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Educational Leadership

Journal

2007

Business management

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Leadership And Recruitment: What Leaders Can Learn From Coach Robert Montgomery Knight: A Conceptual View, Stephen Anyamele Apr 2007

Leadership And Recruitment: What Leaders Can Learn From Coach Robert Montgomery Knight: A Conceptual View, Stephen Anyamele

Academic Leadership: The Online Journal

It has always puzzled me why organizations do not seem to take the same amount of time and energy to interview and recruit prospective employees as that shown by sports teams. In this essay, I will be looking at recruitment and leadership typically found in a business environment and that found in a basketball (sports) context; specifically Division I college basketball.


The Management Of Creativity: Redux, Susan Madsen Apr 2007

The Management Of Creativity: Redux, Susan Madsen

Academic Leadership: The Online Journal

The immediate problem facing the authors was replacing someone with the background and stature of Joseph Abboud with an individual or, as it eventually worked out, four individuals with differing creative backgrounds and levels of success that would be of benefit to the students (in the spring 2006 semester the course was offered to undergraduate business students) enrolled in the course. Replacing Abboud proved to be not as difficult as the authors originally imagined. Within a period of three weeks, four individuals with diverse backgrounds in film, music, sports entertainment, and entrepreneurship were identified and agreed to take part in …