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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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Transformational Leaders: Their Socialization, Self-Concept, and Shaping Experiences

Punam Sahgal, +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a developmental perspective to study transformational leadership in the Indian context, focusing on significant life experiences that have shaped leaders who have successfully transformed organizations, and suggested that leaders do not emerge as a consequence of events or incidents but a journey of distinctive life experiences and processes.

Toward Public Administration as a Humanities Discipline: A Humanistic Manifesto

TL;DR: For instance, the authors argues that bias is not something that one eliminates, or at least attempts to reduce to an imperceptible influence on one's thinking as in positivistic forms of research, but instead one uses legitimate forms of bias to understand the experiences one has, bringing, in Weber's terms, a value-orientation theory of social action and method in achieving Verstehen that draws upon an empathic or artistically appreciative quality.
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Leading urban institutions of higher education in the new millennium

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used qualitative analytic procedures to interpret data elicited in response to interview protocol, a process involving: organizing data; generating categories, themes, and patterns; testing emergent hypotheses against the data; and searching for alternative explanations of the data.
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Faculty and Family Policies in Higher Education

TL;DR: In this article, a review of existing policies in higher education institutions that affect faculty and their families, and identifies areas for advocacy and research is provided, and the implications of these policies for recruitment and retention of faculty and for the tenure and promotion process are considered.
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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.