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CEO leadership transitions and strategic initiatives at Cisco, Alcatel-Lucent, and Hewlett-Packard

John Chambers -- Cisco. In 1991, Chambers joined Cisco Systems as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Operations. Promoted to President and CEO in 1995, Chambers helped grow the firm to its present size.

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Personal leadership development using functional and transformational theories

Henry Fayol, Mary Parker among other scholars in the field of management have described leadership as the act of getting thing done through others, this definition is consistent with the definition given by Carter et al.

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Transformational leadership and organizational change theories in modern management

Stark (2004) discussed the transformational elements present in the state of leadership in his article. This article attempted to strike a balance by understanding leadership as more of a state of mind than a state of action. Five major conclusions were highlighted in this reading.

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Cross-cultural leadership in international business management

With the increased competitiveness in the international business world it has become very important for the businesses to be accommodating enough so that they could operate in a successful manner in places with different norms, ethics, attitudes and culture.

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Implementing the 3D leadership model across organizational levels

The 3D model that was introduced was based on the scholarly work of Bill Reddin in which 3 dimensions of the proposed leadership model were given. These were task orientation, relationship orientation, and effectiveness of the leaders.

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Situational leadership style and employee development

There are various modes of leadership that are applied and can work well within organizations depending on the kind of assignments to be handled as well as the employees and even the management that is in place.

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Military leadership merits of General George S. Patton Jr.

One aspect of cultural development which seems to be universal throughout the course of humanity's history is the innate desire of society to lionize the accomplishments of triumphant military leaders.

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Personal leadership philosophy: an interview with Jane Carson

"To thine own self be true" does not seem like a maxim relevant to leadership, but during our interview, Jane Carson described how personal integrity and honesty directly relates to leading a group. The informational interview conducted for this project focused on Ms.

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Ethical leadership and moral conduct in the banking industry

The paper goes on to discuss the solutions that are possible in event of unethical conduct.

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Instructional leadership among assistant principals in southeastern Texas

This section provides an overview of the instruments that will be used to study assistant principals and instructional leadership.

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