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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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Relationships between Leadership Style, the Degree of Change Experienced, Performance and Follower Commitment in Policing
John Hawkins,Victor Dulewicz +1 more
TL;DR: The second stage of the 2008 Scottish Police Service Leadership Study (SPSLS) as mentioned in this paper focused on the relationship between leadership style, the degree of change experienced, follower commitment and performance as a leader, data on which were gathered through the use of 360-degree version the Leadership Dimensions Questionnaire (LDQ).
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How to promote managers’ innovative behavior at work: Individual factors and perceptions
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated how perceived organizational innovation affects manager's IIB through self-leadership strategies, and whether perceived organizational risk-taking and the gender of the respondents facilitate or impede the process.
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A test of vision training and potential antecedents to leaders' visioning ability
Peg Thoms,David B. Greenberger +1 more
TL;DR: This article found that future time perspective and positivism correlated with the participants' visioning ability, suggesting that some leaders may naturally be better able than others to create an organizational vision, while others may not have the ability to create a vision.
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What features of the maternity unit promote obedient behaviour from midwives
TL;DR: Raising awareness of the processes involved in obedient behaviour and exercising sharing of power may be helpful to midwives in asserting not only their own professional capacity to influence, but also the autonomy of the women they seek to empower.
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Developing Effective Leaders: Motivational Correlates of Leadership Styles
Zeljka Vidic,Damon Burton +1 more
TL;DR: This article examined the motivational correlates of four leadership styles (servant, transformational, transactional, and passive/avoidant) of 132 high school and college athletes at a military institute emphasizing leadership development who completed a comprehensive questionnaire assessing leadership styles and motivational variables.
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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.