Defining Leadership A Review of Past‚ Present‚ and Future Ideas BY MATTHEW R. FAIRHOLM‚ PH.D. DIRECTOR‚ LEADERSHIP STUDIES AND DEVELOPMENT‚ CEMM MONOGRAPH SERIES MS02-02 THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE IN MUNICIPAL MANAGEMENT Center for Excellence in Municipal Management’s Research Program Since its inception‚ The George Washington University Center for Excellence in Municipal Management has focused on providing practitioner oriented research to support and
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Important Aspects of Leadership Liberty University Abstract: A vital aspect to a successful business is a successful leader. There are many different styles of leadership‚ therefore‚ there are positives and negatives to each style. Keywords: Leadership‚ managers‚ followership‚ “The four I’s‚” transactional leaders‚ transformational leaders‚ servant leadership To have a successful business‚ it must be led by a successful leader. A business leader is the
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Odyssey‚ the book which people have been reading and learning from it generation after generation‚ its main character‚ Odysseus has been portrayed to be a great leader and be worshiped by a large amount of people. However‚ while reading it in advanced deeply‚ in details and sentence by sentence‚ seeing the evidence‚ the mirror of Odysseus occurred. The way that he treated his men‚ the way he led his men to‚ the way he talked to his men‚ arrogance‚ self-centered‚ unmotived‚ selfish all showed his
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The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs Focus Steve Jobs was famous for his laser-like focus. This natural personality trait was further honed by his study of Zen philosophy; “deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do”. Shortly before his death‚ Larry Page‚ Google’s co-founder visited Jobs to ask for advice. Jobs told him to figure out the top five products Google should focus on and “get rid of the rest‚ because they’re dragging you down”. Page followed his advice‚ announcing
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Approaches to Leadership April 13‚ 2011 — 8 Comments emerging leader1 Emerging Approaches to Leadership After beginning a two year research to propose some leadership theories which focus on a particular characteristic of a leader‚ leaving out the followers and situations from the equation‚ I’ve been able to break down leadership into the following four categories: Charismatic Leadership‚ Attribution Leadership‚ Transactional Leadership‚ and Transformational Leadership. Charismatic Leadership The theory
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Leadership Traits Although research has shown that the presence of specific traits alone do not ensure successful leadership‚ it has been proven that successful historical leaders share certain key traits. According to Shelley Kirkpatrick and Edwin Locke‚ “leaders do not have to be great men or women by being intellectual geniuses or omniscient prophets to succeed‚ but they do need to have the "right stuff" and this stuff is not equally present in all people” (Kirkpatrick & Locke‚ 1991‚ p. 12)
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Reflective Leadership Paper Mark West Leadership for Organizations: MGT 380 Instructor: Stacey Taylor January 27‚ 2011 The Reflective Leadership Paper Leadership‚ Wow‚ I can’t say that I have ever studied about a word with so much meaning and diversity. Considering that there are many definitions of leadership and no one in particular is right or wrong. I want to explain what I believe is the key theories of leadership success within profit and non-profit organizations‚ which are the
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Scholar Paper “Toxic Leadership” Rosella D. Scott Student # 110179 I. Introduction Webster dictionary defines “toxic” as containing or being poisonous material especially when capable of causing death or serious debilitation‚ exhibiting symptoms of infection or toxicities or extremely harsh‚ malicious‚ or harmful. “Leadership” ‚by definition is when an organizational role involves (1) establishing a clear vision‚ (2) sharing (communicating) that vision with others so that they will follow
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Servant Leadership Paul Jones Grand Canyon University MGT 420 – Org. Behavior & Management October 17‚ 2011 Introduction Although the notion of servant leadership has been recognized in leadership literature since Burns’ (1978) and Greenleaf’s (1977) publications‚ the movement has gained momentum only recently. Bowman (1997) argues that to date there is only anecdotal evidence to support a commitment to an understanding of servant leadership. For example‚ Spears’ (1995) identification
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Company Report This project applies the concepts and theories offered in the financial management class to a real world company. In order to write the Company Report‚ you need to look up information about your firm. Use financial databases like Bloomberg or Datastream‚ but you may also consider checking Yahoo Finance‚ EDGAR‚the website of Prof. Kenneth French and Prof. Robbert Shiller or the website of S&P (see also the data guide). To be precise‚ each group (of maximum 4 students‚ as allocated
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