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Are Leaders Born or Made Following the historical development of leadership practices Nahavandi (2003) describes two eras one that beard a belied that leaders are born and the one following it has the idea that leaders are made. Interestingly enough Nahavandi (2003) first describes the era of when people thought

Business schools and courses teach their students the skills that are considered mostly crucial for effective leadership, as for example team management, rewarding, appraising, punishing, etc. however Boone (2003) believes that these will only help the leader at the first time, he still need to understand that acquiring some practical

How is a leader different from a manager? This question has been asked so many times that it became philosophical rather than requiring a definite answer, however several researchers have looked into the questions and came to conclusions that actually describe the difference between the two. Drucker (2003) describes this

“New era in Leadership, new practices and methods” It has been known that leadership as a concept appeared quite a long time ago, of course back then it was called differently, there were – head hunters in a troop, tribe chiefs, colonels, kings, mayors and other decision makers that were

Goleman (2000) was the first author to introduce the notion of emotional intelligence into leadership, he was widely criticized for having used in-assessable traits, Goleman (2004) describes the first role of a leader as motivating his team and making sure that the entire team follows the same goals. He proposes

“Ethical Leadership” Dilemmas, suggestions, practises Leadership is full of ethical dilemmas, meaning that there is no specific rule or description of the ethics that a leader should possess, since we are all people leaders also have their personal traits of character which sometimes allows them to act inappropriately. First of

Managing effective team performance: problems, solutions and measurement Introduction The issue of effective team management has been long disputed in modern literature as well as in contemporary literature, as soon as men started to settle in tribes the knowledge of team management emerged. As the years went by the men

  Intangible motivating factors used by a Leader and its positive or negative impact     Nohria et al (2008) take a look on motivation in general. They summarize the works of such great thinkers as Aristotle, Adam Smith, Sigmund Freud, and Abraham Maslow in trying to understand the essence

„Peculiar leadership skills and behaviours” As several authors like Nahavandi (2003), Maccoby (2004), etc put it –a leader is somebody who has to use techniques in order to inspire employees and lead the team towards achieving common goals, however Snodwen and Boone (2007) argue that there is no such thing

“Primal & resonant leadership and emotional intelligence in theory and practice” For centuries there have existed different types of leaders, some of the leadership styles were defined by gurus, however new styles keep emerging since the necessity to adopt new concepts drives the changes. Goleman (2007) describes two types of

What it takes to be a Leader – theoretical and practical views The book of Nahavandi “The art of science and Leadership” (2003) is pure theory about the approaches and qualities of leadership, the authors says that in order to be a good leader a person should possess the following