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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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Management Across Cultures: Developing Global Competencies

TL;DR: The third edition of this popular textbook has been thoroughly expanded and updated throughout to explore the latest approaches to cross-cultural management, presenting strategies and tactics for managing international assignments and global teams.
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Leadership skills as construed by nonprofit chief executives

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore how chief executives of 20 nonprofit organizations construe and prioritize the skills they use to perform typical leadership tasks and find that they utilize a mix of technical, interpersonal, and conceptual skills.
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Resource scarcity and priority-setting: from management to leadership in the rationing of health care?

TL;DR: In this article, the role and value of leadership in addressing problems of a lack of perceived legitimacy and governance that have been raised in connection with the rationing enterprise is discussed, and the potential and limitations of key leadership concepts such as sense-making and framing are explored.
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Leadership‐shaping experiences: a comparative study of leaders and non‐leaders

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared a group of soldiers perceived as leaders with a group perceived as non-leaders, in order to examine the hypothesis that leaders have had more leadership experiences than non‐leaders, and the sense in which the reported experiences had contributed to leadership development.
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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.