Response to Rob Tegelberg’s Rank-Talk-Write Activity

This is my response to Rob Tegelberg’s Rank-Talk-Write Activity on Kathleen A. Cahalan’s Integrative Knowing and Practical Wisdom. 

Hi Rob, your summary and points on this Kathleen Cahalan’s article is very insightful. I really appreciated the discussion of critical thinking in leadership in this article. When I was doing research on this critical thinking for this week’s assignment and learning activity, I found it difficult to find articles that related critical directly to leadership so I am so happy to be able to read this article. Thanks for posting the link to it!

Point 6, “To be a successful leader, one must be strong enough in one’s sense of self that one can recognize others are better suited to certain tasks” (Cahalan as cited by Tegelberg, 2017) really spoke to me. As someone who generally likes to be in control of a situation, it is often hard for me to let go and allow someone else to step in. I did not consider this poor critical thinking before but I can definitely see the connection now since critical thinking is processing and analyzing situations fairly and without bias – even when it comes to evaluating your own abilities! This related to what Northouse (2016) is describing when he states that servant leaders have an awareness that “includes understanding oneself and the impact one has on others” and that servant leaders need to be able to “step aside and view themselves and their own perspectives in the greater context of the situation” (p. 228).

References

Northouse, P. G. (2016). Leadership: Theory and Practice. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Tegelberg, R. (2017, October 14). Unit 3 Activity 2: Rank-Talk-Write. Retried from https://create.twu.ca/robtegelberg/2017/10/14/unit-3-activity-2-rank-talk-write/