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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 strategies as predictors of transformational leadership: the case of nonprofit managers
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the intersection between managers' learning strategies and their organizational leadership practices in a nonprofit context and find that effective learning from experience is significantly predictive of transformational leadership.
Leadership and Construction Industry Development in Developing Countries
TL;DR: In this article, an agenda for research on construction leadership in developing countries is presented, which is related to construction industry development, and an agenda of research on leadership in construction is presented.
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Some Ethical and Cultural Implications of the Leadership `Turn' in Education: On the Distinction between Performance and Performativity
TL;DR: Leadership, currently prescribed as a key requirement for effective school organization and management, is examined here as a rhetorical or discursive device, as a ''turn'' in the sense used in literary and sociological discussion of the linguistic turn as mentioned in this paper.
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“The lady vanishes”: some thoughts on women and leadership
Heather Höpfl,Sumohon Matilal +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse some of the reasons why women find it difficult to attain leadership roles and reflect on the costs to them when they do, and why women are considered a threat to organizations and why organizations seek to subject women to the therapeutic imperative of rationality as the price of membership and of "success".
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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.