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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Beth Moore is a leader who has massive influence. To be honest, I had not given her much thought until recently I read an article (Green 2018) about her published in the Atlantic (https://www.theatlantic.com/). It talks about her various achievements, the… Continue Reading →
The first principle of Servant Leadership I chose is putting followers first. “Putting others first is the…defining characteristic” (Northouse, 2016, p. 234) of Servant Leadership. An example of putting followers first is when my team has an event we are… Continue Reading →
I appreciated Dawn’s clear and articulate understanding of leadership as a process in this post. She gave a clear picture of how the role of both the leader and the follower in this process. The leader’s role is to continue… Continue Reading →
Someone who is a leader “…because of their formal position in an organization…” is an assigned leader, where as someone who is a leader “…because of the way other group members respond to them…” is an emergent leader (Northouse, 2016,… Continue Reading →
Northouse (2016) defines leadership as “‘a process whereby an individual influences a group of individuals to achieve a common goal” (p. 6). In Chris’ post he asks the question, “Although this definition is focused on a group context, what is… Continue Reading →
