Leadership, aggressive

Besides these federal actions there has been a great upsurge of interest and action since the announcement of the National Shelter Policy on the part of state and local governments and national associations. The best example is the aggressive leadership of Governor Rockefeller of New York State toward the provision of adequate fallout shelter for the people of his state. 

Without enlightened and aggressive leadership, the necessary expansion and improvement in the system safety effort may come as the reaction to catastrophic accidents, litigation, or initiatives begun in other parts of the world. 

This book contains the descriptions and results of theoretical and experimental research in the field of efficient building material composites based on advanced polymer binders that were carried out by scientific teams from Polymate Ltd., International Nanotechnology Center (http //www.polymateltd.com, Israel) and Voronezh State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering (VGASU, Russia) with the direct participation or under the leadership of the authors. Physical and mechanical characteristics of these composites, including chemical resistance in various aggressive environments, are discussed in this book. 

This portrayal is summed up by Jutta Weldes as the image of the United States as the winner of World War II, which bore the burden of leadership in the free world, defending democracy and freedom against the expansion and aggression from the totalitarian Soviet Union and its international communist movement, which threatened America s very way of life. See Weldes, Constructing National Interests, European Journal of International Relations 2(3) (1996), p. 283. 

The principal of East High School has aggressively anbraced servant leadership, a relatively new leadership style that attempts to up-end the pyramid. This means that rather than a top-down hierarchical model, a new model is presented where higher manbers in the organizational structure are present to serve those at Iowa levels by listening and implementing ideas they have to make the school function... 

Among failures attributable to leadership deficiency, the largest number were rooted in lack of force, aggressiveness, or an unimpressive military... 

Several studies have shown that highly transformational leadership strongly predicts enhanced safety performance. What connects this kind of leadership with improved performance The connection is mediated by the aggressive, concrete actions that transformational leaders take to address identified safety concerns and issues. 

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