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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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Learning From the Toxic Trenches The Winding Road to Healthier Organizations—and to Healthy Everyday Leaders
TL;DR: In this paper, an insider's look at the power and consequences of high levels of workplace emotion in order to deepen understanding of the workplace relationships and practices needed for individuation.
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Total quality management: The need for an employee‐centred, coherent approach
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the human-centred approach to organizing fundamentally offers the possibility of aligning human interests with organizational interests, rather than depersonalization of work, with the possible danger of alienation, work offers possibilities for selfrealization and self-development.
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Procurement leadership: from means to ends
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present two conceptual frameworks to move procurement in a strategic direction: a pragmatic framework to resolve the dichotomy between ends and means and a conservator model of agency leadership to promote and maintain public procurement's institutional integrity.
The complexities of change, leadership and technology in Australian university libraries
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the challenges of managing change in university libraries during recent decades and how to manage change in libraries during ICT advances in information and communication technologies (ICT) has been a disruptive force for libraries.
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Continuous personal improvement
TL;DR: The author describes the applicability of well‐defined continuous improvement tools to the continuous improvement of one’s self and serves as a foundation for those familiar with world‐class manufacturing methods to focus on self‐improvement efforts.
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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.