Journal of Leadership Studies articles from June 2000

Journal of Leadership Studies archives from June 2000

Rewarding Teams: Lessons From the Trenches.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Rewarding Teams: Lessons From the Trenches Glenn Parker, Jerry McAdams, and David Zielinski San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2000 211 pp. $27.00 In the area of leadership, there has been a great deal written about topics such as the...

The Origin and Evolution of New Businesses.(Review)
June 22, 2000... The Origin and Evolution of New Businesses Amar V. Bhide Oxford University Press, 2000 396 pages, $35.00 Introduction "The obstacles to serious research on entrepreneurs, however, remain. On the practical side it is still difficult to...

The Leader as Mentor.
June 22, 2000... Executive Summary The evolution and mechanics of mentoring are examined as a prelude to arguing that mentoring is a natural component of effective leadership. Pro-social behavioral roots for mentoring are discussed and informal and formal...

Leadership Succession: How New Deans Take Charge and Learn the Job.
June 22, 2000... Executive Summary Deans usually come to their positions without leadership training, without prior executive experience, without a clear understanding of the ambiguity of their new roles, without recognition of the metamorphic changes that...

The Impact of Information Technology on Leadership Opportunities for Women: The Leveling of the Playing Field.
June 22, 2000... Executive Summary Advances in information technology (IT) are providing leadership opportunities for women both in upper and middle management. This paper aims to fill the gap in the literature concerning the effects of IT on these...

Formal vs. Informal Leading: A Comparative Analysis.(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 2000... Executive Summary Though we recognize informal leadership and its role in small groups, little research has been done on informal leading in organizations. This exploratory national study set out to determine whether there is a difference...

Principals' and Teachers' Perceptions of Teacher Empowerment.(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 2000... Executive Summary This study inquired into whether there was a difference in principals' and teachers' perceptions of teacher empowerment by analyzing the data collected from public school principals (N = 9,098) and teachers (N = 47,105)....

The Nexus Between Academic Deans and Corporate CEOs: An Opportunity in the Making.
June 22, 2000... Executive Summary There is a belief in the academy that colleges are not businesses and academic deans are not corporate CEO's. This may be true, but when we take a close look at deans and CEO's, their work environments and their profiles,...

More Than A Motorcycle: The Leadership Journey at Harley-Davidson.(Review)
June 22, 2000... More Than A Motorcycle: The Leadership Journey at Harley-Davidson Rich Teerlink and Lee Ozley Harvard Business School Press, 2000 288 pages, $27.50 I first heard Rich Teerlink speak at an Academy of Management annual meeting several years...

Interviews with CEO'S.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Interviews with CEO'S Harvard Business School Press, 2000 272 pages, soft-cover, $19.95 In my office and in my den at home, I have a special place to stash away a collection of meaningful nuggets. There are a few quotes, a selection of...

Pressing Problems in Modern Organizations (That Keep us up at Night).(Review)
June 22, 2000... Pressing Problems in Modern Organizations (That Keep us up at Night) Robert E. Quinn, Regina M. O'Neill, & Lynda St. Clair (editors) Amacon, 2000 274 pages, 34.95 Hardcover Pressing Problems in Modern Organizations (That Keep us up at...

Leading at the Edge: Leadership Lessons from the Extraordinary Saga of Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Leading at the Edge: Leadership Lessons from the Extraordinary Saga of Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition Dennis N. T. Perkins with Margaret P. Holtman, Paul R. Kessler, Catherine McCarthy Amacom, 2000 268pp, $24.95 Hardcover "Indiana...

Leadership in Self-Managing Organizations: Orpheus and a Date Plantation.
June 22, 2000... Executive Summary Self-managing teams have become a widespread and well-accepted practice that presages an evolution toward fully self-managing organizations. This will have a profound impact on our understanding of leadership and the...

The Future of Leadership in Learning Organizations.
June 22, 2000... Executive Summary Among the most prominent developments in recent years in the investigation of transformational leadership has been the confirmation of the utility of transformational leadership for increasing organizational satisfaction,...

A River Runs Through It: A Metaphor for Teaching Leadership Theory.
June 22, 2000... Executive Summary Leadership educators are some of the best teachers around when it comes to creating exciting, effective experiential learning opportunities, which teach students leadership skills. Where the curriculum and instruction...