Journal of Leadership Studies articles from January 1999

Journal of Leadership Studies archives from January 1999

Editorial Winter/Spring 1999
January 1, 1999... This issue begins my second year as editor of the Journal, and I would like to share a number of new, exciting developments with you that will be guiding the Journal in the future. First, after discussing trends and developments in the field...

Quality and Impact of Educational Leadership Programs: A National Study
January 1, 1999... Executive Summary A national sample of 417 students from 29 U.S. colleges and universities was surveyed on the quality and impact of their educational leadership programs. The results indicated that the participants were positive about the...

Leadership and the Art of Mentoring: Tool Kit for the Time Machine
January 1, 1999... Executive Summary Mentoring is both an opportunity and a risk. It is largely a teaching process beginning with parental nurturing of children and continuing through the lifecycle of organizational and personal interrelationships. A key...

Ethical Considerations in the Development of the Interdisciplinary Leadership Studies Program
January 1, 1999... Executive Summary The recent increase in college-level leadership coursework offers ethical challenges for educators and administrators responsible for the development of leadership programs. In the past, many such programs were designed to...

Servant Leadership: Setting the Stage for Empirical Research
January 1, 1999... Executive Summary Servant Leadership received attention in the popular press, but little empirical research exists to support the theory or the anecdotal evidence used in the popular press material. The authors of this paper present a model...

Adult Development and Transformational Leader
January 1, 1999... Executive Summary Theories of constructive and moral development are proposed by Kuhnert & Lewis (1987), Kegan and Lahey (1984), Fisher and Torbert (1991), Palus and Drath (1995) and others as models for providing clarification and...

Walking the Talk: The Relationship between Leadership and Communication Competence
January 1, 1999... Executive Summary This study suggests that communication competence is a prerequisite for effective leadership. One-hundred fifty-one employees of nine organizations rated their immediate supervisor's communication competence and using a...

A Conversation with Tony Rucci Preparing Future Leaders
January 1, 1999... Dr. Anthony J. Rucci became dean of the College of Business Administration at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) in 1998. He returned to academia following a twenty-five year career as a business executive and senior corporate officer...

New Presence of Women Leaders
January 1, 1999... Executive Summary The significant increase in women leaders has been facilitated by political, economic, educational and status changes in our culture. Women leaders express the same general leadership qualities as men, but may have...

Leadership Resources on the Internet
January 1, 1999... Executive Summary A plethora of materials exist online that address many facets of leadership practice. Leadership practitioners and students stand to benefit by using the Internet as a leadership resource to extend their leadership knowledge...

Business Leaders: A Historical Sketch of Eli Whitney
January 1, 1999... Eli Whitney's America was a nation just recently emerging from its colonial status, and "Yankee ingenuity" would prove essential for it to move from an agrarian society to an industrial one. Whitney was still in college when America's first...

Courage to Create and Courage to Lead A Case Study of Artistic Leader Toni Morrison
January 1, 1999... Executive Summary This manuscript discusses an expanded view of leadership theory using an artistic perspective linking art, creativity and leadership. To understand the intersection of creativity and leadership a case study of Toni Morrison...

An Existential-Systems Approach To Managing Organizations.(Review)
January 1, 1999... An Existential-Systems Approach To Managing Organizations Joe Kelly and Louise Kelly Westport, CT: Quorom Books, 1998 262 pp., cloth, $65.00 Reviewed by Dana V. Tesone University of Hawaii Joe Kelly is retired Professor of Management,...

The Roaring 2000's: Building the Wealth and Lifestyle you Desire in the Greatest Boom in History.(Review)
January 1, 1999... The Roaring 2000's: Building the Wealth and Lifestyle you Desire in the Greatest Boom in History Harry S. Dent, Jr. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998 $18 pp., hardcover, $25.00 Reviewed by Jeffrey M. Wachtel Nova Southeastern University...

The Ultimate Book of Business Gurus: 110 Thinkers Who Really Made a Difference.(Review)
January 1, 1999... The Ultimate Book of Business Gurus: 110 Thinkers Who Really Made a Difference Stuart Crainer AMACOM American Management Association (1998) $14 pp., hardcover, $24.95. Reviewed by Paula Phillips Carson The University of Southwestern...

Unleashing the Killer App; Digital Strategies for Market Dominance.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Unleashing the Killer App; Digital Strategies for Market Dominance Larry Downes & Chunka Mui. Foreword by Nicholas Negroponte. Harvard Business School Press, 1998 243 pp., hardcover, $24.95 Reviewed by Conna Condon Baker College,...

Thought Leaders: Insights on the Future of Business.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Thought Leaders: Insights on the Future of Business Joel Kurtzman, Editor San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1998 169 pp., $25.00 Reviewed by Jane Whitney Gibson Nova Southeastern University If I were the editor-in-chief of...