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What Color is Snow White?

This article mainly focuses upon four primary styles of leadership. These styles are strategic results-based leaders, vision-based leaders, people-based leaders and information-based leaders. These types of leadership have been explained in the article as they form a core of the business. Thus, by tapping into own energy and opening up...

Tags: Refresher Publications, leader, leadership, domain, vision

White papers

Thought Killers: How Leaders Lower Their Followers' IQs and What to Do About It

Article looks at how leaders stifle and restrict thinking in their organizations - usually unintended but destructive nonetheless. It describes that a leader's perspective about how to lead is built from a set of assumptions. These assumptions result in a series of self-fulfilling prophecies. A leader whose management style is...

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White papers 2003-01-01

Being A Leader

From the executive summary: ‘Leadership is the process by which a person influences others to accomplish a mission, task, or objective. Although, some individuals have the good fortune of possessing an apparently innate ability for leadership, the rest of them develop leadership potential through self-study, dedication, education, experience, and hard...

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White papers 2003-01-01

How Leaders Can Avoid the Success Trap

One of the most insidious problems for managers and their organizations is the failure phenomenon called the Success Trap. The term has been used in studying organizations, which show great promise and then hit a plateau or decline. Article diagnoses the similar pattern, which often occurs in the careers...

Tags: Refresher Publications, career, leader

White papers 2003-01-01

Additional Resources

Advocacy update

CPA AUSTRALIA CEO GEOF RANKIN FCPA REPORTS ON ACTIVITIES CARRIED OUT ON BEHALF OF MEMBERS With a new government comes the establishment of new committees and new reviews, all aiming to develop forward thinking and refresh public policy. CPA Australia has been asked to participate in a...

Articles 2008-05-01

Editorial: Priest Child Sex Abuse

Finally, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church has spoken out in strong terms against the priest child sex abuse scandal, calling it "evil" and "immoral." In his first papal trip to the United States, Pope Benedict XVI said he was "deeply ashamed" of the pedophilia in the priesthood. Benedict...

Articles 2008-04-21

Letters: John McCain's success

SOME POLITICAL commentators from the extreme right have been critical of John McCain's career success at cooperating with leaders from both parties. To that reasoning, I wonder when intransigence became a badge of honor and collaboration a detriment. Of course, collaboration is essential to governing. It is also part of...

Articles 2008-03-01

March of Dimes Delivers a New Look

To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Robert Storace, +1-914-997-4622,rstorace@marchofdimes.com, Todd Dezen, +1-914-997-4608,tdezen@marchofdimes.com, or Elizabeth Lynch, +1-914-997-4286,elynch@marchofdimes.com, all of The March of Dimes National Leader in Pregnancy and Baby Health Updates Image toSignal Commitment to Health of All Babies WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., Jan. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Marchof Dimes today unveils a...

Articles 2008-01-15

ROP marks opening of new building

The Mission Valley Regional Occupational Program will hold a ceremony from 1 to 3 p.m. Oct. 22 to celebrate the opening of its new facility this school year. The 45,000-square-foot building features 19 classrooms, including four state-of-the-art biotechnology and health science labs and six computer labs....

Articles 2007-10-15

40th Annual International Ffranchise Association Legal Symposium: "where legal and business minds come together.".(THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK OF FRANCHISING)(Brief article)(Conference notes)

In a city where laws are being drafted, debated, approved, revised and overturned with regularity, it should come as no surprise that hundreds of franchising's legal professionals return annually to reflect, refresh, and relearn all those tight and tidy laws that slipped their bonds over the...

Articles 2007-07-01

Disability Rights Organization Opens Office in Carbondale

To: STATE EDITORS Contact: Jeff Plesko, +1-800-758-0559, TTY: +1-800-610-2779,jeff@equipforequality.org , or Barry Taylor, +1-312-895-7317, TTY: +1-800-610-2779, barryt@equipforequality.org , both of Equip forEquality CARBONDALE, Ill., Feb. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Equip forEquality EFE, a statewide disability rights organization,celebrates the opening of its newly established Carbondale office onMarch 6. The public is...

Articles 2007-02-21

Stop work on King Day

Senate President John Valentine got it right this week when he noted that, despite lofty arguments about how the Legislature honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by opening its yearly session on the holiday set aside for him, the public would rather see it take the day off. ...

Articles 2007-02-03

The Mystery Prime Minister; Abe's challenge is to convince the Japanese of the idea that he is cerebral and strategic, whereas Koizumi acted mostly on instinct.

Byline: Gerry Curtis (Curtis is a professor of political science at Columbia University.) The Japanese don't quite know what to make of their new prime minister, Shinzo Abe--and with good reason. There isn't much in his background to indicate whether he has the...

Articles 2006-10-09

The Mystery Prime Minister

The Japanese don't quite know what to make of their new prime minister, Shinzo Abe--and with good reason. There isn't much in his background to indicate whether he has the ability to run a ministry, much less the entire government, his only previous cabinet post having been as Koizumi's chief...

Articles 2006-10-09

G8 summit was a triumph for British PR, if not the British, The

President Putin is reported to have employed a London public relations firm for the G8 summit. One of the firm's eminences is said to be a former 'researcher' for Tony Blair. During the G8 leaders' appearances before the world's press, after Mr Blair had mildly urged...

Articles 2006-07-22

Laura Bush praises Merkel's 'frankness'

ROSTOCK, Germany AFP — US First Lady Laura Bush said she and President George W. Bush admired Chancellor Angela Merkel and got a taste of her refreshing frankness during their visit to Germany this week. "I like her very, very much, and this trip, for the President and...

Articles 2006-07-14

Hearst Knows Value of Political Coverage.(Press Room)

We applaud Hearst-Argyle's decision to devote a minimum of 10 minutes of time each weekday on its local TV stations to coverage of political news, and urge other station groups to follow Hearst-Argyle's lead. David Barrett, the CEO of Hearst-Argyle, is doing and saying...

Articles 2006-04-03

Leading with Grace

Leading with Grace Leadership From Inside Out: Spirituality and Organizational Change, by Wesley Granberg-Michaelson. Crossroad. In the midst of my own responsibilities for leadership within the Presbyterian Church USA, I seek to keep current with the literature on leadership and organizational management. Rarely have I found such an...

Articles 2006-03-01

Leading Article: A mandate for change that must not be squandered

Britain has been without a serious party of opposition for the best part of a decade now. David Cameron's election as Tory leader gives us hope that we may, finally, get one back. As Mr Cameron demonstrated in his victory speech, he is eloquent and telegenic and appears to belong...

Articles 2005-12-07

Tax avoidance scheme a winner.(Opinion)

In a country where pitched battles by our politicians, interest groups and the like threaten to divide us like never before, it's refreshing to see the power of cooperation. Last week in San Francisco, the city and business leaders avoided a ...

Articles 2005-11-07