Environmental advocacy organizations work in coalitions or strategic partnerships with other organizations with similar missions for a wide variety of reasons. As with many other nonprofits, collaboration is a key organizational mechanism for advancing their missions. In these tight economic times, foundation funders also consistently call for advocacy nonprofits to think strategically and to c...

This paper is on comparative leadership philosophy. It explores the ancient Asian wisdom for leadership development from the Kautilyan and Confucian perspectives. Every now and then, there is a need for us to look and re-look at ancient wisdoms to be applied effectively in the modern context. In this paper, the authors provide an inside-out leadership development approach. This has practical im...

Guided by gaps in the literature with regard to the study of politicians the aim of the research is to explore cross-cultural differences in political leaders' style. It compares the MLQ (Avolio & Bass, 2004) scores of elected political leaders (N = 140) in Bulgaria and the UK. The statistical exploration of the data relied on multivariate analyses of covariance. The findings of comparisons acr...

Leadership has existed for as long as people have interacted, and it is present in all cultures. This study aimed at to know the effect of transformational and transactional leadership style on organizational effectiveness. The researcher used multifactor leadership questionnaire for evaluating leadership style of mangers, who are working in public sector organization, Tamil Nadu, India. 300 ma...

Over the past 50 years a radical point of view on the ‘Integral’ development of a person has emerged. This point of view moves beyond Maslow and other earlier less complex appreciations. An Integral perspective now equips leaders with a truly holistic appreciation of the dynamics of change, and the evolving potential and priorities that offer fresh insights into their own development, and that ...

With time, an increasing number of organizations deploy global virtual teams (GVTs) in an effort to respond to the demands and the competitive nature of the global business arena. Leadership, a factor that is arguably central to the successful functioning of collocated teams, is much altered in view of the virtual backdrop, and thus, management practices, when referring to GVTs’ operation and e...

The second of my three small/short books on leadership is How to Choose a Leadership Pattern by Robert Tannenbaum and Warren H Smith and published by Harvard Business Press. This book is part of the Harvard Business Review Class series. Tannenbaum and Smith set the tone of this book by briefly exploring some of the history of leadership styles. From the authoritative style of years ago to the n...