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The Kouzes-Posner Leadership Practices Inventory: assessment and limitations

The Kouzes-Posner Model of Leadership is an attempt by the researchers James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner to quantify leadership according to a reliable survey instrument.

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Bobby Knight's leadership style: strengths, weaknesses, and ethics

What are Coach Knight's strengths and weaknesses of leadership style? What aspects of his strengths and weaknesses do you think are unique to sports settings, and which are to be relevant in other contexts?

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Transitioning project leadership after losing a project manager

Lost Your Project Sponsor or Champion, Now What? Given the immediately unempathetic attitude of the new project manager who has been assigned to the project after the untimely passing of the previous project manager, it's imperative to not be pushed back into a figurative corner about the projects'…

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Interview responses on leadership, organization, and conflict resolution

Others might be more experienced than I am but few people are as passionate. In fact, it is because I am young that I am the best person for this job.

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Ed Zander's leadership transformation strategy at Motorola

Ed Zander reinvent motorola? Ed Zander joined Motorola in 2004 with high dreams and expectations, but also a friendly ear to listen to all problems presented by other Motorola executives and employees.

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Team-building as essential leadership philosophy for modern CEOs

Team building' has long been a popular managerial philosophy, designed to unite employees on the lower levels of the corporate ladder with a common purpose and eliminate individualistic competition. But now, according to "C.E.O.

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Implementing people-oriented leadership training at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia

Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia is an extremely successful conglomerate that has been recently faced with internal problems. The current crisis is due to the unsatisfied needs of the personnel at MSLO who accuse long hours of work in inadequate conditions and remunerated with low wages.

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Deborah's leadership and spiritual motherhood in the Book of Judges

The Book of Judges tells how the Israelites reverted to older forms of worship, and denied the gifts their true God had given them, such as a homeland.

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Educational change leadership in Gilroy Unified School District

Unhealthy eating; why people eat unhealthy; Sociological reasons; a literature/Methodology review When Edwin Diaz became superintendent of California's Gilroy Unified School District in 2000, his obstacles seemed insurmountable, according to Carrie Portis and Mary W.

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Johnson & Johnson's leadership response to the Tylenol crisis

The first technique that Tylenol used to diffuse the crisis was communication related and was actually based on the attitude of the management.

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