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  • The Original Transformational Leader: an inner texture analysis of Mark 1:16-20
  • This article explores the transformational leadership style of Jesus Christ from the text of Mark 1:16-20. Through an inner texture analysis of the selected passage, it is revealed that Christ exhibits all of four factors of transformational leadership: individual consideration, idealized influence, intellectual stimulation and inspirational leadership. This article also demonstrates how Christ’s example provides a useful example for aspiring leaders to model.
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  • Developing the Next Generation of Leaders: how to engage millennials in the workplace
  • Leadership Advance Online
  • Millennials have been perceived by some coworkers as blunt, self-entitled and naïve. Other colleagues have lauded Millennials’ optimism, self-confidence and willing embrace of technology. These Millennials are ready and willing to begin changing the world, but first, leaders need to change the way they lead. This article presents five ways to engage Millennials as followers and retain them long enough to grow them into assets in any organization.
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  • Teenage Worplace: five organizational trends leaders will see in the 2010s
  • Effective Executive
  • As the new century reaches its teenage years, organizational leaders are left wondering: what more will change? Will the adolescent years of the next century be as unpredictable as the adolescent years of a teenage son or daughter? Organizational leaders and strategists alike are looking toward the future to find the trends that will shape the workplace in 2010. Here are five trends they’ve found so far.
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  • Practicing What They Preach: how business school approach strategy
  • Academic Leadership Journal
  • If the business school graduates who go on to lead organizations are having difficulty with and experiencing confusion around strategy, then one begins to wonder if business schools themselves are adequately engaging in strategy. In short, are they practicing what they preach?
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  • Leading the Next Generation: five ways to turn millennials into followers
  • LeaderLab Quarterly
  • There is disagreement about how older generations in organizations perceive Millennials. However, there is agreement among these sources on what actions leaders can take to engage Millennial followers. From the flow of the literature review, it is clear that these recommendations represent an early conceptual model of adjusting to Millennial workers and that, as organizations continue to adjust, a more structured model will arise.
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  • Courageous Change
  • Outcomes Magazine
  • Christian leaders live in a paradox that can produce fear in both leaders and followers. We are called to remain a relevant influence, providing unchanging truth to an ever-changing world. Change is inevitable and often said to be the only constant. This is as true in business as in ministry, yet many pastors and ministry leaders are unprepared to face change. Kurt Lewin developed a three-stage model for understanding organizational change (unfreezing-change-freezing) that is just as applicable to churches and nonprofits as it is to businesses. Each of these stages requires specific behaviors from leaders in order to bring followers through this change.
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  • Sales Manager or Sales Mentor?
  • Sales Pro Magazine
  • In the hypercompetitive sales environment, the demands on sales managers are constantly increasing. Today’s sales managers are told to be supervisors, trainers and coaches. Recent trends suggest that managers must wear one more hat: mentor. In order to retain top talent on your team, you must be able to mentor and grow your sales representatives.
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  • What’s Your Motive [for leadership]?
  • weLEAD Magazine
  • Leaders in every organization are being called to demonstrate greater authenticity. One barrier to authenticity can be a misalignment between the leader’s motive and the leadership style used. This article discusses for common leader motives: Me, We, Thee, and It. Also this article outlines four leadership styles (Charismatic, Transformational, Servant and Transactional) and discusses the appropriate leadership style to utilize for each motive.
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