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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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Selecting Social Change Leaders

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review several scholarship programs that provide access to higher education as a means to strengthen leaders from marginalized communities and present best practices for selecting future social change leaders.
Dissertation

The development of leadership competencies index: the Economic Value Added (EVA) approach

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a method to solve the problem of homonymity in homonym identification, and propose a solution to the problem: homonymization of homonyms.
Dissertation

Understanding the Impact of Differing Leadership Schemas in Inter-Organizational Groups

Colin Magee
TL;DR: Magee et al. as mentioned in this paper examined the impact of individual leader schemas on inter-organisational groups brought together to deal with complex problems in the Canadian Forces, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade and the Canadian International Development Agency operating in Afghanistan during the period 2005 to 2011.
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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.