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Surviving The Early Years
Jul 2010
Pandora is an online music recommendation provider launched right as the dot-com bubble burst in March 2000. So, what did founder Tim Westergren and his young company do? "We kind of improvised...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Developing A Leadership Strategy: A Critical Ingredient For Organizational Success
May 2009
Organizations depend upon capable leadership to guide them through unprecedented changes. Yet, there is ample evidence in the news and in recent research reports that even some of the best and...
Provided by Center for Creative Leadership
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Keep Your Employees Happy
May 2010
Kathryn Roberts, COO of Pump It, Inc., knows how to keep her employees happy. At the American Express OPEN Women's Business Summit, Kathryn discusses the various ways she nurtures her employees so...
Provided by American Express
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Small Biz Inspiration: Overcoming Adversity
Jan 2010
Small business owners are known for their hard work and dedication even in the face of adversity. This webcast introduces one to entrepreneurs who refused to give up despite some major personal...
Provided by American Express
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Leadership Dilemma: To Consolidate, Change Or Challenge Your Organization In Turbulent Times
Nov 2009
Leaders who want to optimize their efforts to deal with these turbulent times draw upon three distinct "Engines" to drive their organization to survival and success. Those engines are: (a) Their...
Provided by UNITECH Alumni Association
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Leadership And Value Creation Techniques For The Modern Corporation
Sep 2008
Leadership is a skill that can draw upon many tools and techniques. This paper advocates using some of the techniques and tools that have been proven to be successful in a dispute resolution...
Provided by KLG Consultants
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The Qualities That Distinguish Women Leaders
May 2009
Women leaders are more assertive and persuasive, have a stronger need to get things done and are more willing to take risks than male leaders, according to a new study conducted by Caliper, a...
Provided by Caliper
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White Papers
Implementing New Matrix Management - The New System For Leading Today's Organization
Jan 2010
There are a lot of leaders who believe managers must have control over the people that work for them and that authority is required to get things done. But since most work is done on...
Provided by Martin Training Associates
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White Papers
Thought Leadership Marketing: Creating The Edge For Knowledge-Intensive Firms
Jul 2009
"In the current hyper-competitive marketplace, it's hard for suppliers to think objectively about what makes their business truly different from their competitors," observes Brenna Garratt, CEO of...
Provided by Everest Partners
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Creating Synergies For Leading: Three Key Success Factors For Western Expatriates In Russia
Jan 2010
The Russian market is characterised by important economic growth rates and a highly dynamic environment as a result of recent political and economic changes. For the last eight years, the volume...
Provided by ESCP Europe
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Strategy And leadership In Turbulent Times
Dec 2009
The economic shock of 2008, and the Great Recession that followed, didn't just create profound uncertainty over the direction of the global economy. They also shook the confidence of many business...
Provided by McKinsey & Company
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White Papers
Insightful Organizational Assessment And Focused Organizational Leadership
Jan 2010
Advancing the business for long-term transformation requires insightful organizational effectiveness assessments or surveys. Through effective organizational assessments one gets the...
Provided by OD Synergy
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Exploring The Link Between Emotional Intelligence And Cross-Cultural Leadership Effectiveness
Jan 2009
Global corporations operate in an environment characterized by cross-cultural differences. This exploratory research examined how varying cultures perceive the effectiveness of differing...
Provided by Loyola University Chicago
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Shared Leadership As A Future Leadership Style
Jan 2009
Leadership has always attracted human beings. In this paper they identify the traditional top-down single leadership as a powerful norm, influencing every leader. With this assumption in mind they...
Provided by University of Gothenburg
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White Papers
Leadership Styles And Management Techniques
Feb 2010
Leaders of organizations need to lead and manage effectively to succeed. Thus, women entrepreneurs who are becoming more prominent in the business arena, have to be good leaders and managers. This...
Provided by Multimedia University
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White Papers
The Stress Of Leadership
Aug 2007
Eighty-eight percent of leaders report that work is a primary source of stress in their lives and that having a leadership role increases the level of stress. More than 60 percent of surveyed...
Provided by Center for Creative Leadership
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White Papers
Leadership Styles: Understanding And Using The Right One For Your Situation
Sep 2009
Whether one is managing a team at work, captaining the sports team or leading a major corporation, one's leadership style is crucial to one's success. Consciously, or subconsciously, one will no...
Provided by Informa
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White Papers
4 Leadership Styles That Will Improve Your Game
Apr 2010
What is one doing? How is one going to achieve that? These are just a couple of the questions that members of any project team ask during the life of a project. The same can be said for members of...
Provided by QuinStreet
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White Papers
How Does Your Leadership Style Impact Process Performance?
Jan 2010
Process performance is measured by effectiveness - how effectively the workforce uses the processes as they were designed. The more variation in how processes are followed, the less effective...
Provided by Noria
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White Papers
Optimizing Your Leadership Pipeline For: Operational Leaders
Nov 2009
When organizations face growth or complex change operational or midlevel leaders play a critical role. Yet when corporations face belt tightening, reengineer their business process, push decision...
Provided by Development Dimensions International
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White Papers
Common Attributes Of Good Managers
Jan 2010
A routine study of managers and supervisors seeking answers as to why certain managers are successful and others seem to fail. It is somewhat difficult to find a truly good manager. But it really...
Provided by ReviewSNAP
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White Papers
How Leadership Development Can Address Financial And Credit Crises
Nov 2007
The current credit market crisis reveals a basic problem in leadership development, that is, the lack of programs to develop business acumen, particularly for the executives who are charged with...
Provided by Perth Leadership Institute
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White Papers
Coaching Leaders In A Recession - Improving Financial Impact And Business Acumen
Jan 2009
Coaching for managers and executives has become increasingly utilized as a mean of increasing professional performance and of resolving other issues of both a professional and a personal nature....
Provided by Perth Leadership Institute
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White Papers
The Role Of Business Acumen In Leadership Development
Jun 2008
This paper discusses the emerging role of business acumen in leadership development programs and how this differs from business or (financial) literacy programs. Leadership development approaches...
Provided by Perth Leadership Institute
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White Papers
Empowering Local Leaders
Apr 2010
This case study describes the challenge to design a leadership development program for leaders and potential leaders of the Mexican and Chilean sites of a European-based transnational corporation....
Provided by USP-D.com
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White Papers
A Recession's Role In Transforming Leadership Development
Feb 2008
Great leaders are the basis of all human achievements. Companies globally are striving to identify, develop and put in place outstanding leaders to face the challenges of a highly unpredictable...
Provided by Perth Leadership Institute
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White Papers
Leadership And Change Management
Jun 2009
The purpose of the present paper is to examine the reasons and circumstances of strategic change initiatives and how management and their behavior can go wrong. In particular, how such change...
Provided by Mount Olive College
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White Papers
Other-Regarding Preferences And Leadership Styles
Mar 2009
The authors use a laboratory experiment to examine whether and to what extent other-regarding preferences of team leaders influence their leadership style in choice under risk. They find that...
Provided by IZA
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White Papers
Leadership Style And Conflict In Decision Making Groups
Sep 2007
This paper reviews the existing research on conflict in decision making groups, and the limited research on the effect of leadership style on such groups. The preferred leader actions are...
Provided by University of Nebraska
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White Papers
Leadership Styles For Success In Collaborative Work
Feb 2008
Environmental advocacy organizations work in coalitions or strategic partnerships with other organizations with similar missions for a wide variety of reasons. As with many other nonprofits,...
Provided by Association of Leadership Educators
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White Papers
The Relationships Among Leadership Styles, Entrepreneurial Orientation, And Business Performance
Sep 2008
This study aims to contribute to the knowledge of leadership styles and entrepreneurial orientation at small and medium enterprises as well as their effects on business performance. This study...
Provided by University of Primorska
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White Papers
Becoming A Transformational Leader
Jul 2010
Leadership is something that, frankly, isn't in abundance within most IT organizations. If you're reading this paper, you most likely are already part of this exclusive group of leaders - because...
Provided by CastlePointe
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White Papers
Knowledge Management And Organizational Effectiveness; Considering Applications For Leadership
Dec 2009
This paper explores the change of the organizational environment from a structured production model, bureaucracy to an information based organization which is directed to mange knowledge. Moreover...
Provided by Global Internet Marketing
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White Papers
Leadership Styles And Organizational Effectiveness In Multinational Firms - A Study Of Selected Organizations
Jan 2008
The paper tries to find the Leadership styles and Organizational Effectiveness in Multinational firms in selected Organizations. The study aims at investigating the relationship between various...
Provided by Jamia Millia Islamia
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White Papers
Leadership Style As An Outcome Of Motive: A Contingency 'State' Rather Than Trait' Concept
Nov 2007
This paper proposes that one may more fully understand leaders' selection of leadership style at any given leader-follower interaction through the use of four motives: (a) the 'me' motive calls...
Provided by Regent University
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White Papers
Leveraging Your Leadership Style
Nov 2009
Leaders emphasize rationality, analysis, logic, facts, and data. They are likely to believe strongly in the importance of clear structure and well-developed management systems. A good leader is...
Provided by Academic and Business Research Institute
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White Papers
Personal Motivations And Leadership Styles In Organizational Settings
Feb 2010
An extensive body of literature exists relating personality, motivation, and leadership. Unfortunately, attempts to relate personality traits and motivations to leadership behaviors have produced...
Provided by Management Research Group
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White Papers
The Job Of The Manager
Jun 2008
In today's business climate, a manager has to make the most or his or her human resources. As a manager, one achieves goals and objectives through the efforts of other people. Whether one has...
Provided by Clearviw Consulting & Counselling Service
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Webcasts
Today's Leadership Challenge: Long-Term Survival And Competitiveness
Dec 2007
A new study shows corporate leadership is failing to focus on the key factors necessary to remain sustainable over time. The stark reality of modern business is that the average corporation has a...
Provided by SAS Institute
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Webcasts
Leading The High-Performance Organisation: The Premier Business Leadership Series
Apr 2008
To lead with confidence and outpace competitors, one needs to make better, faster decisions. The secret to success lies with analytics. Top organizations view analytics as an essential aspect of...
Provided by SAS Institute
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White Papers
The Effect Of Opportunity Cost And Pacifism On Protests In Occupied Regions
Jul 2010
This paper examines how the opportunity costs of the leaders of a national protest movement, and the intrinsic pacifism of the occupier, affect the nature of the movement against occupation. A...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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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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Leadership And Your Career
Jan 2011
Like many top MBA programs, the authors do a great job of teaching leadership principles. But UNC Kenan-Flagler surpasses the others by shaping the students through a continual process of...
Provided by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Who Makes A Good Leader? Cooperativeness, Optimism And Leading-By-Example
Oct 2009
The authors examine the characteristics of effective leaders in a simple leader-follower voluntary contributions game. They focus on two factors: the individual's cooperativeness and the...
Provided by University of Nottingham
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Who Makes A Good Leader? Social Preferences And Leading-By-Example
Dec 2008
The authors examine the effects of social preferences and beliefs about the social preferences of others in a simple leader-follower voluntary contributions game. They find that groups perform...
Provided by University of Nottingham
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Leadership In Groups: A Monetary Policy Experiment
Sep 2007
In an earlier paper (Blinder and Morgan, 2005), the authors created an experimental apparatus in which Princeton University students acted as ersatz central bankers, making monetary policy...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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A Factorial Survey On Fair Leadership Behavior And The Role Of Superiors
Oct 2010
This paper extends research on leader fairness to the perspective of his/her superior. While common research is focused on followers' judgments of fair leadership behavior, the author proposed to...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Top Management Team And Middle Managers: Making Sense Of Leadership
Jan 2009
This paper provides insight about the process of Top Management Teams'(TMTs') sense making about leadership of middle managers - a process that has so far been neglected by researchers. In a...
Provided by Maastricht University
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Leadership, Coordination And Mission-driven Management
Sep 2008
What makes a good leader? A good leader is able to coordinate his followers around a credible mission statement, which communicates the future course of action of the organization. In practice,...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Leadership In Collective Action
Oct 2008
The authors extend the model of collective action in which groups compete for a budged by endogenizing the group platform, namely the specific mixture of public/private well and the distribution...
Provided by Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
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Motivating Politicians: The Impacts Of Monetary Incentives On Quality And Performance
Apr 2009
The analysis exploits discontinuities in wages across municipalities induced by a constitutional amendment defining caps on the salary of local legislatures according to municipal population. The...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Identity Workspaces For Leadership Development
Feb 2011
Profound changes in individuals' relationship with their employers and expectations for their work lives have generated an increasing demand for leadership development, while at the same time...
Provided by INSEAD
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Emotional Intelligence And Leadership Effectiveness: The Mediating Influence Of Collaborative Behaviors
Feb 2011
Leadership effectiveness can be divided into two broad categories that include getting along behaviors (teamwork and empowerment of others) and/or getting ahead behaviors (visioning. energizing....
Provided by INSEAD
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Leadership And Judgment: Why Leaders Know More Than They Think
Jan 2011
The author woke up early one morning in the summer of 2010. This was noteworthy; left to myself, the author would have woken up a few hours later, his head would have been happier and his stomach...
Provided by INSEAD
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Leadership In Public Good Provision: A Timing Game Perspective
Jan 2011
The authors address in this paper the issue of leadership when two governments provide public goods to their constituencies with cross border externalities as both public goods are valued by...
Provided by University of Nottingham
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Do Leaders Affect Government Spending Priorities?
Sep 2009
Since a key function of competitive elections is to allow voters to express their policy preferences, one might take it for granted that when leadership changes, policy change follows. Using a...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Back To Life: Leadership From A Process Perspective
May 2010
Process thinking has given the signals regarding how to make critical judgments about, or else how to grasp actively and immanently, an organizational world on the move. The perspective of a world...
Provided by University of York
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Charismatic Leadership And Its Emergence Under Crisis Conditions: A Case Study From The Airline Industry
Mar 2009
Charismatic leadership is perceived as emerging under conditions of crisis. This paper examines to what extent this statement is confirmed in an organizational context. Employing a case study from...
Provided by University of York
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Webcasts
Leadership Development
Dec 2008
A trio of graduates from MIT's Technology and Policy Program (TPP) discuss their career paths, bumps and all, and offer guidance to current students. The author feels vindicated in his choice. He...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Yes We Must: Achieve Diversity Through Leadership-Student Remarks
Feb 2009
Two students deliver heartfelt appeals for courage and integrity at the annual Martin Luther King Day breakfast. In the 1940s, one of the author recounts, his grandfather was forced to flee South...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Yes We Must: Achieve Diversity Through Leadership-Keynote
Feb 2009
Two "Sisters" - both university chiefs - celebrate the victory of the first African-American U.S. President, but remind listeners that American institutions have not yet achieved the full measure...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Distributed Leadership In The Obama Campaign
Mar 2009
The author, who cut his teeth on civil rights work and with Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers, describes how the principles and practices he learned around organizing and leadership played out in...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Values-Based Leadership
Mar 2009
A West Point start, army career, and a disciplined approach to distilling key life experiences have guided the author through his 20 years at Procter & Gamble. McDonald recommends a deliberate...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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America~s Leadership In Clean Energy
Oct 2009
In welcoming President Obama, MIT President Susan Hockfield summarizes the vast array of energy innovation at MIT, including the MIT Energy Initiative and the student-led 1700 member Energy Club,...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Ethics And Enlightened Leadership
Apr 2009
His Holiness the Dalai Lama spoke at an inaugural event for a new institute in his name, the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values. He tempered his provocative ideas about...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Webcasts
Leadership And Entrepreneurship
Oct 2009
While their ventures couldn't be more dissimilar - engineering high tech defense gear for soldiers, and running an exclusive online boutique - this entrepreneurs share some common experiences and...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Success: Talent, Intelligence Or Beauty ?
Nov 2010
The authors analyze the Celebrity 100 annual list of the world's most "Powerful celebrities" compiled and published by Forbes Magazine. The lists provide an interesting collection of people that...
Provided by Universite Catholique de Louvain
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Leader Reputation And Default In Sovereign Debt
Jan 2009
This paper compares default incentives in competitive sovereign debt markets when leaders can be either democratically elected or dictators. When leaders can be replaced as in democracies, the...
Provided by University of Warwick
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Whitepapers
Get the most out of SSD storage with IBM Storwize v7000 and Easy Tier
Mar 2011
While the performance advantages of SSD storage are clear, the cost is often prohibitive. But what if you can target the data that really needs the performance edge at the SSD drives? You could...
Provided by IBM
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Developing Advanced Decision- Making Skills In International Leaders And Managers
Sep 2007
Socially, economically, politically, and technologically, the world is transforming in complex ways that are beyond what the authors could have fathomed even five years ago. Now, more than ever,...
Provided by Vikalpa
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Ethical Leader Behaviour And Leader-Member Exchange As Predictors Of Subordinate Behaviours
Dec 2008
The role of leader or leadership in management has occupied the attention of both theorists and practitioners alike. Of late, its role has also been considered significant in ethical issues given...
Provided by Vikalpa
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Developing The Expert Leader
Sep 2007
In this paper, the authors look at leadership through the lens of expertise and relate the findings of a wide range of research on experts, expertise, and expert performance to how they think...
Provided by University of Southern California
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White Papers
Crafting A Path Toward Mastery: Turning A Personal Leadership Development Plan Into Something Useful
Sep 2007
In this paper the author attempts to describe an alternative approach to creating a personal plan for developing leadership ability. To get away from whatever baggage is associated "Development...
Provided by University of Southern California
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White Papers
Era Management SM - Maximizing Your Organizational Potential Through Leadership
Jan 2011
As leaders react to marketplace and competitive pressures, there is a constant need to challenge the status quo, to look around the company and constantly ask tough questions. Do we have clear and...
Provided by Rath & Strong Management Consultants
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Does Leadership Need Emotional Intelligence?
May 2009
Interest in emotional intelligence has bloomed over the last few years. That it has become a standard concept in general and applied psychology, as well as in applied business settings, is...
Provided by Elsevier
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Leadership Confidence: What Goes Down. Keeps Going Down
Oct 2008
Leadership confidence is a lot like consumer confidence. When consumers are confident, they buy more. They go 'Above and beyond' and spend money to purchase things they need, and then they start...
Provided by University of Southern California
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White Papers
Foreign Aid And Enlightened Leaders
Dec 2010
To study whether foreign aid fuels personal, regional and ethnic favoritism, the authors use satellite data on nighttime light for any region in any aid-recipient country, and they determine for...
Provided by Deakin University
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White Papers
Why Do Leaders Matter? The Role Of Expert Knowledge
Jun 2008
Why do some leaders succeed while others fail? This question is important, but its complexity makes it hard to study systematically. The authors draw on a setting where there are well-defined...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
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White Papers
Linking Leadership Empowerment Behavior To Employee Attitudes And Behavioral Intentions: Testing The Mediating Role Of Psychological Empowerment
Jul 2007
To improve their overall flexibility and efficiency, many organisations have replaced traditional hierarchical management structures with empowered (semi-autonomous or self-managing) work teams....
Provided by Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School
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Managers~ Awareness Of Fashionable Management Concepts: An Empirical Study
Sep 2009
This paper on fashionable management concepts has a strong focus on the supply side. Attention to the demand side is usually restricted to implementation questions. However, between supply and...
Provided by Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School
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White Papers
Leadership Styles And Management Techniques
Feb 2010
Leaders of organizations need to lead and manage effectively to succeed. Thus, women entrepreneurs who are becoming more prominent in the business arena, have to be good leaders and managers. This...
Provided by Multimedia University
-
White Papers
The Stress Of Leadership
Aug 2007
Eighty-eight percent of leaders report that work is a primary source of stress in their lives and that having a leadership role increases the level of stress. More than 60 percent of surveyed...
Provided by Center for Creative Leadership
-
White Papers
Leadership Styles: Understanding And Using The Right One For Your Situation
Sep 2009
Whether one is managing a team at work, captaining the sports team or leading a major corporation, one's leadership style is crucial to one's success. Consciously, or subconsciously, one will no...
Provided by Informa
-
White Papers
4 Leadership Styles That Will Improve Your Game
Apr 2010
What is one doing? How is one going to achieve that? These are just a couple of the questions that members of any project team ask during the life of a project. The same can be said for members of...
Provided by QuinStreet
-
White Papers
How Does Your Leadership Style Impact Process Performance?
Jan 2010
Process performance is measured by effectiveness - how effectively the workforce uses the processes as they were designed. The more variation in how processes are followed, the less effective...
Provided by Noria
-
White Papers
Optimizing Your Leadership Pipeline For: Operational Leaders
Nov 2009
When organizations face growth or complex change operational or midlevel leaders play a critical role. Yet when corporations face belt tightening, reengineer their business process, push decision...
Provided by Development Dimensions International
-
White Papers
Common Attributes Of Good Managers
Jan 2010
A routine study of managers and supervisors seeking answers as to why certain managers are successful and others seem to fail. It is somewhat difficult to find a truly good manager. But it really...
Provided by ReviewSNAP
-
White Papers
How Leadership Development Can Address Financial And Credit Crises
Nov 2007
The current credit market crisis reveals a basic problem in leadership development, that is, the lack of programs to develop business acumen, particularly for the executives who are charged with...
Provided by Perth Leadership Institute
-
White Papers
Coaching Leaders In A Recession - Improving Financial Impact And Business Acumen
Jan 2009
Coaching for managers and executives has become increasingly utilized as a mean of increasing professional performance and of resolving other issues of both a professional and a personal nature....
Provided by Perth Leadership Institute
-
White Papers
The Role Of Business Acumen In Leadership Development
Jun 2008
This paper discusses the emerging role of business acumen in leadership development programs and how this differs from business or (financial) literacy programs. Leadership development approaches...
Provided by Perth Leadership Institute
-
White Papers
Empowering Local Leaders
Apr 2010
This case study describes the challenge to design a leadership development program for leaders and potential leaders of the Mexican and Chilean sites of a European-based transnational corporation....
Provided by USP-D.com
-
White Papers
A Recession's Role In Transforming Leadership Development
Feb 2008
Great leaders are the basis of all human achievements. Companies globally are striving to identify, develop and put in place outstanding leaders to face the challenges of a highly unpredictable...
Provided by Perth Leadership Institute
-
White Papers
Leadership And Change Management
Jun 2009
The purpose of the present paper is to examine the reasons and circumstances of strategic change initiatives and how management and their behavior can go wrong. In particular, how such change...
Provided by Mount Olive College
-
White Papers
Other-Regarding Preferences And Leadership Styles
Mar 2009
The authors use a laboratory experiment to examine whether and to what extent other-regarding preferences of team leaders influence their leadership style in choice under risk. They find that...
Provided by IZA
-
White Papers
Leadership Style And Conflict In Decision Making Groups
Sep 2007
This paper reviews the existing research on conflict in decision making groups, and the limited research on the effect of leadership style on such groups. The preferred leader actions are...
Provided by University of Nebraska
-
White Papers
Leadership Styles For Success In Collaborative Work
Feb 2008
Environmental advocacy organizations work in coalitions or strategic partnerships with other organizations with similar missions for a wide variety of reasons. As with many other nonprofits,...
Provided by Association of Leadership Educators
-
White Papers
The Relationships Among Leadership Styles, Entrepreneurial Orientation, And Business Performance
Sep 2008
This study aims to contribute to the knowledge of leadership styles and entrepreneurial orientation at small and medium enterprises as well as their effects on business performance. This study...
Provided by University of Primorska
-
White Papers
Becoming A Transformational Leader
Jul 2010
Leadership is something that, frankly, isn't in abundance within most IT organizations. If you're reading this paper, you most likely are already part of this exclusive group of leaders - because...
Provided by CastlePointe
-
White Papers
Knowledge Management And Organizational Effectiveness; Considering Applications For Leadership
Dec 2009
This paper explores the change of the organizational environment from a structured production model, bureaucracy to an information based organization which is directed to mange knowledge. Moreover...
Provided by Global Internet Marketing
-
White Papers
Leadership Styles And Organizational Effectiveness In Multinational Firms - A Study Of Selected Organizations
Jan 2008
The paper tries to find the Leadership styles and Organizational Effectiveness in Multinational firms in selected Organizations. The study aims at investigating the relationship between various...
Provided by Jamia Millia Islamia
-
White Papers
Leadership Style As An Outcome Of Motive: A Contingency 'State' Rather Than Trait' Concept
Nov 2007
This paper proposes that one may more fully understand leaders' selection of leadership style at any given leader-follower interaction through the use of four motives: (a) the 'me' motive calls...
Provided by Regent University
-
White Papers
Leveraging Your Leadership Style
Nov 2009
Leaders emphasize rationality, analysis, logic, facts, and data. They are likely to believe strongly in the importance of clear structure and well-developed management systems. A good leader is...
Provided by Academic and Business Research Institute
-
White Papers
Personal Motivations And Leadership Styles In Organizational Settings
Feb 2010
An extensive body of literature exists relating personality, motivation, and leadership. Unfortunately, attempts to relate personality traits and motivations to leadership behaviors have produced...
Provided by Management Research Group
-
White Papers
The Job Of The Manager
Jun 2008
In today's business climate, a manager has to make the most or his or her human resources. As a manager, one achieves goals and objectives through the efforts of other people. Whether one has...
Provided by Clearviw Consulting & Counselling Service
-
Webcasts
Today's Leadership Challenge: Long-Term Survival And Competitiveness
Dec 2007
A new study shows corporate leadership is failing to focus on the key factors necessary to remain sustainable over time. The stark reality of modern business is that the average corporation has a...
Provided by SAS Institute
-
Webcasts
Leading The High-Performance Organisation: The Premier Business Leadership Series
Apr 2008
To lead with confidence and outpace competitors, one needs to make better, faster decisions. The secret to success lies with analytics. Top organizations view analytics as an essential aspect of...
Provided by SAS Institute
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White Papers
The Science Of Finding The Right People
Jul 2010
Current methods for effectively identifying external leadership talent and placing them successfully into leadership roles are both inefficient and ineffective. The mechanisms for evaluating "Fit"...
Provided by Omni Leadership
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White Papers
Body Language Tips For Women Who Mean Business
May 2008
Women who have a firm handshake make a more favorable impression and are more likely to be judged as confident and assertive. So take the time to cultivate your "Professional" handshake. Keep your...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Harnessing Your Company's "Rudolphs" To Drive Innovation
Dec 2009
The Age of Innovation is here. Slowly but surely it has dawned on leaders in all industries that our global economy has changed the game forever. Oh, sure, products and processes still matter, but...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Attitude Does Count
Dec 2008
If you look at life through a negative lens, the author can guarantee negative outcomes. You really do become what you think about. He made a choice some time ago to be positive - not to be a...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Chutes And Ladders
Apr 2008
In the children's board game Chutes and Ladders, players sometimes make steady progress only to encounter sudden setbacks that cause them to slide maddeningly away from their goal. Such is the...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Leading In The Face Of Fear
Oct 2008
Vapor from my breath immediately freezes on my beard. At 25 below zero and 26,500 feet above sea level, I'm lucky to be breathing at all. At this altitude, there's barely one-third the oxygen at...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Good Leadership In Challenging Times
Oct 2009
A few years ago, two executives had to deliver the same bad news to their different employee groups. The company's sales volume had been less than forecast, so the president told his executive...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Looking Toward Tomorrow: The Succession Planning Imperative
Jun 2007
The perks afforded to individuals fortunate enough to reach the pinnacle of corporate success are plentiful, and being a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is the epitome of corporate rise....
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Treat Relationships Like An Asset Or They'll Become A Liability
Jun 2008
For close to thirty years now, the author have advised and studied leaders and teams across sectors and geographies to see if he could figure out the answer to two questions: Why do some leaders...
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Connecting With Your Wingmen
Apr 2010
Walking the flight line is a core tenet of wingmanship and one of the most essential practices you can adopt to build trust as a leader. When you take the time to appreciate the members on your...
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Six Strategies To Recession Proof Your Job And Career
Jun 2009
If the bad economic news is making you feel anxious about your career or afraid of losing your job, there are actions you can take right now to improve your soft skills in ways that will help you...
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Accentuating The Positive To Improve Productivity
Aug 2008
Strictly speaking, productivity is all about comparing inputs with outputs, for example, how many widgets Jane or Joe Employee (or their workgroup or their company or even their country) can crank...
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Leadership Lessons From Super Bowl XLII
Mar 2008
Super Bowl XLII was a thriller that kept us on the edge of our seats right up until the clock ran out. Yet, as exciting as the game itself was, the real drama of the Super Bowl occurred before the...
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White Men Can't Lead (Everyone)
Sep 2007
Today's leadership models, although they may differ from person to person and method to method, generally have a common bias toward Western- or European-influenced ways of thinking. We're leading...
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