{"id":155,"date":"2017-10-01T22:41:26","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T05:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ruthleong\/?p=155"},"modified":"2017-10-01T23:06:08","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T06:06:08","slug":"response-to-timothy-dehaans-follow-the-leader-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ruthleong\/2017\/10\/01\/response-to-timothy-dehaans-follow-the-leader-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Response to Timothy deHaan&#8217;s Follow The Leader Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is my response to Timothy deHaan&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/nocontest\/2017\/09\/30\/follow-the-leader-simon-sinek\/\">Follow The Leader post on Simon Sinek<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Timothy, thank you for introducing Simon Sinek&#8217;s work to us! It is always interesting to study and learn about inspiring leaders and the common traits that made them successful.<\/p>\n<p>To me, it seems that Sinek&#8217;s ideas can be linked back to servant leadership. You mentioned that his first idea was that good leaders make their followers feel safe. This aligns with the servant leadership characteristics &#8220;commitment to the growth of people&#8221; and &#8220;building community&#8221; (Northouse, 2016, p. 228-229). Both of these principles help leaders build trust with followers because the leaders are actively and consciously putting the followers first.\u00a0Sinek&#8217;s second idea of identifying the reasons behind a leader&#8217;s actions reminds me of Hughes, Colarelli Beatty, and Dinwoodie&#8217;s book\u00a0<em>Becoming A Strategic Leader<\/em> and their ideas on strategic leadership. Hughes et al. define strategic leadership creating &#8220;the direction, alignment, and commitment needed to achieve the enduring performance potential of the organization&#8221; (p. 11).<\/p>\n<p>It is fascinating when different authors and experts come to the same conclusions independently. This speaks to how true certain principles are &#8211; no matter what the case studies or situations are, many of the basic concepts remain the same.<\/p>\n<p><strong>References:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hughes, R. L., Colarelli Beatty, K., &amp; Dinwoodie, D. L. (2014). <em>Becoming a Strategic Leader: Your Role in Your Organization\u2019s Enduring Success. <\/em>San Francisco, CA: John Wiley &amp; Sons, Inc.<\/p>\n<p>Northouse, P. G. (2016).\u00a0<em>Leadership: Theory and Practice<\/em>. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my response to Timothy deHaan&#8217;s Follow The Leader post on Simon Sinek. Timothy, thank you for introducing Simon Sinek&#8217;s work to us! It is always interesting to study and learn about inspiring leaders and the common traits that made them successful. To me, it seems that Sinek&#8217;s ideas can be linked back to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ldrs500","category-unit-1","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ruthleong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ruthleong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ruthleong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ruthleong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ruthleong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ruthleong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ruthleong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ruthleong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ruthleong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ruthleong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}