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The building of the kitchen table
Sigaloff, Chris; Nabben, Iselien; Bergsma, Erwin - In: Management Decision 45 (2007) 10, pp. 1677-1684
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an alternative model of a leadership‐development program. Design/methodology/approach – A leadership‐development program based on a “closure‐type description” instead of an “input‐type description” (Varela) was designed and...
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Strategies for avoiding the micro management trap
Wright, Robert F. - In: Management Decision 38 (2000) 5, pp. 362-364
In the highly competitive business world of today, many managers have a tendency to micro manage their field sales employees. These managers have good intentions of trying to help the representatives accomplish the various tasks and directives that have been set by upper management. However,...
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The art of managing for the future: leadership of turbulence
Lane, David A.; Down, Martin - In: Management Decision 48 (2010) 4, pp. 512-527
Purpose – The paper aims to explore themes in Drucker's work which provide messages for current turbulent times. Based on a literature review of both Drucker's work and contemporary studies in the field of complexity theory the paper's aim is to explore turbulence as a feature of levels of...
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Going for the gold
Burdett, John - In: Management Decision 35 (1997) 2, pp. 119-124
Likens the world of top‐class sports and team playing with business organizations. Discusses player development, leadership, players’ assumptions, partnerships with customers and employs Tamrock, a multinational corporation based in Finland,as a case in point.
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Is executive coaching more effective than other management training and development methods?
Rekalde, Izaskun; Landeta, Jon; Albizu, Eneka; … - In: Management Decision 55 (2017) 10, pp. 2149-2162
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present an analysis of the results of applying executive coaching (EC) as a … providing advantages and drawbacks in its use. Practical implications Coaching seems to provide the most effective method for …
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Determining factors in the effectiveness of executive coaching as a management development tool
Rekalde, Izaskun; Landeta, Jon; Albizu, Eneka - In: Management Decision 53 (2015) 8, pp. 1677-1697
success of an executive coaching process, arranged in order of importance. Design/methodology/approach – Selection of factors … order to complete and assess the factors selected. Findings – The most outstanding factors needed in executive coaching are … – This research furnishes a quantitative criterion for the evaluation and ranking of the determining factors in coaching …
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Optimising the effects of leadership development programmes
Burke, Veronica; Collins, David - In: Management Decision 43 (2005) 7/8, pp. 975-987
Purpose – This paper aims to discuss a framework for analysing the learning and transfer of conflict handling skills via leadership development programmes. The framework links the role of knowledge in skill acquisition to the process of learning transfer to suggest how different methodologies...
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A practical focus on leadership in management − for research, education and management development
Rausch, Erwin - In: Management Decision 43 (2005) 7/8, pp. 988-1000
Purpose – To provide an explanation of an approach to education and development for leadership in organizations, as distinct from education about leadership. Design/methodology/approach – The paper refers to leadership in private as well as public organizations and organizational units, to...
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Does education have a role in developing leadership skills?
Elmuti, Dean; Minnis, William; Abebe, Michael - In: Management Decision 43 (2005) 7/8, pp. 1018-1031
Purpose – The purpose of this article is to provide a pragmatic example of multi‐stage leadership education model. Leadership education that is multidisciplinary, global, and ethics oriented is a remedy for many of the leadership challenges we are currently facing in the business world....
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Thought leadership: a radical departure from traditional, positional leadership
McCrimmon, Mitch - In: Management Decision 43 (2005) 7/8, pp. 1064-1070
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explain thought leadership and show how it compares with its positional counterpart. Design/methodology/approach – The objective is achieved through a conceptual comparison of thought leadership with conventional positional leadership to show that...
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