The Painful Reality of Adrenaline Addiction

By Patrick Lencioni, The Table Group

If the CEO is out of control, the rest of the organization finds itself whipped in different directions, seemingly at random, based on whatever issue is causing the leader’s adrenaline to spike. Strategic planning goes out the window, replaced by reactivity and self-inflicted crisis management.

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Executive Summary: 100 Year Review of Leadership Intervention Research -- Briefings Report 2004-01, Gallup Leadership Institute

By Bruce Avolio, et al., The Gallup Leadership Institute, College of Business Administration at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Do leadership interventions make a difference?

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An Interview with Odir Pereira: Leadership from a Brazilian Perspective

By Adele Bergstrom, Claremont McKenna College '05

Mr. Pereira freshens our perspective, discussing leadership issues and access to improved leadership education in Brazil.

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Stopping Runaway IT Projects

Original publication by Yukika Awazu, Kevin C. Desouza, and J. Roberto Evaristo
In Business Horizons

Synopsis by Phoebe Kinzie-Larson, Claremont McKenna College '08

When faced with a choice between terminating a costly, unfinished, now questionable project, or escalating financial commitment and forging ahead, issues of cognitive dissonance, prospect theory, and principal/agent theory come into play.

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From Management as a Vocation to Management as a Scientific Activity: An Institutional Account of a Paradigm Shift

Original Publication by Elizabeth Goodrick
In Journal of Management

Synopsis by Maggie Fromm, Claremont McKenna College '06

In her study, Elizabeth Goodrick examines the shift in the language of full-length empirical articles published in the Academy of Management Journal from 1958-1978, in order to document the change in management education from a focus on specific vocational techniques to a focus reliant on scientific research.

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