I know what you’re thinking. No, it’s not an oxymoron. Servant leadership is a relatively new approach to leadership theory which primarily emphasizes that a leader’s role is to elevate their followers. Instances of servant leadership have been seen throughout human history but was only coined recently by Greenleaf in 1970 who wrote: Servant Leadership […]
Transformational leadership is an approach widely used and accepted by scholars and leaders alike in the 21st century. It’s an approach to leadership theory that focuses on leaders as individuals who lead through mentoring and empowering followers to make decisions and ultimately put the needs of their group over their own (Northouse, 2016, pp. 161-162). […]
Linda Elder’s writing and work on critical thinking provided to be hugely insightful for anyone interested in further exploring and understanding the concept. As human beings, we are inherently limited in our ability to understand and perceive the world partially due to our egocentric natures. We view the world through a subjective lens that’s tainted […]
The results of the ‘Leadership Theory and Practice’ and ‘Style’ questionnaires I partook in didn’t reveal too much and confirmed what I mostly knew about myself already. In terms of style, I’ve always preferred to lead based on relationship because I like to give people the freedom in the way they do tasks instead of […]
In John Burroughs story, ‘The Secret to Happiness is Something To Do,’ he practically relays the message of the story in the title itself. John argues that ‘the best thing for a man is that which keeps the currents going – the physical, the moral, the intellectual currents going… Take away the occupation of all […]
Hi Matt, I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed reading your article about the corporate activism of Rose Marcario, the CEO of Patagonia. I agree that society needs to shift it’s values of being a product-consumer to product-owner as far too many resources are wasted on producing clothing items to keep up with ever-changing fashion […]
A popular approach to modern leadership theory was one coined by Robert Greenleaf as servant leadership. Greenleaf defined servant leadership as: “the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead… the difference manifests itself in the care taken by the servant – first to […]
An interesting topic that’s explored amongst scholars studying leadership is the contrast between leadership and management. In many ways, the relationship between leadership and management can be compared to the social process of a person ‘emerging’ as a leader, described as emergent leadership, and a person being ‘assigned’ a leadership position which is described as […]
Throughout time, the conceptual understanding of leadership has varied where in the early 20th century for example, leadership was thought to be linked to specific behavioral or personality traits that certain people possessed (Northouse, 2016). Today we will be critically examining the modern definition of leadership, as defined by Northouse, and the components which make […]