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Leadership Theory Handbook for College Professors

A comprehensive guide to leadership theories for college professors, covering skills, path-goal, behavioral, adaptive, authentic, servant, transformational, and situational approaches.

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Leadership and organizational culture: Schein's dimensions and learning framework

Organizational theory and academic business discourse examine, amongst a host of other key organizational principles, the formal idea that leadership is an essential part of effective management, or, for that matter, an essential part of comprising an effective contribution to any working team.

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Leadership and communication in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt

The study of interpersonal skills among ancient civilizations like Mesopotamia consists mostly of major innovations and advances in society, technology and human development. Sargon is typically credited with being the first person to unify a world empire in the 24th century B.C.

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Transformational leadership and change management in hospital nursing units

Leadership is said to be effective if it helps a company or entity to achieve its goals and realize outcomes that are consistent with the majority.

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Leadership: innate talent versus learned skill development

Leadership: Born or Made? Goleman et al. An effective leader is one who possesses both the innate talents of one who will preside with influence over others and the acquired skills that come with education, training and experience.

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Participative leadership in modern management and organizational decision-making

Leadership means dissimilar things to different people. On the other hand, a usually accepted definition is that it is a procedure that takes place in sets in which one member pressures and controls the actions of the other associates toward a frequent goal.

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Leadership characteristics in rapidly developing business economies

The success of any type of organisation, especially the ones functioning in the area of business depends upon the quality of their management.

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John Gutfreund's leadership failures during the Salomon Brothers scandal

Treasuries trader, Paul Mozer, was a known serial abuser of federal auction rules, corporate policies at Salamon, as well as abuse of customer trust. Upon discovery of these facts, the company's chairman and chief executive officer, John Gutfreund, had numerous immediate decisions to make:

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Leadership challenges in addressing homeless youth in Minnesota

To effectively develop and implement leadership initiatives such that these drives may be utilized in efforts to confront issues of homelessness as experienced by youth in Minnesota, HMIS must capitalize on its internal resources.

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Leadership and organizational performance at Yahoo! Inc.

An Analysis of the Positive and Negative Impact of Leadership at Yahoo! Inc. Because the quality of a company's leadership has such a profound impact on its performance and profitability, this topic has been the focus of a growing body of research over the years.

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