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White Papers
Influencer
Sep 2007
So here's the problem - you have a large herd of issues and relationships that bug you. Department leaders complain incessantly. You consistently miss budget targets. Customers are two steps past...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Working Your "Feminine Mystique"
Jun 2009
In the 1970s and '80s, women began to make real headway in the business world. The popular wisdom back then was that in order to succeed like men, women needed to look and act like men....
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Networks: The Leader's Secret Weapon
Jul 2007
No one's claiming it "Takes a village" to run an organization, but leaders are finding that their formal and informal networks can make a critical difference in getting their complex jobs done. To...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Persuading Your Boss
Sep 2009
To succeed in business you must identify the people who have the greatest power and authority to propel your projects and promote your career. Bosses, of course, fall into this category. While it...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Amp-Up Your Leadership, Part III: Winning Results/Good Karma
Jun 2010
Leadership is sometimes in the eye of the beholder. What one employee considers interfering, another might regard as welcome attention from the boss. Leaders come in many shapes and styles - so do...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Amp-Up Your Leadership, Part II: Power Up Your Team
May 2010
When it comes to business leadership, one can reframe Einstein's famous formula E=mc² as: Energy = magnetism (multiplied by) collective confidence. As a leader, ones' team's level of energy and...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
When Not To E-mail
Sep 2007
Just because e-mail is good for some things doesn't mean it's good for everything. What follows is a list of the times and occasions one absolutely, positively should not send e-mail. The aim...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Dealing With Difficult People
May 2008
Researchers have found that each one falls into one of four major behavioral functions: Controller, Analyzer, Supporter, or Promoter. Once one has identified a person's style one can adopt a...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
How To 10x Your Influence
Jan 2010
Leaders frequently make miscalculations in trying to influence change. Often, they bet on a single source of influence rather than tap into a diverse arsenal of strategies. The latest research...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Key Leadership Behaviors That Improve Sales Force Performance
Jan 2010
No industry or business function has been immune to unprecedented conditions that have engulfed the economy. Most sales teams are faced with conditions they've never experienced before. New...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Taking A Meeting With Doc, Happy, Grumpy, et al
Aug 2007
Although you have to stay grounded in reality when running a meeting, savvy leaders can learn a lot from a classic Disney tale, according to one psychologist. Sharon Livingston, Ph.D. says that by...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Are You Assertive Enough?
Jul 2007
Everyone wants to be liked. Everyone also wants to be treated with respect. Unfortunately, sometimes those two impulses are difficult to balance - but not impossible. You can be both liked and...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Leadership Lessons From The Hive
Jan 2010
In the corporate world, executives must exercise self-restraint to remain focused on long-term goals. Personal temptation, coupled with social pressure to grow the balance sheet, make it all too...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Take The Risk, Make The Move
Mar 2008
Have you ever been stopped in your tracks by risk? Balancing the odds of success, the investment you've made in relationships, the value of the win - how do you make your choice? Often it is the...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
What Do Leaders Need To Know About Generation Y To Lead Successfully?
Jan 2010
Generation Yers have grown up in a culture of praise, raised by active, involved parents who often interceded on their behalf, protecting them and ensuring that they were treated well and grew up...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Building Sustainable Talent Pipelines
Feb 2008
As leaders, part of the mission is to create sustainability within the organizations. The talent of the future leaders is critical to the organization's future success. The question is, how does...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Bouncing Back From Rejection
Jun 2008
We've all been through it. Anyone who says he hasn't is either acutely neurotic, suffering from chronic amnesia, or in total denial. Still, rejection is tough to take. It's demoralizing,...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Facing The Challenge Of Stalled Growth
Jan 2010
As McKee explained, the company for which he worked had been a very fast startup. In its first year, it made the Inc. 500 list of the fastest growing private companies in America. Subsequently,...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
The Ultimate Test Of Leadership
Jan 2010
The economic calamity of 2008 - 2009 was not caused by subprime mortgages, credit default swaps, or even excessive greed. These are only symptoms of the real problem. The root cause of the problem...
Provided by John Wiley & Sons
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White Papers
Make Everyone A CEO
Mar 2010
Why should a leader who has worked hard for many years willingly choose to share his or her power and seemingly cede control over many aspects of the business? There are lots of reasons. Basically...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Why Running A Business Is Like Raising A Teenager
Jun 2008
Only half of all employees say the senior management of their organization works well together as a team. When senior management fails to present a reliable, unified, and well-thought out front to...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
On Leadership Legacies
Dec 2007
Success is not enough. It turns out that many high achievers come to believe that success is hollow unless it ultimately creates significance in their lives and in the lives of others (Stevenson...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
The Power Of The Open-Ended Question
Oct 2007
Leadership is influencing other people's behaviors in ways that generate better sustainable desired results for the organization and the people in it. Leadership has nothing to do with titles,...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Managing Millennials
Jun 2007
Millennials are people born between 1980 and 2000. They share a generational personality that is highly misunderstood by preceding generations who often misinterpret their motivation as impatience...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Four Key Practices For Developing Global Leaders
Aug 2010
Some organizations are working harder than others to adapt to the global playing field. A new Institute for Corporate Productivity(i4cp) study, commissioned by American Management Association,...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Networks: A Leader's Secret Weapon
Jun 2007
No one's claiming it "Takes a village" to run an organization, but leaders are finding that their formal and informal networks can make a critical difference in getting their complex jobs done. To...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Working To Create A Sustainable World
Nov 2008
How can a company demonstrate to the world, certainly to its employees, that it is serious about sustainability? According to Peter Senge, the answer is more than a fancy sustainability report....
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
The Art Of Preparation
Mar 2008
Understanding Your Objectives is defining your endgame. What - simply and clearly - do you want to accomplish? How often have you said to yourself "I've got to get this done" without first...
Provided by Random House
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White Papers
Face Your Fears (Don't Be Your Own Worst Enemy)
Jan 2008
You can improve your life by taking control of self-defeating thoughts, feeling and behaviors. That is the thesis underlying cognitive behavior therapy, founded by Dr. Albert Ellis, who died in...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Check In, Don't Check Up
Apr 2008
Technology has radically changed the workplace, in both good and bad ways. The bad part is that a lot of people feel Big Brother is always watching. They know their phone calls can be monitored,...
Provided by Hyperion
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White Papers
Leading With Kindness
Aug 2008
Kindness is not the first word we associate with business. The image of business still largely includes old scenes from industrial America in the early twentieth century: the age of hard work and...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Don't Take The Lead, Share The Lead
Dec 2008
Cross-functional teams are becoming the ubiquitous basis for knowledge creation and knowledge exploitation in the organizations. These teams are comprised of highly diverse individuals who...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Taking The Risk, Making Your Move
May 2008
Have you ever been stopped in your tracks by risk? Faced with balancing the odds of success, the investment you've made in relationships, the value of the win, how do you make your choice? Often...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
What Would You Do? Ethics And Today's Administrative Professional
Jan 2010
Ethical considerations on the job can be quite sticky. According to the author," "When it comes to ethics, the first thing you must decide is where your loyalties lie. You were hired by the...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Management In Real Life: Bring Back The Beer
Sep 2009
Whether you're a frontline supervisor or CEO, a simple walk through operations from time to time is invaluable. It provides perspective and appreciation for employee challenges, frustrations, and...
Provided by Ascent Management Consulting
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White Papers
Creativity And Problem Solving
Jun 2010
Problem solving can take up a lot of managerial time. So it makes sense for one to resolve problems before they develop, let alone grow to impact the bottom line. As a manager, one practices...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Managing In Uncertain Times: Transforming Employees from "Comfeartable" To Courageous
Oct 2008
What's a "Comfeartable" employee? It's a worker who is either too comfortable or too fearful to do things differently and deliver results, says the author. Courage can be learned: "It's a skill -...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Management Lessons From The Cleveland Clinic
Sep 2009
Only outstanding leadership - at all levels of the hierarchy - can pull a hospital, or any company, through difficult times like the ones we're experiencing today. But (and here's the...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Management Tips From Holly Landau: Pt 2
Aug 2010
In these economically challenging times, employee engagement is absolutely critical to your company's success. You manage things like your budget, your time, and your inventory. You lead people....
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
Professor Robert Kaplan On Strong Leadership
Jul 2009
In this webcast Robert Kaplan, Professor at Harvard Business School, offers advice on how to provide strong leadership in a down economy.
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Corporate Culture And Shareholder Value In Banking Industry
Apr 2008
This paper analyses the casual relationship between corporate culture and shareholder value using a sample of large banks in the French, German, Italian and U.K. banking systems over the 2000 to...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Business Ethics And Corporate Responsibility - A New Perspective
Nov 2007
Starting from the famous but controversial statement of Peter Drucker (1981) - "There is neither a separate ethics of business nor is one needed", this paper goes on to argue that business ethics...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Chipping Away At The Glass Ceiling: Gender Spillovers In Corporate Leadership
Jan 2011
This paper examines the role of women helping women in corporate America. Using a merged panel of directors and executives for large U.S. corporations between 1997 and 2009, the authors find a...
Provided by RAND
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White Papers
Leadership Games With Convex Strategy Sets
Nov 2009
A basic model of commitment is to convert a two-player game in strategic form to a "Leadership game" with the same payoffs, where one player, the leader, commits to a strategy, to which the second...
Provided by Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Case Studies
Global Chemicals Leader Strengthens Customer Focus With Global Change Program
Aug 2008
New markets, new competition and new acquisitions all created new challenges for a global chemical leader. In a world of change, the company was determined to remain constant in its pursuit of...
Provided by Capgemini
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Case Studies
Portugal's UNICRE Modernizes CRM Infrastructure Through Oracle Siebel
Jun 2009
UNICRE is the largest and oldest company in Portugal that specializes in issuing solutions-based payment cards and related services. It was clear from a review of front-line processes that the...
Provided by Capgemini
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White Papers
What It Takes To Be A Leader: Leadership And Charisma In A Citizen-Candidate Model
Nov 2008
This paper analyses leadership and charisma within the framework of social choice. In societies that lack formal institutional authorities, the power of leaders to coerce is limited. Under such...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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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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White Papers
A Comparative Analysis Of Different Business Ethics In The Perspective Of The Common Good
Jun 2009
The paper concerns the connection between different typologies of business ethics (kantian, utilitarian, aristotelic) and the alternative vision of economic development, company's organizational...
Provided by University of Perugia
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Webcasts
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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Webcasts
Bart Victor On Helping Students Answer The Big Questions Of Business Ethics
Jan 2011
The presenter's research interests lie in the practical and moral dimensions of enterprise approaches to the alleviation of poverty, the ethical foundations of business, and the social and moral...
Provided by Vanderbilt University
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White Papers
Productivity In Contests: Organizational Culture And Personality Effects
Jul 2010
The authors study the interaction of organizational culture and personal prosocial orientation in team work where teams compete against each other. In a computerized lab experiment with minimal...
Provided by Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
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White Papers
Culture And Cooperation
May 2010
Does the cultural background influence the success with which genetically unrelated individuals cooperate in social dilemma situations? In this paper the authors provide an answer by analyzing the...
Provided by University of Nottingham
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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
Reciprocity, Culture, And Human Cooperation: Previous Insights And A New Cross-Cultural Experiment
Mar 2009
Understanding the proximate and ultimate sources of human cooperation is a fundamental issue in all behavioural sciences. In this paper the authors review the experimental evidence on how people...
Provided by University of Nottingham
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White Papers
Firm Leadership And The Gender Pay Gap: Do Active Owners Discriminate More Than Hired Managers?
Dec 2010
Using a large linked employer-employee data set for Germany, the authors investigate differences in the unexplained gender pay gap between owner-run and manager-run rms. They hypothesise that...
Provided by EconStor
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White Papers
Why Doesnt Capitalism Flow To Poor Countries?
Jun 2007
The authors find anecdotal evidence suggesting that governments in poor countries have a more left wing rhetoric than those in OECD countries. Thus, it appears that capitalist rhetoric doesn't...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
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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Case Studies
Biotechnology And Biological Sciences Research Council: Creating A Culture In Which Women Can Progress
Jan 2011
The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) is the UK's leading funding agency for the promotion and support of world-class research and postgraduate training in the...
Provided by UKRC
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Case Studies
Rolls-Royce - Site Visit Starts A Change In Culture
Jan 2011
Rolls-Royce is committed to encouraging a diverse workforce and promoting equality of opportunity for everyone. The UKRC/IOP Site Visit was a great way to make sure the equal opportunity policies...
Provided by UKRC
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White Papers
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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White Papers
Social Capital As Good Culture
Dec 2007
To explain the extremely long-term persistence (more than 500 years) of positive historical experiences of cooperation (Putnam 1993), the authors model the intergenerational transmission of priors...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Institutions, Culture, And Open Source
Feb 2010
The paper analyzes the impact of institutional and cultural factors on a remarkable economic activity: the production of so-called Open Source Software (OSS). OSS is marked by free access to the...
Provided by Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
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White Papers
Explaining International Differences In Entrepreneurship: The Role Of Individual Characteristics And Regulatory Constraints
May 2008
The authors use a micro dataset that collects information across individuals, countries, and time to investigate the determinants of entrepreneurial activity in thirty-seven developed and...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
Development As Leadership-Led Change - A Report For The Global Leadership Initiative And The World Bank Institute (WBI)
Mar 2010
Development involves change. But many development initiatives produce unimpressive levels of change in targeted countries, organizations and outcomes. This is the case in social sector...
Provided by Harvard University
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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
Market Integration And Technological Leadership In Europe
Feb 2010
Initially triggered by the Single Market Program launched in the late eighties of the past century, EU manufacturing industries have been characterized by major structural changes strongly...
Provided by European Union
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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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Webcasts
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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Webcasts
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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White Papers
Influencer
Sep 2007
So here's the problem - you have a large herd of issues and relationships that bug you. Department leaders complain incessantly. You consistently miss budget targets. Customers are two steps past...
Provided by American Management Association
-
White Papers
Working Your "Feminine Mystique"
Jun 2009
In the 1970s and '80s, women began to make real headway in the business world. The popular wisdom back then was that in order to succeed like men, women needed to look and act like men....
Provided by American Management Association
-
White Papers
Networks: The Leader's Secret Weapon
Jul 2007
No one's claiming it "Takes a village" to run an organization, but leaders are finding that their formal and informal networks can make a critical difference in getting their complex jobs done. To...
Provided by American Management Association
-
White Papers
Persuading Your Boss
Sep 2009
To succeed in business you must identify the people who have the greatest power and authority to propel your projects and promote your career. Bosses, of course, fall into this category. While it...
Provided by American Management Association
-
White Papers
Amp-Up Your Leadership, Part III: Winning Results/Good Karma
Jun 2010
Leadership is sometimes in the eye of the beholder. What one employee considers interfering, another might regard as welcome attention from the boss. Leaders come in many shapes and styles - so do...
Provided by American Management Association
-
White Papers
Amp-Up Your Leadership, Part II: Power Up Your Team
May 2010
When it comes to business leadership, one can reframe Einstein's famous formula E=mc² as: Energy = magnetism (multiplied by) collective confidence. As a leader, ones' team's level of energy and...
Provided by American Management Association
-
White Papers
When Not To E-mail
Sep 2007
Just because e-mail is good for some things doesn't mean it's good for everything. What follows is a list of the times and occasions one absolutely, positively should not send e-mail. The aim...
Provided by American Management Association
-
White Papers
Dealing With Difficult People
May 2008
Researchers have found that each one falls into one of four major behavioral functions: Controller, Analyzer, Supporter, or Promoter. Once one has identified a person's style one can adopt a...
Provided by American Management Association
-
White Papers
How To 10x Your Influence
Jan 2010
Leaders frequently make miscalculations in trying to influence change. Often, they bet on a single source of influence rather than tap into a diverse arsenal of strategies. The latest research...
Provided by American Management Association
-
White Papers
Key Leadership Behaviors That Improve Sales Force Performance
Jan 2010
No industry or business function has been immune to unprecedented conditions that have engulfed the economy. Most sales teams are faced with conditions they've never experienced before. New...
Provided by American Management Association
-
White Papers
Taking A Meeting With Doc, Happy, Grumpy, et al
Aug 2007
Although you have to stay grounded in reality when running a meeting, savvy leaders can learn a lot from a classic Disney tale, according to one psychologist. Sharon Livingston, Ph.D. says that by...
Provided by American Management Association
-
White Papers
Are You Assertive Enough?
Jul 2007
Everyone wants to be liked. Everyone also wants to be treated with respect. Unfortunately, sometimes those two impulses are difficult to balance - but not impossible. You can be both liked and...
Provided by American Management Association
-
White Papers
Leadership Lessons From The Hive
Jan 2010
In the corporate world, executives must exercise self-restraint to remain focused on long-term goals. Personal temptation, coupled with social pressure to grow the balance sheet, make it all too...
Provided by American Management Association
-
White Papers
Take The Risk, Make The Move
Mar 2008
Have you ever been stopped in your tracks by risk? Balancing the odds of success, the investment you've made in relationships, the value of the win - how do you make your choice? Often it is the...
Provided by American Management Association
-
White Papers
What Do Leaders Need To Know About Generation Y To Lead Successfully?
Jan 2010
Generation Yers have grown up in a culture of praise, raised by active, involved parents who often interceded on their behalf, protecting them and ensuring that they were treated well and grew up...
Provided by American Management Association
-
White Papers
Building Sustainable Talent Pipelines
Feb 2008
As leaders, part of the mission is to create sustainability within the organizations. The talent of the future leaders is critical to the organization's future success. The question is, how does...
Provided by American Management Association
-
White Papers
Bouncing Back From Rejection
Jun 2008
We've all been through it. Anyone who says he hasn't is either acutely neurotic, suffering from chronic amnesia, or in total denial. Still, rejection is tough to take. It's demoralizing,...
Provided by American Management Association
-
White Papers
Facing The Challenge Of Stalled Growth
Jan 2010
As McKee explained, the company for which he worked had been a very fast startup. In its first year, it made the Inc. 500 list of the fastest growing private companies in America. Subsequently,...
Provided by American Management Association
-
White Papers
The Ultimate Test Of Leadership
Jan 2010
The economic calamity of 2008 - 2009 was not caused by subprime mortgages, credit default swaps, or even excessive greed. These are only symptoms of the real problem. The root cause of the problem...
Provided by John Wiley & Sons
-
White Papers
Make Everyone A CEO
Mar 2010
Why should a leader who has worked hard for many years willingly choose to share his or her power and seemingly cede control over many aspects of the business? There are lots of reasons. Basically...
Provided by American Management Association
-
White Papers
Why Running A Business Is Like Raising A Teenager
Jun 2008
Only half of all employees say the senior management of their organization works well together as a team. When senior management fails to present a reliable, unified, and well-thought out front to...
Provided by American Management Association
-
White Papers
On Leadership Legacies
Dec 2007
Success is not enough. It turns out that many high achievers come to believe that success is hollow unless it ultimately creates significance in their lives and in the lives of others (Stevenson...
Provided by American Management Association
-
White Papers
The Power Of The Open-Ended Question
Oct 2007
Leadership is influencing other people's behaviors in ways that generate better sustainable desired results for the organization and the people in it. Leadership has nothing to do with titles,...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Managing Millennials
Jun 2007
Millennials are people born between 1980 and 2000. They share a generational personality that is highly misunderstood by preceding generations who often misinterpret their motivation as impatience...
Provided by American Management Association
-
White Papers
Four Key Practices For Developing Global Leaders
Aug 2010
Some organizations are working harder than others to adapt to the global playing field. A new Institute for Corporate Productivity(i4cp) study, commissioned by American Management Association,...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Networks: A Leader's Secret Weapon
Jun 2007
No one's claiming it "Takes a village" to run an organization, but leaders are finding that their formal and informal networks can make a critical difference in getting their complex jobs done. To...
Provided by American Management Association
-
White Papers
Working To Create A Sustainable World
Nov 2008
How can a company demonstrate to the world, certainly to its employees, that it is serious about sustainability? According to Peter Senge, the answer is more than a fancy sustainability report....
Provided by American Management Association
-
White Papers
The Art Of Preparation
Mar 2008
Understanding Your Objectives is defining your endgame. What - simply and clearly - do you want to accomplish? How often have you said to yourself "I've got to get this done" without first...
Provided by Random House
-
White Papers
Face Your Fears (Don't Be Your Own Worst Enemy)
Jan 2008
You can improve your life by taking control of self-defeating thoughts, feeling and behaviors. That is the thesis underlying cognitive behavior therapy, founded by Dr. Albert Ellis, who died in...
Provided by American Management Association
-
White Papers
Check In, Don't Check Up
Apr 2008
Technology has radically changed the workplace, in both good and bad ways. The bad part is that a lot of people feel Big Brother is always watching. They know their phone calls can be monitored,...
Provided by Hyperion
-
White Papers
Leading With Kindness
Aug 2008
Kindness is not the first word we associate with business. The image of business still largely includes old scenes from industrial America in the early twentieth century: the age of hard work and...
Provided by American Management Association
-
White Papers
Don't Take The Lead, Share The Lead
Dec 2008
Cross-functional teams are becoming the ubiquitous basis for knowledge creation and knowledge exploitation in the organizations. These teams are comprised of highly diverse individuals who...
Provided by American Management Association
-
White Papers
Taking The Risk, Making Your Move
May 2008
Have you ever been stopped in your tracks by risk? Faced with balancing the odds of success, the investment you've made in relationships, the value of the win, how do you make your choice? Often...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
What Would You Do? Ethics And Today's Administrative Professional
Jan 2010
Ethical considerations on the job can be quite sticky. According to the author," "When it comes to ethics, the first thing you must decide is where your loyalties lie. You were hired by the...
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White Papers
Management In Real Life: Bring Back The Beer
Sep 2009
Whether you're a frontline supervisor or CEO, a simple walk through operations from time to time is invaluable. It provides perspective and appreciation for employee challenges, frustrations, and...
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White Papers
Creativity And Problem Solving
Jun 2010
Problem solving can take up a lot of managerial time. So it makes sense for one to resolve problems before they develop, let alone grow to impact the bottom line. As a manager, one practices...
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White Papers
Managing In Uncertain Times: Transforming Employees from "Comfeartable" To Courageous
Oct 2008
What's a "Comfeartable" employee? It's a worker who is either too comfortable or too fearful to do things differently and deliver results, says the author. Courage can be learned: "It's a skill -...
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White Papers
Management Lessons From The Cleveland Clinic
Sep 2009
Only outstanding leadership - at all levels of the hierarchy - can pull a hospital, or any company, through difficult times like the ones we're experiencing today. But (and here's the...
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White Papers
Management Tips From Holly Landau: Pt 2
Aug 2010
In these economically challenging times, employee engagement is absolutely critical to your company's success. You manage things like your budget, your time, and your inventory. You lead people....
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Webcasts
Professor Robert Kaplan On Strong Leadership
Jul 2009
In this webcast Robert Kaplan, Professor at Harvard Business School, offers advice on how to provide strong leadership in a down economy.
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