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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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The imperative for employee-centric organizing and its significance for enterprise engineering

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the traditional thinking about enterprises considers (executive) management as the primary and exclusive custodians of enterprise performance, and that no employee variety is often required and expected.
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Estilos de direccion como determinantes del clima laboral en chile

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the results of a study about the managerial styles used by a sample of Chilean managers and its relationship to the organizational climate perceived by their subordinates, and two measures of managerial styles perceptions are used to predict the subordinate's organizational climate perceptions.
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You Have What? Personality! Traits That Predict Leadership Styles for Elementary Principals

TL;DR: In this paper, a study of 242 teachers and paraprofessionals explored relationships between the perceptions of elementary principal's Big Five personality traits and the followers' perceptions of the elementary principals' Full Range Leadership Model for one school district in South Texas that included 8 elementary schools that participated in the research.

Portraits of nursing resilience: Listening for a story

Vicki Cope
TL;DR: This paper aims to provide a history of the field and some of the techniques and procedures used in its development, as well as some examples of usage and criticism, that were previously described in the literature.
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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.