Leadership is the process of influencing others towards the attainment of certain pre-defined goals. Leadership style refers to the methodology adopted by the leader to carry out the roles and responsibilities of the leadership process. The paper examines leadership and discusses trait, behavioral, contingency, and contemporary approaches to leadership.
Organizations operate in external environment marked by intense competition between rival players. It is imperative for an organization to take stock of opportunities and threats prevailing in its external environment. At the same time, the organization has to identify its inherent strengths and weaknesses. This helps in designing and redesigning...
THE WELSH ACADEMY ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WALES ENGLISH VERSION edited by John Davies, Nigel Jenkins, Menna Baines and Peredur Lynch University of Wales Press, 10 Columbus Walk, Brigantine Place, Cardiff CF 10 4UP, Tel: 029 2049 6899, £65, pp. 1060, ISBN 9780708319536 There is a moment in...
SAN JOSE, Calif., July 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Aon Consulting's Radford Surveys + Consulting, a leading provider of market compensation intelligence and consulting to the high technology and life sciences industries, has announced the appointment of Linda E. Amuso to president. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20041215/CGW049LOGO) ...
After nearly 30 years in the same location, Sparrow Hawk Gourmet Cookware is moving -- but not very far. Sparrow Hawk will remain downtown. But owner Sam Eppley is moving the store from 12 E. Bijou St. to 120 N. Tejon St.; he hopes to open the new store at...
In 2006, DC Comics launched an ambitious, year-long weekly series, "52," that portrayed a year without DC's big guns: Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman. DC's latest weekly series, "Trinity," begins in June. And this time, the Big Three...
While the public and media focus on the use of force in this week's news video of Philadelphia police kicking and beating three shooting suspects, experts in police procedure say the video of the entire incident will become Exhibit A on how - or how not - police should handle...
Dedmon Athletic Center in VA Selects New Insulated Fabric Roofing System For Energy Efficiency, Comfort and Design Aesthetics BOSTON and RADFORD, Va., May 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cabot Aerogel, a business of Cabot Corporation and Birdair, Inc., a global leader in tensile fabric roofing systems, announced the...
Abstract Despite the wide cross-disciplinary influence of Fra' Luca Pacioli's Summa de Arithmetica, Geometria, Proportioni et Proportionalita Summa, it has been criticized as being both difficult to read and written in a mixture of bad Italian and bad Latin; but, paradoxically, intellectuals of Pacioli's day praised the style...
Defend This Old Town: Williamsburg during the Civil War. By Carol Kettenburg Dubbs. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. Pp. [xviii], 406. $49.95, ISBN 0-8071-2780-9.) An increasingly important genre of Civil War history is the investigation of the war's...
In the past few years, the character of Iron Man has become more central to the Marvel Comics universe than before. On Friday, he flies off the comics pages and into movie theaters with Marvel Studios' "Iron Man." Just a coincidence? ...
FEMINIST THEOLOGIES: LEGACY AND PROSPECT. Edited by Rosemary Radford Ruether. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2007. Pp. vii + 175. $20. Compiled from presentations celebrating the Center for Women and Religion CWR of the Graduate Theological Union at Berkeley, this collection highlights the...
December sales tax collections in Colorado Springs rose 7.24 percent from the previous December, the city Finance Department reported Thursday. The December collections are on November sales, the start of the holiday shopping season. For the year to date, sales tax collections...
"Civil War," Marvel Comics' last megaevent, asked the question: Whose side are you on? In "Secret Invasion," Marvel's big event for 2008, the question is: Who do you trust? The eight-issue miniseries, which launches in April, focuses on an alien infiltration by...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ADVENTURES IN PARANORMAL INVESTIGATIONS. Joe Nickell. University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, 2007. 320 pp. Hardcover, $29.95. Joe Nickell, the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry's intrepid and indefatigable Senior Research Fellow, is at it again with a new collection of his investigations culled from four decades of...
SCRIPTURAL STUDIES Aguilar Chiu, Jose Enrique. 1 Cor 12-14: Literary Structure and Theology. Analecta Biblica 166. Rome: Pontificio Istituto Biblico, 2007. Pp. 380. 43 [euro]. ---, and Franco Manzi. II verbo di Dio vivo: Studi sul Nuovo...
What is good for a rare, rice-sized crustacean in a Virginia cave system is proving to be good for one of the southern Appalachian region's most biologically diverse and imperiled ecosystems. The Lee County cave isopod Lirceus usdagalun is a stygobitic (cave-adapted aquatic) crustacean found...
When the Columbia Missourian newspaper of the Missouri School of Journalism, last month fired columnist John Merrill, an 83-year-old professor emeritus, it caused headlines such as "Journalism Professor Admits Plagiarism." Merrill, in writing about a new women's and gender studies...
Company invites consumers to help select the "It" Girl MIAMI -- Norwegian Cruise Line NCL today announced five finalists in its Search for the Latitudes "It" Girl contest, the winner of which will be named Godmother of its new ship, Norwegian Gem. Finalists were selected...
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