Browsing The Big Data Problem by Issue Date
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What Could A Leader Learn From A Mediator?: Dispute Resolution Strategies for Organizational Leadership
(Center for Public Leadership, 2005-01-05)It is hard to imagine a leadership situation that is devoid of conflict or even what the function of leadership would be on an island of perpetual harmony where all parties shared a perfectly common vision of their objectives ... -
The WICS Model of Organizational Leadership
(Center for Public Leadership, 2005-01-06)Leadership is essential to the successful functioning of virtually any organization. Scholars of leadership attempt to understand what leads to success in leadership. Successful leaders need to do two things, among others. ... -
Contemporary Public Leadership In China: A Research Review and Consideration
(Center for Public Leadership, 2005-01-07)Background China’s economic and political importance has captured the world’s attention. China has become increasingly integrated into the global economy. Between 2000 and 2003, it accounted for one-third of global economic ... -
Effectiveness In Civic Associations: Leader Development, Member Engagement And Public Influence In The Sierra Club
(Center for Public Leadership, 2005-01-08)For much of our history, civic associations have served as schools of democracy for the millions of Americans to whom they taught leadership skills, democratic governance and public engagement. Civic associations rooted ... -
Agency Costs of Overvalued Equity
(Center for Public Leadership, 2005-01-09)In the past few years, we have seen many fine companies end up in ruins and watched record numbers of senior executives go to jail. And we will surely hear of more investigations, more prison terms, and more damaged ... -
Using And Disputing Privelege: U.S. Youth and Palestinians Wielding "International Privelege" To End The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Nonviolently
(Center for Public Leadership, 2005-01-10)On March 16, 2003, Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old American college student from Olympia, Washington, was crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer while attempting to prevent, with her own body, the Israeli demolition ... -
Presidents, Their Styles and Their Leadership
(Center for Public Leadership, 2005-01-11)If one set out to design a democracy in which the personal qualities of the top leader could be expected to have an impact on political outcomes, the result might well resemble the political system of the United States. ... -
Self-Defeating Leader Behavior: Why Leaders Misuse Their Power And Influence
(Center for Public Leadership, 2005-01-12)Few concepts in the social sciences are invoked with the same ease or employed so readily to explain so many social and institutional outcomes as power. The concept of power has been used to explain, for example, how ... -
National Leadership Index 2005: A National Study of Confidence in Leadership
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An Examination Of Trust In Contemporary American Society
(Center for Public Leadership, 2006-01-01)It is hard to imagine a society functioning in the absence of trust. From the smallest incident—crossing the street when the light is green—to the most consequential events—a government fulfilling its pledge to pay Social ... -
Beyond Katrina: Improving Disaster Response Capabilities
(Center for Public Leadership, 2006-01-02)As Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma successively lashed the Gulf Coast starting in late August 2005, nature’s fury exposed serious weaknesses in the United States’s emergency response capabilities. These problems were ... -
Running Alone- And Together: Presidential Leadership In A Divided System
(Center for Public Leadership, 2006-01-03)On the morning of November 5, 1956, Democrats across America were in despair. Dwight Eisenhower had done it again. His first victory, in 1952, had been understandable—memories of his military leadership in World War II ... -
Narcissism And Leadership: A Review And Research Agenda
(Center for Public Leadership, 2006-01-04)It is clear that a significant number of world leaders have rigidly grandiose belief systems and leadership styles. Often, the authors who recount the “psychohistories” of these leaders connect both the leaders’ assent ... -
Agenda Setting And The Role Of Leadership In National Health Care Reform During The Early 1990s
(Center for Public Leadership, 2006-01-05)Health care reform was the dominant issue on the political agenda during the early 1990s. Few issues during the decade persisted on the public agenda for so long. Why did it resonate so loudly? And why did it emerge then, ... -
How Individual Power Use Affects Team Process and Performance: Implications for the Powerholder
(Center for Public Leadership, 2006-01-06)Even within teams of peers, certain individuals have more power than others. Individual members may have essential skills and experience, networks outside the team, or status within the organization that give them more ... -
Public Health Leadership In The 21st Century
(Center for Public Leadership, 2006-01-07)Leadership in public health requires stretching the mind and soul in almost unimaginable ways. Living the dynamic tension of health as “part individual good served by medicine and part public good secured by public health ... -
Knowledge Nomads: Understanding an Overlooked Segment of the Workforce Helps Managers Lead
(Center for Public Leadership, 2006-01-08)Managers have formal and official supervisory authority within an organizational hierarchy. As a result, a perennial concern of managers is employee mobility, i.e., the turnover of workers, and the implication of worker ... -
Should Officials Obey The Law?: (And What Is "The Law," Anyway?)
(Center for Public Leadership, 2006-01-09)Should Presidents obey the law? And how about governors, mayors, admirals, sergeants, members of Congress, police officers, and various other public officials? To many people, the answer to the question is obviously ... -
Not So Lonely At The Top?: An Exploratory Study Of The Multiple Commitments Of Aspiring Leaders
(Center for Public Leadership, 2006-01-10)Leadership is often viewed as a lonely endeavor, as this quote exemplifies. Leaders are frequently perceived as standing “alone” at the top of the hierarchy. Drive and sustained commitment have been linked to the attainment ... -
Transformational Leadership And American Foreign Policy: A Preliminary Analysis
(Center for Public Leadership, 2006-01-11)Foreign policy is usually over-determined. The “national interest” often appears to be an immutable dictation of the international system and of domestic politics. As Henry Kissinger put it when he was Secretary of State, ...