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- Courageous Followers, Courageous Leaders New Relationship For Learning And Experience
- It has been seen that it is the quality of the relationship of leaders and followers, all the way up and down the organization chart, that makes or breaks organizations. Those lower down in the organization have more direct experience with its people, processes and customers and need to be...
- White papers 2003-01-01
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- Neutralizing Substitutes for Leadership Theory: Leadership Effects and Common-Source Bias
- This paper examines alternative models of substitutes for leadership theory given the general lack of empirical support for the moderating effects postulated by the theory. On this basis, the research posited that the effects of substitutes also could be conceptualized as mediated relations. The research examined moderated and mediated relations...
- White papers 2002-06-10
- What's Your Leadership Style?
- Monday night, we said goodbye to our Leadership class in the form of a three-hour take-home final. It wasn't my favorite way to wrap up a three-day weekend, that's for sure. But even more frustrating was the fact that I didn't really take away too much from...
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- A Review of Leadership Theory and Competency Frameworks
- The paper begins with a review of leadership theories and tracks their evolution over the past 70 years from the "great man" notion of heroic leaders, through trait theories, behaviourist theories, situational leadership, contingency theory and on to transactional and transformational leadership. Each of these offers some insights into the...
- White papers 2003-06-01
- Leadership and Decision Making: A Retrospective Application and Assessment
- This paper examines the applicability of the Vroom-Yetton model of leadership and decision making to the battlefield behavior of ten commanding generals in six major battles of the American Civil War. The purpose of the paper was twofold. The first objective was to see if it is possible to utilize...
- White papers
- Leadership Education in the Era of Disruption: What Can Business Schools Offer?
- The paper addresses some of the dilemmas that business schools face in their attempts to teach, in conventional educational settings, practices such as leadership that are profoundly informed by experience. In the initial section of the paper, the recognition of relationship as the primary medium of education is advocated and...
- White papers 2005-07-04
- "Strategic Leadership"
- Mission, vision, values, goals, objectives, and strategic planning are just some of the leadership buzzwords of the late 20th Century. Virtually all professional executives have attempted to understand what all the buzzwords mean and make them a reality. Few have succeeded and most continue to search for what bridges the...
- White papers
- Leadership: Theory, Application, Skill Development
- Strategic leadership is the process of providing a definitive direction and vision to the corporate strategy and sustaining long-term organizational goals. Effective leadership is imperative for successful operationalization of business strategy. It also plays an important role in successfully managing crisis in the organization. The paper examines the dynamics of...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Leadership Lessons From The Modern Military
- Some military methods have shifted, yet there is a great deal of military leadership theory that is applicable outside the uniformed ranks. While command-and-control architecture remains the basis of any military organization, the branches of the U.S. armed forces have become much more flexible in recent years, pushing decision-making authority...
- White papers 2002-04-15
- What You Need To Know About "Situational Leadership"!- One Leaders Perspective
- This article concludes that the "best way" or universal aspect of leadership theory is valid in regards to right values and ethics. People should never be viewed as disposable or unimportant. An effective leader must treat all employees or followers with the heartfelt values reflected in the "golden rule," including...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Learning How to Lead
- One of the two classes we're taking this session is Leadership. I have to admit, I've been skeptical from the start. Can you really learn how to be a leader in the classroom? It's not that I thought the class would be worthless, but the topic is...
- Blog posts 2008-01-22
- From Transactional to Transcendental: Toward an Integrated Theory of Leadership
- This paper explores the spiritual dimensions of leadership by setting forth a theory that both integrates and extends the transactional and transformational theories of leadership. Specifically, the authors' proposes that the transcendental theory of leadership set forth in the paper comprises three dimensions of spirituality (consciousness, moral character, and faith)...
- White papers
- Contingency Theory Of Leadership
- Leadership is the process of influencing others to get the work done. The leadership process consists of three elements viz. the leader, the task, and the led or the followers. The leader has vision, trait, style, behavior, and charisma. On the basis of the aforesaid qualities, the leader inspires and...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Using Role Theory to Examine Determinants of Transformational and Transactional Leader Behavior
- Managers can and do behave differently in similar organizations and within similar jobs. Role theory is proposed to be useful in understanding and determining how managers' perceptions of the organizational setting influence their leadership behaviors. This paper seeks to introduce role theory as a mechanism for explaining the relationship between...
- White papers
- Contingency Theory
- Leadership is the ability to influence a group of individuals towards attainment of certain pre-defined goals. A leader motivates, influences, and directs the group towards achievement of these goals. According to contingency theory of leadership, effective leadership depends on leader and follower's characteristics as well as other factors in the...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- What's Your Leadership Style?
- What's Your Leadership Style?RE: What's Your Leadership Style?You bring back.....memories of grad school. Lots of theory and models. As a senior leader I rarely meditated on theory or leadership models (although I did do this for my comprehensives!) Leadership today needs to be performance-based, behavioral and...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-21
- Our chief magistrate and his powers: a reconsideration of William Howard Taft's "Whig" theory of presidential leadership.
- This article discusses William Howard Taft's theory of presidential leadership. Often seen as embodying a passive or weak conception of the presidency and dismissed as anachronistic, the author argues that Taft's theory merits a second look. First, through analysis of Taft's presidential actions and academic writings, the author shows that...
- Research articles 2003-06-01
- Integral Leadership: What Is It, and Why Should I Care?
- This article explore the theory and practice of leadership from an integral perspective, defines the Four Quadrant model of integral leadership and briefly explores its implications for organizational leaders and their personal leadership development efforts. It provides a more in-depth consideration of how the four quadrants play out in the...
- White papers 2003-02-01
- Leadership
- This presentation explains the trait approach, behavior approach, Fiedler's contingency model, path-goal theory, Blake and mouton managerial grid, leader-member exchange theory, and leader-member exchange theory. Leader-Member Exchange Theory describes the different kinds of relationships that may develop between a leader and a follower and what the leader and the follower...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Leadership In Organizations
- The leader influences employees to attain the desired goals. These set of PowerPoint slides talk about various leadership theories—Blake & Mouton's leadership grid, Michigan Studies, Fiedler's Contingency Theory, Hersey & Blanchard's Situational Leadership and Path-Goal Theory, Also, the paper observes the distinction between Contingency Theories. Finally, the paper outlines various...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
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