Leadership
Essays

The Color of Success: Race and High-Achieving Urban Youth

United States' Policy Toward Dominican Republic 1930-1945

team dynamics a. Describe the process your team has used to form, storm, norm, and perform. At this point, where do you believe your team is in the team formation process?

John Maxwell's book entitled, "Developing the leaders around you," is a detailed discussion of the important concepts and principles that must be noted by individuals who aspire to become not just effective managers,…

Brungardt, CL & Crawford, CB (1999). Risk Leadership: The Courage to Confront and Challenge. Longmont, CO: Rocky Mountain Press.

Developing a community healthcare agency requires the involvement of a broad range of community participants and a streamlined process to help guide their involvement. This discussion frames the answers to a series of questions regarding system inquiry, the fostering of internally supportive relationships and family assessment around the scenario of creating such an agency.

Instructional leadership, or transformational leadership, is where the principal replaces his traditional administrative role with a closer participation and examination into the educational format and running of his school. Traditionally, the school has a hierarchy of roles where the principal, at the topmost echelon, guides and supervises those beneath him, who, in turn, instruct the students what to do. An impassable gap exists between teachers and principal where each has different tasks and each is supposed to relegate them to their own spheres. Instructional leadership, on the other hand, believes that schools can be improved if the administrator occupies himself more with the actual curriculum and personally collaborates with the instructional format of his school. Ever since the 1980s when instructional leadership was first introduced, adherents of the philosophy believe that the principal is advised to unobtrusively mingle himself with students and teachers, observe the curriculum and teaching styles of the classrooms, observe the success of the various teaching models, and see how they can be improved.

Organizational Climate & Organizational Culture

When most people think of George Washington, they think of his time as the first President of the United States. What they often do not realize, though, is that he did a great deal for the country even before he took…

When the HIV/AIDS epidemic was first publicized (the U.S. was the first nation to accept that this virus was being spread), there was a great deal of fear in the U.S. and there was a lot of finger-pointing at gays as the source of the problem. As time went on, more information has become available and this paper covers a number of important issues vis-a-vis the HIV/AIDS disease.