The dynamics of leadership This article reflects on the need for dynamic leadership. An organisation's functionality is dependent on the intellectual, emotional and physical energy which the people involved in the organisation are willing to contribute. The process of energy release is determined mainly by two concepts: vision and mission. A vision is inextricably linked to a strategy. Leadersh...

contribute. Whether you refer to ‘leadership structures’, ‘distributive leadership’ or a ‘systems paradigm’, it does not matter, the message is clear. As Mr Jarvis argues and as we repeatedly emphasize in our review one surgeon cannot perform all the functions of leadership required in modern cardiac surgery and all stakeholders must be empowered to demonstrate leadership, innovate and collabor...

It is difficult to disagree with the general argument that successful health reform requires a significant degree of policy capacity or that all players in the policy game need to move beyond self-interested advocacy. However, an overly broad definition of policy capacity is a problem. More important perhaps, health reform inevitably requires not just policy capacity but political leadership an...

The Neolithic was marked by a transition from small and relatively egalitarian groups to much larger groups with increased stratification. But, the dynamics of this remain poorly understood. It is hard to see how despotism can arise without coercion, yet coercion could not easily have occurred in an egalitarian setting. Using a quantitative model of evolution in a patch-structured population, w...

There is a trend in health systems around the world to place great emphasis on and faith in improving 'leadership'. Leadership has been defined in many ways and the elitist implications of traditional notions of leadership sit uncomfortably with modern healthcare organisations. The concept of distributed leadership incorporates inclusivity, collectiveness and collaboration, with the result that...

We study how the heterogeneity of agents affects the extent to which changes in financial incentives can pull a group out of a situation of coordination failure. We focus on the connections between cost asymmetries and leadership. Experimental subjects interact in groups of four in a series of weak-link games. The treatment variable is the distribution of high and low effort cost across subject...

This study aims to examine the role of Intellectual Capital in moderating effect Competitive Advantage on MSME Performance. Resource-Based View Theory (Barney, 1991) and Porter's Strategic Generic (1980) underlie this research. Primary data was collected using a survey method 100 managers throughout Bali. The analysis used is use structural model equation approach with help SmartPLS 3.0 softwar...

Many organizations adopt work teams to increase performance or achieve specific organizational goals. However, there are still many unrevealed issues in teams’ operation although the researches of teams have been concerned by many studies. Previous researches indicated that team learning is an important strategy that organizations could obtain to gain the competition advantages. In addition, le...

Over the past twenty years the metaphor of “the jazz band” has been used in order to illuminate the phenomenon of leadership and the way we understand organizations. This paper takes a broad view, critically examining six examples of the way this metaphor has been used in order to gain an understanding of the insights that it can provide into leadership and organizations. This approach is under...

conclusions adding low dose of ribavirin to peg ifn alfa-2a for treatment of chronic hepatitis c patients with genotype-1 was “highly cost effective” and in patients with low viral load and in previous monotherapy resistant patients was “cost effective.” results the incremental cost effectiveness ratio (icer) for combination therapy in genotype-1 and genotypes non-1 subgroups was 2,673 and 19,2...