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Organizations have never faced a more turbulent, complex or changing environment. Traditional managerial approaches need to be supplemented to enable business to survive. Making sense of complexity requires holistic, lateral, intuitive thinking – right‐brain skills that can be improved and...
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States that today, the corporate environment is characterized by complexity, uncertainty, contingency and evolution. In these conditions, the design of a learning organization should be based upon Einstein’s conception of time, which represents a dramatic shift from our traditional...
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A framework is developed, and validated, that provides an insight into the role of leadership in transforming a loose … the team. Four distinct leadership “key roles” are identified: legitimate, social, task, and macro, which lead to the … identification of critical leadership issues that limit the speed with which loose groups transform into effective teams. This in …
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Spirituality is a long‐neglected dimension in the leadership issue as it is in the psychological contract implicit in … upon and a burgeoning literature on personal meaning and transformative leadership. This paper reviews leadership praxis …
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The purpose of this research was to determine how regular exercise impacted leadership scores on two multi …‐rater leadership assessment instruments – the Executive Success Profile® (ESP), and the Campbell Leadership Index TM (CLI). Since 1997 …, data have been collected from over 600 senior‐level executives attending Leadership at the Peak, a five‐day course at the …
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A growing number of organizations are adopting self‐directed work teams (SDWTs), but many firms experience trouble with the transition – the time needed for SDWT development. The addition of a SDWT represents a change in the organization and requires that managers adjust their use of...
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Despite the popularity and potential of self‐leadership strategies in modern organizations, no acceptably valid and … reliable self‐leadership assessment scale has heretofore been developed. The present study tests the reliability and construct … validity of a revised self‐leadership measurement scale created on the basis of existing measures of self‐leadership. Results …
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of leadership potential are borne out. The paper reports the results of an exploratory study of a leadership development … the relationships between EI and leadership potential asserted from both a theoretical standpoint and from other studies … of leadership performance. The limitations of sample size are clearly identified. The results do however, indicate that …
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In response to developments around as well as within organisations, managers are faced with a control‐commitment dilemma. A new rationality of governance has emerged besides the well‐known rationality of bureaucratic control. This new set of governance strategies, which is presented under...
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