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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 →

Learning Activity 3

The three assessments were helpful in the process of critically analyzing myself as a leader. I scored high on task and technical skill on the Style Questionnaire and Leadership: Theory and Practice respectively. This aligned with my self-conception that when… Continue Reading →

Response to Georgeena – Malala Yousafzai, A Leader I Follow

Georgeena Alphine’s blog about Malala Yousafzai had a focus on how Yousafzai is an inspiration. I must agree that she is an inspiration! Someone having such a global impact at such a young age is incredible. Furthermore, the fact that… Continue Reading →

Response to Daniel’s Follow the Leader

Daniel, I love that you start out your post by being honest about automatically defaulting to thinking about a male leader. I think we all have implicit biases that we are unaware of until they reveal themselves. I know for… Continue Reading →

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