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Assess Your Own Performance As A Leader
Sep 2008
When top executives stumble, they risk taking their companies down with them. How can you stay steady on your feet so you keep delivering high-quality leadership? Feedback. But getting feedback on...
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
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White Papers
A Leadership Coach Develops You As A Person
Mar 2010
What is a leadership coach or an executive coach? What does it take to be a successful executive or career coach? For most people, the terms executive coach and leadership coach are...
Provided by Business Articles
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White Papers
High Performance With High Integrity
Sep 2008
In an era characterized by accelerating change, economic dislocation, and - all too often - highly visible scandals, a key question has become more and more pressing. It's a question that is posed...
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
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White Papers
How Executive Coaching Can Improve Your Leadership?
Jul 2009
If you are an adventurous hiker or a mountain climber, then you probably understand the importance of getting a guide who will help one to reach your destination. One cannot expect your guide to...
Provided by Free Articles Directory
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White Papers
How To Conduct Corporate Event Planning
Oct 2009
There are many things to consider when planning a corporate event but very first thing you should consider in corporate event management is the food. More often, the potential and possible success...
Provided by Free Articles Directory
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White Papers
Senior Leadership Teams: What It Takes To Make Them Great
Feb 2008
The author is an experienced executive, a respected leader, and a veteran of the usual corporate team-building exploits, including trekking through the steamy rain forests of Costa Rica. But...
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
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White Papers
How To Determine If You Are A Leader
Jan 2010
Are you ready to take over a leadership role in your organization? You probably feel comfortable with your industry, managing staff, technology, and political culture at this point. But, have you...
Provided by Executive Business Advisers
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White Papers
Critical Qualities In Successful Managers
Jan 2010
Successful people in business management always seem to share certain key characteristics. The paper contains expert emphasized eight qualities when consulting with management teams. Some of the...
Provided by Executive Business Advisers
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White Papers
Followership: How Followers Are Creating Change And Changing Leaders
Nov 2007
Beginning in 2002 an ad agency by the name of McKinney & Silver rolled out a slogan that caught on fast. Hired to persuade people in the market for premium cars that Audi cars were better than...
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
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White Papers
The Art Of Choosing
Mar 2010
This story covers professor Sheena Iyengar's views on strategies for managing choices in an era of seemingly boundless options. Sheena Iyengar is the S. T. Lee Professor of Business in the...
Provided by Columbia University
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White Papers
A Conversation With ... Rita Gunther McGrath, On Obstacles To Innovation-Led Growth
Jan 2009
In this conversation with Ruth Gunther McGrath, faculty director - Columbia University, she covers her views on on Obstacles to Innovation-Led Growth. Ruth maintains that the economic problems are...
Provided by Columbia University
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White Papers
Tips To Rejuvenate Your Team Work
Jul 2009
For a leadership consultant, the basic and best thing is to create his group walk unitedly and allied. He has to create sure that the team remains motivated, active and enthusiastic. The team...
Provided by Free Articles Directory
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White Papers
Leadership Brand: Developing Customer-Focused Leaders To Drive Performance And Build Lasting Value
Jan 2008
In the Pursuit of Leadership, thousands of books and articles have been published. So why one more? This book focuses on what is called the leadership brand and offers two insights into how to in...
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
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White Papers
Leadership That Gets Results
Aug 2008
New research suggests that the most effective executives use a collection of distinct leadership styles - each in the right measure, at just the right time. Such flexibility is tough to put into...
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
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White Papers
Leadership Levels - Empowering Leaders To Deliver Customer Service
Feb 2008
Does your organization have the right number of hierarchical tiers? Are your leaders fully empowered with decision rights? Are you motivating employees in line with your business strategy? Booz...
Provided by Booz Allen Hamilton
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White Papers
The Information Future Of The Corporate Board
Apr 2008
Corporate governance is in the news again. Following the high-profile reversals in the financial-services industry, pressure on boards from shareholder activists and regulators to somehow prevent...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
Culture Change From The Outside/In
May 2009
An senior executive called recently and said that he wanted to "Change his culture." When the author asked what he had in mind, he talked about how he felt that the underlying norms, values, and...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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White Papers
Connecting In Chaos: Persuasion And Negotiation For Turbulent Times
Sep 2008
After JPMorgan Chase took over Bear Stearns in March, Morgan CEO Jamie Diamond made a trip uptown to talk to the top executives of the acquired firm. The executives had just been through one of...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
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White Papers
The Power Of Teams: Dividing The Tasks And Multiplying The Successes
Sep 2009
Two years ago, Chris Warner was nearing the summit of K2 in Pakistan. Ahead of his team was a group of Korean climbers, led by the highly experienced Nima Nurbu Sherpa, who had successfully scaled...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
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White Papers
Visionary Leadership: Courageous Behavior Yields Big Payoffs
Jun 2009
When Nick Craig works with executives on leadership, he begins with identifying their "True North." Craig defines this concept in terms of knowing yourself, your purpose, and your vision....
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
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White Papers
Earning The Right To Lead
Jun 2009
"I learned from my time in the Army that leadership begins with the individual," says Todd Henshaw, retired U.S Army Lt. Colonel. Today's environment calls for visionary leaders who have a firm...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
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White Papers
Rowing As One: Crewing Offers Executives Lessons In Leadership And Teamwork
Dec 2007
On a beautiful fall day, teams of executives from Wharton's Advanced Management Program took to the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia in eight-seat crew shells. Ostensibly, the 56 managers from...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
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White Papers
Epiphany On The Ice: Critical Lessons In Creating And Leading Teams
Jan 2008
Wharton Professor Mike Useem has studied, written, and taught about leadership and teamwork throughout his career, but it was an epiphany in the midst of a blinding snowstorm that drove home one...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
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White Papers
Driving Change That Works
Oct 2009
A highly successful international firm that prided itself on a strong commitment to its employees began trimming its staff at the first signs of the downturn. One senior manager convened a meeting...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
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White Papers
Leading Virtually: Making Virtual Global Teams Work
Feb 2009
Since they were pioneered by technology firms in the 1990s, virtual global teams have been growing rapidly. "Virtual work is ubiquitous in the knowledge economy," says Ana Reyes, a consultant and...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
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White Papers
Maximizing The Triple Bottom Line Through Spiritual Leadership
Feb 2008
One of the greatest challenges facing leaders today is the need to develop new business models that accentuate ethical leadership, employee well-being, sustainability and social responsibility...
Provided by Elsevier
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Case Studies
Business Ethics And Corporate Social Responsibility
Jul 2008
Anglo American is one of the world's leading mining companies. Mining operations can have a big impact on the environment and on the societies where they work. Since most mineral resources belong...
Provided by MBA Publishing
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Case Studies
Using A Range Of Management styles To Lead A Business
Jul 2008
For organisations to develop they require a direction. The people who manage the business provide the direction. Taking responsibility for making decisions and running a business well is a skill....
Provided by MBA Publishing
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White Papers
Build On Your Strengths To Strengthen Others
May 2009
You can't walk into a conference these days without bumping into a speaker who is trumpeting the value of building on your strengths. It's easy to understand why this message resonates. "Build on...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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White Papers
Wharton on ... Women In Leadership
Apr 2009
While the glass ceiling is still a part of the corporate architecture for many women, others have met with great success, rising to positions of power within their industries. Most would admit...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
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White Papers
Gaining Global Perspective: A Fundamental Of 21st Century Leadership
Jul 2009
The economic slowdown has not hurt the market for cross border mergers and acquisitions, which have become a mainstay of the global economy. Their number and value have continued to rise as...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
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White Papers
Good Leaders Show Up: Why Presence Matters
Apr 2010
Many leaders aren't making the connection between their own actions and the expectations they have for their team. Learn to lead with your values and give more of your most critical resource: your...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
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White Papers
Reactive Or Proactive? Fast-track Your Career By Taking Charge Today
Jan 2010
2009 found most executives consumed by workplace demands. Fewer people with fewer resources faced increasingly complex challenges. And the prospects for that scenario to play itself out again in...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
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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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Wharton On Corporate Ethics
Mar 2010
The global financial meltdown has placed business behavior under the microscope, resulting in no shortage of guilty parties charged with responsibility for the fiasco. But which groups deserve...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
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White Papers
Making The Leap: Rising To The Leadership Challenge Of A "Structural Break"
Feb 2009
Wharton's Executive Development Program (EDP) addresses the opportunities inherent in discontinuity. Although the program was developed to prepare managers for broader leadership challenges,...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
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White Papers
Warning: Emails Can Constrict Your Power To Lead
Jan 2010
Ultimately, leadership is about influence, Janet Greco tells participants in Leading and Managing People. The co-academic director of the program continues, "To get anything done, you first need...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
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White Papers
Positive Leaders Enables Peak Performance
Mar 2010
Positive Leadership enables extraordinarily positive performance by emphasizing what elevates individuals and systems (not only what diminished them), what goes right (not only what goes wrong),...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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White Papers
Wharton On Senior Leadership: Enterprise Leadership
Jun 2009
Global enterprises face a constantly changing business environment, whether they are expanding into new markets, hiring new managers, incorporating new technologies, or merging with other...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
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White Papers
From CEO To Senate: Why Some Executives Make Better Politicians Than Others
Jun 2010
Growing numbers of top business executives appear to be running for political office. Among others, former CEOs Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina recently won California primaries for governor and...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
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White Papers
BORIS-Business Oriented Management Of Information Security
May 2008
The present paper aims to successfully deal with the needs of information security functions by providing a management tool which links business and information security objectives. In the past...
Provided by Ruhr-University Bochum
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White Papers
Looking For Virtuous Top Executives Authentic Leadership, A Promising Model For Corporate Governance?
Aug 2009
The last five years have seen the emergence of a new paradigm of research in the field of leadership research i.e. authentic leadership development (Luthans & Avolio, 2003; Gardner et al, 2005;...
Provided by Edhec Business School
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White Papers
Academic Leadership Development For Course Coordinators And The Influences Of Higher Educational Change
Jul 2008
This paper argues that leadership development programs in higher education face challenges that are unique to the context of academia. In designing, delivering and planning academic leadership...
Provided by Curtin University of Technology
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White Papers
Longitudinal Knowledge Strategizing In A Long-Term Healthcare Organisation
Jan 2009
Long-term healthcare organisations significantly benefit from Knowledge Management (KM). However, the extant literature has little empirical support for this statement. Using the KM instrument...
Provided by Inderscience Enterprises
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White Papers
Leading Project Integration
Oct 2009
Managing today's global projects requires focusing scarce management attention on diverse topics related to financing and delivering the project amidst cultural differences. New technology,...
Provided by Stanford University
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White Papers
Leading The Transformation for Sustainable Integrated Project Delivery: A Social Network Analysis
Nov 2009
Project delivery within the construction industry continues to evolve toward increasingly collaborative environments. Current terminology for collaborative project delivery efforts include...
Provided by Boise State University
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White Papers
Developing A World Of Leaders Through The Masters Of Business And Engineering
Oct 2009
This paper discusses the early development of the Master of Business and Engineering (MBE) Degree in Construction Engineering Management at Oregon State University. The program is designed to...
Provided by Oregon State University
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White Papers
How Can American AEC Firms Get The Lead In Sustainable Building Design? What A Potential Design Leader Should Know About "Green-Convertible Buildings."
Nov 2009
Energy-efficient building design and operations reduce the negative impacts of buildings on human health, natural environment, and non-renewable energy resources by reducing waste, pollution,...
Provided by Columbia University
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White Papers
Leading Creativity - A Shared Leadership Model
Nov 2007
In an address presented in Sydney in 2003 entitled Put the People First and the Rest will follow, the late Stephen Weil contended that the role of the museum had significantly changed from an...
Provided by Museums and Galleries NSW
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White Papers
Gender Differences And Leadership: An Empirical Evidence
Nov 2009
Gender diversity at workplace with respect to leadership practices and need for leadership among followers have drawn the considerable research attention among leadership researchers across the...
Provided by COMSATS Institute of Information Technology
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White Papers
Leadership In Partially Distributed Emergency Response Software Development Teams
May 2008
Emergency response and preparedness teams that are inter-organizational or international often work together in Partially Distributed Teams (PDTs). A PDT has at least one collocated subteam and at...
Provided by New Jersey Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Why Less Informed Managers May Be Better Leaders
Apr 2010
Unlike the textbook model of a top manager being an omniscient planner, coordinator and monitor, the real life managers suffer from discontinuity, lack of systematic information collection and...
Provided by Centre for Economic and Financial Research
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White Papers
Do We Need Any More Hierarchical Structures? Combining Vertical And Shared Leadership Considering The Organizational Culture, Structures And Processes
May 2010
In spite of decades of leadership research and numerous leadership theories no unequivocal recipe for success could be found for the leading of employees. Complex tasks, increasing competitive...
Provided by Vienna University of Economics and Business
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White Papers
Leadership, Administrative Evil And The Ethics Of Incompetence: Lessons From Katrina And Iraq
Jun 2007
Are acts of incompetence unethical? And, do they fit within the definition of administrative evil, where one is acting within role as others would expect them to from an organizational or policy...
Provided by University of Missouri-Columbia
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White Papers
Leadership And Mundane Technologies
Nov 2007
This paper is interested in the extraordinary topic of leadership and its relationship with some pretty mundane or ordinary technologies. The social interaction it documents is 'Leadership work',...
Provided by Lancaster University
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White Papers
Are Public Sector CEOs Different? Leadership Wages And Performance In Schools
Feb 2008
This paper uses a unique data set to investigate the link between the pay and performance of school principals. It is frequently argued that public sector CEOs are paid like bureaucrats with...
Provided by University College London
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White Papers
Attributes Of School Principals-Leadership Qualities & Capacities
Dec 2010
Successful leadership is not the result of simply obtaining a position, but rather possessing the knowledge and understanding of successful leadership skills along with the personal ability to...
Provided by University of Malaya
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White Papers
Resetting U.S.-Russian Leadership On Nuclear Arms Reductions And Non-Proliferation
Jan 2010
U.S.-Russian relations have been "Reset" over the past eleven months, and the renewed bilateral negotiations on reducing strategic nuclear forces have played a major role in this. At the beginning...
Provided by Brookings Institution
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White Papers
New Public Management And Leadership-Whether There Is Any Contingent Relationship Between Leadership Style And Performance Status: Evidence From An English National Health Service (NHS) Trust
Jun 2007
This paper investigates the leadership requirements for the National Health Service (NHS) in UK in the context of a complex and dynamic environment of shared power arrangement for health services...
Provided by University of Delaware
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White Papers
Explaining Differences In Team Performance Does Team Learning Behavior Matter?
Mar 2008
The aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship between team learning behavior and team performance. Following Edmondson (1999) the authors regard team learning as a group process...
Provided by University of Twente
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White Papers
Criminal Investigation: Is There A Skills Gap In Leadership, Management And Supervision?
Nov 2009
There is no silver bullet for improving the supervision, management and leadership of criminal investigations. The evidence base is too small to allow for the problem to be defined with any...
Provided by Australian National University
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White Papers
Standardized Work For Executive Leadership
Jun 2007
The purpose of this paper is to describe common errors made by business leaders as the foundation of a new approach for improving leadership capabilities and effectiveness. Introduces the concept...
Provided by Emerald Group Publishing
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White Papers
Gift To Focus On Ethical Leadership In Business
May 2011
The University of Notre Dame has announced a major gift from Deloitte, a leading professional services organization with more than 50,000 professionals in nearly 90 cities throughout the United...
Provided by University of Notre Dame
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White Papers
Goldman Sachs And Business Ethics First Topic Of ND Lecture Series
Aug 2010
In July, Goldman Sachs agreed to pay $550 million to settle federal claims that it misled investors in a subprime mortgage product as the housing market began to collapse. The fine was the largest...
Provided by University of Notre Dame
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White Papers
ND Expert: Steve Jobs' Leave Is Dangerous For Apple
Jan 2011
Apple CEO Steve Jobs recently announced he was taking another leave of absence to focus on his health - a situation that raises some interesting leadership questions and highlights some of the...
Provided by University of Notre Dame
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Case Studies
Food, Bakery And Confectionary Leader Continues To Maximize Sourcing Power With Capgemini Procurement Services
Jun 2011
Fazer Group, a leader in food services, bakery and confectionery in the Nordic and Baltic regions, was running an extensive sourcing development program to establish a new group-wide sourcing...
Provided by Capgemini
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White Papers
Regulation, Subordinated Debt, And Incentive Features Of CEO Compensation In The Banking Industry
Nov 2007
The authors study CEO compensation in the banking industry by considering banks' unique claim structure in the presence of two types of agency problems: the standard managerial agency problem and...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of New York
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Webcasts
Greener By Design 2009: When Designer Meets Client: A Conversation Between Intel And Frog
Jun 2009
The complex interaction between designer and client and make or break a project's sustainability goals and ideals. Leadership in sustainability requires agility and the ability to maintain focus...
Provided by GreenBiz Group
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Webcasts
The Power Of Regional Sustainable Business Networks - Holly Harlan
Mar 2011
For 10 years E4S has helped business and organizational leaders in Northeast Ohio discover the possibilities and put sustainability to work. Learn about its "Connect, Learn, Do Sustainability"...
Provided by GreenBiz Group
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White Papers
Climate Change: The Leadership Challenge
Jun 2007
Climate change was once a marginal issue. Today, it is moving centre-stage as governments, business and individuals assess its implications. This is evident not only from the increased focus on...
Provided by Chatham House
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White Papers
New Ideas For The London Summit: Recommendations To The G20 Leaders
Mar 2009
Attempting to resolve the international financial and economic crisis has become one of the first major tests of the transatlantic relationship since the inauguration of President Obama in January...
Provided by Chatham House
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White Papers
Leadership And Reform: Mapping The Causal Pathways Of Performance Information Use
Oct 2009
This paper offers empirical evidence on a specific question: how does leadership foster the use of performance data? More broadly, it informs the ways in which the people understand how leadership...
Provided by University of Wisconsin-Madison
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White Papers
How Prior Military Experience Influences The Future Militarized Behavior Of Leaders
Jan 2011
This paper joins a growing number of studies that are moving beyond the question of simply whether leaders matter for international politics to examine the scope conditions under which leaders...
Provided by University of Michigan
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White Papers
Understanding External Firm Factors Impacting Innovation In The Hardwood Veneer Industry
Jun 2010
Innovation research in the wood products industry has historically focused on factors that the firm can influence or control (i.e. climate for innovation, organizational culture, job satisfaction,...
Provided by Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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White Papers
Impact Of Leadership Style On Performance: A Study Of Six Sigma Professionals In Thailand
Jul 2007
Superior performance requires a fundamental paradigm shift in managerial approach and leadership style to address the impact of rapidly evolving technology accompanied by increasing competition...
Provided by California State University
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White Papers
How Leadership Matters: The Effects Of Leaders' Alignment On Strategy Implementation
Jan 2010
Research has confirmed that leader behavior influences group and organizational behavior, but the authors know less about how senior leaders ensure that group and organizational members implement...
Provided by Elsevier
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White Papers
Leadership, Politics And Development: A Literature Survey
Apr 2008
This paper is one of a series of background papers which provide context for the Leaders, Elites and Coalitions Research Programme which will be exploring the role of leaders, elites and...
Provided by Leadership Program: Developmental Leaders, Elites and Coalitions
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White Papers
CEO Replacement Under Private Information
Aug 2010
This paper examines the optimal CEO compensation and replacement policy when the CEO is privately informed about the firm's continuation value under his leadership. Ex ante moral hazard implies...
Provided by Oxford University Press
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White Papers
Tales Of Ordinary Leadership. A Feminist Approach To Experiential Learning
Feb 2008
Feminist practice and theory have always conferred value on narrative knowledge produced through storytelling, mainly because of its ability to stimulate reflexive thought. In the authors'...
Provided by University of Trento
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White Papers
The Leadership Challenges Of The Next Economy
Mar 2011
The slogan for today could well be 'We all live in creative times'. If the last century was the century of production, this century is proving to be the era of innovation and creativity. The...
Provided by Corporate Agenda
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White Papers
The Hard Work Of Being A Soft Manager
May 2009
The soft management enables you to build credibility with the people your company needs most to succeed. Soft management hinges on candor, sensitivity, and the willingness to suffer painful...
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
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White Papers
Assess Your Own Performance As A Leader
Sep 2008
When top executives stumble, they risk taking their companies down with them. How can you stay steady on your feet so you keep delivering high-quality leadership? Feedback. But getting feedback on...
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
-
White Papers
A Leadership Coach Develops You As A Person
Mar 2010
What is a leadership coach or an executive coach? What does it take to be a successful executive or career coach? For most people, the terms executive coach and leadership coach are...
Provided by Business Articles
-
White Papers
High Performance With High Integrity
Sep 2008
In an era characterized by accelerating change, economic dislocation, and - all too often - highly visible scandals, a key question has become more and more pressing. It's a question that is posed...
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
-
White Papers
How Executive Coaching Can Improve Your Leadership?
Jul 2009
If you are an adventurous hiker or a mountain climber, then you probably understand the importance of getting a guide who will help one to reach your destination. One cannot expect your guide to...
Provided by Free Articles Directory
-
White Papers
How To Conduct Corporate Event Planning
Oct 2009
There are many things to consider when planning a corporate event but very first thing you should consider in corporate event management is the food. More often, the potential and possible success...
Provided by Free Articles Directory
-
White Papers
Senior Leadership Teams: What It Takes To Make Them Great
Feb 2008
The author is an experienced executive, a respected leader, and a veteran of the usual corporate team-building exploits, including trekking through the steamy rain forests of Costa Rica. But...
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
-
White Papers
How To Determine If You Are A Leader
Jan 2010
Are you ready to take over a leadership role in your organization? You probably feel comfortable with your industry, managing staff, technology, and political culture at this point. But, have you...
Provided by Executive Business Advisers
-
White Papers
Critical Qualities In Successful Managers
Jan 2010
Successful people in business management always seem to share certain key characteristics. The paper contains expert emphasized eight qualities when consulting with management teams. Some of the...
Provided by Executive Business Advisers
-
White Papers
Followership: How Followers Are Creating Change And Changing Leaders
Nov 2007
Beginning in 2002 an ad agency by the name of McKinney & Silver rolled out a slogan that caught on fast. Hired to persuade people in the market for premium cars that Audi cars were better than...
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
-
White Papers
The Art Of Choosing
Mar 2010
This story covers professor Sheena Iyengar's views on strategies for managing choices in an era of seemingly boundless options. Sheena Iyengar is the S. T. Lee Professor of Business in the...
Provided by Columbia University
-
White Papers
A Conversation With ... Rita Gunther McGrath, On Obstacles To Innovation-Led Growth
Jan 2009
In this conversation with Ruth Gunther McGrath, faculty director - Columbia University, she covers her views on on Obstacles to Innovation-Led Growth. Ruth maintains that the economic problems are...
Provided by Columbia University
-
White Papers
Tips To Rejuvenate Your Team Work
Jul 2009
For a leadership consultant, the basic and best thing is to create his group walk unitedly and allied. He has to create sure that the team remains motivated, active and enthusiastic. The team...
Provided by Free Articles Directory
-
White Papers
Leadership Brand: Developing Customer-Focused Leaders To Drive Performance And Build Lasting Value
Jan 2008
In the Pursuit of Leadership, thousands of books and articles have been published. So why one more? This book focuses on what is called the leadership brand and offers two insights into how to in...
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
-
White Papers
Leadership That Gets Results
Aug 2008
New research suggests that the most effective executives use a collection of distinct leadership styles - each in the right measure, at just the right time. Such flexibility is tough to put into...
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
-
White Papers
Leadership Levels - Empowering Leaders To Deliver Customer Service
Feb 2008
Does your organization have the right number of hierarchical tiers? Are your leaders fully empowered with decision rights? Are you motivating employees in line with your business strategy? Booz...
Provided by Booz Allen Hamilton
-
White Papers
The Information Future Of The Corporate Board
Apr 2008
Corporate governance is in the news again. Following the high-profile reversals in the financial-services industry, pressure on boards from shareholder activists and regulators to somehow prevent...
Provided by Accenture
-
White Papers
Culture Change From The Outside/In
May 2009
An senior executive called recently and said that he wanted to "Change his culture." When the author asked what he had in mind, he talked about how he felt that the underlying norms, values, and...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
-
White Papers
Connecting In Chaos: Persuasion And Negotiation For Turbulent Times
Sep 2008
After JPMorgan Chase took over Bear Stearns in March, Morgan CEO Jamie Diamond made a trip uptown to talk to the top executives of the acquired firm. The executives had just been through one of...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
-
White Papers
The Power Of Teams: Dividing The Tasks And Multiplying The Successes
Sep 2009
Two years ago, Chris Warner was nearing the summit of K2 in Pakistan. Ahead of his team was a group of Korean climbers, led by the highly experienced Nima Nurbu Sherpa, who had successfully scaled...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
-
White Papers
Visionary Leadership: Courageous Behavior Yields Big Payoffs
Jun 2009
When Nick Craig works with executives on leadership, he begins with identifying their "True North." Craig defines this concept in terms of knowing yourself, your purpose, and your vision....
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
-
White Papers
Earning The Right To Lead
Jun 2009
"I learned from my time in the Army that leadership begins with the individual," says Todd Henshaw, retired U.S Army Lt. Colonel. Today's environment calls for visionary leaders who have a firm...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
-
White Papers
Rowing As One: Crewing Offers Executives Lessons In Leadership And Teamwork
Dec 2007
On a beautiful fall day, teams of executives from Wharton's Advanced Management Program took to the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia in eight-seat crew shells. Ostensibly, the 56 managers from...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
-
White Papers
Epiphany On The Ice: Critical Lessons In Creating And Leading Teams
Jan 2008
Wharton Professor Mike Useem has studied, written, and taught about leadership and teamwork throughout his career, but it was an epiphany in the midst of a blinding snowstorm that drove home one...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
-
White Papers
Driving Change That Works
Oct 2009
A highly successful international firm that prided itself on a strong commitment to its employees began trimming its staff at the first signs of the downturn. One senior manager convened a meeting...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
-
White Papers
Leading Virtually: Making Virtual Global Teams Work
Feb 2009
Since they were pioneered by technology firms in the 1990s, virtual global teams have been growing rapidly. "Virtual work is ubiquitous in the knowledge economy," says Ana Reyes, a consultant and...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
-
White Papers
Maximizing The Triple Bottom Line Through Spiritual Leadership
Feb 2008
One of the greatest challenges facing leaders today is the need to develop new business models that accentuate ethical leadership, employee well-being, sustainability and social responsibility...
Provided by Elsevier
-
Case Studies
Business Ethics And Corporate Social Responsibility
Jul 2008
Anglo American is one of the world's leading mining companies. Mining operations can have a big impact on the environment and on the societies where they work. Since most mineral resources belong...
Provided by MBA Publishing
-
Case Studies
Using A Range Of Management styles To Lead A Business
Jul 2008
For organisations to develop they require a direction. The people who manage the business provide the direction. Taking responsibility for making decisions and running a business well is a skill....
Provided by MBA Publishing
-
White Papers
Build On Your Strengths To Strengthen Others
May 2009
You can't walk into a conference these days without bumping into a speaker who is trumpeting the value of building on your strengths. It's easy to understand why this message resonates. "Build on...
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Wharton on ... Women In Leadership
Apr 2009
While the glass ceiling is still a part of the corporate architecture for many women, others have met with great success, rising to positions of power within their industries. Most would admit...
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Gaining Global Perspective: A Fundamental Of 21st Century Leadership
Jul 2009
The economic slowdown has not hurt the market for cross border mergers and acquisitions, which have become a mainstay of the global economy. Their number and value have continued to rise as...
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Good Leaders Show Up: Why Presence Matters
Apr 2010
Many leaders aren't making the connection between their own actions and the expectations they have for their team. Learn to lead with your values and give more of your most critical resource: your...
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Reactive Or Proactive? Fast-track Your Career By Taking Charge Today
Jan 2010
2009 found most executives consumed by workplace demands. Fewer people with fewer resources faced increasingly complex challenges. And the prospects for that scenario to play itself out again in...
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Wharton On Corporate Ethics
Mar 2010
The global financial meltdown has placed business behavior under the microscope, resulting in no shortage of guilty parties charged with responsibility for the fiasco. But which groups deserve...
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Making The Leap: Rising To The Leadership Challenge Of A "Structural Break"
Feb 2009
Wharton's Executive Development Program (EDP) addresses the opportunities inherent in discontinuity. Although the program was developed to prepare managers for broader leadership challenges,...
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Warning: Emails Can Constrict Your Power To Lead
Jan 2010
Ultimately, leadership is about influence, Janet Greco tells participants in Leading and Managing People. The co-academic director of the program continues, "To get anything done, you first need...
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Positive Leaders Enables Peak Performance
Mar 2010
Positive Leadership enables extraordinarily positive performance by emphasizing what elevates individuals and systems (not only what diminished them), what goes right (not only what goes wrong),...
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Wharton On Senior Leadership: Enterprise Leadership
Jun 2009
Global enterprises face a constantly changing business environment, whether they are expanding into new markets, hiring new managers, incorporating new technologies, or merging with other...
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From CEO To Senate: Why Some Executives Make Better Politicians Than Others
Jun 2010
Growing numbers of top business executives appear to be running for political office. Among others, former CEOs Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina recently won California primaries for governor and...
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