Sentences with phrase «leadership studies from»

Mrs. Johnson received a bachelor of science degree in public management with a minor in leadership studies from Austin Peay State University and a master's degree in public administration from Murray State University.

Tricia has dual BAs in economics and French from the University of Richmond, an MA in policy, organization, and leadership studies from Stanford, and her PhD in education leadership and policy from the University of Washington.

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«But I do believe that from leadership to the Republican Study Committee, it's very problematic when one of, maybe the major pieces of legislation obviously we get passed this year, that you have been a naysayer from day one,» he said.

«There are 70,000 books in the British Library with leadership in the title,» the blog reports Furnham remarking, «but most leaders don't succeed, they fail, with a base rate of bad leadership collated from various studies of 50 per cent.»

There have been a variety of studies showing that women in leadership roles equates to better company performance, including a report from Credit Suisse that says that companies with more than one woman on their boards have outperformed those with no women on their boards in the stock market.

Under her leadership, the average SAT scores of the entering freshman class increased by nearly 50 points, and participation in global semester study abroad rose from 25 percent to 75 percent.

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld is the senior associate dean for leadership studies and Lester Crown professor of management practice at the Yale School of Management, and author of Firing Back: How CEOs Rebound From Career Disasters.

High - profile Silicon Valley companies including Square, 23andMe, and Pinterest lack diversity in their leadership teams, according to a new study from the nonprofit Reveal.

Bachelder's story, documented in her book, Dare to Serve: How to Drive Superior Results by Serving Others, is the most compelling case study to showcase the power of servant leadership to reinvent a company from the inside out.

Well, a recent study from Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Warwick and the United States Military Academy shows that your leadership potential could come down to how you look.

A new study from corporate and leadership training firm VitalSmarts took a look the traits that top performers share.

In general, the Canadian education system must be adjusted to nurture economic value - creation competencies (business, marketing, sales and relationships) from early years in school and throughout university studies, and thus build confidence, a spirit of leadership, and competitiveness in the future generation of Canadians.

You'll develop your Personal Leadership Development Plan at the beginning of the program and use feedback from a variety of sources (academics and leadership courses, study team, co-workers and managers) to inform your development process and experiments.

The only clear lesson from these studies is that there has been no long - term trend or convergence on a split chair / CEO structure, and that variation in board leadership structure has persisted for decades, even in the UK, where a split chair / CEO structure is the norm.

One study provides evidence consistent with one explanation of the overall lack of strong findings: optimal board structures may vary by firm size, with smaller firms benefiting from a unified chair / CEO position, with the clarity of leadership that structure provides, and larger firms benefiting from the extra monitoring that an independent chair may provide given the greater risk of «agency costs» at large companies.

Michael Pettis will be joined by Carnegie's vice president for studies Douglas H. Paal to address economic factors challenging China and the new leadership that will emerge from the congress.

Marcel Schwantes speaks passionately to both secular and faith - based audiences on the power of servant leadership, drawing from convincing research, case studies, and illustrations.

Key findings for the North American (U.S. and Canada) workforce surveyed in the study include: • 51 % of employees are not happy at work • 45 % of employees trust their company's leadership • 61 % of employees don't know their company's mission • 57 % of employees are not motivated by their company's mission • 60 % of employees don't know their company's vision • 57 % of employees don't feel recognized for their progress at work • 61 % of employees don't know their organization's cultural values • 50 % of employees don't expect to be with their organization a year from now

In this case study, examine how Xero, already a superior international accounting software company, established online leadership in the US with help from Wpromote.

«This tit - for - tat will mean eventual catastrophe for everyone on earth, unless we finally get some sanity in US leadership, to pull back from the brink,» said Mark Crispin Miller, professor of media studies at New York University.

New C - Suite study from HfS Research and IPsoft shows cognitive tech investment emerging as strategic priority for enterprise leadership

Only as laymen decide they care enough about the applications of the Christian faith to unite in study under leadership, or to unite in discussion to learn from one another in a fellowship, are we apt to get far toward bridging the gap between the Church and the world.

Further, experience has shown that theological education defined as clergy education suffers from the «happiness paradox»: that is, just as we can not achieve happiness by a course of life defined by the pursuit of happiness, so we can not achieve the education of superlative church leaders by a course of study defined by the roles and tasks of church leadership.

His on - court leadership and repertoire of pretty passes is derived from studying Magic Johnson, his competitive fire patterned after that of Isiah Thomas.

In a major speech delivered at the Manhattan Institute's Forum on Replacing the Tappan Zee Bridge, Astorino said that years of study and planning are doomed to failure — not because the bridge could cost $ 9 billion or more, but because there has been insufficient leadership from the state on this issue to overcome political, legal and environmental obstacles.

Drawing on the services of a professional society and identifying pertinent resources from other disciplines including work / family centers and think tanks (see sidebar), literature, and benchmark studies, may well serve to expand the knowledge base and enhance the leadership around work / family issues for postdoctoral associates in the workforce.

«Most studies on empowering leadership focused at the team rather than the individual level, and did not separate out the influence of the leader from the employee's personality,» says Guo.

Two reports published last year in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, with leadership from Scharf and several co-authors of the current study, described genome - wide association studies (GWAS) of thousands of affected individuals and controls.

A jolt of the unexpected can have far - reaching effects, according to new research from a University of Illinois expert who studies leadership and creativity.

AcademiaNet brings excellent women researchers into the spotlight for those wishing to find members for scientific bodies or to fill leadership positions A pilot study of the metabolomic profiles of saliva from female orthodontic patients with external apical root resorption

The study examines the unions» goals and leadership as well as the role they played in three small suburban and rural school districts in New York State from the early 1960's to the late 1970's.

In Public Impact's latest Opportunity Culture case study, Touchstone Education: New Charter With Experienced Leader Learns From Extending Teachers» Reach, we look at how this teacher, Tiffany McAfee, led the school's teachers in their focus on literacy, and how the school combined her leadership with online instruction.

Most recently, Higgins has been studying the effectiveness of senior leadership teams from large urban school districts across the United States.

That is the subject of Harvey Alvy and Pamela Robbins» thoughtful book, Learning from Lincoln, a study of leadership practices that educators can glean from the life of our 16th president.

Under his leadership, Pomona created new academic departments and a new general studies curriculum, launch sustainability efforts, and increased outreach efforts to high school students from historically underrepresented groups.

Based on a survey of practicing principals and education school deans, chairs, faculty, and alumni, as well as case studies of 25 school leadership programs, Levine concluded that «the majority of [educational administration] programs range from inadequate to appalling, even at some of the country's leading universities.»

According to a 2015 report on district - charter collaboration from the Fordham Institute, DPS has «engaged charters more deeply than any of the other cities we studied, due in no small part to a decade of district leadership with a strong belief in the value of a portfolio strategy, a significant number of third - party stakeholders who have encouraged engagement, and an education landscape that gives the district a stake in charter success.»

While this might be a reality in many schools across the country, the most important lesson I take away from my graduate studies experience centers on replacing this model of leadership with one that focuses on collaboration and empowerment.

«In her research, Monica Higgins brings insights from organizational behavior to the study of leadership.

Drawing on the findings and lessons from the case studies, the report powerfully confirms that training programs need to be more selective in identifying promising leadership candidates as opposed to more open enrollment.

Beginning with the leadership of Russ Whitehurst at the Institute of Education Sciences, IES has begun shifting its grants and contracts away from correlational studies like Coleman's and toward those that evaluate interventions with random - assignment and other quasi-experimental designs.

This article draws from the literature on cross-boundary leadership, relational leadership, and relational trust, and qualitative data from a multiple case study to explore the role of principals in the administration of full - service community schools.

Join facilitators Doug Lemov, Erica Woolway, Katie Yezzi, and Colleen Driggs to gain what we have learned about practice, coaching, and instructional leadership from studying some of the country's most outstanding teachers and leaders.

In the case study, Lavely describes the leadership responsibilities she has accepted and her team's results: A set of classrooms fully proficient in both math and reading — including students in special education and English language learners — and 70 percent of those students ranking in the top two achievement categories on the 2011 — 12 state math exam, up from 52 percent the previous year.

Learning from Leadership: Investigating the Links to Improved Student Learning is the largest in - depth study of school leadership to date.

In contrast, researchers working from quantitative studies treat contextual variables as factors to be controlled in inquiries about leadership effects.

In bold type he writes a key finding from researchers who studied principals in 180 schools across nine states and concluded, «We have not found a single case of a school improving its student achievement record in absence of talented leadership.»

Findings from these studies suggested that the presence of teacher leaders had positive impact on teams; however, these studies did not reveal much about the nature of the leadership they provided and why it was effective.

Findings from this qualitative case study form the basis for a model of distributed leadership.

We know from other studies that larger, urban districts tend to be less effective, particularly for lower - income students; but we do not know to what extent, or how, leadership effects might explain that pattern of outcomes.