Tarnished: Toxic Leadership in the U.S. Military - George E. Reed (2015) - Toxic Management & Leadership
Text commentary - 5 pages - Management
The book written by Reed (2015) reports the challenges of the American Army in terms of leadership. At first, soldiers have all the notions required to act like a perfect leader (Ibid). However, each leader develops a style of leadership according to his/her personality and his/her...
Business model - Global leader in packaging and paper
Internship report - 14 pages - Management
- 1967 - Establishment of Mondi in South Africa by Anglo American company - 1990 - Mondi expansion in Europe thanks to acquisition - 2007 - Mondi group demerger from Anglo American company - 2012 - Acquisition of Nordenia International company The Name Mondi comes from a unique South African...
Leadership Skills and Team Performance
Essay - 3 pages - Management
It is, nowadays, difficult to determine what makes a great leader, in particular in project management teams. Indeed, according to Roselinde Torres, most of the used leading models are based on old success models that are now obsolete. Most companies failed in creating great...
Leadership: Case study
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
People and Scholars generally view leadership in very different angles than they did in the past generation. Leadership has changed over the past decades. Leadership, in the past decades, was something that was done by the book and was straight forward and was easy to learn. Currently, leadership...
Virtuous Leadership- Responsible leadership
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Magnanimity is the habit of leaders to strive towards great things. They strive for these achievements, not for their personal gratification, but for the good of the entire population. For example, the aspirations to be a world leader have been a constant trait in all recent...
General trend in the way american movies portrayed american leadership in the last seven decades
Essay - 2 pages - Film studies
Leaders are generated in small numbers. Some are born to be leaders, while others work so hard that they eventually assume the role of leadership. Nevertheless, most leaders share similar characteristics. Over the last seven decades, several films have revealed the identity...
Leadership qualities that make a successful organization
Essay - 2 pages - Management
Leadership is one of the most important aspects in every organization since the leaders oversee the development of the organization and also make decisions that are good for the organization. It is therefore important for a leader to have good leadership qualities if the...
Universally effective and desirable leadership attributes
Case study - 6 pages - Educational studies
Leadership traits study has quite a long and questionable record. Research may show that having some traits on their own will not always constitute success in leadership. However, there is proof that efficient leaders exhibit some key aspects that are diverse from those in other people....
Cross-reference study on the notion of "Leadership"
Thesis - 16 pages - Journalism
Joan of Arc's public career lasted only for two years but her history has come down through the ages, so that each year, her courage is praised on May 1st. Why is this sixteen-year-old girl engraved in our memory in such an unforgettable way? Answering to this question amounts to go over her...
Effectiveness of Tim Smit's Leadership Style
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
Today business environment has seen the emergence of various approaches in leadership revealing its importance to the success of organizations. Leadership centres on providing a vital scope of inspiring and delivering change in the organization by demonstrating concern for other individuals...
Gender, Management and Leadership
Case study - 6 pages - Human resources
Contemporary business environment requires offering magnetic leadership to assist the subordinates follow in the footsteps of their leader and choose the appropriate strategies to deliver the corporate objectives. While it is certain to illustrate appropriate leadership through the success...
Effective Leadership Approaches and End Results
Case study - 8 pages - Management
Many authors have already agreed that there is a direct connection between effective leadership and organizational success. Leadership has an effect on the organizational culture, common goals and views, efficiency, as well as process improvement. The ability to manage change and tackle...
The relationship between the military and civilian leadership in the United States
Case study - 6 pages - Political science
The civil-military leadership involves the interaction between the uniformed military and the civilians. Attitudes and actions of both civilians and military shape this relationship (Leonard, par. 1). -America has had tension between the military (both in the office and retired) and the civilian...
Servant leadership
Case study - 8 pages - Humanities/philosophy
Servant leadership is a form of administration which encompasses a set of accepted leadership practices and philosophies in a given country. This form of leadership is different from the traditional one since leaders' shares powers with their subjects, respects their needs and helps them...
Leadership, Theory and Practice
Case study - 12 pages - Educational studies
For too long, organizations have committed to tapping the best of the technical expertise to better their chances of thriving in the competitive environment, owing to the rapid globalization. This trend emerges from the organizational requirement to apply a set of reproducible features in...
Carlos Ghosn: Multicultural leader as CEO of Nissan and Renault
Case study - 6 pages - Business strategy
As we have seen in class “Cross-cultural management studies the behavior of people in organizations around the world and trains people to work in organizations with employee and client populations“. This case study is a perfect example of a good cross-cultural management. In this case...
Leadership: Implementation and analysis
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
Leadership, the action of leading a group of people or an organization. Often confused and associated with intimidation and insecurity, in my opinion, I am an individual who would like to be viewed as not a leader, but one who leads. When applying leadership to one's career, one is lead to...
Code of Conduct: Leadership and Ethical Decision-Making
Case study - 2 pages - Criminal law
As a leader of an organization, there are many responsibilities that and leader must take on especially shaping the culture of ethics within the organization. Also as being a leader, operational management and responsibility play a bigger role in the organization when it come...
Wal-Mart leadership communication
Case study - 3 pages - Business strategy
The concept of leadership is a continual shifting and embryonic process in this globalized society. There are many books that illustrate the characteristics and attributes of leadership and among those attributes communication takes a front seat. Effective communication is an element that is a...
Develop the skills of leadership and management
Case study - 6 pages - Business strategy
Communication skills which are termed to be the most important require leaders to be strong communicators so that they can be able to influence their employees to achieve the organization's objectives and goals. Communication skills cover speaking skills where leaders are required...
Developing your leadership style through mentorship
Case study - 1 pages - Human resources
There is an old saying that leaders are made, not born. While some may disagree with this saying, I personally feel that nobody can truly be a “born leader” and that our individual leadership styles are developed over time, through trial and error. It is the manager's...
Do good leaders need to be intelligent ?
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
Leader can lead in different ways. Some are more transactional leaders others are transformational leaders. Moreover, the human being can use his brain in different manners therefore intelligence can take several forms. In this paper, I will study the different forms of...
Shotokan Karate and Leadership Characteristics: Emotional Intelligence and Leadership Competencies
Case study - 15 pages - Human resources
Karate as a martial art consists of various components that make it attractive to all age groups and all ability levels: it is a group activity—providing socialization skills, it teaches self-defense skills as well as self-awareness skills, it provides an exciting outlet to competitive...
IKEA: Leadership and organizational culture
Case study - 9 pages - Management
It all began in 1943, when a young man Ingvar Kamprad, 17 years old, decided to create his own company, starting from a reward from his father for having finished his studies. This small company located at Agunnaryd in Sweden has now become a major performer in the world of organizations,...
My leadership plan
Case study - 1 pages - Educational studies
In the world today strong leadership with moral or ethical values is much needed, especially in human service work. The increase of unemployment and poverty has many people turning to people in this field for a variety of needs; counselors for depression issues, social service agencies for food,...
The Tao of Leadership: An Analysis by Chrys Brobbey
Book review - 3 pages - Literature
“The Tao of Leadership” is composed of passages that relate to leadership in the Tao Te Ching, attributed to Lao-Tzu, who is believed to have lived in China sometime between 570 B.C. and 490 B.C. In his introduction, John Heider describes his book as one of China's best books of...
Steve Jobs as a leader: US management and leadership
Case study - 4 pages - Services marketing
In the last century, we have seen major changes in the business world. Companies from all over the world have evolved from being small local companies to big international companies conducting activities all over the world. The modern business environment has evolved so much that management...
Test your leadership style
Case study - 1 pages - Educational studies
A good leader not only understands that communication is a very important aspect in the workplace, but also how to effectively communicate. Effective communication is the backbone to all successful business operations. “Lack of effective communication may lead to: misunderstandings,...
An Analysis of Be, Know, Do: Leadership the Army Way
Case study - 3 pages - Literature
The Army's approach to leadership development is powerful - and is thereby widely applicable to civilians and other organizations such as NGOs. Three words can summarize the philosophy that lies behind the Army's leader development. Be, Know, Do are “the key characteristics of an Army...
Analysis of Obama's leadership abilities in relation to his policies and oratory skills
Case study - 4 pages - Political science
Since his arrival to power in 2008, after his victory in the presidential election, the domestic and foreign policies of the President Barack Obama have been the focus of extensive analysis by numerous commentators. Having inherited economic instability and two wars from the previous government...
