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a mentoring leader, He gave them more and more responsibility so they would be able to carry on after He left.4 For instance, in L...

and command as a problem to solve and he did so. Those are the strengths of the entrepreneurial leader: a dream, a strong vision t...

leadership, leaders must make a committed examination of the particular context in which they operate. For this reason, it is diff...

are empowered to help the customers. The main aim is for the call center operatives so solve the customers problems. This aim is t...

part-time students and 40 percent are over the age of 24, with 80 percent commuting to campus (Mellow, Van Slyck and Eynon, 2003)....

varying organizational contexts and came to the conclusion that modern leadership should strive to "lead employees better" and to ...

immediately went to work at GE Plastics in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. In 1981, Welch became CEO and chairman for General Electrics...

leadership was to distinguish between transactional and transformational leadership. There are some similarities between them and ...

studied leadership for decades (Bennett, 2000). Lippitt finally concluded that: "Leadership is the worst defined, least understood...

close knit culture. The benefits of this are well known the human relations school were many tools to create loyalty and commitmen...

because it tries to find a resolution that is acceptable to all parties (Bizman and Yinon, 2004). Part of the leadership plan wou...

and people were referred to as sheep: "When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless,...

One of the theories from the mid-1990s that is still getting a lot of press is Golemans introduction of emotional intelligence as ...

The writer chooses four modern business leaders and contrasts their different approaches to leadership to demonstrate the variety ...

to success. This is an aspect that authors Rooke and Torbert (2005) introduced some years ago, is the concept of "action logic," i...

more or less inherited their leadership roles. Fledging governments such as those of the United States did put some store on elect...

the same growth and development experiences they give men (Pinder, 2005; Stelter, 2002). There is an ongoing debate that suggests...

He is at once authoritarian and participatory. His orders to everyone were to reduce costs and increase revenue and he is open to ...

more than one-fourth of companies have not engaged in succession planning (OHara, 2005). Furthermore, global experience must be co...

to be the same for leaders across contexts or cultures and second, some believe leadership skills cannot be taught or trained (Mar...

In twelve pages an historical overview of Powell's career with emphasis upon his leadership of the House Committee on Education an...

of the department and the achievement of goals by motivating staff through the offer of rewards (Sellgren, Ekvall and Tomson, 2006...

for this element. Low to moderate maturity employees have low motivation and require more direction and more personal attention. M...

is Lou Platt, who was promoted to a position of leadership in 1992, after serving with the company for some 26 years (OToole, 2000...

organization when the leadership is shared between every member of the organization, with each member having responsibility and ac...

2009). Contingency styles consider the relationship between the leader and follower, the specific task, and power (Doyle & Smith, ...

transformational leadership (Bass, 1990). Transactional leadership, in general, is a leadership approach focused on processes and ...

DePree adopted a model of leadership that pictures the leader as both inspiring and serving (Budman, 2002). Such a framework for l...

in nursing educators aged 36 to 45 (Lewallen, et al, 2003). To complicate matters further, recent statistics show that nurses wh...

3. The Law of Process - Leadership develops daily, not in a day (Maxwell, 1998). 4. The Law of Navigation - Anyone can steer the...