Leaders
Essays

Military leadership is active, purposeful and authoritative, and captures the lessons of experience and uses the wisdom and methods of history's great captains to show the way for current and future leaders (Jantzen pp).

'The Democratic Republic of Congo should be the envy of Africa ... Instead, its 44 million people are among the poorest in the world, and among the world's most likely to hack each other to pieces." (Pelton).

Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) programs became popular during the mid-1970s in response to a perceived deficiency in students' writing and thinking abilities. Such programs grew out of the conviction that children…

Lean Manufacturing follows a principle of fineness that consists of the removal of waste or actions of no value while regulating the production flow of the product in relation to customer requirement.

¶ … Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood. Specifically, it will contain a critical evaluation of the book. This Pulitzer Prize winning book covers the American Revolution and the radical thought that…

The basis of all effective leadership is found in how leaders define the expectations, goals, vision, mission and values of an organization. The more effectively any leader can move from being only focused on an authoritarian or transactional role to a transformational one, the greater the agility and flexibility their teams have in attaining objectives (Ivancevich, Konopaske, Matteson, 2010). The intent of this analysis is to evaluate how the process of decision making and cooperation across small groups can be augmented and strengthened through the use of team leadership. Implicit in this study is the use of delegation and responsibility, and how these factors determine overall team effectiveness and accomplishment.

Lifelong learning can take the form of deliberate and accidental educational pursuits. For many fortunate enough to find the intersection of what they excel in, have a natural affinity for on the one hand, and a passion…

¶ … governance is an essential component of economic success. Without good governance, particularly in large businesses, it is unlikely that cohesion will result, and hence economic success is likely to be elusive.

¶ … Leadership is an integral part of the strategic management process. The author of this article seems to have a strong grasp of this fundamental point, despite some weaknesses in the article.

The challenges of today's battlefield do not provide an easy answer to this question and leaves the leader of the 21st century sometimes questioning the rationale behind defending America.