Social construction of reality and organizational leadership perspectives

Leadership and Multiple ways at looking at the World. The central concept of The Social Construction of Reality is that persons and groups interacting together in a social system form, over time, concepts or mental representations of each other's actions.

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Level 5, transactional, and transformational leadership styles

Northouse (2006) notes that there are many different ways to finish this sentence "Leadership is…" He posits that there are just as many definitions of leadership as there are people who have tried to define it (2006).

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