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White Papers
Free Project Management Toolkit - For Executives
Dec 2010
Learn what other executives are doing to increase visibility into project resources and team productivity by downloading this free project management toolkit from @task. This collection of white...
Provided by AtTask
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Whitepapers - Video
Smarter Planet: The Energy and Utilities Industry
Jan 2012
Guido Bartels, General Manager, IBM Global Energy and Utilities Industry, and Chairman, Gridwise Alliance, shares his insights on the energy and utilities industry.
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
The Online MBA at Benedictine University
Jan 2012
If you're a business professional, you know that an MBA can position you to move up into high-level leadership roles. Benedictine's online MBA degree program prepares you to successfully lead...
Provided by Benedictine University
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White Papers
7 Steps to Building a Business Case for ERP
May 2011
Businesses are looking to make technology investments to prepare for growth. But with the economic recovery uneven and uncertain, they remain cautious about these investments. One thing is clear:...
Provided by Sage Software
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White Papers
HR in the Digital Age: How to Use Technology to Enhance Organizational Effectiveness
Mar 2010
Three top HR innovators from Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare, Pizza Hut, Inc., and Sprint Nextel Corp. share their insights on how to use technology to enhance organizational effectiveness.
Provided by SkillSoft
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White Papers
Transactional Data: Driving Real-Time Business
Mar 2012
In global survey of IT leaders conducted by CIO Magazine, companies are facing increasing challenges in turning large volumes of data into meaningful information that business users can...
Provided by SAP
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White Papers
The Five Levels Of Leadership
Apr 2008
Becoming an effective leader is a lot like being in the stock market. You don't make your fortune in a day; you make it daily, a little bit at a time. What matters most is what you do day after...
Provided by Pollice Management Group
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White Papers
How to Communicate More Effectively at Work
Jan 2012
We're constantly being held back by the tools and processes that were supposed to revolutionise our workday. Email inboxes flood. Phone conversations go on long tangents. Meetings cause more...
Provided by Citrix Online
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White Papers
Lessons In Survival - A Critical Leadership Skill
Jan 2009
To survive - to hang in there - to keep your head while all around you others are losing theirs - to stay in play - is a critical skill of leaders. Let's face it - even the most astute, successful...
Provided by Klebanoff Associates
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White Papers
The Five Key Facets Of Quality Leadership
Jan 2009
Many people in leadership positions struggle with understanding what makes a great leader. While billions of dollars are spent annually on leadership development, quality leadership is still in...
Provided by Affinity Consulting
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White Papers
The Focused Leader One BIG Idea + One BIG Crisis
Jan 2009
Successful leaders have BIG ideas as well as having big crises to deal with. Most leaders who have gone into the annals of history, whether it be politics, sports or business have led in this...
Provided by Affinity Consulting
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White Papers
Heroic Leaders Don't Always Save The Day
Jan 2009
The real heroes are those leaders who allow others to make decisions, take action, and gain knowledge. They support staff and provide access to information. They encourage innovation, especially...
Provided by Team Builders Plus
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White Papers
Tips For Being An Inspirational Leader
Nov 2008
The methods and ways of providing effective leadership to team members have changed over a couple of years. Various leadership strategies and methods have evolved with time. However, one thing...
Provided by Firefly e-Ventures
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White Papers
Power Monitoring Supervisory, connectivity and protection options that add an umbrella of protection over your entire IT infrastructure
Jul 2009
Monitoring options are now available for organizations of any size. You can remotely monitor and manage a single uninterpretable power system (UPS), an enterprise-wide network of many UPSs and...
Provided by Eaton
-
White Papers
Leadership Lessons From History: Part 2
Jan 2009
In all candor, an historical leadership experience is not for everyone. These venues can be difficult to reach, physical conditions are not always ideal for walking around, let alone learning, and...
Provided by Singularity Group
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White Papers
Building Your IT Staff: Essential Experience and Skill Sets for Tomorrow's Challenges
Jan 2009
The top Information Services leaders from Stimson Lumber, Missouri State University, Gelber Group, and United Therapeutics share their expertise on: Building Your IT Staff: Essential Experience...
Provided by SkillSoft
-
White Papers
360 Feedback: The Fundamentals
Aug 2009
360 feedback is a leadership development process in which survey data is collected from various sources regarding leaders' competencies. This feedback is compiled into a report which is shared...
Provided by LeaderNation
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White Papers
What Is A leadership Competency And How Do I Create A Competency Model?
Aug 2007
A competency is a skill, ability, or knowledge set that can be taught or developed. All competencies have "Indicators" that allow them to be observed and measured. A leadership competency model is...
Provided by LeaderNation
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White Papers
Creating 360 Feedback Questions: Guidelines
Aug 2009
Once you have a leadership competency model for your organization, you can create a 360 feedback survey to support the development of your organization's leaders. This paper provides guidelines...
Provided by LeaderNation
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White Papers
Ensuring Organizational Results: Connecting Competencies To Mission, Vision, And Strategy
Aug 2009
Leadership should support the healthy functioning of organizations. A leadership competency model identifies leadership behaviors that produce the desired results for the organization. Therefore,...
Provided by LeaderNation
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White Papers
Discussing 360 Feedback Results: Meeting Guidelines
Aug 2009
360 feedback is a leadership development process in which survey data is collected from various sources (e.g., bosses, peers, subordinates, and self) regarding leaders' competencies. This feedback...
Provided by LeaderNation
-
White Papers
Bullet-Proofing Instant Messaging
Sep 2009
Information workers on the job often turn to the same software tools they use at home for quick, unfettered communication. When that involves instant messaging (IM) programs such as AIM, Yahoo!...
Provided by MessageLabs, now part of Symantec
-
White Papers
Hitting The Panic Button: What Kind Of Leader Are You?
May 2009
You're a business leader and the economy is falling into a deep recession. How will you react? What kind of leader will you be? This paper discusses four types of leaders and which one you should...
Provided by EKSH.COM
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Webcasts
See Through Your Systems Complexity
Jan 2009
IBM Tivoli Monitoring is a powerful solution designed to consolidate and simplify systems monitoring and management across complex, distributed environments. Hundreds of integrated best practices...
Provided by Mainline Information Systems
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White Papers
A Policy-Based Middleware for Web Services SLA Negotiation
Oct 2008
Negotiation of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) is very important for maintaining Quality of Service (QoS) of composite Web services-based business processes. The process of negotiation involves...
Provided by Queen's University
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White Papers
Leadership Style: Top 7 Strategies To Handle Difficult Conversations
Jan 2009
A good leader has the ability to empower others. It is important that a leader develop people who want to share and help in carrying out the goals of the organization. If it is your intention to...
Provided by Top7Business.com
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White Papers
Cultivating Risk Intelligence for Competitive Advantage
Dec 2009
You needn't be a seer or sage to perceive risk. It's as predictable and as devastating as a Florida hurricane and as far-reaching as a corporate scandal. But you do need to be a visionary to see...
Provided by SAP
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White Papers
Real-Time Human Posture Reconstruction in Wireless Smart Camera Networks
Nov 2007
While providing a variety of intriguing application opportunities, a vision sensor network poses three key challenges. High computation capacity is required for early vision functions to enable...
Provided by Stanford University
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White Papers
Smarter Systems Development: A System Engineering Trade Study to support Green Initiatives with Model Driven Development
Dec 2009
Trade studies help us fully explore the design space to ensure that a proposed solution best meets conflicting performance and cost requirements. But many of us don't know that you can...
Provided by IBM
-
White Papers
Magic Quadrant for Job Scheduling
Apr 2009
Gartner has positioned BMC CONTROL-M in the Leaders Quadrant of their "2009 Magic Quadrant for Job Scheduling." The report assesses the ability to execute and completeness of vision of key vendors...
Provided by BMC Software
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White Papers
Business Leadership Styles
Aug 2009
Leadership is defined as a social influence process in which the leader seeks the voluntary participation of subordinates in an effort to reach organizational goals. A leader trait is a physical...
Provided by Associated Content
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White Papers
Leadership Theories And Styles
Apr 2009
Trait theory is one of the early discover leadership theory found dated back to 1920s, which assume that this type of leaders are born with inherited traits and qualities that suits to be good...
Provided by Associated Content
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White Papers
Leadership Styles: An Overview
Mar 2009
There are three basic styles of leadership a person can use when making decisions and leading subordinates. The three types are authoritarian, democratic and laissez-faire. The authoritarian style...
Provided by Associated Content
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White Papers
What Is Leadership Style?: Classic And Modern Leadership Styles
Apr 2007
Leadership style varies with personality and situational need. Leadership style is partly decision making style and partly a way of motivating employees. The classic thinking on leadership style...
Provided by Suite101
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White Papers
Leadership Styles: When To Be A Participative Team Leader
May 2007
The classic leadership styles are autocratic, participative and laissez-faire. You either tell people what to do, you involve them in deciding what to do or you let them do what they want. To...
Provided by Suite101
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White Papers
Utilize Varied Leadership Styles: Better Leaders Employ The Use Of Multiple Management Methods
Jun 2007
Good leaders understand that different management styles are needed to deal with changing situations. Good teachers and leaders share a secret in their ability to communicate specific ideas or...
Provided by Suite101
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White Papers
Leadership Styles: The Fundamentals Of Leadership Theories
Nov 2009
Research on leadership was temporarily abandoned in the 1950s due to the lack of consistent leadership traits. Most contemporary theories suggest that leadership is a complex mix of traits,...
Provided by Suite101
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White Papers
How To Adapt Your Leadership Style
Nov 2008
It is clear that choosing the most effective leadership style depends very much on the person being led, the follower. However, keep in mind that development levels are also situational. A...
Provided by Suite101
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White Papers
Building Your Business Case for Best-Practice IT Services Delivery
Mar 2010
This white paper examines various TCO components and complexities, as well as hidden costs, cost avoidance, and business impacts that companies can miss when building their business case. The...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Trust, Confidence And Organizational Brain Disorder Or how Trust Boosts The Bottom Line
Feb 2008
THE LACK OF TRUST and confidence in and within organizations is the primary symptom of "Organizational Brain Disorder", a horrible disease that affects many organizations. In some companies, up to...
Provided by Theo Compernolle
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White Papers
Ready for Anything
May 2012
It's not unusual to hear CEOs of companies in various sectors claim their industry is in the midst of a transformation. But it's hard to imagine an industry that better fits that description than...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
The Business Value of Business Rules Management Systems
Apr 2012
IDC research has consistently identified BRMS technology as one of the IT industry's higher-growth areas. Just as business rules management is providing business value today, the indications are...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Transactional Data: Driving Real-Time Business
Mar 2012
In global survey of IT leaders conducted by CIO Magazine, companies are facing increasing challenges in turning large volumes of data into meaningful information that business users can...
Provided by SAP
-
White Papers
How to Communicate More Effectively at Work
Jan 2012
We're constantly being held back by the tools and processes that were supposed to revolutionise our workday. Email inboxes flood. Phone conversations go on long tangents. Meetings cause more...
Provided by Citrix Online
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Whitepapers - Video
Smarter Planet: The Energy and Utilities Industry
Jan 2012
Guido Bartels, General Manager, IBM Global Energy and Utilities Industry, and Chairman, Gridwise Alliance, shares his insights on the energy and utilities industry.
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
The Past, Present, & Future of Application Performance Management
May 2011
The Gomez Application Performance Management (APM) platform is the industry's leading solution for managing and optimizing the performance, availability and quality of web, non-web, mobile,...
Provided by Compuware
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White Papers
The Online MBA at Benedictine University
Jan 2012
If you're a business professional, you know that an MBA can position you to move up into high-level leadership roles. Benedictine's online MBA degree program prepares you to successfully lead...
Provided by Benedictine University
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White Papers
Leaders, Followers, And Risk Dynamics In Industry Equilibrium
Feb 2009
The authors study own and rival risk in a dynamic duopoly with a homogeneous output good, stochastic industry demand, and real options to expand or contract capacity. They focus on asymmetric cost...
Provided by Vienna University of Economics and Business
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White Papers
Substitution Between Managers And Subordinates: Evidence From British Football
Nov 2009
The authors use data on British football managers and teams over the 1994-2007 period to study substitution and complementarity between leaders and subordinates. They find for the Premier League...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
Top Management Pay In China
Nov 2007
In this paper, the authors investigate some aspects of top management pay in China's listed firms. While China has embraced many capitalist practices it still retains some vestiges of socialism...
Provided by Lingnan University
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White Papers
The Transferability Of CEO Skills
Dec 2007
Executives with concurrent multiple CEO appointments are the first focus of this study. The initial firms managed by this cohort group evidence superior profitability while the subsequent managed...
Provided by Mississippi State University
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White Papers
The Emergence Of Male Leadership In Competitive Environments
Nov 2010
The authors present evidence from an experiment in which groups select a leader to compete against the leaders of other groups in a real-effort task that they have all performed in the past. They...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
Trade Policy, Market Leaders And Endogenous Competition Intensity
Oct 2006
It is well known that tariff policy can alleviate the negative consequences of breaching intellectual property rights by foreign firms. Yet, the positive effect of tariff protection is thought to...
Provided by Charles University
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White Papers
Stackelberg Leadership With Product Differentiation And Endogenous Entry: Some Comparative Static And Limiting Results
Oct 2008
Allowing for endogenous entry in the traditional Stackelberg setup with product differentiation, leads to reverting of the standard comparative static and limiting results. Unlike in the standard...
Provided by Charles University
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White Papers
Competition Policy And Market Leaders
Nov 2008
The authors study the potential loss in social welfare and changes in incentives to invest in R&D that result when the market leading firm is deprived of its position. They show that under...
Provided by Charles University
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White Papers
Technological Leadership And Persistence Of Monopoly Under Endogenous Entry: Static Versus Dynamic Analysis
Dec 2009
The authors build a dynamic oligopoly model with endogenous entry in which a particular firm (leader) invests in an innovation process, facing the subsequent entry of other firms (followers). They...
Provided by Charles University
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White Papers
U.N. Secretary-General Invites Father Williams To Leadership Summit
Jun 2007
The author, a business ethics expert at the University of Notre Dame, has been invited by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to participate in the 2007 Global Compact Leaders Summit from...
Provided by University of Notre Dame
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White Papers
Top Business Executives Share Insights In Notre Dame Lecture Series
Aug 2009
The purpose of the Boardroom Insights series is to invite executives to reflect on critical issues and experiences in the business world, sharing their insights in a mix of lecture and discussion...
Provided by University of Notre Dame
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White Papers
Target CEO To Lecture At Notre Dame
Sep 2009
The author's talk is part of the Mendoza College's Boardroom Insight Series. The purpose of the paper is to invite executives to reflect on critical issues and experiences in the business world,...
Provided by University of Notre Dame
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White Papers
Leadership Award Honors Late Business Professor Vecchio
Apr 2010
As a faculty member at the University of Notre Dame for more than 34 years, the author was known internationally as a prolific and respected researcher who studied topics that fell into the nexus...
Provided by University of Notre Dame
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White Papers
Executive Education Awards Recognize Corporate Partners, Faculty
Jul 2011
An orthopedic manufacturer, an improve group and a CEO from an investment bank in Puerto Rico were among the diverse group of award recipients during the annual Notre Dame Executive Education...
Provided by University of Notre Dame
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White Papers
Flying Bosses: New Study Highlights Why CEO Pilots Make Good Leaders
Aug 2011
The kind of risk-seeking behavior that motivates certain people to fly personal aircraft may also make them effective corporate leaders, according to a new study co-authored by professors from the...
Provided by University of Notre Dame
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Webcasts
Leadership And Disruptive Technologies
Oct 2010
In this webcast, the presenter discusses disruptive product innovation and leadership in the medical device industry. The presenter shares the company's story, including insights on the launch of...
Provided by Stanford University
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Webcasts
What Great Leaders Do
Nov 2010
In this webcast, the presenter unpacks the best habits of beloved and effective managers, and details the worst habits of those who fail to lead. The best leaders develop and nurture those who...
Provided by Stanford University
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Webcasts
How Ideas Take Flight
Nov 2010
In this webcast, the presenter shares the power behind creating ideas that can build momentum. Through her research on the perception of happiness and meaning, the presenter describes how these...
Provided by Stanford University
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White Papers
Teaching Collaborative Leadership: Ideas And Lessons For The Field
Apr 2010
This paper describes and analyzes a new approach to teaching collaborative leadership to masters of public administration students at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. The three year old...
Provided by Indiana University
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White Papers
Applying The Organizational Elements Model To Leadership Development Evaluation
Sep 2008
The well-documented forces and consequences of globalization, such as changing demographics of the workforce, changing economic markets, and more people working within, across, and among multiple...
Provided by Australasian Evaluation Society (AES)
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White Papers
When Transformational Leadership And Learning Orientation Impact On Innovation Behavior: The Importance Of Ambidextrous Organization
Mar 2010
In the increasingly competitive marketplace, innovation is a key factor to advance core competency. In the field of organizational research, some researches indicated that supervisor's...
Provided by National Changhua University of Education
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White Papers
Basis Of Power Effects On Method Of Communication
Apr 2007
The paper of project management is receiving increasing attention from the engineering community due to its essential role in today's asymmetric projects. Project managers do more than plan and...
Provided by United States Military Academy
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White Papers
Performance Through Measuring Leader's Profiles: An Empirical Study
Aug 2007
In the Finnish work life it is quite typical in the engineering and expertise companies, the oldest or the most experienced professionals to have traditionally been taken into the leaders'...
Provided by University of Tampere
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White Papers
Talent Management And The Law Of Jante: An Improbable Coexistence?
Nov 2009
Few organizations today do not realize that employees are their most important resource and they are aware of the importance of recruiting, selecting, developing, retaining, and motivating those...
Provided by University of Aarhus
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White Papers
Distributed Development: Challenges & Management Practices Of Danish Industrial Leaders
Nov 2009
This paper discusses management practices of Danish industrial firms in relation to the main challenges they face during the transition from highly concentrated R&D to dispersed R&D. This is a...
Provided by Aalborg University
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White Papers
Does Participative Leadership Enhance Work Performance By Inducing Empowerment Or Trust? The Differential Effects On Managerial And Non-Managerial Subordinates
Jul 2009
The authors examined whether participative leadership behavior is associated with improved work performance through a motivational process or an exchange-based process. Based on data collected...
Provided by John Wiley & Sons
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White Papers
Success In Organizational Change Processes Structure Versus Leadership
Dec 2009
The paper explores factors significant for successful organizational change. It presents empirical findings from a recent amalgamation reform in the Danish public sector and discusses possible...
Provided by University of Southern Denmark
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White Papers
Exploring Trustee Leadership As An Essential Governance Role
Nov 2007
Governance and leadership are both large and amorphous concepts. Each incorporates aspects of institutions and organizations, individuals and social symbolism. Each also involves actions,...
Provided by Brock University
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White Papers
Conceptions Of Leadership
Mar 2009
There is now a wide recognition in the international community that 'Leadership matters' for growth and development, just as there was recognition some years ago that 'Institutions matter'. But...
Provided by Leadership Program: Developmental Leaders, Elites and Coalitions
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White Papers
Entrepreneurial Leadership: Comparing The Practices Of An Entrepreneurial Principal And An Education Entrepreneur
Mar 2008
How do "Entrepreneurial" school leaders approach innovations, and how is this process similar or different from that of a business entrepreneur? The authors address this question by comparing...
Provided by University of Rochester
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White Papers
The Public Leadership Challenge: Beyond NPM And Towards NPL
Mar 2008
There has been an increasing momentum in public sector reform in the UK during the eleven years from 1997 through to the present day as part of the wider modernising government agenda (HMSO 1999)....
Provided by Manchester Business School
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White Papers
Leadership Promotion Of Public Service Values : Transformational Leadership As An Institutional Explanation For Individual Public Service Motivation
Mar 2008
Both leadership and public service motivation are important issues in contemporary public administration. By connecting these issues, the aim of this paper is to assess the impact of...
Provided by Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
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White Papers
A Competency-Based Model For Managers In Practice
Aug 2007
Globalization of business during the past decades has led to the development of large firms expanding their activities across countries and continents. One of the main issues facing the...
Provided by ISG
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White Papers
7 Steps to Building a Business Case for ERP
May 2011
Businesses are looking to make technology investments to prepare for growth. But with the economic recovery uneven and uncertain, they remain cautious about these investments. One thing is clear:...
Provided by Sage Software
-
White Papers
A Competency-Based Model For Managers In Practice
Aug 2007
Globalization of business during the past decades has led to the development of large firms expanding their activities across countries and continents. One of the main issues facing the...
Provided by ISG
-
White Papers
Free Project Management Toolkit - For Executives
Dec 2010
Learn what other executives are doing to increase visibility into project resources and team productivity by downloading this free project management toolkit from @task. This collection of white...
Provided by AtTask
-
Case Studies
Who Will Lead?
Jan 2010
Retiring baby boomers in the next decade will create an unprecedented leadership void. A number of trends have converged to create a dearth of leader and manager candidates. Ross Vierra described...
Provided by Management Concepts
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White Papers
Lessons In Survival - A Critical Leadership Skill
Jan 2009
To survive - to hang in there - to keep your head while all around you others are losing theirs - to stay in play - is a critical skill of leaders. Let's face it - even the most astute, successful...
Provided by Klebanoff Associates
-
White Papers
The Five Key Facets Of Quality Leadership
Jan 2009
Many people in leadership positions struggle with understanding what makes a great leader. While billions of dollars are spent annually on leadership development, quality leadership is still in...
Provided by Affinity Consulting
-
White Papers
The Focused Leader One BIG Idea + One BIG Crisis
Jan 2009
Successful leaders have BIG ideas as well as having big crises to deal with. Most leaders who have gone into the annals of history, whether it be politics, sports or business have led in this...
Provided by Affinity Consulting
-
White Papers
Heroic Leaders Don't Always Save The Day
Jan 2009
The real heroes are those leaders who allow others to make decisions, take action, and gain knowledge. They support staff and provide access to information. They encourage innovation, especially...
Provided by Team Builders Plus
-
White Papers
Tips For Being An Inspirational Leader
Nov 2008
The methods and ways of providing effective leadership to team members have changed over a couple of years. Various leadership strategies and methods have evolved with time. However, one thing...
Provided by Firefly e-Ventures
-
White Papers
Power Monitoring Supervisory, connectivity and protection options that add an umbrella of protection over your entire IT infrastructure
Jul 2009
Monitoring options are now available for organizations of any size. You can remotely monitor and manage a single uninterpretable power system (UPS), an enterprise-wide network of many UPSs and...
Provided by Eaton
-
White Papers
Leadership Lessons From History: Part 2
Jan 2009
In all candor, an historical leadership experience is not for everyone. These venues can be difficult to reach, physical conditions are not always ideal for walking around, let alone learning, and...
Provided by Singularity Group
-
White Papers
Building Your IT Staff: Essential Experience and Skill Sets for Tomorrow's Challenges
Jan 2009
The top Information Services leaders from Stimson Lumber, Missouri State University, Gelber Group, and United Therapeutics share their expertise on: Building Your IT Staff: Essential Experience...
Provided by SkillSoft
-
White Papers
360 Feedback: The Fundamentals
Aug 2009
360 feedback is a leadership development process in which survey data is collected from various sources regarding leaders' competencies. This feedback is compiled into a report which is shared...
Provided by LeaderNation
-
White Papers
What Is A leadership Competency And How Do I Create A Competency Model?
Aug 2007
A competency is a skill, ability, or knowledge set that can be taught or developed. All competencies have "Indicators" that allow them to be observed and measured. A leadership competency model is...
Provided by LeaderNation
-
White Papers
Creating 360 Feedback Questions: Guidelines
Aug 2009
Once you have a leadership competency model for your organization, you can create a 360 feedback survey to support the development of your organization's leaders. This paper provides guidelines...
Provided by LeaderNation
-
White Papers
Ensuring Organizational Results: Connecting Competencies To Mission, Vision, And Strategy
Aug 2009
Leadership should support the healthy functioning of organizations. A leadership competency model identifies leadership behaviors that produce the desired results for the organization. Therefore,...
Provided by LeaderNation
-
White Papers
Discussing 360 Feedback Results: Meeting Guidelines
Aug 2009
360 feedback is a leadership development process in which survey data is collected from various sources (e.g., bosses, peers, subordinates, and self) regarding leaders' competencies. This feedback...
Provided by LeaderNation
-
White Papers
Bullet-Proofing Instant Messaging
Sep 2009
Information workers on the job often turn to the same software tools they use at home for quick, unfettered communication. When that involves instant messaging (IM) programs such as AIM, Yahoo!...
Provided by MessageLabs, now part of Symantec
-
White Papers
Hitting The Panic Button: What Kind Of Leader Are You?
May 2009
You're a business leader and the economy is falling into a deep recession. How will you react? What kind of leader will you be? This paper discusses four types of leaders and which one you should...
Provided by EKSH.COM
-
Webcasts
See Through Your Systems Complexity
Jan 2009
IBM Tivoli Monitoring is a powerful solution designed to consolidate and simplify systems monitoring and management across complex, distributed environments. Hundreds of integrated best practices...
Provided by Mainline Information Systems
-
White Papers
A Policy-Based Middleware for Web Services SLA Negotiation
Oct 2008
Negotiation of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) is very important for maintaining Quality of Service (QoS) of composite Web services-based business processes. The process of negotiation involves...
Provided by Queen's University
-
White Papers
Leadership Style: Top 7 Strategies To Handle Difficult Conversations
Jan 2009
A good leader has the ability to empower others. It is important that a leader develop people who want to share and help in carrying out the goals of the organization. If it is your intention to...
Provided by Top7Business.com
-
White Papers
Cultivating Risk Intelligence for Competitive Advantage
Dec 2009
You needn't be a seer or sage to perceive risk. It's as predictable and as devastating as a Florida hurricane and as far-reaching as a corporate scandal. But you do need to be a visionary to see...
Provided by SAP
-
White Papers
Real-Time Human Posture Reconstruction in Wireless Smart Camera Networks
Nov 2007
While providing a variety of intriguing application opportunities, a vision sensor network poses three key challenges. High computation capacity is required for early vision functions to enable...
Provided by Stanford University
-
White Papers
Smarter Systems Development: A System Engineering Trade Study to support Green Initiatives with Model Driven Development
Dec 2009
Trade studies help us fully explore the design space to ensure that a proposed solution best meets conflicting performance and cost requirements. But many of us don't know that you can...
Provided by IBM
-
White Papers
Magic Quadrant for Job Scheduling
Apr 2009
Gartner has positioned BMC CONTROL-M in the Leaders Quadrant of their "2009 Magic Quadrant for Job Scheduling." The report assesses the ability to execute and completeness of vision of key vendors...
Provided by BMC Software
-
White Papers
Business Leadership Styles
Aug 2009
Leadership is defined as a social influence process in which the leader seeks the voluntary participation of subordinates in an effort to reach organizational goals. A leader trait is a physical...
Provided by Associated Content
-
White Papers
Leadership Theories And Styles
Apr 2009
Trait theory is one of the early discover leadership theory found dated back to 1920s, which assume that this type of leaders are born with inherited traits and qualities that suits to be good...
Provided by Associated Content
-
White Papers
Leadership Styles: An Overview
Mar 2009
There are three basic styles of leadership a person can use when making decisions and leading subordinates. The three types are authoritarian, democratic and laissez-faire. The authoritarian style...
Provided by Associated Content
-
White Papers
What Is Leadership Style?: Classic And Modern Leadership Styles
Apr 2007
Leadership style varies with personality and situational need. Leadership style is partly decision making style and partly a way of motivating employees. The classic thinking on leadership style...
Provided by Suite101
-
White Papers
Leadership Styles: When To Be A Participative Team Leader
May 2007
The classic leadership styles are autocratic, participative and laissez-faire. You either tell people what to do, you involve them in deciding what to do or you let them do what they want. To...
Provided by Suite101
-
White Papers
Utilize Varied Leadership Styles: Better Leaders Employ The Use Of Multiple Management Methods
Jun 2007
Good leaders understand that different management styles are needed to deal with changing situations. Good teachers and leaders share a secret in their ability to communicate specific ideas or...
Provided by Suite101
-
White Papers
Leadership Styles: The Fundamentals Of Leadership Theories
Nov 2009
Research on leadership was temporarily abandoned in the 1950s due to the lack of consistent leadership traits. Most contemporary theories suggest that leadership is a complex mix of traits,...
Provided by Suite101
-
White Papers
How To Adapt Your Leadership Style
Nov 2008
It is clear that choosing the most effective leadership style depends very much on the person being led, the follower. However, keep in mind that development levels are also situational. A...
Provided by Suite101
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White Papers
HR in the Digital Age: How to Use Technology to Enhance Organizational Effectiveness
Mar 2010
Three top HR innovators from Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare, Pizza Hut, Inc., and Sprint Nextel Corp. share their insights on how to use technology to enhance organizational effectiveness.
Provided by SkillSoft
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White Papers
Building Your Business Case for Best-Practice IT Services Delivery
Mar 2010
This white paper examines various TCO components and complexities, as well as hidden costs, cost avoidance, and business impacts that companies can miss when building their business case. The...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Trust, Confidence And Organizational Brain Disorder Or how Trust Boosts The Bottom Line
Feb 2008
THE LACK OF TRUST and confidence in and within organizations is the primary symptom of "Organizational Brain Disorder", a horrible disease that affects many organizations. In some companies, up to...
Provided by Theo Compernolle
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Downloads
Discovery Wizard for Instant Messaging
Apr 2010
Instant messaging (IM) is often the tool of choice for communicating across the enterprise. It's quick and easy to speak with a remote employee, customer or vendor. However, public IM is...
Provided by Quest Software
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White Papers
Coping With Complexity: Leadership In Financial Services
Jan 2009
Unprecedented complexity is reshaping the financial services industry and presenting formidable challenges to financial services leaders and their organizations. Deloitte's new point of view,...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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White Papers
Beyond Functional Expertise: A Business Imperative For Today's Leaders
Jan 2010
Functional expertise is the price of entry for executives in today's world. Creating the environment, however, where talented, engaged employees have passion, drive, and the ability to proactively...
Provided by Peak Development Consulting
