Leadership
Essays

Abraham Lincoln's life as president was a celebration of the American paradigms of equality and freedom. The President spent not only his time in office, but also his life, in attempting to understand the plight of the…

The objective of this study is to examine the accounting and financial management in the process of 'green building construction'.

¶ … Management in a Global Environment using Cultural Intelligence

What are the key leadership skills that today's Human Resource professionals need in order to function seamlessly and effectively? Among the leadership skills reviewed in this paper are motivational skills, the ability…

The term "women's rights" or "women's power" for females living in the Renaissance is an oxymoron. During this historic period of time, women were considered second-class citizens with no political rights.

Bruce Catton thinks the meeting between Grant and Lee that worked out the terms of surrender of Lee's army marked a new chapter in the lives of Americans. This is true because this meeting brought to an end a four-year…

This paper reviews literature including meta-analysis to compare theoretical schema classifying leadership styles over the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, demonstrated with examples from the real world. Historical examples demonstrate that while many experts have tried to describe leadership in terms of shared traits, inheritance or environmental constraint, no clear consensus on even a definition of "leadership" apparently exists as numerous authorities over several decades explain. Recommendations for the 21st century derive useful constructs from research precedent but attempt to weed out theoretic fads or classification schema that fail to explain contradictions as well as similarities.

In any company, change is a difficult process. Stress levels rise, and communications may result in conflict situations rather than solutions. For Hewlett-Packard, change has been a necessary process of organizational…

New Orleans is a city still ill-Equipped to face future storms.

Within the academic scope of business theory, it is argued that an ethically-bound organization will be shaped by such a proclivity in its leadership and the way that leadership relates to personnel.