Journal of Leadership Studies articles from March 1998

Journal of Leadership Studies archives from March 1998

Editorial Comment Spring 1998.
March 22, 1998... In the previous issue I shared with you some of the changes that we are now implementing in the Journal. One was the addition of a number of new editorial review board members. Another was the creation of an Interview Editor. A third was the...

The Challenge of Leadership in High Performance Work Organizations.
March 22, 1998... Executive Summary The purpose of this paper is to integrate the diverse literatures on High Performance Work Organizations (HIPO) Varied definitions of the HIPO are presented, common components across the definitions are identified, and...

The Leadership Principles Used by Jack Welch as he Re-energized, Revolutionized, and Reshaped General Electric.
March 22, 1998... Executive Summary Starting in the early 1980s till now, Jack Welch, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the General Electric Corporation (GE), has led his company through one of the most revolutionary and far-reaching changes ever witnessed...

Corporate Entrepreneurial Leadership for the 21st Century.
March 22, 1998... Executive Summary While numerous authors have advanced the notion of "visionary leadership" during the last twenty years, the concept of "entrepreneurial leadership" has emerged as the critical factor for the 21st century corporation. This...

Business Leaders: A Historical Sketch of Richard W. Sears.
March 22, 1998... "The great price maker"; "Send us no money"; "With cash, we pay the freight." These were advertising phrases that reached out to rural America and captured a market that was eager for the products available in urban areas. The idea of ordering...

The Influence of Top Management Team Leadership on Corporate Refocusing: A Theoretical Framework.
March 22, 1998... Executive Summary Refocusing has become one of the major strategies pursued by large organizations in the 1990s. Prior research in the area of upper echelons (top management team) leadership has revealed that there is a strong relationship...

The Ecology of Leadership: Adapting to the Challenges of a Changing World.
March 22, 1998... Executive Summary Traditional, mechanistic models of leadership are inadequate for dealing with the serious adaptive challenges facing the modern world. The complex, dynamic systems that result when these adaptive challenges interact...

Educating Leaders: From the Abstract and Rational to the Concrete and Personal.
March 22, 1998... Executive Summary How can business educators nurture in their students the qualities of transformational leadership: charisma, inspirational leadership, intellectual stimulation and individualised consideration of employees? This...

Learning Leadership Online: A Synergy of the Medium and the Message.
March 22, 1998... Executive Summary Teaching leadership online is a new and often daunting enterprise for educators. However, the medium of computer conferencing is, in fact, useful for introducing students to the skills of self- and team-based leadership,...

The Principal's Role in School Restructuring and Reform: An Examination of Self-Perceived Leadership Styles.(Statistical Data Included)
March 22, 1998... Executive Summary Research and literature has suggested that the school leader be one who empowers others, encourages creativity and flexibility, promotes collaborative planning and shared decision-making in an effort to develop trust...

Exposing and Exploring State-wide Community Leadership Training Programs.
March 22, 1998... Executive Summary According to the National Association for Community Leadership, there are 650 to 750 community leadership programs in the United States. Furthermore, these leadership programs are growing from the efforts of smaller towns...

A Conversation with Leadership Guru, Paul Hersey.(Interview)
March 22, 1998... "I guess the gift that was given to me was that I can take very complex things and put them into nickel words that everybody can understand." (Paul Hersey) Paul Hersey has long been acknowledged as one of the giants in the field of...

Acordia, Inc. Leadership Through the Transformation of "Growing Small".
March 22, 1998... Executive Summary Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Indiana embarked on an ambitious corporate transformation in 1986. This strategic journey and the leadership efforts that it took are highlighted in this case. How a huge bureaucratic...

Competing In The Third Wave: The Ten Key Management Issues of the Information Age.(Review)
March 22, 1998... Competing In The Third Wave: The Ten Key Management Issues of the Information Age Jeremy Hope & Tony Hope Harvard Business School Press, Boston, MA. 8/15/1997, 304 pp. $27.95, hardcover According to Jeremy Hope and Tony Hope the third...

Ultimate Rewards: What Really Motivates People in America.(Review)
March 22, 1998... Ultimate Rewards: What Really Motivates People in America Steven Kerr Harvard Business School Press, 1997, 258 pp. $29.95, hardcover From time immemorial, human beings have been searching for ways to motivate people. More specifically,...

Making Strategy Work.(Review)
March 22, 1998... Making Strategy Work Timothy J. Galpin Jossey-Bass Inc. 1997, 234 pp. $28.95, hardcover Making Strategy Work identifies and provides a set of answers to the problems that organizations face when implementing corporate strategies. According...

The Knowledge-Enabled Organization: Moving from "Training" to "Learning" to Meet Business Goals.(Review)
March 22, 1998... The Knowledge-Enabled Organization: Moving from "Training" to "Learning" to Meet Business Goals Daniel R. Tobin New York: American Management Association, 1998, 214 pp. $27.95, hardcover The Knowledge-Enabled Organization provides a very...

The Leadership Odyssey: A Self-Development Guide to New Skills for New Times.(Review)
March 22, 1998... The Leadership Odyssey: A Self-Development Guide to New Skills for New Times Carole S. Napolitano and Lida J. Henderson San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Publishers 269 pp. $29.95, paperback The book begins with a foreword by Barry Z. Posner...