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managers, it actually has its roots in the Bible. Jesus is the quintessential example of a servant leader and He taught His apostl...

Childs (1972) it is the leader, in the form of the CEO that is responsible for making the strategic choices within an organization...

It was following this decision and an approach by IBM that the firm acquired IBMs PC division for $1,74 billion (Schuman, 2010)....

thing that leads. 2. a guiding or directing head, as of an army, movement, or political group" (Dictionary.com, 2010). This shows ...

and involvement in decision making. This is a very common sense type approach. It makes sense that a highly motivated and highly...

Discusses various leadership styles, and determines if there is a "right" style of leadership. There are 6 sources listed in the b...

he said that management is about "coping with complexity [while] leadership is about coping with change" (Bencivenga, 2002). Tea...

Positive interdependence is a keystone of effective teams. Positive interdependence means that members of the team believe their s...

specific area being considered, e.g., organizations, business, economy, culture, political or other areas, has flourished and grow...

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

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

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

more affordable, and in todays world, integrating computers into ones business architecture is a matter of necessity rather than p...

sort of person who can truly identify with the values the organization wishes to promote, and so on (Brown & Mitchell, 2010). Th...

become outdated by the time the text reached print, but on the basis of principles that, according to the author, are "universal a...

leadership and attempt to present a more nuanced approach to the skills or qualities associated with leaders in the personal sense...

and its basic conceit, around which the paper will be based. The primary theme of Goodwins work is that the presidency of Abraham ...

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

however, it is important that leadership development include everyone in the organization (Putney, 2011). It is, of course, unreas...

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

is based primarily upon Christian morals and values, due to Sanders belief that this particular set of values is well suited to de...

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

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

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

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

an interesting text on leadership in that it attempts to achieve a synthesis of classical leadership ideals with modern contempora...

change is likely to see resistance and the potential for failure increases. It is only when resistance to changes overcome that a ...

(Team Technology, 2010). This premise would hold true in either sector. One example is the leadership of teams; when the team is j...

can be expressed as ones ability to pay attention to how ones rational decisions relate to ones values, as well as ones ability to...

the principles of good business. Success in business depends largely upon the ability to quickly and efficiently adapt to these ch...