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Taming The Monkey Mind, Amanda Sinclair Jul 2009

Taming The Monkey Mind, Amanda Sinclair

Amanda Sinclair

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Critical Thinking, Ronald L. Dearinger Jul 2009

Critical Thinking, Ronald L. Dearinger

Ronald L Dearinger

Critical thinking analysis is an eight step process to legal decision making that can be applied to ethical business issues. This paper includes a general plan for executing the critical thinking process and a practical application to an ethical issue dealing with a breach of regulation in business protocol within health care administration.


The Value Of Managerial Beliefs In Turbulent Environments: Managerial Orientation And E-Business Advantage, T. Coltman, T. M. Devinney, D. F. Midgley Jan 2009

The Value Of Managerial Beliefs In Turbulent Environments: Managerial Orientation And E-Business Advantage, T. Coltman, T. M. Devinney, D. F. Midgley

Tim Coltman

There is a great divide between the degree to which academic research accounts for the role of managerial discretion in firm performance and the weight given by the popular press and financial community to the importance of the management of an organization. The purpose of this paper is to bridge this gap by quantifying the way managerial beliefs influence the quality of firm performance in a turbulent environment based on e-business. An e-business research setting is used that is associated with a situation of environmental turbulence to allow for sufficient variance in managerial beliefs to measure their effect on firm …


Developing Leaders While Sustaining Values: Learning From International University Partnerships, Marco Tavanti Dec 2008

Developing Leaders While Sustaining Values: Learning From International University Partnerships, Marco Tavanti

Marco Tavanti

How can international exposure contribute to develop effective and value-centered leaders? This best-practice analysis illustrates important lessons in professional and adult education through case studies in academic and community-based partnerships for poverty reduction and sustainable development in Chiapas-Mexico and Manila-Philippines


Seducing Leadership: Stories From Leadership Development, Amanda Sinclair Dec 2008

Seducing Leadership: Stories From Leadership Development, Amanda Sinclair

Amanda Sinclair

This article argues that leadership development is a process of seduction.Drawing on some stories of leadership development from my experience as participant, observer and teacher I show the ways in which certain sorts of highly valued leadership teaching contain seductive elements, including sweeping audiences off their feet and, in some contexts, forestalling critique about the content that is offered. The article also considers the extent to which seduction is a gendered performance. I conclude that, while gender and power are defining elements and constraints in how seductive pedagogical relations are constructed, there are opportunities for experimentation and display that potentially …


The Role Of Goal-Focused Leadership In Enabling The Expression Of Conscientiousness Dec 2008

The Role Of Goal-Focused Leadership In Enabling The Expression Of Conscientiousness

L. A. Witt

No abstract provided.


Cyberconflict At The Edge Of Chaos: Cryptohierarchies And Self-Organization In The Open Source, Athina Karatzogianni Dr, George Michaelides Dec 2008

Cyberconflict At The Edge Of Chaos: Cryptohierarchies And Self-Organization In The Open Source, Athina Karatzogianni Dr, George Michaelides

Athina Karatzogianni

This paper differentiates between different levels of conflict in the open-source movement and discusses the role conflict and self-organization play in the emergence of structures of leadership and the bifurcation into core and peripheral groups and soft control by cryptohierarchies; in the different levels of group polarization and conflict between communities negotiating their identity, strategy, coordination and complexity; and lastly, in the dynamic relationships between hierarchies and networks. These dynamics are forcing open-source communities to exist at the edge of chaos, and to constantly engage in lines of flight and resistance from the system of global control, while ignoring current …