Relating Vision-based Leadership to Sustainable Business Performance: A Thai Perspective

By Sooksan Kantabutra, Leadership Research Group, College of Management, Mahidol University

A discussion of the core vision described as "sufficiency economy" that can provide sustainability to business organizations.

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Parent Mentoring: An Approach to Child Abuse Prevention

By Phitsiree Supharukchinda, Claremont McKenna College, '06

Given the mounting physical and psychological costs of handling child abuse after it has occurred, the child welfare system is gradually shifting its primary focus from intervention to prevention. In the case of child abuse, this means minimizing the risk factors associated with child maltreatment and maximizing the protective factors associated with child well-being.

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Transactional, Transformational, and Transcendent Leadership: Metaphors Mapping the Evolution of the Theory and Practice of Governance

By John Jacob Gardiner, Seattle University

With a broad review of leadership theory development, Gardiner steers the reader's focus from transactional, to transformational, to transcendent images of governance.

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The Future of an Illusion: In Search of the New European Business Leader

Original publication by Manfred Kets de Vries and Konstantin Korotov
In Organizational Dynamics

Synopsis by Maggie Fromm, Claremont McKenna College '06

The new European business leader must manage the complications that arise from the fact that European organizations not only compete in an external, global market with powerhouses like the United States and China, but also on an internal basis with similar companies from other European Union member countries. How is this to be accomplished?

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The New Global Russian Business Leaders: Lessons from a Decade of Transition

Original publication by Manfred Kets De Vries, Stanislav Shekshnia, Konstantin Korotov, Elizabeth Florent-Treacy
In European Management Journal

Synopsis by Ross Boomer, Claremont McKenna College, '09

The authors address the challenges for 21st-Century organizations that involve a unique Russian model. This model includes four objectives: goals for long-term success and competition, skills other international rivals have already mastered (flexibility, productive innovation and speed, among others), better employee empowerment and networking, and greater information sharing.

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