The dilemma of the educational administrator in carrying out his assigned tasks efficiently is discussed. (CK)

Describes Lenin's style as a propagandist, and summarizes the reason for his effectiveness as an agitator. (JB)

An exploration of the leadership styles of Nasser and DeGaulle, and their influence on international affairs. (JB)

A discussion of leadership style focuses on varying degrees of concern for tasks and for people and emphasizes that gifted students should develop realistic and helpful insights into the leadership process. The article briefly describes how leadership concepts were incorporated into the academic curriculum with positive results. (CL)

Discusses the Managerial Grid versus Situational Leadership approach to management development. Suggests that they need to be supplemented by new theoretical models, called "Living Systems." (JOW)

An approach to leadership that is a combination of elements from prominent models states that decisions reflect personal knowledge and values, as well as perceptions of the situational variables of people, role, task, and organization. (Author/MLF)

Describes the Leadership and Followership Style Test, which resulted from diverse areas of management theory (including the question of autocratic versus democratic styles of leadership). In the form of a questionnaire, it has become a valuable training and learning device for supervisors to isolate their particular styles and approaches to…

Describes characteristics of two types of leadership: system leaders and personnel leaders. Offers advice on selecting the leader that best fits needs of school. (PKP)

Personal account of her first-year experience as superintendent of the Riverdale Joint Unified School District, a large rural district in San Joaquin Valley of California. (PKP)

Replaces myths of teamwork with these assertions: teams need leaders, teamwork does not preclude individual contribution, teams work best when it is clear who is empowered to make decisions, accountability resides with individual members, and effective leaders enable team members to lead and support each other. (SK)

Presents a review of several self-report instruments assessing leadership style, that are useful as instructional tools in the communication classroom to teach various leadership concepts and their strengths and weaknesses. (SR)

Survey responses from 695 managers and 1,696 employees in Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia revealed significant differences in cultural values between the two groups. Significant differences among countries were found in terms of cultural value dimensions of leadership style, such as masculinity, paternalism, and long-term orientation.…

Monte Moses, the superintendent of the Cherry Creek Public Schools in suburban Denver, was named 2005 National Superintendent of the Year in February. Moses carries a no-nonsense approach, yet staff find him accessible and open-minded even while he is unwavering in his passion for high performance. This article contains a brief profile on Monte…

This paper describes and experimentally demonstrates the main tenets of an operant theory of leadership. Leadership is characterized in the current paper as involving problem solving operant behavior (Cerutti, 1989; Skinner, 1969) in a social context (Skinner, 1953). The theory was assessed under two experimental analogs modeled from generic…