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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Strategising as a Complex Responsive Leadership Process
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Groot, Nol; Homan, Thijs H. – International Journal of Learning and Change, 2012
This paper, based on a narrative of one of the authors, explores management reality where a chosen strategy developed into a different direction than expected. The authors offer an insight in a manager's daily struggle, where power, gossip and conflict can influence the strategising process. The plans and strategic ambitions chosen at the outset…
Descriptors: Organizational Development, Leadership, Administration, Organizational Change
Senior Executives and the Emergence of Local Responsibilities: A Complexity Approach to Identity Development and Performance Improvement
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Groot, Nol – International Journal of Learning and Change, 2009
All executives strive for better results in their organisations and they are always dependent on others to achieve these results. This article is concerned with the ways in which these better results might be achieved and the role senior management might play in this process. The traditional view is that senior executives design and control the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Leadership, Self Concept, Organizational Development