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Month October 2018

Learning Activity 2: Servant Leadership

Servant leadership prioritizes followers and their interests and development over that of the leader or the organization (Northouse, 2016). The term was first coined and written about by Robert K. Greenleaf (Northouse, 2016); he wrote, “it starts with the natural… Continue Reading →

Light From Many Lamps – Part 2

The first leadership lesson in the story of Arnold Bennett in Light From Many Lamps is found in the vision he had for his own life of having “a brilliant and successful writing career” (Watson, 1951, p. 142). We are… Continue Reading →

Learning Activity 1: Transformational Leadership

Transformational leadership focuses on transforming people, improving their performance and uniting them towards a shared organizational vision (Northouse, 2016). The result of this is high accomplishment of followers as they shift their values from self-interest to the organizational good (Northouse,… Continue Reading →

Response to Daneen – Rank, Talk, Write

Daneen, I think your summary of this article offered an important perspective shift for me. When I read your third point about how we need to shift our “leadership concept from person to processes” (daneen85, 2018). I was at first… Continue Reading →

Response to Norm – Rank-Talk-Write

I appreciated Norm’s post discussing “three things employers can do to help their employees use critical thinking in their position” (Beange, 2018). The idea of transferring process from managers to employees to facilitate critical thinking struck me as immediately transferable… Continue Reading →

Response to Jamie – Light From Many Lamps

I appreciated Jamie’s post reflecting on the importance of emotional intelligence in the life of a leader. Northouse (2016) lists empathy as a characteristic of servant leaders. In order to exhibit empathy, a certain amount of emotional intelligence is required… Continue Reading →

Response to Erica – Light from Many Lamps

Erica, I love the leadership lesson that you articulated in your blog that love for one’s work, coupled with servant leadership principles can create emergent leaders and mentoring relationships. My experience as a leader has been similar to yours in… Continue Reading →

Learning Activity 2 – Rank, Talk, Write

In “Toward a Creative Criticality- Revisiting Critical Thinking”, Cooper (2018) articulates four main ideas: Creative criticality is the idea that critical thinking, the ability to analyze and evaluate new ideas, and creativity, the ability to produce new content and innovative… Continue Reading →

Light From Many Lamps – Part 1

The story of Eddie V. Rickenbacker in Light From Many Lamps contains a couple valuable leadership lessons (Watson, 1951). The story is about him and seven other men who are stranded in the Pacific Ocean on a few rubber life… Continue Reading →

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