The article provides a brief overview of appreciative inquiry, discusses if AI is only about the positive, describes the 4-D cycle, types of questions that are typical of AI.

In the present paper we raise the question whether CEO transformational leadership invariably makes a difference for team performance and change effectiveness....

In this slide presentation, David Peterson discusses 5 stages of expertise, and why it's challenging to be a great coach.

This study explores the links between CEO leadership behaviors firm performance and employees' attitudes in a sample drawn from 125 firms in China....

This diary study investigated whether and how supervisors' leadership style influences followers' daily work engagement....

Based on the existing social influence literature we predict that a supervisor's affective commitment to the organization may influence his or her subordinates' level of affective commitment which subsequently affects their task performance and extra-role behavior....

Previous research on upper echelon (i.e. top-level) executives has focused on how character flaws or lapses in ethical judgment lead to detrimental outcomes. Research is lacking that specifically examines whether character strengths that are reflected in the behaviors of top-level executives are related to positive outcomes....

Individualized leadership (IL) was studied in 11 independent formally assigned senior-level relationships....

Perhaps nowhere are leaders more pivotal than in the extreme contexts of responding to the aftermath of natural disasters or orchestrating post-war stability support transition and reconstruction efforts....

Regardless of the quality of the decisions, teams that fail to effectively implement their decisions have accomplished nothing. Teams that derive decisions through a conflictual process may find that their members lack commitment to their decision due to the nature of the conflict the team experienced....