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On Becoming a Leader
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In this paper, Bennis distinguishes leadership by focusing on 28 individuals, including Apple's John Sculley, Johnson & Johnson's James Burke, and others, in a new book.Abstract:
"In a penetrating, insightful new book, Bennis distinguishes leadership by focusing on 28 individuals, including Apple's John Sculley, Johnson & Johnson's James Burke", (Sloan Management Review), and others. "A solid work that illuminates its subject and engages (the reader).. . . Its ideas are wise enough to stand reexamination".--USA Today.read more
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An Organization on Hold and Interim Leadership in Demand: A Case Study of Individual and Organizational Identity
Blair Browning,Suzanne Boys +1 more
TL;DR: This paper examined the implications of interim leadership on both individual and organizational identity and found that the questions of "Who am I?" and "Who are we?" were heavily entangled in the individual-collective identity management discussion.
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Learning Vicariously: Students' Reflections of the Leadership Lessons Portrayed in The Office
TL;DR: In this paper, the qualitative results of post-secondary students' reflections of learning leadership concepts after watching several episodes of the television show, The Office, were analyzed using reflective journaling.
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Developing Curricula Across Cultures
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the process of developing a doctoral curriculum in Organizational Psychology involving the participation of a team comprising administrators, faculty, and students which combined seemingly opposing elements.
The Social Construction of Leadership: Theory to Praxis.
TL;DR: The notion of the "everyday problematic" (Smith 1987) is used to examine the experiences of three doctoral students engaged in research about leadership for women, with a focus on leadership discourse, feminist perspectives, and organizational change as discussed by the authors.
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Facilitative Mayors in Complex Environments: Why Political Will Matters
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors suggest that the style of leadership of mayors can be the result of their context perceptions and their sense of political autonomy and efficacy, which is explained by three main determinants: the leaders' awareness of their complex and networked context, their independent sense of autonomy and their belief about their own political efficacy.
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The Closing of the American Mind
TL;DR: The closing of the American mind as discussed by the authors is one of the best-sellers in history, and Bloom's sweeping analysis is essential to understanding America today, and it has fired the imagination of a public ripe for change.