Research Paper on:
Modern Organizational Leadership and Max DePree

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on what constitutes leadership in implementing such organization. Manz, Bastien and Hostager (1991) report that there are at least a hundred working definitions of leadership that are accepted within  the academic community. Leadership receives so much attention from business analysts and scholars because it is a component that is readily acknowledged as intrinsic to business organization and success.  Yet, this quality stubbornly resists categorization. All attempts to boil "leadership" down to a few simple directives has proven futile, a fact that serves to support the basic philosophy of  Max DePree, the former CEO of Human Miller Inc. who advocates that leadership is not a science, nor a discipline, but is rather an art. While DePree is not  currently at the helm of Herman Miller, the company founded by his father, D.J. DePree in 1923, his text Leadership is an Art (1989) is still considered by many  experts to be one of the finest books on the topic. For example, when questioned as to what she considered the best business book, Kelley Mooney, business author and president  of Ten/Resource, an interactive marketing company based in Columbus, Ohio stated unequivocally that this would be her "old favorite" "Max DePrees Leadership is an Art" (Budman, 2002, p. 57). Some  business leaders appear to pattern themselves and their organizations on the military, leading from the top down, within the hierarchy of management, DePree favors a more humanistic approach that places  the emphasis in business organization on the employee and the customer. If the student researching this topic agrees with this approach (as this writer does), the student should follow this  research and base their own paper on the career of Max DePree. However, if the student does not agree with this approach, the student should select another business leader. The