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 ISSN: 1539-6363            Issue: Spring 2003
Failures of Leadership: Some of the Lessons of Vietnam

By David Lambertson, University of Kansas

The memo was written in the blinding clarity of hindsight…
Mistakes in judgment—and thus in leadership—dogged our efforts in Vietnam and compounded our difficulties there from the beginning.
[Article]
[Declassified Memorandum]


Gender Differences in Beliefs about Leadership Capabilities:
Exploring the Glass Ceiling Phenomenon with Self-Efficacy Theory

By Michael J. McCormick University of Houston - Clear Lake, Jesús Tanguma University of Houston - Clear Lake, and Anita Sohn Lopez-Forment Texas A&M University

Both males and females generally regard the leadership role as a masculine task. Is this barrier to female advancement the result of external discrimination or internal dynamics?
[Article]
[Executive Summary]



Governance and Strategy Implementation: Expanding the Board’s Involvement

Original publication by Julie I. Siciliano
In Business Horizons
Synopsis by Elisa Adelman, Claremont McKenna College '03

While a governing board may plan mission and strategy, the neglected discussion of viable means and measures of implementation in the early stages may doom the realization of the plan. Building a scorecard model into the strategy discussion increases the feasibility of the organizational change. [ more ]



Leading creative people: Orchestrating expertise and relationships

Original publication by Michael D. Mumford, Ginamarie M. Scott, Blaine Gaddis, and Jill M. Strange
In The Leadership Quarterly
Synopsis by Adele Bergstrom CMC '05, Editorial Assistant Leadership Review

Are different leadership behaviors and levels of technical expertise needed to lead creative people? [ more ]



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