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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.
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"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.

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Understanding site-based administration and teacher development

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the nature ofleadership style, its affects on school culture, and its effects on the personal and professional lives of teachers and conclude that administrators have adhered to transactional orientations and generally have an observable dependency on 'canned' solutions to complex problems.
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Health care leadership in an age of change.

TL;DR: It is argued that leadership contributes significantly to the success of the hospital in a time of turmoil and change, and perhaps this tendency needs to be addressed when educating present and future hospital leaders.
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Impact Of Educational Leadership On Institutional Performance In Punjab

TL;DR: In this paper, a study was conducted to identify and describe the impact of leadership behaviour of educational leaders along with demographics on institutional performance for the fulfilment of goals of education as envisaged in national documents.
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The Effect of Organisational Vision on Service Quality Delivery

TL;DR: In this article, the authors apply the concept of organisational vision to quantitative measures of service operation and find that it positively contributes to job satisfaction and service efforts of the participants working in a nationwide fast-food organization.
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Leveraging intellectual property for strategic advantage in product development

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider knowledge management issues across the product development life cycle, to ensure that intellectual property in products and services is recognized as a strategic lever that is able to optimize knowledge-based benefits, creating sustainable competitive advantages, product leadership and new knowledge creation.
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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.