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Leadership Theories: Overview
Human beings have always been keenly interested in leadership; from earliest times, philosophers and thinkers have constructed leadership theories and frameworks. In sixth- and fifth-century BCE China, Confucius sought laws of order between leaders and subordinates and wrote about them in ...
- Aristotle
- Akbar
- Bank of America
- Apartheid in South Africa, Demise of
- Akbar
- Arts
- Alienation
- Autocratic Leadership
- Alexander the Great
- Achievement Motivation
- Akbar
- Coercion
- Akbar
- Aristotle
- Adaptive Work
- Alinsky, Saul
- History
- Actor Network Theory
- Anthony, Susan B.
- Arts
- Alexander the Great
- Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream
- Bank of America
- Alexander the Great
- Business
- Altruism
- Democratic Leadership
- Bay of Pigs
- Authenticity
- Ataturk, Mustafa Kemal
- Influence Tactics
- Buddha
- Birth Control
- Boundaries and Authority
- Anthony, Susan B.
- International Leadership Association
- Attribution Processes
- Barriers to Women's Leadership
- Beatles, The
- Alinsky, Saul
- Body Shop, The
- Bay of Pigs
- Apartheid in South Africa, Demise of
- Civil Rights Movement
- Collective Action
- Dysfunctional Leadership
- Eisenhower, Dwight David
- Big Five Personality Traits
- Bay of Pigs
- Power Distance
- Confucius
- Carnegie, Andrew
- Bureaucracy
- Apartheid in South Africa, Demise of
- Philosophy
- Charismatic Theory
- Birth Control
- Beethoven, Ludwig van
- Anthony, Susan B.
- Business
- Beatles, The
- Ataturk, Mustafa Kemal
- Coaching
- Follower-Oriented Leadership
- E-Leadership
- Grant, Ulysses S.
- Charisma
- Castro, Fidel
- Power of Ideas
- Eddy, Mary Baker
- Carson, Rachel
- Change Management
- Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream
- Political Science
- Confucianism
- Body Shop, The
- Carson, Rachel
- Aristotle
- Carnegie, Andrew
- Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream
- Brighton Declaration
- Community Development
- Followers, Motivation of
- Eupsychian Management
- D-Day
- Cognitive Structures
- Charlemagne
- Power Sharing
- Ethics: Overview
- Disney, Walt
- Coalitions
- Birth Control
- Religious Studies
- Connective Leadership
- Business
- Du Bois, W. E. B.
- Ataturk, Mustafa Kemal
- Chanel, Coco
- Birth Control
- Buddha
- Congressional Leadership
- Followership
- Individualism and Collectivism
- Genghis Khan
- Conformity
- Christian Right
- Power, Six Bases of
- Gandhi, Mohandas K.
- Dot-Com Meltdown
- Communication
- Body Shop, The
- Sacred Texts
- Constructivism
- Brighton Declaration
- Film Industry
- Beethoven, Ludwig van
- Disney, Walt
- Body Shop, The
- Confucianism
- E-Commerce
- Leader-Follower Relationships
- Innovative Leadership
- Hiroshima
- Creativity
- Churchill, Winston
- Power: Overview
- Graham, Billy
- Eddy, Mary Baker
- Competition
- Brighton Declaration
- Social Psychology
- Decision Making: The Vroom/Yetton/Jago Models
- Chanel, Coco
- Ford, Henry
- Buddha
- Dot-Com Meltdown
- Brighton Declaration
- Confucius
- Education, Higher
- Leaderless Groups
- Invisible Leadership
- Israel, Founding of
- Dominance and Submission
- Civil Rights Act of 1964
- Gregory I, St.
- Edison, Thomas
- Conflict
- Goldman, Emma
- Sociology
- Deep Change
- Children, Socialization and Leadership Development in
- Freud, Sigmund
- Carnegie, Andrew
- Enron Scandal
- Christian Right
- Cross-Cultural Leadership
- Education, K-2
- Mentoring
- Laissez-Faire Leadership
- Lee, Robert E.
- Efficacy
- Congressional Leadership
- Handsome Lake
- Environmental Justice
- Contingency Theories
- Farm Worker Movement
- Discourse Ethics
- Congressional Leadership
- Graham, Martha
- Carson, Rachel
- Ford, Henry
- Civil Rights Act of 1964
- East Timor, Founding of
- Education: Overview
- Obedience
- Leading at a Distance
- Long March
- Ethics, Contemporary
- Cromwell, Oliver
- Harris, William Wade
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Human Rights
- Distinctive Competence Approach
- Elizabeth I
- Hitchcock, Alfred
- Castro, Fidel
- Kroc, Ray
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- Gandhi, Mohandas K.
- Entrepreneurship
- Self-Management
- Narcissistic Leadership
- Manhattan Project
- Ethics: Overview
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- Jesus
- Ford, Henry
- Crisis
- Green Parties
- Elite Theory
- Enron Scandal
- Jefferson, Thomas
- Chanel, Coco
- Labor Movement
- D-Day
- Genghis Khan
- Family Businesses
- Reconstructive Leadership
- Mau Mau Rebellion
- Happiness
- Eisenhower, Dwight David
- John XXIII, Pope
- Hiroshima
- Cross-Cultural Leadership
- Intentional Communities
- GLOBE Research Program
- Film Industry
- Kurosawa, Akira
- Charlemagne
- Management
- Dot-Com Meltdown
- Globalization
- Family Leadership
- Shared Leadership
- Napoleon
- Hope
- Elizabeth I
- Jonestown Mass Suicide
- Lewis and Clark Expedition
- Decision Making
- King, Martin Luther, Jr.
- Grounded Theory
- Friedan, Betty
- Libraries
- Churchill, Winston
- Management, Business
- East Timor, Founding of
- Green Parties
- Film Industry
- Socio-Emotional Leadership
- Nelson, Horatio Lord
- Humor
- Gandhi, Mohandas K.
- King, Martin Luther, Jr.
- Manhattan Project
- Dirty Hands
- Malcolm X
- Group and Systems Theory
- Gender and Authority
- Literature
- Confucius
- Mayer, Louis B.
- Enron Scandal
- Guevara, Ernesto Che
- Gangs
- Strategic Leadership
- Patton, George S.
- Idiosyncrasy Credit
- Grant, Ulysses S.
- Lee, Ann
- Mead, Margaret
- Distribution of Leadership
- Mandela, Nelson
- Hot Groups
- Gender Gap
- Marx, Karl
- Cromwell, Oliver
- Morita, Akio
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Haile Selassie
- Human Rights
- Transformational and Transactional Leadership
- Pearl Harbor
- Intelligence, Emotional
- Groupthink
- Luther, Martin
- Morgan, Arthur E.
- Economic Justice
- Mau Mau Rebellion
- Implicit Leadership Theories
- Gender Stereotypes
- Mead, Margaret
- Disney, Walt
- Nader, Ralph
- Farm Worker Movement
- Handsome Lake
- Intentional Communities
- Tyrannical Leadership
- Pueblo Revolt
- Intelligence, Social
- Guevara, Ernesto Che
- Malcolm X
- Morita, Akio
- Empowerment
- Nader, Ralph
- Integrative Theory
- Gender-Based Structure of Work
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
- Du Bois, W. E. B.
- Rockefeller, John D.
- Free Press in Panama, Creation of
- Harris, William Wade
- Labor Movement
- Saladin
- Intelligence, Verbal
- Haile Selassie
- Moses
- Panama Canal, Building of
- Ethics, Contemporary
- Organizing
- Justice
- Goldman, Emma
- Music
- Eddy, Mary Baker
- Sarnoff, David
- Green Parties
- Hiroshima
- Libraries
- War on Terrorism
- Intelligences, Other
- Hiroshima
- Mother Teresa
- Plato
- Friendship
- Pueblo Revolt
- Labeling Theory
- Green Parties
- Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Edison, Thomas
- Sears, Roebuck & Co. Catalogue
- Hiroshima
- Human Rights
- Literature
- Leading from Within
- History
- Muhammad
- Public Health
- Globalization
- Sanger, Margaret
- Leader Categorization Theory
- King, Billie Jean
- Phillips, Sam
- Eisenhower, Dwight David
- Shibusawa Eiichi
- Iranian Hostage Crisis
- International Leadership Association
- Management, Business
- Modeling and Leading by Example
- Hitler, Adolf
- Nichiren
- Race to the South Pole
- Group Cohesiveness
- Stonewall Rebellion
- Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) Theory
- Mead, Margaret
- Picasso, Pablo
- Elizabeth I
- Sloan, Alfred
- Israel, Founding of
- Iranian Hostage Crisis
- Military
- Motivation, Intrinsic and Extrinsic
- Iranian Hostage Crisis
- Paul, St.
- Rockefeller, John D.
- Group Decision Rules
- Tiananmen Square
- Leadership Development
- Mother Teresa
- Philosophy
- Ford, Henry
- Small Business
- Jonestown Mass Suicide
- Israel, Founding of
- Music
- Narratives
- Jefferson, Thomas
- Pueblo Revolt
- Sanger, Margaret
- Group Effectiveness
- Utopian Leaders
- Leadership Theories: Overview
- Patriarchy
- Plato
- Freud, Sigmund
- Trust Busting
- Lewis and Clark Expedition
- Kenyatta, Jomo
- Nonprofit Organizations
- Negative Capability
- Johnson, Lyndon
- Religion
- Sarnoff, David
- Group Norms
- Wells-Barnett, Ida B.
- Mental Models
- Roosevelt, Eleanor
- Rockefeller, John D.
- Friedan, Betty
- Watson, Thomas, Jr.
- Long March
- Kurosawa, Akira
- Organizing
- Optimism
- Kennedy, John F.
- Religious Studies
- Science and Technology
- Group Process
- Women's Movement
- Methodologies of Leadership Research
- Sanger, Margaret
- Sarnoff, David
- Gandhi, Mohandas K.
- Welch, Jack
- Manhattan Project
- Long March
- Parliament, British
- Personality and Group Roles
- Kenyatta, Jomo
- Sacred Texts
- Shibusawa Eiichi
- Group Satisfaction
- Women's Suffrage
- Path-Goal Analysis
- Wells-Barnett, Ida B.
- Genghis Khan
- Winfrey, Oprah
- Mau Mau Rebellion
- Lumumba, Patrice
- Politics
- Power Motivation
- Lenin, Vladimir
- Spirituality
- Sloan, Alfred
- Groupthink
- Psychoanalytic Theory
- Winfrey, Oprah
- Goldman, Emma
- Women and Business Leadership
- Modern Olympics Movement
- Mandela, Nelson
- Presidential Leadership, U.S.
- Resiliency
- Lincoln, Abraham
- Tutu, Desmond
- Watson, Thomas, Jr.
- Intergroup Processes
- Qualitative Methods
- Women and Business Leadership
- Gompers, Samuel
- Panama Canal, Building of
- Mao Zedong
- Public Health
- Rhetoric
- Lumumba, Patrice
- Utopian Leaders
- Welch, Jack
- Leadership Effectiveness
- Situational and Contingency Approaches to Leadership
- Women and Men as Leaders
- Graham, Billy
- Panama Canal Treaties
- Mau Mau Rebellion
- Religion
- Risk Taking
- Machiavelli, Niccolo
- Whitefield, George
- Leadership for the Common Good
- Social Dilemmas
- Women and Political Leadership
- Graham, Martha
- Pearl Harbor
- Modern Olympics Movement
- Science and Technology
- Schemata, Scripts, and Mental Models
- Manhattan Project
- Young, Brigham
- Leadership in the Digital Age
- Social Identity Theory
- Women and Social Change Leadership
- Grant, Ulysses S.
- Pueblo Revolt
- Morita, Akio
- Small Business
- Self-Interest
- Mao Zedong
- Leadership Succession
- Social Capital Theories
- Women's Movement
- Gregory I, St.
- Race to the South Pole
- Moses
- Sports
- Tacit Knowledge
- Nasser, Gamal Abdel
- Learning Organization
- Sociobiology of Leadership
- Women's Olympics
- Guevara, Ernesto Che
- Sears, Roebuck & Co. Catalogue
- Mother Teresa
- Traditional Societies
- Trust
- Nkrumah, Kwame
- Legacy
- Systems Theory
- Women's Suffrage
- Haile Selassie
- September 11th
- Muhammad
- Utopian Leaders
- Nyerere, Julius
- Majority and Minority Influence
- Theories X, Y, and Z
- Women's Value Orientation
- Handsome Lake
- Singapore, Founding of
- Nasser, Gamal Abdel
- Women's Movement
- Panama Canal, Building of
- Management
- Transformational and Visionary Leadership
- Harris, William Wade
- Stonewall Rebellion
- Nichiren
- Youth Leadership
- Panama Canal Treaties
- Moral Imagination
- Transformistic Theory
- Hitchcock, Alfred
- Suez Crisis of 1956
- Nkrumah, Kwame
- Parliament, British
- Motivational Contagion
- Visionary Leadership Theory
- Hitler, Adolf
- Tiananmen Square
- Nyerere, Julius
- Pearl Harbor
- Networks and Networked Organizations
- Jefferson, Thomas
- Trust Busting
- Panama Canal, Building of
- Political Science
- Organizational Climate and Culture
- Jesus
- Truth and Reconciliation Commissions
- Panama Canal Treaties
- Politics
- Organizational Dynamics
- John XXIII, Pope
- United States Constitution
- Pueblo Revolt
- Presidential Leadership, U.S.
- Organizational Justice
- Johnson, Lyndon
- War on Terrorism
- Religion
- Reagan, Ronald
- Organizational Theory
- Kennedy, John F.
- Women's Olympics
- Religious Studies
- Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
- Poverty and Inequality
- Kenyatta, Jomo
- Women's Suffrage
- Sacred Texts
- Roosevelt, Theodore
- Psychological Substructures
- King, Billie Jean
- Xian Incident
- Saladin
- Shaka Zulu
- Racial Minorities
- King, Martin Luther, Jr.
- Shaka Zulu
- Stalin, Josef
- Relational Leadership Approaches
- Kroc, Ray
- Shibusawa Eiichi
- Suleyman the Magnificent
- Resistance
- Kurosawa, Akira
- Singapore, Founding of
- Tokugawa Ieyasu
- Romance of Leadership
- Lee, Ann
- Suez Crisis of 1956
- Trust Busting
- Spirituality
- Lee, Robert E.
- Suleyman the Magnificent
- United States Constitution
- Substitutes for Leadership
- Lenin, Vladimir
- Tiananmen Square
- Utopian Leaders
- Task Leadership
- Lincoln, Abraham
- Tokugawa Ieyasu
- War on Terrorism
- Team Leadership
- Lombardi, Vince
- Truth and Reconciliation Commissions
- Washington, George
- Teamwork
- Lumumba, Patrice
- Tutu, Desmond
- Wilson, Woodrow
- Total Quality Management
- Luther, Martin
- Utopian Leaders
- Women and Political Leadership
- Upward Influence
- Machiavelli, Niccolo
- War on Terrorism
- Women's Suffrage
- Malcolm X
- Xian Incident
- Mandela, Nelson
- Mao Zedong
- Marx, Karl
- Mayer, Louis B.
- Mead, Margaret
- Morgan, Arthur E.
- Morita, Akio
- Moses
- Mother Teresa
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
- Muhammad
- Nader, Ralph
- Napoleon
- Nasser, Gamal Abdel
- Nelson, Horatio Lord
- Nichiren
- Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Nkrumah, Kwame
- Nyerere, Julius
- Patton, George S.
- Paul, St.
- Phillips, Sam
- Picasso, Pablo
- Plato
- Reagan, Ronald
- Robinson, Jackie
- Rockefeller, John D.
- Roosevelt, Eleanor
- Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
- Roosevelt, Theodore
- Russell, Bill
- Saladin
- Sanger, Margaret
- Sarnoff, David
- Shaka Zulu
- Shibusawa Eiichi
- Sloan, Alfred
- Stalin, Josef
- Süleyman the Magnificent
- Tokugawa Ieyasu
- Tutu, Desmond
- Washington, George
- Watson, Thomas, Jr.
- Welch, Jack
- Wells-Barnett, Ida B.
- Whitefield, George
- Wilson, Woodrow
- Winfrey, Oprah
- Young, Brigham
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