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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"global leaders"”.
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Nurturing global leaders: The influence of global education culture at international house
… of international and Canadian students. With global education programming that focuses on leadership through community building, I-House creates opportunities for new leaders to emerge in a culturally complex environment that is thought to foster global leadership development. Eighteen I-House …
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Preparing Global Leaders: A Theoretical Model for Understanding the Development of Intercultural Competency
As globalization increases, organizations are seeking individuals that have developed intercultural competency (ICC) and are prepared to lead for the 21st century. Although there are competing definitions among scholars as to what characteristics (ability, attitude, awareness, behaviors, knowledge, …
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Developing Global Leader Self-Complexity through International Experience
<p>Globalization introduces new challenges related to increased levels of diversity and complexity that organizations cannot meet without capable global leaders. Such leaders are currently lacking, so a theory-based approach to global leader development is needed. As a critical intermediary …
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Creating an Instrument to Measure and Develop Global Leadership Competencies and Cognition
<p>Given economic and societal shifts towards globalization, the need to develop effective global leaders is well documented. This thesis explored the development of a prototype instrument for use in global leadership classes or training to assess and/or develop the competencies and decision-making …
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Assessing the potential implications of personal leadership: A case study of CIEE's intercultural competency program
… explores potential implications of the Personal Leadership method for study abroad instructors and their students as emerging global leaders. This research documents and analyzes the experience of one cohort of Council of International Educational Exchange (CIEE) international educators as they …
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Understanding the Development of Global Leadership Competencies
… a competitive advantage in a rapidly evolving global marketplace and in the midst of a global talent shortage, the demand is increasing for guidance surrounding the development of global leaders. Although competency model frameworks have existed since the 1970s, the process of how an …
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Knowledge Acquisition Processes: Understanding The Communication Event
… and how) of communication events. Organizational leaders and scholars of communication have a better understanding about how one organization’s team of leaders have addressed and responded to the Great Recession of 2008 and the recent explosion of social media in 2003 by practicing a thematic …
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Analysis of management models of water utilities and water coverage
<p>Academics, global leaders, and practitioners have debated, for decades, over the best management models (public, private, decentralized) of water utilities for increasing water access. Proponents of privatized water utilities argue profit motive incentivizes efficiency leading cost saving, …
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Production of Energy and Environmental Protection as a Prerequisite for Sustainable Development
… hydroelectric energy and their implementation globally. The second part of the paper elaborates on the economic, political, and social aspects for the development of renewable energy sources. The main aspect of economic and political reasons is employment growth and the rise of democracy in …
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The relationships among Situational Leadership® II, emotional intelligence and DiSC® behavior
… and while the specific ingredients of effective leadership may be hard to identify, the absence of effective leadership can be painfully clear. Many problems facing professionals, administrators and global leaders, indeed, those who lead in any situation, could be solved through more effective …
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Maintaining Nuclear Stability in the Wake of a Strained Liberal Order
… nuclear energy programs. Additionally, current global leaders should reinforce commitments to non-first-use policies that prevent the need for others to obtain second-strike capabilities. These principles, which are essential to the existence of the nuclear nonproliferation regime and have …
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Knowing ourselves : an emerging dialogue between nature and leaders
… study explores the lived experiences of 12 global leaders participating in a leadership Nature retreat. Through the retreat process, set in a Nature-holding environment on the Canadian coast, the participants experienced a paradigm shift in developmental movement in the meaning making of …
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Global leadership and the development of intercultural competency in U.S. multinational corporations
… of developing the intercultural competency of global leaders within the context of the U.S. multinational corporation (U.S.M.C.). This research seeks to examine how organizations develop managers capable of leading in a pluralistic work environment and the implications of this kind of learning …
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Curricular Instruction of Global Leadership at Colleges and Universities in the United States
… and universities in the United States have made leadership education a priority as they prepare students to confront adaptive challenges in the 21st century; “wicked problems” such as poverty, uneven opportunities for education, homelessness, and illnesses worldwide. In addition, with the …
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Trade Patterns of Latin America and the Caribbean: Evidence from the agri-food sector
… region is one of the most important players in global agricultural trade, being among the global leaders in the production and exports of agricultural and fisheries commodities and accounting for 15% of the world’s average agri-food export from 1995 to 2019. The region have vast potential to …
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Global managers : how to obtain them in organizations
We live in a global era; we can find the same products and services around the world. The barriers that used to exist have blurred or disappeared. In the past when we traveled from one country to another, there were many differences-cultural, political, social-and many times travelers had one or …
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Numerical modelling of onshore wind turbine gravity foundations susceptible to cyclic soil degradation
South Africa is currently one of the global leaders in emerging wind markets. This development has come about since the country adopted a new approach towards sustainable growth and development. However, wind turbine structures present unconventional and complex design challenges, largely because …