Strategies for leader cognition: Viewing the glass "half full" and "half empty"

Leadership Quarterly

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 425-442

  Antes, Alison L ^a   Mumford, Michael D ^b  

^a NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Crisis; Leader cognition; Negative; Positive; Problem solving; Vision

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860347896     PISSN: 10489843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2011.10.001     Document Type: Article

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