Lead - Innovate - Revolutionize
A journey towards new type of leadership
Frederic Loomis: The best medicine is to stop thinking about yourself, and start thinking about other people. In reflection on his deathbed, Dr. Frederick Loomis determined that though we may struggle through life and in death, there is little fruit […]
I took the Gender-Leader Implicit Association test twice. First at the beginning of the unit, and again at the end. I consider myself to be be an advocate for women in leadership, which has evolved over the years from a […]
Photo credit: Wall Street Journal (1986) as cited in Morgan (2015) Since the term “The Glass Ceiling” was coined in 1984 by Gay Bryant to describe his analysis of working women in America, much work has been done to break […]
Matt, thanks for taking the time to respond to my response! I appreciate that you took the time to clarify what you meant and answering my question by describing the steps you would take. I see now what you meant […]
Daneen, thank you for your very succinct summary of what you believe are the three main characteristics of servant leadership within a team. I agree that listening and awareness are key for a leader to really know where team leaders […]
Georgeena, I am just reading your Unit 5 post on the characteristics of servant leadership. A point of interest for me was your comment about the percentage of time a leader typically spends talking over listening. You state: Traditionally followed […]
In MonicaGrace’s post on the moral implications of leadership, she presented an analogy that compared our actions as leaders to a single water droplet having the power to create concentric and repeating “ripple effects”. She says that “The leader can […]
Matt, I appreciated reading your post and perspective on transformational leadership. I love the transformational leadership approach and really value it’s emphasis on the people in the organization. I love to see people succeed. However, you said something thought provoking, […]
Summary Through the work of Wang, Colbert, Courtright, and Oh (2011) in their article Transformational leadership and performance across criteria and levels: A meta-analytic review of 25 years of research, it was discovered that transformational leadership has a positive correlation […]
Leaders are key influential people in any organization. They create vision, lead and inspire a team of people, and take responsibility for the outcomes. A commonly used (and simple) definition of leadership is “a process whereby an individual influences a […]