Gordon Brown as prime minister: Political skills and leadership style

Coaching as a leadership style.

Robert F. Hicks is a licenced psychologist holding an appointment as Clinical Professor of Organizational Behaviour in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Texas, Dallas (TX, USA). This book arose from his experience over three decades of teaching leadership and coaching skills to doctors and senior executives in health systems. The basic premise of this guide is that leadership an...

Why Did the Prime Minister Resign?

One of the common parts of news is to provide the background for a current event, such as the resignation of a Prime Minister. This paper addresses a framework that facilitates semi-automated authoring of explanatory audio-visual news topics in a retrospective style for the domain of politics based on already edited new stories available in the repository of the news corporation. The aim is to ...

Leadership Skills

Management Week 2000 among business leaders from Asia, the United States, the Middle East, the UK, France and Germany showed that leadership (rated against nine other qualities) as the most important skill for business leaders of the future. Finding and retaining quality people was overwhelmingly chosen as the most important factor for success of businesses worldwide. The ability to achieve thi...

Women as Leaders: Leadership Style Versus Leaders’ Values and Attitudes

Japan's 2014 General Election: Political Bots, Right-Wing Internet Activism, and Prime Minister Shinzō Abe's Hidden Nationalist Agenda

In this article, we present results on the identification and behavioral analysis of social bots in a sample of 542,584 Tweets, collected before and after Japan's 2014 general election. Typical forms of bot activity include massive Retweeting and repeated posting of (nearly) the same message, sometimes used in combination. We focus on the second method and present (1) a case study on several pa...