Overall I found these three assessments enlightening, encouraging and helpful! Northouse (2018) provides definitions of the leadership approaches that these assessments are based in: 1) Trait: focused on personality characteristics of the leader 2) Skills: focused on the leader’s capabilities 3) Behavioural: focused on what leaders do and how they behave (p. 73). Trait Approach (LTQ) […]
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 →
Without fail, the series of collected works in part one and two of Watson’s (1951) Light from Many Lamps succeeds with blinding illumination mirroring divine truth upon one’s heart as a means to bombard the ego and replace it with steps towards growing one’s faith and experiencing the true reward from acts of outward service. …
Follow the Leader Great choice in Carey Nieuwhof as a leader to follow. He would definitely fit in the opinion leader category and you’ve outlined some of the impact of that style of leadership. I’ve heard Carey say that if he simply talked about what the Bible says about leadership or 10 verses on being a …
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Assignment 1 – Follow The Leader I’m really grateful for Danielle Strickland’s voice and the opportunities she is receiving to speak on a national and global scale. Daniel, I agree 100% with your conclusion that male leaders like you and I need to change our mindset around what is possible through the voice, life and …
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Seeing results of leadership assessments is like hearing your own voice recorded on video. I hear my own leadership voice all the time but reading these assessments lets me hear it presented back to me in a way that gives an opportunity for reflection, critique, development and change. Overall, it is no surprise that I …
Karamo Brown is most famous for his most recent role in an Emmy awarded reality t.v series call Queer Eye. Karamo is one of the fab five, a group of five guys who descend upon random people for one week […]
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 […]
Servant leadership in its basic form is the principle of how can I serve you? The components of servant leadership have always aligned with the type of leader I strive to be. Listening, empathy and healing are three […]