Leaders and Partners

Leaders produce leaders and managers produce followers

OBJECTIVES To elaborate the desired qualities, traits, and styles of physician's leadership with a deep insight into the recommended measures to inculcate leadership skills in physicians.   METHODS The databases of MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, and the Cochrane Library were searched for the full-text English-language articles published during the period 2000-2015. Further search, including manual ...

Are good leaders moral leaders?

This thesis presents selected works investigating the relation between leadership and morals. Given the multitude of moral challenges and the grave consequences of moral transgressions in military operations, we have chosen a military context to frame our research. Transformational leadership and the full range of leadership model (FRLM) are key constructs in this investigation, as this leaders...

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

Narcissism and Toxic Leaders

PHOTO: GEN Douglas MacArthur wades ashore during initial landings at Leyte, Philippine Islands, October 1944. W WOULD A LEADER in the Army or in any organization choose to micro-manage subordinates; show a lack of respect for them; choose not to listen to or value their input; or be rude, mean-spirited, and threatening? Most leaders would not. Most people do not choose to act like this. However...

Transforming Leaders

S te ph en S w in te k MANY BELIEVE that bias against women lingers in the business world, particularly when it comes to evaluating their leadership ability. Recently, we had a chance to see whether that assumption was true. In a study of thousands of 360-degree assessments collected by Insead’s executive education program over the past fi ve years, we looked at whether women actually received ...