763 research outputs found

    Some thoughts on the role of the Reserve Banks

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    Monetary policy ; Monetary policy - United States

    The federal budget's effects on intergenerational equity: undone or not undone?

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    Deficit financing ; Budget ; Income distribution

    Leading For The Bottom Line: A View Of Leadership In A Bottom-Line Context

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    This paper sets out to establish and describe a new approach to leadership called Bottom Line Leadership. The essence of Bottom Line Leadership is that a leader’s most critical responsibility is to clearly identify, communicate and gain buy-in for the ultimate bottom-line objective of the organization he/she leads, subject to constraints imposed by the market and by the organization itself. In comparison to other leadership models that focus on the general attributes or behaviors characterizing effective leaders, Bottom Line Leadership emphasizes the link between an organization’s purpose and a leader’s behavior. The philosophy that serves as the foundation for this article stipulates that employees, in any type of organization, need to be crystal clear about the purpose and bottom-line objective of the organization they work for. Having this clarity of objective enables employees to not only understand the importance of an organization’s strategy and mission; it also allows them to make sound decisions in support of the organization’s goals. We believe that it is essential that leaders in organizations instill this clarity of purpose and help create the conditions that allow people to channel their energies into the appropriate activities. What results from our leadership and management research is a “virtuous circle” model coupled with a checklist that prescribes precisely what Bottom-Line Leaders do. To arrive at our model of Bottom-Line Leadership, we review the teachings of some of the most popular leadership and management thought leaders. We conclude that effective leadership actually encompasses both traditional leadership attributes (create / inspire / influence) and traditional management capabilities (deploy / control / execute). In short, what we find is that Bottom-Line Leaders instill clarity of purpose in their organization, gain commitment to the ultimate bottom-line objective, and engage employees in these efforts. They do this by deploying methods of communication, inspiration and motivation that constantly maintain a connection to, and are aligned with, the ultimate bottom-line objective the organization is striving to achieve. They also work tirelessly to ensure that employees are in a position to make decisions and take actions in manners supporting the bottom-line objective. In our view, leaders are those who do the right things right and get their people to do likewise

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    Constructing Incrementally Reinforced Excel Project Sets Using The S.M.A.R.T. Management Goal-Setting Approach

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    Sets of incrementally reinforced EXCEL spreadsheet cases have been constructed and used at Fairleigh Dickinson University over the past two years with a high degree of student involvement and participation. The construction of these cases is based on an adaptation of a management goal-setting technique, having the acronym S.M.A.R.T. This paper describes the application of this management goal-setting technique to the construction of spreadsheet case, and presents an example case illustrating its actual use
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