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He was the first to coin the term "transformational leadership", a concept further developed by James MacGregor Burns, and one of the key concepts in leadership research over the past 25 years. [1] In 1982 Downton was a panel member of the Institute of Behavioral Science (Theda Skocpol States and Social Revolutions). [2]
Adrian College – Jeffrey R. Docking, President; Agnes Scott College – Leocadia I. Zak, President; Alabama A&M University – Daniel K. Wims, President; Alabama State University – Quinton T. Ross Jr, President; Alaska Pacific University – Bob Onders, President; Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences – T. Gregory Dewey, President
Leadership analysis is the art of breaking down a leader into basic psychological components for study and use by academics and practitioners. Good leadership analysis is not reductionist, but rather takes into consideration the overall person in the context of the times, society and culture from which they come.
As a motivational speaker, Sinek has spoken at the UN Global Compact Leaders Summit in 2016, [6] and at TEDx conferences several times, beginning in 2009. [7] His 2010 "How Great Leaders Inspire Action", arising out of his first book, Start with Why , is one of the most-viewed TED talks, [ 2 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] and his following book, Leaders Eat ...
Jennifer Scanlon, a professor of gender, sexuality and women's studies at Bowdoin College who wrote a biography on Hedgeman, said she "by all accounts, should be a household name." “Often a woman among men, a black person among whites and a secular Christian among clergy, she lived and breathed the intersections that made her life so vital ...
Follow the money and make it work: colleges hiring general managers as an extra layer of financial oversight in booming football business.
Leadership studies is a multidisciplinary academic field of study that focuses on leadership in organizational contexts and in human life. Leadership studies has origins in the social sciences (e.g., sociology, anthropology, psychology), in humanities (e.g., history and philosophy), as well as in professional and applied fields of study (e.g., management and education).
Reviews of research on these dimensions are described in Stogdill's Handbook of leadership: A survey of theory and research and Littrell's Explicit leader behaviour. According to the findings of these studies, leaders exhibit two types of behaviors to facilitate goal accomplishment: People-oriented (consideration) Task oriented (initiating ...