Sustainable Leadership in Project Management. The Need for a New Kind of Leadership

Sustainable Strategic Supply Chain Leadership and Management

How to achieve sustainable supply chain performance has remained a complex challenge. Full commitment to process orientation and process management is required. Cultures of bureaucratic organisations do not allow for strategic supply chain management, and the challenge is for them to transform to learning organisation paradigms and structures. The author advocates the effective utilisation of t...

Attributes of Leadership for Success in Project Management

In the hypercompetitive business environment, to maximize returns to the organization and to minimize risks on failures in project execution, we need a special kind of leadership. A project manager holding such a mantle relinquishes positional authority and becomes part of the work group to provide direction, communication, group process facilitation, coordination and support to achieve better ...

The continuing need for ministry leadership development.

A service-learning project facilitating leadership and management skills.

Nursing practice requires baccalaureate nursing graduates to possess strong leadership and management skills. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (2008) stated that: Leadership skills are needed that emphasize ethical and critical decisionmaking, initiating and maintaining effective working relationships, using mutually respectful communication and collaboration within interprofessi...

Does leadership need emotional intelligence?

Interest in emotional intelligence has bloomed over the last few years. That it has become a standard concept in general and applied psychology, as well as in applied business settings, is indubitable. Is this popularity warranted? Casting a shadow over the concept of emotional intelligence are concerns about its meaningfulness and the construct and predictive validity of its various measures. ...