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  • Nature of Leadership

    Nature of Leadership

    The large numbers of research papers and readings that exist on the nature of leadership theories underlines the importance that modern society ascribes to leadership. This paper will provide a brief overview of the significant contributions made to our understandings of the nature of leadership by theorists in the first half of the 20th century. The reasons as to how and why notions of leadership and management changed during this period will be reviewed. A

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    Essay Length: 685 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Yan
  • Jetblue:leadership with Wings

    Jetblue:leadership with Wings

    JetBlue: Leadership with Wings “To continue to bring humanity back to air travel.” This is the promise JetBlue Airways Corporation has made to its shareholders, customers, and “crew members” in order to build a strong, solid and rapidly growing company. JetBlue uses two significant tools that drive its success: low fares and superb customer service. This growing discount airline works to keep its costs down and implies this goal by offering one-class service and eliminating

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    Essay Length: 1,831 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Control and Leadership

    Control and Leadership

    Control and Leadership Paper Introduction Sears Holdings is a company in transition. Now, faced with adversity and the threat of bankruptcy looming its leadership has come under scrutiny. “Great leaders not only have drive; they want to lead. Also important is a high need for power, a preference to be in leadership rather than follower positions. A high power need induces people to attempt to influence others, and sustains interest and satisfaction in the process

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    Essay Length: 1,074 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Perlmutter’s Models of Managing Globally

    Perlmutter’s Models of Managing Globally

    The company wishes to start its operations abroad ought to choose the character of this subsidiary and the way it is going to be managed. Perlmutter (1969) comes out with the concept of four styles of managing abroad. Ethnocentric subsidiary is managed mainly by home country nationals, with the home country language and culture. Therefore, the recruitment for majority management positions takes place in home country (Muijen et al 2000). For example, the unwritten policy

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    Essay Length: 731 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Wendy
  • E Business Model - Facebook

    E Business Model - Facebook

    E-BUSINESS MODELS As defined by Canzer, a consumer – to – consumer ( C2C) business model is one in which firms facilitate the exchange of data directly between its users over the internet. It does not use the peer - to – peer ( P2P) software which allows direct access to the individual’s computer files but instead provides a platform to load text, images, music / video files, etc for sharing among users. This platform

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    Essay Length: 375 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Leadership Concept Worksheet Gene one

    Leadership Concept Worksheet Gene one

    Leadership Concepts Worksheet Concept Application of Concept in the Scenario or Simulation Reference to Concept in Reading Team Viability Susan Wells has doubts about the capability and the desire of some of the team members to make the IPO happen, which may affect the process in a negative way. “Team viability is team member satisfaction and willing to contribute” (Kinki & krietner Organizational behavior chapter 13 p. 451.) Organizational learning Gene one needs to collect

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    Essay Length: 267 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: regina
  • Leadership Secrets of Atilla the Hun

    Leadership Secrets of Atilla the Hun

    Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun Authored by Wess Roberts, Ph.D. (Warner Books 1985) Leadership secrets of Attila the Hun is one of the smallest books, yet encompasses a great deal of knowledge. Several key points that the book touches on include leadership qualities, the want to be in charge, customs, morale and discipline, shrewdness, appearance , picking your enemies, responsibilities, delegation, rewards, negotiations, and surviving defeat. Each chapter is set up in its own

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    Essay Length: 639 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Leadership Skills and Styles

    Leadership Skills and Styles

    Student Name : Aysha Tariq Subject Name : Unit 14 .Working with and Leading people Assignment Title : Assignment based on Leadership skills and styles Question & Answers Q.1 - Mention all the leadership theories and styles in brief and present a comparative study of all these leadership theories and styles. Answer: - In general terms, it is defined as the ability to influence people. Some of the bases of influence are legitimate, coercive, reward,

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    Essay Length: 5,686 Words / 23 Pages
    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: Steve
  • John Wooden and Leadership

    John Wooden and Leadership

    Introduction John Wooden was the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) men’s basketball coach from 1948 to 19. During that period, he won ten NCAA men’s basketball championships, had four undefeated seasons, and once won 88 consecutive games. He also won seven consecutive NCAA championships from 1967 to 1973. To put this all into perspective, Adolph Rupp at the University of Kentucky won four championships, total, and he is second to Wooden. All of

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    Essay Length: 2,019 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Americas Next Top Model Research Assignment

    Americas Next Top Model Research Assignment

    AMERICAS NEXT TOP MODEL RESEACH ASSIGNMENT The show that I choose to do my research assignment on was Americas Next Top Model, a reality show on UPN. This is like the third season of the show I believe, and basically, what the concept is that there are 12 girls, ranging in age from 18 to mid 20’s. There are six Caucasian women, four African-Americans, and two Hispanics in the cast. They are all shipped off

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    Essay Length: 1,294 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 6, 2009 By: Kevin
  • The Body Shop International: An Introduction to Financial Modeling

    The Body Shop International: An Introduction to Financial Modeling

    The body Shop Case study Question 1: Base Case Assumptions In order to derive this forecast, �percent-of-sales’ forecasting was used, which involves initially forecasting sales and then forecasting other financial statement accounts based on their direct relationship with sales. This method of forecasting was used due to the lack of information available (only the last three years of financial statements). As a result, every account in the pro forma financial statements are based on one

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    Essay Length: 2,864 Words / 12 Pages
    Submitted: December 6, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Modelling Human Intelligence

    Modelling Human Intelligence

    Modeling Human Intelligence Levels of Organization in General Intelligence Notes 1. purpose of human intelligence modelling traditional AI - model a single thougt, model logic, not intelligence expert systems- model a large amount of knowledge, automate capabilities of eliminating solution states available as solution to a problem, not intelligence neural networks- reduce the concept of intelligence to the most basic of actions in the brain, neurons firing, that too statiscally defined , not model for

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    Essay Length: 2,026 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: December 7, 2009 By: Victor
  • How Motivation and Leadership Theories Can Be Applied.

    How Motivation and Leadership Theories Can Be Applied.

    MOTIVATION THEORIES: Goal Setting Theory: In the late 1960s, Edwin Locke proposed that intentions to work toward a goad are a major source of work motivation. That is, goals tel an employee what needs to be done and how much effort will need to be made. Specific hard goals produce a higher level of output than does the generalized goal of "do your best". Why? The specificity of the goal itself seems to act as

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    Essay Length: 1,815 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: December 7, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Management Leadership

    Management Leadership

    Management and Leadership In today’s business, there is the need of having people to lead and manage due to the them growing rapidly. For that, reason organizations are hiring leaders and managers to help them run their businesses. Many would think that management and leadership are synonymous to each other but they are not. The two are related, but their functions are different. Below I will differentiate their roles and responsibilities in maintaining a healthy

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    Essay Length: 436 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 7, 2009 By: Top
  • Stagdill’s Handbook of Leadership

    Stagdill’s Handbook of Leadership

    Before I started writing this paper I put a lot of thought into the phrase “leadership development” and what it really meant to me. After all, I took this college level leadership class for professional development. I felt that the premise of this course was that leaders could be developed. If so, what are the factors that influence the development of leaders? Is there a single influence which dominate this development process? Do I

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    Essay Length: 2,616 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: December 7, 2009 By: Mike
  • Media Role Models and the Effect on Children

    Media Role Models and the Effect on Children

    Media construct our culture, and the media we use to communicate with one another shapes our perception of reality. Our society is centered on media, it is the most influential factor in constructing our culture, but is it a positive culture? If we examine the effect that media has on children, we can say that it breeds a harmful culture, one that throws values and morals out the window. This is because the media is

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    Essay Length: 324 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: Mike
  • Use This Sample Basic Essay as a Model

    Use This Sample Basic Essay as a Model

    Use this Sample Basic Essay as a Model -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The essay below demonstrates the principles of writing a basic essay. The different parts of the essay have been labeled. The thesis statement is in bold, the topic sentences are in italics, and each main point is underlined. When you write your own essay, of course, you will not need to mark these parts of the essay unless your teacher has asked you to do

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    Essay Length: 530 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: David
  • Leadership

    Leadership

    1.0 INTRODUCTION Leadership is a critical issue and can be understood in different perspectives and different contexts. It would be difficult to give leadership a general definition because many authors have tried without reaching a consensus. “Our images of leadership are entirely personal” wrote Georgiades and Macdonell (1998). In terms of management, Robbins and DeCenzo (2005) referred to leadership as influencing others and possessing managerial authority. "Leadership is interpersonal influence, exercised in a situation, and

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    Essay Length: 2,276 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: Janna
  • Leadership Studies Interview

    Leadership Studies Interview

    Leadership Studies Interview I recently had the honor of interviewing someone in our community who has had more than thirty years of leadership experience in our community. The interview ended up taking much longer than I expected because I was so influenced by what he had to say, I did not want to miss anything. Mr. Kevin Henderson started his career as a cook back in the 60’s for the Jolly Ox (Steak & Ale)

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    Essay Length: 1,776 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Product Life-Cycle Model

    Product Life-Cycle Model

    Overview The product can be defined as goods, services or both; in the other words it’s anything that satisfies customer need. Each product has its own limited life, however it shares the same aspect and we define the period that the product goes through as the “Product life cycle”. The Product life cycle consist of four stages starting from introduction stage, growth stage, maturity stage and decline stage. At the introduction stage, the product is

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    Essay Length: 369 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Leadership Paper

    Leadership Paper

    Leadership Paper This short paper is about leadership and management. The initial part of this paper will explore the qualities of leadership and its affect on project management. The next section will investigate some of the CEO's management styles and their comparable success rates within industry. The reflection of project management's code of ethics affect on leadership in general concludes the research presentation. The writer concludes with his own summation of leadership. Leadership Effective leaders

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    Essay Length: 451 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: July
  • Corporate Success and Leadership

    Corporate Success and Leadership

    The link between corporate success and leadership CAs promote strategic planning, internal controls, accountability and the like, but let's face it, leadership is the primary success factor in any journey ?in business or elsewhere. The reason is simple: a leader has the ability to bring together the right people, to clearly define their roles and to convince them to take on the required tasks no matter how thankless and unglamorous some of them might be.

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    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: Steve
  • Management and Leadership

    Management and Leadership

    In this paper I will discuss the management and leadership roles and responsibilities in relation to Total Quality Management. Within the past two decades, total quality management represents one of the most profound changes in the way companies are now being managed. According to Biech (1994), “Quality improvement (TQM) is a customer-focused, quality-centered, fact-based, team driven, senior management-led process to achieve an organizations strategic imperative through continuous process improvement” (pp. 1-2). The benefits associated

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    Essay Length: 814 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: Mike
  • Constructivist Teaching and Learning Models

    Constructivist Teaching and Learning Models

    Constructivist Teaching and Learning Models Pathways Home Constructivism is an approach to teaching and learning based on the premise that cognition (learning) is the result of "mental construction." In other words, students learn by fitting new information together with what they already know. Constructivists believe that learning is affected by the context in which an idea is taught as well as by students' beliefs and attitudes. Constructivist teaching is based on recent research about the

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    Essay Length: 373 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: Fatih
  • Ntc 360 - Network & Telecommunications Concepts - the Osi Model

    Ntc 360 - Network & Telecommunications Concepts - the Osi Model

    The OSI Model NTC/360 Network & Telecommunications Concepts The OSI Model The Open Systems Interconnection Reference Model (OSI) is the accepted model that describes the how the communications for a computer network should be designed. OSI was developed as part of the Open Systems Interconnect Initiative. Basically, OSI divides the functions of a protocol in to seven layers. This makes the reasoning easy to follow and the system much more reliable. The implementation of several

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    Essay Length: 553 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: July

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