Timothy 20140221 Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae In the novel “Gates of Fire”‚ by Steven Pressfield‚ the author describes a battle between 300 Spartans and the Persian Army who threatens to invade and take Sparta. A Greek‚ who goes by the name Xeones‚ gives his story to a scribe who works for the Persian King Xerxes. One main theme that presents itself very well is the act of Patriotism. Something that one would learn from this novel is very similar to the basics of what
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increased. Initially‚ I was a transactional leader because it was a way of separating me from my peers to alleviate chances of fraternization. The chain of command was strict in giving direction and the expectations were exacting in standards in accordance with approved guidelines. About half way through my career‚ I was a middle manager and earned the respect of my peers through performance and longevity so my leadership style shifted to transformational. I was successful because my senior leadership
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TRANSACTIONAL VS TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP The concept of transformational leadership‚ which is a constituent of Bass and Avolio’s “full range leadership theory”‚ is one in hundreds of the most world-wide researched paradigms in the fields of leadership and have showed material accuracy for assigning probability to a number of outcomes including leader performance and productiveness rating in addition to follower gratification and stimulation. Transformational leaders act as advisers to their
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Transformational versus Transactional Leadership This document is intended to compare and contrasts Transformational and Transactional Leadership and discusses how they are used in management of organizations by managers. Before we can delve into the comparison or contrast‚ we first need to define what we mean by each of these terms we are comparing and contrasting. Transformational Leadership Defined This type of leadership can best be defined as a process in which "leaders and followers help
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Critique of Transformational Leadership & Transactional Leadership “Leadership without perspective and point of view isn’t leadership-and of course it must be your own perspective‚ your own point of view. You cannot borrow a point of view any more than you can borrow someone else’s eyes. It must be authentic‚ and if it is‚ it will be original‚ because you are original”. (Bennis‚ 1992‚ p.122) Introduction This paper assesses two popular leadership theories: Transformational Leadership & Transactional
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Basic Logic GatesBasic Logic Gates All digital systems can be constructed by only three basic logic gates. These basic gates are called the AND gate‚ the OR gate‚ and the NOT gate. Some textbooks also include the NAND gate‚ the NOR gate and the EXOR gate as the members of the family of basic logic gates. The descriptions of the operations of these gates are listed below: AND gate The AND gate is a circuit which gives a high output (logic 1) if all its inputs are high. A dot () is used to indicate
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Both Within Our Gates and The Birth of a Nation discussed the racism in the United States in the early twenty centuries. However‚ two movies used two different aspects to develop the issue. In the movie Within Our Gates Within Our Gates is a silent film made by director Oscar Micheaux in 1919. It described How African Americans like Sylvia Landry tries to fit in the local white people. people like Jacobs was trying to provide education to the African Americans‚ and force government to provide resources
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Transformational leadership consists of two conflicting types of leaders. One that leads to help others and one that leads to help himself. We can see these differences by examining the leadership method of Ellen Degeneres and Adolf Hitler. A transformational leader is a leader who motivates their followers to create a change and through that process transforms the individual as well. The leader and their followers share a greater vision to foster change for the greater good of the community.
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Gate Control Theory | Date of last revision July 26‚ 2011 | Introductionwww.currentnursing.com * Gate control theory was described by Melzack and Wall in 1965. * This theory explains about a pain-modulating system in which a neural gate present in the spinal cord can open and close thereby modulating the perception of pain. * The gate control theory suggested that psychological factors play a role in the perception of pain. Terms * Pain - an unpleasant sensory and emotional
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Both transformational leadership and leader-member exchange leadership theories have been an issue of discussion for many scholars. The majority of authors agree that transformational leaders ‘have qualitatively different and quantitatively greater effects on their followers than the effects of exchange leaders’ (Gupta & Krishnan 2004‚ p.7). This essay builds on the existing literature about these two theories and will try to draw a parallel between LMX and transformational leadership‚ i.e. it will
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