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Leadership and the American Express Company

and influencing change" (Komives, et al 593). The new components of leadership focus on supporting "collaboration, ethical action ...

Overview of a Leadership Self-Assessment Report

a transformational leadership model being fostered. This is the model this student wants to adopt, however, she needs more knowled...

Considering a Leadership Experience

leadership style of the student may be seeking to emulate this, with consideration of others and seeking to listen. However, more...

Leadership in the Real World

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

Steve Jobs as an Exemplary Leader

undesirable, the style works. Jobs is a great leader because he combines the basic functions of management and does them well with...

QUESTIONS ABOUT LEADERSHIP SYNTHESIS

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

Mullaly and Ballmer: Leadership

deciding what to do about it (Taylor, 2009, p. 44). Mulally has made some risky moves, such as increasing the companys debt in o...

The Quintessential Leader

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

Seven Reasons Integrity is Important

by a strong set of values resolves issues before we even really think about them. A person cannot really be a good leader withou...

Self-Assessment as a Leader

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

Servant Leadership and Shepherding Ministry

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

The Differences Between Managing and Leading

about coping with change" (Bencivenga, 2002). These definitions seem to encompass what other authors and theorists and even practi...

Comparing Leadership In Public And Private Sector Organizations

of people". This is a view with agrees with Drucker, who does not believe that leaders can be defined merely by personality, but t...

Project Management Today

goals. However, most, if not all projects involve four phases: the initiation of the project, planning the projects activities, ex...

City Management Leadership Styles

Unfortunately, unlike quantitative skills such as financial analysis, risk assessment, project management, and so on, leadership i...

Greek Literature and Admirable Character Leadership

In five pages and 2 parts Homer's 'The Iliad' is examines in terms of Patroklos' leadership abilities with a contrast and comparis...

Successful Leadership Criteria

In eight pages this paper considers former CIA director William Casey's unsuccessful leadership compared with Southwest Airlines' ...

The Years 1960 to 1967 in the Life of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

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

U.S. Army and Leadership Theory

In six pages this research paper examines the differences between transactional and transformational leadership and also applies t...

Personal Qualities of Leadership Assessed

difficult and most people find it difficult to be open to the changes in their personal and work lives. The student could then de...

Attribution Theory, Leadership, and Organizational Behavior

Witte said, "We tried a more conciliatory management in 1995, both in the way we operated our mines, and in the way our head offic...

Educational Leadership Effectiveness

In five pages this essay considers what it takes to achieve effectiveness in educational leadership with an application of Scott's...

Morality and Political Actions as Viewed by Niccolo Machiavelli

differences as a central element in maintaining the necessity for particular action. Machiavellis perspectives on morality expres...

Justice and Forgiveness: The Values of Servant Leadership

controversial. This is because, typically speaking, the study of ethics concerns itself with abstracted justifications of human ac...

Leadership Styles: An Overview

have taken the front seat like at no other time in history. Many successful CEOs and executives have become celebrities in their o...

Leadership Qualities

orders and who commands total discipline, like a military commander. It is not difficult to understand from where such a concept e...

Workplace Commitment and Transformational Leadership

A typical response laments the lack of cohesion and "togetherness" in a workplace that results from estrangement from leadership. ...

Struggling Organizations and the Power of Leadership

world, from London and Toronto to Tokyo and Bombay. The organization also makes extensive use of information technology in organiz...

Leadership and Social Work

social work, one can find many people idealistically devoted to causes that are important to them. It is not an easy path to becom...

The Organizational Value of Leadership Styles

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