Effect of leader placement on robotic swarm control by Rohan Tiwari, Puneet Jain, Sachit Butail, Sujit Baliyarasimhuni, Michael A. Goodrich

“…We also find that the time to converge towards the goal direction reduces with the increase in percentage of leaders in the swarm, although this value decays slowly beyond the percentage of leaders at 30%. …”
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World leaders decide how hot the planet will be by Richard Maxwell, Toby Miller

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School leaders, community cohesion and the Big Society by Don Rowe, Nicola Horsley, Tony Thorpe, Tony Breslin

“…The significance of this report is not in the sample size or spectrum but in the themes that emerged from semi-structured interviews. A related document, Teaching, Learning and Community Cohesion: a study of primary and secondary schools’ responses to a new statutory duty, which provides guidance for teachers and school leaders, is also published by CfBT (Rowe et al, 2011). …”
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The leaders' debates: three into seven might not go by David Deacon, Dominic Wring

“…The leaders' debates: three into seven might not go…”
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What drives political leaders to improve urban sanitation? by Clare Cummings, Ian Langdown, Tom Hart, Mariana Matoso

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Lal Bahadur Shastri, 1964–1966: Leader at a glance by Rakesh Ankit

“…And yet, there is less written on him directly, as against approaching him indirectly as (a) Jawaharlal Nehru’s successor, (b) leader during the 1965 India-Pakistan war amidst a food crisis and (c) peacemaker of the 1966 Tashkent agreement. …”
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Building and maintaining strategic agility: An agenda and framework for executive IT leaders by Josh Morton, Patrick Stacey, Matthias Mohn

“…This article focuses on the context of a particular professional group, executive information technology (IT) leaders, who have received attention in recent years for their evolving strategic role at the forefront of firms. …”
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From the locker room to the boardroom: developing leaders through sport by Elesa Argent

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Shared social identity content is the basis for leaders’ mobilization of followers by Matthew J. Slater, Pete Coffee, Jamie Barker, S. Alexander Haslam, Niklas K. Steffens

“…The present research addresses this issue in two experimental studies that examine the effect of sharedness in identity content (i.e., beliefs about what it means to be a member of a group) on leaders’ mobilization of group members. …”
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Leader-member exchanges in military healthcare organizations: the interplay of relational dynamics by Evangelia Maritsa, Aspasia Goula, Alexandros Psychogios, Dimitra Latsou, Georgios Pierrakos

“…METHOD: A quantitative survey was carried out in a military hospital where 53 leaders and 160 members that participated successfully established 160 leader-member pairs. …”
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Measuring the changes to leader brand associations during the 2010 election campaign by Gareth Smith, Alan French

“…The impact of these plus paid for advertising and uncontrolled events are considered, and their likely affect on the image of Brown, Cameron, and Clegg, the three main party leaders, discussed. Then, using a brand-mapping approach, we analyse changes to consumer perceptions of the leader brands from just prior to the first debate through to he election day itself, Thursday 6 May. …”
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A self-regulation model of leader authenticity based on mindful self-regulated attention and political skill by Erik Dietl, Jochen Reb

“…In a two-wave multi-source field study (Study 2), we found that leader self-regulated attention was positively associated with employee perceptions of leader authenticity and effectiveness. …”
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Geographies of youth leadership: volunteering and the Young Leaders scheme in the UK Scout Association by Rosemary Austin

“…Geographies of youth leadership: volunteering and the Young Leaders scheme in the UK Scout Association…”
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Leader debates 2015: don’t hold your breath for a repeat of 2010 by David Deacon, Dominic Wring

“…Leader debates 2015: don’t hold your breath for a repeat of 2010…”
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Onwards and upwards? Analyzing the experiences of emergent women leaders in higher education contexts by Sarah Barnard, John Arnold, Fehmidah Munir, Sara Bosley

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Statesmen or cheerleaders? Using topic modeling to examine gendered messages in narrative developmental feedback for leaders by Elena Doldor, Madeleine Wyatt, Joanne Silvester

“…This resulted in four aggregate theoretical dimensions: 1) strategic focus 2) political influence 3) confidence and 4) agency and communion. …”
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Leadership learning among next-generation family leader: the conditioning role of altruism and nepotism by Louise Scholes, Mike Mustafa, Carole Elliott

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The complexity of leading in sport: Examining the role of domain expertise in assessing leader credibility and prototypicality by Steve Swanson, Aubrey Kent

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Build versus buy, a case for both: hiring and growing transformational leaders in WASH by Yi Wei, Valerie Labi

“…The authors recommend three areas of investment for leadership development in WASH: hire competitively and invest in market-savvy people; invest in building a pipeline of talent and long-term growth of leaders; foster a nurturing environment for making and collaborating.…”
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Leader prototypicality in sport: The implicit leadership theories of people entering sport management careers by Steve Swanson, Jon Billsberry, Aubrey Kent, James Skinner, Jacqueline Mueller

“…The ILTs of women entering sport management careers have a 35-item, 6-factor structure (Sensitivity, Knowledgeable, Physical Attractiveness, Inspirational, Dedication, and Focused), whereas men entering the industry have a 32-item, 7-factor structure (Sensitivity, Dedication, Physical Attractiveness, Focused, Creativity, Inspirational, Courageous). …”
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Event-triggered leader-following consensus control of nonlinear multiagent systems with generally uncertain Markovian switching topologies by Junyi Wang, Huaguang Zhang, Zhanshan Wang, Jun Fu, W Wang, Qinggang Meng

“…The new leader-following (LF) consensus conditions and control gains are obtained based on ET strategy. …”
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Margaret Fell Fox by Catherine Gill

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Representing leaders in Britain. The portraits of Winston Churchill, Harold Wilson, Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair by Simon Downs

“…The portraits created to lionise their leaders have undergone an equally chaotic transformation; from images of elitist patriarchy, to those of high-street populists; this change has been reflected in the portraits of their leaders. …”
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Utilising a reflective goal setting (RGS) model for the development of crucial leader soft skills by Cheryl Travers, Anthea Rose

“…The RGS framework, drawing upon established theoretical models and frameworks including Gibbs Reflective Cycle, Pennebaker's Trauma Narration, and Locke and Latham’s Goal Setting Theory is described across a variety of learning contexts with managers and leaders from a range of industry sectors (i.e., finance, construction, automotive and healthcare). …”
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Brain-adjusted relational leadership: a social-constructed consciousness approach to leader-follower interaction by Alexandros Psychogios, Nikolaos Dimitriadis

“…We further recommend a new approach of applying cognitive style analysis to capture the duality of leader/follower in the same person, following the self-illusion theory. …”
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Coset leaders of the first order Reed-Muller codes in the classes of Niho functions and threshold functions by Claude Carlet, Serge FEUKOUA JONZO, Ana Salagean

“…We characterize the coset leaders that belong to the classes of Niho functions and threshold functions (this second class being a generalization of the class of majority functions).…”
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“Do you feel like becoming a leader?” Emotions and the likelihood of self-nomination for leadership by Salome Shelia, Zeynep Aycan

“…“The former deputy leader said it was 'a bit of a mystery' to her why she failed to put herself forward for the role when Gordon Brown resigned in 2010.” …”
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