Leadership
Essays

Headless chickens describes an organization which is alive, and able to operate and continue to exist, but that has no sense of what it is, or where it's going. By calling itself a headless chicken, the group on the…

All classical heroes have tragic flaws. In the case of Okonkwo, the protagonist in Chinau Achebe's novel Things Fall Apart, heroism is demonstrated by his position of leadership and power in his community and his…

More area is dealt by Human Resource Management than people originally thought of. Some may explain it as the exchanges between boss and worker in the time period between which a worker is employed, until they are…

Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (1993) gives a detailed account of the Battle of Gettysburg -- the war that lured the dueling North and South to the tiny town of Gettysburg and was the first step in splitting the Union.

Max Weber was correct that in modern society, the power of the bureaucracy increased exponentially with urbanization and industrialization, particularly when it was called upon to deal increasingly with social and economic problems. Such organizations were hardly designed to enable others to act within a democratic or participatory system, but to act on their behalf and direct them from above in a very hierarchical system. For example, during the Progressive Era and New Deal in the United States, the civil service was expanded to regulate capitalism in a variety of ways, to administer large parts of the economy and the growing social welfare state. Of course, with the growth in the power and influence of the civil service, opportunities for bribery, corruption, authoritarian behavior and catering to special interests instead of the public interest became far more common as well.

¶ … Leading Change by John P. Kotter. Specifically, it will review, summarize, and evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the main points in the book. Kotter's book is an interesting look at change in organizations,…

¶ … Leadership at Sea and Seven Habits of Highly Effective Sailors

¶ … child development theories of several prominent psychologists, using a theoretical four-year-old girl and her interactions with her parents as an example.

This paper is about charismatic leadership. It seeks to answer a few questions about charismatic leadership. The first is to define charismatic leadership; the second is to outline how it works in an organizational context. Then, there is a discussion about the ethics of charismatic leadership and whether charisma is necessary for leadership.

This paper is an extended book review of several sections of a business course textbook filled with excerpts from literature on the subject of management. The Manger's Bookshelf's essays on motivation and leadership are briefly summarized and the various principles detailed within these essays are applied to a variety of organizational problems such as motivating employees and mentoring recruits.