manager. Furthermore, we hypothesize that optimistic managers embody positive leadership—employing a strengths-based approach … productivity of their employees. In a cross-sectional study of 86 employees and 17 managers in an Information Technology (IT …) organization, positive leadership correlated with employee optimism, engagement, and project performance. When we looked at a …

assignees who had been on international assignments, as well as six managers who had never been on an international assignment …

This slide presentation describes the origin, approach and deliverables of course Org. Dynm.633, on “Leadership from … the Middle” (LftM). Course participants were middle managers taking responsibility without authority for producing results … organizational challenges and realities and then in designing an idealized leadership approach in class. Between classes students …

In an earlier study (Moores & Barrett 2002) we found successful CEOs had learned leadership of family controlled … study focuses on women in FCBs to better understand how they exercise leadership and entrepreneurship in the family firm … assumptions about women's and men's approach to leadership, suggests there are some characteristic ways women leaders learn FCB …

and perhaps managing these paradoxes took them on a learning journey to leadership in which they progressively learnt …