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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 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
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
Pulling Your Organization Out Of A Dip
May 2010
Dips happen. Despite all the proper planning that is done to avoid them, at one point or another, all organizations experience a dip. It may be expected or come as a complete surprise. Leadership...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
New CEO Or Interim CRO: What's The Better Solution?
Jan 2010
When a sports team loses too often, the typical reaction is to fire the coach. Similarly, when a company is performing poorly, the board of directors often elects to fire the CEO. Regardless, the...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Dealing With The 'No-Boss Boss'
Jan 2008
So what is a "Bad" boss? Essentially, any boss who is difficult and hard to deal with or who has trouble directing and guiding employees to effectively do the work can qualify as a bad boss. One...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
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...
Provided by McGraw-Hill Professional
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White Papers
B-29 Leadership
Dec 2009
After nearly 25 years of working with leaders the author has extracted leadership lessons from some pretty obscure experiences. But when a World War II veteran described his experiences as a...
Provided by Ascent Management Consulting
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White Papers
How To Lose Like A Winner
Sep 2008
Every leader should know how to lose. Failure is not something they teach you in school; it is something life teaches you. You may experience it on the playground when you get knocked down....
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
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...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
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...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Signs Of An Executive In Crisis
Oct 2007
In athletics, as well as in the workplace, some people perform below their proven ability when the pressure is high. They become tense and self-conscious, almost as if they are deliberately trying...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
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...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
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...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Leading Change, One Move At A Time
Oct 2007
Which is exactly what the most successful leaders do today in response to the constantly shifting and always uncertain facts of life in the modern business world. They work out a general plan for...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Welcome Some Disruption In Your Life
Aug 2007
The single biggest human fear, experience tells, is the fear of change. We tremble at the prospect of change on the horizon: starting a new school as a small child or, later, going to college, or...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Ethics: An Old-Fashioned Soft Skill For A Modern World
Jul 2010
If ethical behavior had been taught to employees and reinforced as a must-have soft skill, could we have prevented the current economic meltdown? The authors explored this question in a recent...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Let's Follow A Leader
Sep 2008
Believing that a picture can be worth a thousand words, we present a brief "snapshot" of one high-performing leader in action, Grant Reid. Before he became global president of Mars Drinks, Reid...
Provided by Guttman Development Strategies
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White Papers
Leveraging Power
Jun 2010
Our society is knee-deep in people who misuse power. While their aims are often selfish, as we have seen with managers at corrupt companies, their power is nonetheless substantial; they hurt...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Liberating Passion In The Workplace
Jul 2008
The best organizations seek passionate people. Why? Because passionate commitment converts talent into stellar performance. And apathy, as passion's antithesis, directly decreases any return on...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Passionate Employees Are The Fast Track To Revenue Growth
Sep 2007
The business implication of reluctant employees - those who did not win the lottery - is very serious one. At a time when employees create differentiation for your business, as products and...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
The Five Attributes Of Authority
Jun 2010
Authority does come from title, but it is earned through actions. Inept executives fritter away their authority by their behavior, taking the counsel of none but themselves and failing to listen...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Hang Out The Lifelines
Jan 2010
One of the black arts of office politics is saying what the boss wants to hear. It's human nature to please, but it's not a good way to run a business. If you are not telling the truth, or more...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Why Jane Doesn't Lead
Aug 2010
In the very near future, women will cross the 50% threshold and become the majority of the American workforce. Females already make up the majority of university graduates in the Organization for...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Ten Smart Leadership Questions For 2010
Feb 2010
If you're like most business leaders, you spent much of 2009 feeling down and just about out thanks to the dire economic situation. Odds are, you grappled with many new challenges, uncertainties,...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Want Different Results? Do Something Different
Dec 2009
Data on CEO turnover indicate that during a downturn, boards tend to hold off terminating underperforming CEOs and other executives until recovery is in sight. This way the "Bad news" is...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Reorganizing DNA: How To Unify Diverse Corporate Cultures Post-Acquisition
Jun 2010
Most senior leaders tend to only analyze the financial aspects of an M&A deal. They often fail to recognize how important culture is to the success of managing a business. In fact, a recent Mercer...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
AMA Study Reveals Benefits Of Developing Global Leaders
May 2010
Most corporations want and need leaders who can help them compete successfully in today's global environment, but knowing this and doing something about it are two different things. Among the...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Adopt A Proactive Prevention Program And Increase Bottom-Line Profits
Jan 2010
In today's tough economic times, precious funds should not be wasted in coping with discriminatory harassment or union avoidance, or safety issues. These issues can be minimized or eliminated...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Better Make It Real
Aug 2010
Fake it - or make it. Today, it's the mantra. As a CEO, the author is passionate about organizational authenticity - how companies live out their promises to stakeholders. He has a message for...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
The More Things Change...
Feb 2008
A lot has changed in 20 years. Two decades ago, the Soviet Union was still in business, the first President Bush was soon to be elected, and the World Wide Web hadn't even been invented. No one...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
The Power Of Just Enough Anxiety
Mar 2008
Leadership used to be about creating certainty. Now it is about leading uncertainty. Most businesses today operate in environments where constant change is the name of the game. Leaders can't keep...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Make The Most Of Meetings
Jul 2010
Whether you are an executive assistant at the top of your game, a midlevel assistant with a "Tiger by the tail," or a newbie just learning your strengths, take the time to observe and get involved...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Amp-Up Your Leadership: Look To Your Role Models
Apr 2010
What does it mean to "Amp-up" your leadership effectiveness? When you amplify a signal, it becomes stronger and gains impact, providing more energy, clearer sound, and a brighter light. The...
Provided by STRATEX
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White Papers
Speaker: Work Shouldn~t Mean Checking Your Values At The Door
Jan 2011
For many people, clocking into the workplace every day means checking their personal passions at the door. Earning a paycheck would seem to have little to do with their values or ideas about what...
Provided by University of Notre Dame
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White Papers
Social Entrepreneur Says B Corp. Designation Makes Sustainability A Fiduciary Responsibility
Jan 2011
The United States is transitioning from "Shareholder capitalism" to "Stakeholder capitalism," social entrepreneur Jay Coen Gilbert told an audience at Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business on...
Provided by University of Notre Dame
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White Papers
ND Expert: Ford CEO~s "Epically Large" Pay Package Raises Questions Of Moral Responsibility
Mar 2011
Ford Motor Co. CEO Alan Mulally, who revived the No. 2 automaker after more than $30 billion in losses from 2006 through 2008, received a stock award worth some $55 million and recently earned...
Provided by University of Notre Dame
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White Papers
Companies Proudly Describe Their ~Compact~ Achievements At Notre Dame Conference
Mar 2011
Coca-Cola is giving Haitian farmers advice on how to grow mangos for Coke's Odwalla-brand Mango Tango smoothies. Alcoa is bringing potable water, hospitals and schools to an Amazon rain forest...
Provided by University of Notre Dame
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White Papers
Carolyn Woo Named CEO/President Of Catholic Relief Services
Jun 2011
Carolyn Y. Woo, Martin J. Gillen Dean of the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business, will leave the University to serve as president and CEO of Catholic Relief Services (CRS),...
Provided by University of Notre Dame
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Mendoza College Ranked No. 1 For Ethics In Bloomberg Businessweek Specialty Rankings
May 2011
The Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame earned top 10 rankings in 10 of 14 business specialty categories in the 2011 Bloomberg Businessweek annual ranking of the "Best...
Provided by University of Notre Dame
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White Papers
Deloitte Makes Major Gift To Notre Dame To Advance 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
Notre Dame Summer Conference Offers Business Training To Catholic Leaders
May 2011
For 10 days this summer, leaders of Catholic organizations nationwide will gather at the University of Notre Dame for a program aimed at adding hard business skills to support their missions of...
Provided by University of Notre Dame
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Case Studies
ARISg Safety System Validation
Jan 2011
The client is one of the top ten biopharmaceutical companies in the world with nine proprietary products in the US, and more than double that many around the world. In order to release the final...
Provided by Patni
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White Papers
The Emergence Of Leadership In Social Networks
Jun 2011
The authors study a networked version of the minority game in which agents can choose to follow the choices made by a neighbouring agent in a social network. They show that for a wide variety of...
Provided by Imperial College London
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White Papers
The Libyan Accounting Profession: Historical Factors And Economic Consequences
Jul 2010
The aim of this paper is to trace the historical development of the accounting profession in Libya, in order to identify challenges facing the profession as the country moves from a closed to...
Provided by University of Sydney
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White Papers
Sustainability In An Australian University: Staff Perceptions
Jul 2010
The last two decades witnessed a surge of research into sustainability, in particular, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) reporting. The foci were on the motivations, characteristics, formats...
Provided by University of Sydney
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White Papers
Contrasting Realities: Corporate Environmental Disclosure And Stakeholder-Released Information
Jul 2010
This paper studies the informational dynamics taking place between a firm and its stakeholders with respect to corporate environmental management. The analysis rests on a longitudinal case study...
Provided by Universite Laval
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White Papers
The Impact Of Social Influence Pressure On Professional Accountants~ Ethical Reasoning
Jul 2010
The advent of the 21st century brought with it an explosion of corporate accounting scandals and related financial irregularities. Names such as Enron, WorldCom, HLH, and others became household...
Provided by Deakin University
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White Papers
Do Culture And Governance Structure Influence CSR Reporting Quality: Evidence From China, India, Malaysia And The United Kingdom
Jul 2010
This paper provides preliminary findings on CSR disclosure practices in various reporting media used by 70 big corporations in China, India, Malaysia and the UK. It also investigates whether...
Provided by University of Sydney
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White Papers
Extending Likages Between Organizational Analysis And Social Structure: A Case Study Of The Celebrity-construction Of A Chinese Marketplace
Aug 2009
This paper examines the emergence of firm-celebrity, both an intangible-asset, and a facilitator of competitive advantage. Institutional approaches have asserted that organizations from the same...
Provided by University of Michigan
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White Papers
Relays And Marathons: The Effects Of Succession Choice Surrounding CEO Turnover Announcements
Aug 2007
This paper examines marathon successions, which the author defines as instances where a permanent successor is not chosen at the time of a CEO departure. Marathons have become increasingly...
Provided by University of Arizona
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White Papers
Another Look At Director Independence
Oct 2007
Despite the widely held view that director independence improves corporate governance, few studies find that board composition affects firm performance or CEO compensation. In this paper the...
Provided by University of Colorado
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White Papers
CEO Power, Compensation, And Governance
Aug 2007
This paper presents a contracting model of governance based on the premise that CEOs are the main promoters of governance change. CEOs use their power to extract higher pay or private benefits,...
Provided by Boston University
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White Papers
The Usefulness Of Infra-Annual Government Cash Budgetary Data For Fiscal Forecasting In The Euro Area
May 2008
Short-term fiscal indicators based on public accounts data are often used by European policy makers. They represent one of the main sources of publicly available intra-annual fiscal information....
Provided by European Central Bank
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White Papers
Linking Strategy, Leadership And Organization Culture For Project Success
Aug 2007
The concept of organization culture is not new. For many decades, the influence of culture on an organization has been the focus of significant research and study - and for good reason: Culture...
Provided by Palatine Group/Management Worlds
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White Papers
Business Ethics Pedagogy: A Synthesis Of Paradigms, Philosophies, And Teaching Methods
Apr 2011
Is the job as educators to teach students how to make ethical decisions or is it to teach students how to become innately better people, thus becoming better ethical decision-makers on the job?...
Provided by University of Minnesota
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White Papers
Integrity, Respect For Others, And Ethics ? Three Essential Leadership Qualities
Apr 2011
Ethics, respect for others and integrity, should definitely be pre requisites for leadership. Unfortunately many so called leaders do not understand or practice these values. Some leaders who are...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Ethnic Entrepreneurs In Australia: A Story Of Relationships And Networks
Aug 2010
The internationalisation of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) is a key challenge and of interest to policy makers, individual firms and researchers in Australia. SMEs significantly drive growth...
Provided by University of Sydney
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White Papers
Towards Inter-Ethnic Business Development And National Unity In Malaysia
Jan 2010
This paper investigates Chinese-Bumiputera partnerships in small and medium enterprises, particularly in the manufacturing sector, in the economic liberalisation of post-NEP Malaysia. The research...
Provided by CRISE
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White Papers
Roundtable Considers Careers In Nonprofit Industry
Jan 2010
Executive leaders from several nonprofit organizations ranging from the arts to education will describe career opportunities and their own job paths during the Third Annual Non-Profit Roundtable...
Provided by University of Notre Dame
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White Papers
When A Company Writes Its Code Of Ethics, Isn't It Wrong To Plagiarize?
Nov 2008
It is common practice for companies to copy others' ethics codes, sometimes word for word, according to research by University of Notre Dame finance professors Tim Loughran and Bill McDonald and...
Provided by University of Notre Dame
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White Papers
Tonia Murphy Wins Outstanding Paper Award For Research On Reneging
Aug 2009
The paper examining the ethical considerations of job reneging won University of Notre Dame Business professor Tonia Hap Murphy the Ralph C. Hoeber Outstanding Article Award from the Academy of...
Provided by University of Notre Dame
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White Papers
Ann Tenbrunsel: We're Not As Ethical As We Think We Are
Jul 2010
This original study (Woodzicka and LaFrance) conducted in 2001, in which participants were faced with this imagined scenario, revealed that 68 percent predicted that they would refuse to answer...
Provided by University of Notre Dame
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White Papers
Corporate Disclosure Determinants: A Cross-Country Investigation
Nov 2007
The wave of bankruptcies that have followed one upon the other in recent years as the consequence of financial scandals and the integration among the financial systems of various countries have...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Ethical Perceptions Of Newly Staffed Accountants: An Exploratory Study
Feb 2011
The current economic crisis coupled with corporate scandals may have impacted the future leadership of newly staffed accountants. As a result, it may be of some benefit to see if the ethical...
Provided by Adelphi University
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White Papers
Business Ethics From A Historical Perspective
Nov 2009
This paper proposes three periodisations in the history of business ethics. Different styles and kinds of discourse were produced in each of the periods. The first includes the broader social...
Provided by RMIT University
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White Papers
Leadership Styles And Ethical Decision-Making In Hospitality Management
Jul 2008
This paper examined the ways in which hospitality leaders in Australia seek to influence others in the workplace. One hundred and thirty three managers of hotels rated as three, four or five stars...
Provided by Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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White Papers
Leadership Qualities In Volatile Business Environments
Aug 2009
Turbulent economic environments such as the current Global Financial Crisis (GFC) present organisations with both challenges and opportunities. Researchers such as Sull (1999) and McGrath &...
Provided by Evanscorp
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White Papers
A Citation-Based Ranking Of The Business Ethics Scholarly Journals
Feb 2009
The purpose of this paper is to develop a ranking of academic business ethics journals. For this, a revealed preference approach, also known as a citation impact method, was employed. The citation...
Provided by Inderscience Enterprises
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White Papers
Ethical Leadership Training: An Aristotelian Approach
Aug 2009
When it comes to the establishment of an ethical corporate culture, there appears to be at least two inter-related foundational requirements: The existence of an explicit set of core ethical...
Provided by York University
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White Papers
Leadership And Authenticity: A Sartrean Critique
Sep 2009
Currently 'Authentic Leadership' is attracting increasing attention. Authenticity is an important concept within existentialist thinking and a Sartrean critique of authentic leadership is offered...
Provided by University of Bradford
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Webcasts
Becoming An Effective Leader
Jan 2011
What does it take to be a leader? Although it can be defined in many different ways, a true leader takes his personal characteristics and puts them toward a specific goal or cause. Interestingly...
Provided by iEntry
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Webcasts
Feedback Management Leader Vovici Grows Qualified Traffic 4X
Nov 2009
Vovici is an enterprise feedback application that offers tools like survey software, panel management and online community solutions to measure customer satisfaction and conduct market research....
Provided by HubSpot
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White Papers
Paving The Way For U.S. Climate Leadership
Apr 2008
The United States should classify new international agreements to protect the Earth's climate system as executive agreements rather than as treaties. Unlike treaties, which require the advice and...
Provided by Resources for the Future
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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 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
-
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
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
Pulling Your Organization Out Of A Dip
May 2010
Dips happen. Despite all the proper planning that is done to avoid them, at one point or another, all organizations experience a dip. It may be expected or come as a complete surprise. Leadership...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
New CEO Or Interim CRO: What's The Better Solution?
Jan 2010
When a sports team loses too often, the typical reaction is to fire the coach. Similarly, when a company is performing poorly, the board of directors often elects to fire the CEO. Regardless, the...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Dealing With The 'No-Boss Boss'
Jan 2008
So what is a "Bad" boss? Essentially, any boss who is difficult and hard to deal with or who has trouble directing and guiding employees to effectively do the work can qualify as a bad boss. One...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
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...
Provided by McGraw-Hill Professional
-
White Papers
B-29 Leadership
Dec 2009
After nearly 25 years of working with leaders the author has extracted leadership lessons from some pretty obscure experiences. But when a World War II veteran described his experiences as a...
Provided by Ascent Management Consulting
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White Papers
How To Lose Like A Winner
Sep 2008
Every leader should know how to lose. Failure is not something they teach you in school; it is something life teaches you. You may experience it on the playground when you get knocked down....
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
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...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
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...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Signs Of An Executive In Crisis
Oct 2007
In athletics, as well as in the workplace, some people perform below their proven ability when the pressure is high. They become tense and self-conscious, almost as if they are deliberately trying...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
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...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
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...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Leading Change, One Move At A Time
Oct 2007
Which is exactly what the most successful leaders do today in response to the constantly shifting and always uncertain facts of life in the modern business world. They work out a general plan for...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Welcome Some Disruption In Your Life
Aug 2007
The single biggest human fear, experience tells, is the fear of change. We tremble at the prospect of change on the horizon: starting a new school as a small child or, later, going to college, or...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Ethics: An Old-Fashioned Soft Skill For A Modern World
Jul 2010
If ethical behavior had been taught to employees and reinforced as a must-have soft skill, could we have prevented the current economic meltdown? The authors explored this question in a recent...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Let's Follow A Leader
Sep 2008
Believing that a picture can be worth a thousand words, we present a brief "snapshot" of one high-performing leader in action, Grant Reid. Before he became global president of Mars Drinks, Reid...
Provided by Guttman Development Strategies
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White Papers
Leveraging Power
Jun 2010
Our society is knee-deep in people who misuse power. While their aims are often selfish, as we have seen with managers at corrupt companies, their power is nonetheless substantial; they hurt...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Liberating Passion In The Workplace
Jul 2008
The best organizations seek passionate people. Why? Because passionate commitment converts talent into stellar performance. And apathy, as passion's antithesis, directly decreases any return on...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Passionate Employees Are The Fast Track To Revenue Growth
Sep 2007
The business implication of reluctant employees - those who did not win the lottery - is very serious one. At a time when employees create differentiation for your business, as products and...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
The Five Attributes Of Authority
Jun 2010
Authority does come from title, but it is earned through actions. Inept executives fritter away their authority by their behavior, taking the counsel of none but themselves and failing to listen...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Hang Out The Lifelines
Jan 2010
One of the black arts of office politics is saying what the boss wants to hear. It's human nature to please, but it's not a good way to run a business. If you are not telling the truth, or more...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Why Jane Doesn't Lead
Aug 2010
In the very near future, women will cross the 50% threshold and become the majority of the American workforce. Females already make up the majority of university graduates in the Organization for...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Ten Smart Leadership Questions For 2010
Feb 2010
If you're like most business leaders, you spent much of 2009 feeling down and just about out thanks to the dire economic situation. Odds are, you grappled with many new challenges, uncertainties,...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Want Different Results? Do Something Different
Dec 2009
Data on CEO turnover indicate that during a downturn, boards tend to hold off terminating underperforming CEOs and other executives until recovery is in sight. This way the "Bad news" is...
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Reorganizing DNA: How To Unify Diverse Corporate Cultures Post-Acquisition
Jun 2010
Most senior leaders tend to only analyze the financial aspects of an M&A deal. They often fail to recognize how important culture is to the success of managing a business. In fact, a recent Mercer...
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AMA Study Reveals Benefits Of Developing Global Leaders
May 2010
Most corporations want and need leaders who can help them compete successfully in today's global environment, but knowing this and doing something about it are two different things. Among the...
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Adopt A Proactive Prevention Program And Increase Bottom-Line Profits
Jan 2010
In today's tough economic times, precious funds should not be wasted in coping with discriminatory harassment or union avoidance, or safety issues. These issues can be minimized or eliminated...
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Better Make It Real
Aug 2010
Fake it - or make it. Today, it's the mantra. As a CEO, the author is passionate about organizational authenticity - how companies live out their promises to stakeholders. He has a message for...
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The More Things Change...
Feb 2008
A lot has changed in 20 years. Two decades ago, the Soviet Union was still in business, the first President Bush was soon to be elected, and the World Wide Web hadn't even been invented. No one...
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The Power Of Just Enough Anxiety
Mar 2008
Leadership used to be about creating certainty. Now it is about leading uncertainty. Most businesses today operate in environments where constant change is the name of the game. Leaders can't keep...
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Make The Most Of Meetings
Jul 2010
Whether you are an executive assistant at the top of your game, a midlevel assistant with a "Tiger by the tail," or a newbie just learning your strengths, take the time to observe and get involved...
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Amp-Up Your Leadership: Look To Your Role Models
Apr 2010
What does it mean to "Amp-up" your leadership effectiveness? When you amplify a signal, it becomes stronger and gains impact, providing more energy, clearer sound, and a brighter light. The...
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