Empowering Outperformance

Author : Dixie Dansercoer
Publisher : Die Keure Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-18
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9782874034923

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Empowering Outperformance by Dixie Dansercoer Pdf

Do you have the dedication, discipline and concentration to finish what you set out to do? To be a high performer? This book is not meant to come up with the typical ten point plan that you find in the plethora of books on “how to...” or “finding the shortcut to...”. It is simply not realistic to impose the one and only way to become a performance beast. We cannot be made immune to personal emotions and our brains work in a very unique way and therefore it seems illogical to accept the restrictions of such ten-point-plans. Dixie Dansercoer surely does not want to preach, generalise or standardise training methods to manipulate people into becoming high performers. Our brains may be trained just like muscles, but people cannot be as easily manipulated as flesh and bones. The goal is to provide the reader with inspirational insights with respect to high performance, provide him/her with practical guidelines and stories to be read and shared without drowning in all-too-academic theories. The red line of polar exploration allows the author to write from the heart with accounts of his direct experiences. When confronted with the monotony of infinite white, wide-open spaces, one cannot but study the mental and psychological impact of these ambitious expeditions. Throughout his book, the author offers a lived and original example of what is needed to be(come) a top performer. EXTRACT There is nothing more exhilarating than the intensity of amazement. To be subjected to forces bigger than us, to be part of it, live it, touch it, smell it, feel it, love or hate it... only then can you be part of the real thing. In order to find that intensity, the only thing we need to do is put our mind to it, go out there and do it. Does it come for free? No. Is pushing the limits an easy thing to do? No. To get the most out of our potential, we must commit. If we want or need to deliver, we must be ready to work hard and be resilient. To follow a dream, we must be ready to fail as well. Stop dreaming and you will have a hard time falling asleep. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Dixie Dansercoer is a lifelong adventurer who has placed his focus on Polar exploration during the last 26 years, running many record-breaking expeditions that raised the bar for what seemed impossible. Parallel scientific missions, educational projects and enthusing the public at large are tools he uses to objectively raise awareness regarding our individual and collective responsibilities vis-à-vis the pristine character of our precious Earth. Together with his wife Julie Brown, he runs Polar Circles, with which they present keynote speaking, corporate-supporting campaigns and productive retreats. As one of the very few International Polar Guides Association few Master guides, he provides guiding services with Polar Experience for which he has designed polar trips ranging from soft immersions in the Polar Regions to extreme ski-kiting expeditions to (Ant)Arctica. Dixie is the author of 24 expedition, photo, children’s and corporate books and does not hesitate to include in his publications that belief in a good world, positive attitude and much humour can save the world. He is a father of 4 and sharing his time between Belgium, Switzerland, Oregon and ... wherever snow and ice are the icing on the cake !

Author : Dixie Dansercoer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 287403486X

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Empowering Outperformance by Dixie Dansercoer Pdf

Author : David Dessers
Publisher : Die Keure Publishing
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789048636907

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Innovate. Collaborate. Grow! by David Dessers Pdf

The past ten years are characterized by a strong growth in entrepreneurship and the accelerated creation of new businesses offering innovative products and services. The focus of this book is on startups and scaleups intending to scale their business through collaboration with corporates, primarily in the capacity of client or venture partner. No startup or scaleup can go-it-alone entirely and is required to collaborate with other partners to ensure growth. It is crucial for startups and scaleups to think beyond (corporate) venture capital financings and actively use a vast spectrum of corporate partnering arrangements to scale their business. This book thus takes an expansive approach and analyses corporate partnering transactions from a much broader perspective, covering several types of partnering models for collaboration between corporates and startups and scaleups, with a very strong focus on the perspective of the startups and scaleups while engaging in these types of transactions. ABOUT THE AUTHOR David Dessers, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Cresco, is one of the go-to lawyers of the Belgian venture capital scene. David assists entrepreneurs and companies in the design and execution of their plans during all stages of the private company lifecycle, including seed and venture capital funding, acquisitions and dispositions, as well as equity incentive, contracting and intellectual property needs. He frequently represents venture capital funds and corporates in structuring, negotiating and closing investments and divestments in high-growth companies. David furthermore advises clients regularly with respect to complex commercial transactions designed to protect and maximize the value of technology assets, including technology licenses and acquisitions, research and development collaborations, and corporate partnering transactions. He obtained his law degree at the universities of Antwerp and Leuven in Belgium. He also holds an LLM from the universities of Oxford, Hamburg and Rotterdam. David is recommended as leading lawyer by Chambers Global, Chambers Europe, Legal500 and IFLR1000 for Corporate and M&A, Banking, Finance and Capital Markets, and Information Technology. David has given workshops and seminars at leading corporates on a wide variety of topics, including corporate venturing transactions and alliances. He is an active speaker at incubation and acceleration organizations, such as imec.ventures, B-Hive.eu, Watt Factory, Tech Tour, Level Up and Antwerp Management School. David is a founding partner of Cresco, a premier Belgian law firm for entrepreneurs, companies and investors with market-leading capabilities and thorough experience in private equity and venture capital, emerging and growth companies, mergers and acquisitions, technology and innovation counseling, and complex corporate alliances and commercial agreements.

Author : Jacques H. Herbots
Publisher : Die Keure Publishing
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789048632732

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Contracts in the People’s Republic of China by Jacques H. Herbots Pdf

A complete and well-documented review of contract law in China. This in-depth introduction to the law of contracts of Mainland China was written for Western lawyers who have contacts with the People’s Republic of China, for scholars and students of comparative law or of Sinology. As stated above the book is merely an introduction, not a technical legal treatise for specialised private lawyers. It is therefore useful for businessmen too. Without using stale language, this work also places the law of contractual obligations in an historical and socio-political context. It sketches, besides the general theory of contractual obligations and the provisions on the several specific contracts, the Chinese case law on international sales contracts, as well as the law on the dispute resolution. It can be said that with regard to the private law the book opens a window on the continental Chinese legal culture, as Zweigert and Kötz would call it. An essential handbook for all lawyers who wish to be fully involved in international relationships ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jacques H. Herbots devoted his PhD thesis to African law. Thereafter, for many years he taught contracts, obligations and comparative law at the renowned university of Louvain. Besides his main tasks as a professor, he kept feeling the pulse of the living law as a deputy judge, as an assessor in the Belgian Council of State and as a member of the High Council for the Judiciary. He is currently still arbitrator in the Belgian Centre for Arbitration and Mediation, and he was appointed to the panel of the CIETAC in Beijing. Ever since a visit to the People’s Republic in 1974, one may safely say he has been fascinated by the Empire of the Middle.

Author : Kaat Peeters,Omar Mohout
Publisher : Die Keure Publishing
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789048639311

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Leaving a Legacy by Kaat Peeters,Omar Mohout Pdf

People want to change things, improve the world. Our mind cannot live without meaning. Just like the body asks for food. We all know that we have the leverage to make things happen. It’s important to know what to do, but it’s even more important to remember why you do what you do. Leaving a legacy is about impact surviving the erosion of time. About scaling and accelerating positive impact. Be ready to get inspired about leaving your own legacy. How do you leave a legacy? What drives a legacy? How about your legacy statement? And how about increasing your impact? Will you choose for scaling up, scaling deep, scaling out, or maybe even scaling down? Get carried away by the impact point of view and discover how you can increase the impact of your organization too. This book reveals strategies of a diversity of organizations, from NPO’s over associations, governmental and knowledge institutes to commercial organizations, who succeeded in increasing their social impact. Because no matter in what kind of organization you are spending your days, you too may leave a legacy that has improved our world socially or ecologically. ABOUT THE AUTHORS Kaat Peeters is an impact maker with a track record in associations as well as governmental institutes. Kaat established a European network and was responsible, as manager, to develop two newly founded associations in the cultural field into solid organizations. Meanwhile, Kaat ran a shop in Persian and Arabic interior objects and a Bed&Breakfast. In 2013, Kaat established the ‘Sociale Innovatiefabriek’, a Belgian based accelerator that stimulates and facilitates social innovation and social entrepreneurship counting an amazing community of more than 500 innovators. Nowadays, Kaat is lecturer social innovation at the University College ‘Erasmushogeschool’ and with her consulting organisation ‘Impact Projects’, Kaat supports impact organisations with their growth strategies. As hands-on Board of Directors member of cultural associations and social enterprises, making impact is always of paramount importance in her work. Impact has become the baseline of both her personal and professional life. Omar Mohout, currently Entrepreneurship Fellow at Sirris, is a former technology entrepreneur, a widely published technology author, C-level advisor to high growth startups as well as Fortune 500 companies and Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Antwerp, the Antwerp Management School, ULB and Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management. He is Co-chair of the Circle Of Growth; Community host for Corporate Venturing Europe; Organizer of the Growth Hacking Meetup, Co-founder of the #BeTech Community and keeps track of European funding and scaleups on scaleups.sirris.be.

Author : Collective,
Publisher : Die Keure Publishing
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789048632787

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Microbiological Guidelines by Collective, Pdf

Food plays an essential part in everyday life. Food should be tasty, healthy, sustainable and preferably not too expensive. But food should also be safe and with sufficient guarantees on maintaining good quality aspects until the end of shelf life. The various actors in the food supply chain have an interest in verifying the expected quality and safety by means of microbiological analyses of food. Measurement brings knowledge and microbiological guidelines help in the decision-making process for judging the acceptability of food or food production processes. The present handbook provides microbiological guidelines and current applicable EU legal criteria (status 1.1.2018) for a wide range of food categories (dairy, meat, seafoods, plant-based foods, bakery products, composite foods, shelf-stable food, water) and subcategories therein, based upon the type of food processing and intrinsic characteristics of the foods. This book can be consulted to provide quick answers on the expected microbiological contamination of foodstuff. It can help in interpretation of test results in assessing good (hygienic) practices in the production of food, determining the shelf life and ensuring food safety. The handbook also presents definitions of the wide variety of foodstuffs available and some reflections on, in particular, food safety issues or the on-going debate for some food items in assessing microbial quality. This book provides crucial information about food safety, for the use of students and professionals. EXTRACT "First we eat, then we do everything else" M.F.K. Fisher Food plays an important part in everyday life. But when being a food scientist or in the food business, food gets to be an even bigger part of your life. Our team at the Food Microbiology and Food Preservation research group (FMFP-UGent) at Ghent University during its academic tasks in education, research, scientific activities at committees, but also in interaction with many food companies and stakeholders in the food supply chain in projects or contract work, has built up considerable expertise on the microbiological analysis of a large variety of foodstuffs. Being situated in Ghent, and thus close to Brussels, the heart of Europe, we intrinsically have to understand and deal with legal EU criteria or action limits. The latter is the reason why this book is mainly oriented towards inclusion or making reference to EU legal microbiological criteria for foodstuffs as well. ABOUT THE AUTHORS The main author, Prof. Mieke Uyttendaele, leads, together with Prof. Frank Devlieghere, the Food Microbiology and Food Preservation Research Group (FMFP-UGent) at Ghent University, Belgium. Her teaching and research area covers aspects of microbiological analysis of foods, food safety and food hygiene. She has built over twenty years of experience by executing, initiating and coordinating various projects in this research discipline dealing with sampling and testing to collect baseline data on the microbial contamination of foods, looking into the virulence of food-borne pathogens, elaborating challenge testing to study the behavior of food-borne pathogens. All this information serves as an input for quality assurance and microbial risk assessment to support food safety decision-making and setting microbiological criteria. She was/is the promotor of more than 25 Ph.D students (including EU and non-EU citizens). Throughout her career, Prof. Uyttendaele has published more than 270 peer reviewed scientific papers, authored several book chapters and presented at numerous international Conferences/Workshops. Throughout the years she has also used her scientific expertise in interpretation of test results for analyses obtained in routine monitoring or analysis executed at the food service lab at FMFP-UGent.

Author : Yoav Nir
Publisher : Die Keure Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9782874034930

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Game changing innovation by Yoav Nir Pdf

This book is the disquisition of what I know and truly believe makes products a success and how you can replicate it within your company. What is this book about? Why should I read this book? Why did you write this book? These were the three questions I received from a good friend. So what is this book about my good friend asks? This book is like a cookbook with recipes for lean innovation, a collection of concrete techniques and strategies that are invaluable and lead to the same end: game-changing innovation. The book is a compilation of what I consider the fundamental models for lean innovation and some of my own complementary models for successful innovation1. A supplement to the existing international reference works on innovation (Alexander Osterwalder, Eric Ries, Ash Maurya, Clayton Christensen...) I will complement and adapt the existing tools and methods. Enhance their flavor “monter la sauce” as they say in France. The book is mainly a “how to” book and a “lessons learned” book, substantiated by good analysis and reflection. Like a chess book to improve your play this book will improve your innovation. The book provides an analysis of proven tactics and strategies on how to win the lean innovation game as well as a post mortem on why it is so often lost. Should you read this book? Here is some bad news, if you were hoping to improve on your innovation by spending more on R&D, it won’t work. The consulting giant PWC confirmed in its Global Innovation 1000 research that just increasing R&D resources will not solve the innovation problem ! The presented methodology can be quickly employed and implemented by the reader with the book as an instruction manual !

Author : Lars Sudmann
Publisher : Die Keure Publishing
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789048638291

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Innovation that Sticks. by Lars Sudmann Pdf

How do you innovate, how do you structure your organization, your team, your personal life? You need a detailed plan and everything laid out for the future! Really? Well, maybe not always. Maybe you need to operate also with the Spaghetti Principle. Discover how you can embrace this special principle and really make innovation stick. Specifically, you will learn how to deal in today’s dynamic and uncertain environment. With practical examples from leaders and companies you will see how a totally different approach to strategy and innovation can revolutionize your work. With examples from fields as diverse as the Startup world, nature, opera, TED, Lars Sudmann will awaken you to an inspiring and thought-provoking journey of innovation. You will see innovation and experimentation with different eyes after reading this book. Lars Sudmann has been a CFO and a strategy manager at leading organisations. He is now a corporate advisor, university lecturer and explorer of what makes innovation and change possible. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Lars Sudmann - Lars Sudmann is an explorer of innovation and leadership. He searches for the tools and strategies that the best leaders on the frontiers of leadership use and apply and makes these available for everyday users. His TEDx talks on leadership and innovation are top-ranked with more than 500.000 views, and he has been featured on Fast Company, BBC Capital, The Economist Career Network, Trends, The Chicago Tribune and many more. Professionally, he has had various roles, ranging from Innovation Portfolio Strategy manager, CFO Belgium at Procter & Gamble, Guest Professor on Decision Making, and Startup Board Advisor. He now advises corporates, SMEs, startups and high-performing individuals. More about Lars Sudmann can be found at www.lars-sudmann.com.

Author : Isabel De Clercq
Publisher : Die Keure Publishing
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789048642670

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Hybrid Work by Isabel De Clercq Pdf

Give yourself every chance of success! "This booklet is a message of hope. Hope that Covid-19 also brought beauty." Isabel De Clercq's manifesto about hybrid work will soon be published in English, after the very appreciated edition in Dutch. Are you looking forward to get yours first? Register now and you'll receive your copy as soon as available. A little treasure for keeps. Beautifully styled and playfully cunning. A headstrong conviction brought to you with grace and glee.Author Isabel De Clercq talks to you about Hybrid Work. She speaks out the hope within her. Hope for a better future. The future of the knowledge worker.Not only does she take you into her own dreams, but also crystallises the future with seven careful suggestions. Let yourself be carried away with Isabel’s magnetising prose, sharp pen and refreshing insights.Isabel hopes you do not read this book in one sitting. Read a suggestion. Close the book. Let the words reverberate. A much needed reflexion on how to bring your effectiveness, creativity, and well-being at work to the next level! ABOUT THE AUTHOR Isabel De Clercq (1968) was born and raised in a town in East Flanders and now lives in Antwerp. As a child, every Saturday she would pay a visit to the local library, where she fell in love with language. Isabel is the author of the management book Social Technologies in Business and the short story compilation Gekruld. In your hands lies her third book. Isabel is a lover of Hybrid Work because it brings all her favourite topics together. Lifelong learning through asynchronous knowledge sharing, productivity through focus and technology, digital language and enganced self-consciousness. It's all there.

Author : Dado Van Peteghem,Omar Mohout
Publisher : Die Keure Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9782874035074

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Corporate Venturing by Dado Van Peteghem,Omar Mohout Pdf

Different strategies and tactics to accelerate innovation and growth through collaboration. This is not the hype story of how cool startups are and why you should invest in them with a fund or setup an accelerator. Corporate Venturing is so much more than CVC - Corporate Venture Capital. The aim of this book is to provide insights in the different strategies and tactics to accelerate innovation and growth through collaboration, as well as plenty of cases as examples where these models are successfully applied. This is not a book for people that are looking for complex innovation theories around venturing. Rather it’s a no-nonsense, ready-to-apply comprehensive guide for creating and reviewing your corporate venturing strategy as strategic growth. The book will provide guidance, insights, perspective and inspiration for anyone that has intrests in corporate venturing as a strategy to accelerate growth. Whether you are a large corporate or an upcoming player in the market. With cases from Ricolab, BNP Paribas Fortis, Roularta Media Group, SNCF and Cartamundi. Discover a ready-to-apply comprehensive guide for creating and reviewing your corporate venturing strategy as strategic growth. EXTRACT Attract a-typical ventures For starters, you will attract ventures that you may not have found yourself, because you’re too focused on specific fields. While a company may not fit the profile you’re looking for at first sight, digging deeper may reveal that they are solving the same problem in a different industry, or that they are doing breakthrough work that you hadn’t even considered yet. It’s a more passive approach than scouting, but you will need to keep creating content to keep it going, so don’t underestimate the work. ABOUT THE AUTORS Dado Van Peteghem is one of the leading experts in the digital sector. He is a frequent keynote speaker and entrepreneur. Dado is Founding partner at the consulting firm Duval Union Consulting, co-founder of several startups including Social Seeder, Speakersbase and TrendBase, giving more than 150 speeches per year internationally on topics as digital disruption and transformation, corporate innovation and startup thinking. Omar Mohout, currently Entrepreneurship Fellow at Sirris, is a former technology entrepreneur, a widely published technology author, C-level advisor to high growth startups as well as Fortune 500 companies and Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Antwerp, the Antwerp Management School, ULB and Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management.

Author : Fernando M. Reimers
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811521379

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Empowering Teachers to Build a Better World by Fernando M. Reimers Pdf

This open access book presents a comparative study on how large-scale professional development programs for teachers are designed and implemented. Around the world, governments and educators are recognizing the need to educate students in a broad range of higher order cognitive skills and socio-emotional competencies, and providing effective opportunities for teachers to develop the expertise needed to teach these skills is a crucial aspect of effective implementation of curricula which include those goals. This study examines how large-scale efforts to empower teachers for deeper instruction have been designed, how they have been implemented, and their outcomes. To do so, it investigates six programs from England, Colombia, Mexico, India, and the United States. Though all six are intended to broaden and deepen students’ curricular aspirations, each takes this expansion of curricular goals in a different direction. The ambitious education reforms studied here explicitly focus on building teachers’ capacity to teach on a broader set of goals. Through a discerning analysis of program documents, evaluations, and interviews with senior leaders and participants in the programs, the book identifies the various theories of action used in these programs, examines how they were implemented, and discusses what they achieved. As such, it offers an indispensable resource for education leaders interested in designing and implementing professional development programs for teachers that are aligned with ambitious instructional goals.

Author : Angela Dye
Publisher : R&L Education
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781610485814

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Empowerment Starts Here by Angela Dye Pdf

Empowerment Starts Here covers an experimental approach to social change within urban communities by way of seven distinct principles for student empowerment. Turning classroom methods into a school model, Preparatory School for Global Leadership was the first to experience student empowerment at a school-wide level. This book provides insight on how educators can increase the efficacy and achievement of urban youth. Angela Dye shares instructional methodologies and stories to help the reader develop an intimate understanding of the empowerment principles in action. Through these principles and methods, individuals can increase their capacity to combat the psychological, social, and political challenges associated with student achievement and real school reform.

Author : Scott A. Chapman CFA
Publisher : Post Hill Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781642932393

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Empower Your Investing by Scott A. Chapman CFA Pdf

Investing is a life skill and, like any life skill, the key is to learn from those who have already done it well. Empower Your Investing offers a success-based mental framework, discipline, and toolkit for your investing success. This book examines the best practices from masters of the investing world who’ve demonstrated success over many market cycles: Sir John Templeton, Peter Lynch, and Warren Buffett. The case studies of their winning picks blend the prevailing news and popular opinion at the time of their successful investments with their rationale for buying stocks as they explained in subsequent interviews. “Just as athletes might study Michael Jordan, Mohammed Ali, and Babe Ruth, every investor should know and understand John Templeton, Peter Lynch, and Warren Buffett. Scott Chapman brilliantly showcases the investment world's Greatest of All Time (G.O.A.T.) so every stock market participant, from novice to seasoned professional, can learn the lessons of those who have reached the pinnacle of success. With a comprehensive step-by-step approach, Chapman provides a deep understanding of what it takes to be the best.” —Robert P. Miles, Author, The Warren Buffett CEO; Executive in Residence, University of Nebraska at Omaha “Scott Chapman’s book is a clear read for any investor who wants to learn how to invest better. Scott is a successful long-term investor and educator who is someone all investors can learn from. He shares some of the best investment advice and actual experiences of three of the best investors in history—Peter Lynch, Warren Buffett, and Sir John Templeton. This book will help every person improve their investment skill from the beginning investor to professionally trained CFA analysts.” —Craig Braemer, CFA; Blossom Wealth Portfolio Manager and Founder of Braemer Asset Management, LLC.

Author : Stefanie Hirth
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783346249425

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Empowering Leadership and Followers’ Individual Performance. The Mediating Effect of Proactive Behavior and the Moderating Role of Task Completion Deadlines by Stefanie Hirth Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2018 in the subject Business economics - Organization, grade: 1,0, University of Potsdam (Führung, Organisation und Personal), language: English, abstract: This research report introduces task completion deadlines as a novel influence on empowering leadership and its outcomes. Based on the cost of autonomy theory and temporal construal theory, the author develops a theoretical model that explains short- and long-term deadlines as moderators of the relationship between empowering leadership and followers’ proactive behavior. She proposes short-term deadlines to reverse, and long-term deadlines to strengthen the actually positive effect of empowering leadership on followers’ proactive behavior. Based on prior literature, these assumptions can only be partly confirmed since relating studies are mainly on the team-level. Practical implications as well as future directions for research are provided.

Author : Maria Goranova,Lori Verstegen Ryan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137373939

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Shareholder Empowerment by Maria Goranova,Lori Verstegen Ryan Pdf

In this volume, leading management experts offer critical insights into the promises and illusions of shareholder empowerment, the discrepancies between theory and practice, and the challenges posed by variations in global corporate governance regimes.