Coordination and consensus: the role of compromisers in Tibetan macaques

Coordination and consensus in collective behavior have attracted a lot of research interest. Although previous studies have investigated the role of compromisers in group consensus, they provide little insight into why compromisers would allow such social arrangements to persist. In this study, the potential relationship between group movements and conflict management in Tibetan macaques in Anhui province, China, was investigated using hierarchical cluster analyses. Some members with higher social centrality or social rank often formed a front-runner cluster during group movements. They had higher leadership success than individuals outside the front-runner cluster. Other members with lower social centrality or social rank often followed the group movements initiated by the front-runner cluster, and thus formed the compromiser cluster. Compromisers’ proximity relations with front-runners increased with their following scores to front-runners. Compromisers had fewer events of being attacked when they followed group movements initiated by the front-runners. The compromising process made compromisers lose the choice of direction preference, but it could increase their individual safeties. This trade-off suggests that compromisers play a role of decision-maker in coordination and consensus scenarios among social animals.

Suksesi kepemimpinan pentakostal di era disruptif

The disruptive era is demanding strategic leadership which able to answer the needs of the church grows in the future. Leadership in Pentecostal churches that tend to prepare their family in succession has no guarantee of the needs and success of the next leader in the disruptive era. This research is proposed to examine the most dominant influence factor of leadership succession of Pentecostal churches. This research is using a quantitative approach with a survey method. The result showing that to have a succession planning in prepare new leaders for the church is the most dominant influence factor of leadership succession of Pentecostal churches in a disruptive era. To prepare a new leader through the right and contextual leadership succession is the key to future leadership success. Abstrak Di era disruptif menuntut kepemimpinan yang strategis dan mampu menjawab kebutuhan untuk perkembangan gereja di masa yang akan datang. Kepemimpinan pada gereja-gereja aliran Pentakosta yang cenderung mempersiapkan anggota keluarga dalam regenerasi tidak memberikan jaminan sepenuhnya dapat menjawab kebutuhan dan bagi kesuksesan kepemimpinan selanjutnya pada era disruptif. Penelitian ini mengkaji faktor yang paling dominan mempengaruhi suksesi kepemimpinan gereja-gereja aliran Pentakosta. Penelitian menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif dengan metode survei. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa memiliki perencanaan dalam menyiapkan pemimpin baru bagi gereja menjadi faktor yang paling dominan mempengaruhi suksesi kepemimpinan di era disruptif gereja-gereja aliran Pentakosta. Mempersiapkan pemimpin baru melalui perencanaan yang baik dan yang tepat serta kontekstual menjadi kunci sukses kepemimpinan pada masa yang akan datang.

Malaysia’s strength in women leadership: success factor in localising the United Nations sustainable development goals

Countries worldwide pledged to achieve the targets of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) introduced by the United Nation (UN) by the year 2030. Malaysia, amongst other developing countries, may need to focus on the localisation of the UN SDG led by women representatives, to ensure its success. This research aims to illustrate some of the many strengths that this country has, in achieving the successful localisation of the SDG, which is the existing knowledge of the SDG, and evidence of exhibited commitments to SDG related activities by selected women in focus group studies. Findings from a questionnaire distributed to 628 women representatives in Malaysia suggests substantiated SDG localisation efforts and prioritised goals according to the locality. With further examination on other strengths and weaknesses in the future, this research justifies reasons in entrusting women local leaders to ensure the successful implementation of the UN SDG in Malaysia and to be made a model for similar developing nations of the world.

Discovering the secrets of leadership success: Comparing commercial and academic preoccupations

Having access to the “secrets” of leadership promises to be immensely valuable to those wishing to lead. But what are these “secrets”? In this study, we examined the types of non-academic theorizing (communicated as leadership “secrets”) that writings for a general audience convey. A content analysis of 131 commercial books on leadership “secrets” revealed seven major “secrets” that pertained to (1) knowledge and learning, (2) habits, behaviors, and practices, (3) handling failure, challenges, and struggle, (4) personal inspiration, drive, and motivation, (5) team, group, and organizational strategy, (6) choices and decisions, and (7) communication skills. Intriguingly, the prevalence of leadership “secrets” varied in a cyclical pattern across time such that some “secrets” lost prominence in one period only to reemerge in another. We also observed a considerable degree of correspondence between the foci of topics in these commercial outlets and the foci of academic publications. JEL Classification: J24, O15, M12

The leadership role of the teacher librarian in technology integration

In 2008, the United States’ Institute for Museum and Library Services funded Project Leadership-in-Action (LIA) that included surveys of the technology integration practices of teacher librarian leaders with NationalBoard Certification. Preliminary 2009 survey results suggested that the 295 respondents worked in well-resourced libraries with personnel assistance as well as numerous computers and devices. Respondents reported that they led school technology integration in many areas but also had areas in which to improve such as services to special needs learners, participation in student assessment, and transferring their leadership success to professional and local communities.

Changing Stages of System Innovation at The Ombilin’s Coal Mines of Sawahlunto: From Ghost Town To World Heritage

<p>This paper is about system innovation, a transition from one socio-technical system to another by transforming the historical and cultural area into a world heritage city. The objective of this study is to reconstruct the changing stages of system innovation in achieving the status World heritage at the Ombilin coal mines site of Sawahlunto. The stages of transforming the historical and cultural area into a world heritage for tourism space involved multi-dimensional changes, namely: i. transformation of government sector, ii. economic development trajectory, iii. social-political transformation of society. The success key factors for Ombilin as World Heritage city are: <em>first,</em> the key to the success cannot be separated from the leadership, <em>second</em>, the heritage asset factor that articulated by leadership success in integrating various interests of actors to revitalize heritage assets. This study of system innovation will contribute to: I enrich the understanding on system innovation from historical perspective, and: ii. new approach in social history through study of achieving the status as a city of World Heritage.</p><p> </p><p>Key words: <em>system innovation, World heritage, coal mining, historical reconstruction, transformation.<strong></strong></em></p>

leadership/kepemimpinan, Ayinida

Leadership is an important part of the management process and is needed in all types of organizations. Leaders plan and organize existing resources by influencing and directing others to achieve optimal employee performance. In addition to improving employee performance, for example. Leadership success is influenced by the leadership style applied and the satisfaction of its subordinates. In an organization or community structure, a leader is needed to regulate things that exist in the community. For example, in the small realm of a leader to be in the family circle. A family certainly has a leader to direct the goals to be achieved in the family. Leadership is every attempt by a person to try to influence a person's behavior or group behavior. Efforts to influence this behavior to achieve individual or group goals. There are many theories about leadership, including trait theory, environmental theory, behavior theory, contingency theory, charismatic theory. A leader certainly has a leadership style according to his personality and goals to be achieved. The nature of a leader certainly affects the results of the goals to be achieved in an organization. Leadership is a very important factor in influencing organizational achievement because leadership is the main activity in achieving organizational goals. In the Islamic view of leadership, it should be put in the task (muamalah) of life and devotion (worship) of every human being as a kahlifah on His earth, as Allah says in Surat Al-A'raf verse 129.AbstrakKepemimpinan merupakan bagian penting dalam proses managemen dan dibutuhkan pada semua tipe organisasi. Pemimpin merencanakan dan mengorganisasikan sumber daya yang ada dengan mempengaruhi dan mengarahkan orang lain untuk mencapai kinerja karyawan yang optimal. Selain untuk meningkatkan kinerja karyawan misalnya. Keberhasilan kepemimpinan dipengaruhi oleh gaya kepemimpinan yang diterapkan dan kepuasan bawahannya. Dalam sebuah organisasi atau tatanan masyarakat diperlukan seorang pemimpin untuk mengatur hal-hal yang ada dimasyarakat. Misalnya, dalam ranah kecil seorang pemimpin untuk berada di lingkungan keluarga. Sebuah keluarga tentu memiliki seorang pemimpin untuk mengarahkan tujuan yang akan dicapai dalam keluarga tersebut. Kepemimpinan adalah setiap upaya seseorang yang mencoba untuk mempengaruhi prilaku seseorang atau prilaku kelompok. Upaya mempengaruhi prilaku ini untuk mencapai tujuan peroranagn atau kelompok. Adapun banyak sekali teori-teori tentang kepemimpinan, diantaranya teori sifat, teori lingkungan, teori prilaku, teori kontingengsi, teori karismatik. Seorang pemimpin tentu memiliki gaya kepemimpinan masing-masing sesuai dengan kepribadiannya dan tujuan yang hendak dicapai. Sifat seorang pemimpin tentu mempengaruhi hasil dari tujuan yang hendak dicapai dalam sebuah organisasi.Kepemimpinan merupakan faktor yang sangat penting dalam mempengaruhi prestasi organisasi karena kepemimpinan merupakan aktivitas utama dalam mencapai tujuan organisasi. Dalam pandangan Islam kepemimpinan, hendaknya diletakkan dalam tugas (muamalah) kehidupan dan pengabdian (ibadah) setiap manusia sebagai kahlifah di bumi-Nya, Sebagaimana firman Allah dalam Surat Al-A’raf ayat 129.