3 The In Extremis Leadership Model Flashcards
One of the central precept of authentic leadership theory
followers are attentive to and able to recognize a lack of sincerity or erroneous impression of management strategies displayed by someone trying to lead
authentic leaders are
confident, optimistic people, high-end character, and aware of their own thoughts, behaviors, abilities, and values
authentic leaders are also attentive to the same characteristics and other people it’s easy for them to spot a phony, fake, or more importantly and inexperienced leader whose heart is in the right place but who needs direction. because of the stability authentic leaders make superb ___
mentor’s
Optimism, hopefulness, and resiliency provide the key to understanding why leaders who were authentic are also effective at….
commanding follower loyalty, obedience, admiration, and respect
it follows, then, that in circumstances where followers especially valued leader optimism, hope, and resilience, authentic leaders assert a uniquely powerful influence. Specifically, in dangerous situations where follower sense that their lives are threatened…
perceptions and feeling of optimism, hope, and resilience defined the promise of future life, and they desperately seek those qualities
it may be that leaders at the point of death feels so responsible for maintaining the lives of others… that they maintain a focus on the environment and operate in the world as it exists in the moment ____
they can never afford the luxury of handling responsibility over to either circumstance of a deity or fate
when danger peaks to the point of the perception of inevitable death, an outward focused leader can ill afford despondency or fatalism. Instead, the best in extremist leader maintain ____, ____, and ___ denying fate until they are overcome by the circumstances. The leader’s job is to create the fate that others experience: leaders are not God themselves, but they are fate makers in the sense that their purpose and function are to continue to value the lives of others who are at the point of death…
optimism, hope, and resilience,
when GE used laminated value cards in the U.S. Army developed a value dog tag… both to imbue values they failed due to…
the fundamental flaw to these approaches was a lack of authenticity
values are caught not____
taught
leadership means different things to different people. For some, it’s an organizational effectiveness tool, almost like following a simple recipe: …
: take an enterprise, add a leader, improve productivity and increase the bottom line.
Responsibility for life fosters an intense focus. Leading under such circumstances and is less about power over subordinates and more about …
an obligation to ward their well being and survival.
In extremist leadership, coached in authentic leadership theory, has nothing to do with techniques. It’s about…
authentic elements of the individual’s character and the leader follower relationship.
Harris wrote the “be, know, do” concept to ensure that the Academy as an institution and the Army as a whole would recognize that …
that in order for officers to be great leaders, they would need to have not only a set of skills and knowledge but a genuineness of character
to be a leader is not to hold down a position or perform a job it is to….
develop a character that is inextricably linked to giving purpose, motivation, and direction to others.
In their study of soldiers during World War II. Stouffer found that when inexperienced soldiers sensed that their lives were threatened…
they became desperate for almost any type of leader. In short, they wanted to see a leader as their key to survival.
Among psychologists and individuals increased awareness of death is termed
mortality salience
when mortality salience was manipulated people interviewed about the in extremis leadership clearly demonstrated a preference for
charismatic leaders
mortality salience when coupled with messages about specific events has been showed to directly influence
political beliefs as well as voting behavior
serious leader developers in high risk activities, particularly the pinnacle of trainers of trainers, press beyond…
established doctrine to a higher level of development
_______ is the only authentic basis for trust or loyalty
competence
when a leader has internalized the recognition of his own competence, we label the feeling ______
confidence
confidence is important not only to the individual leader, but it’s also an important…
perception that followers must have in order for the organization to solidify… the more dangerous the circumstance, the more important it is for leader to remain confident
people who lead in in extremis settings have to be enormously…
humble and unassuming
points to designing training or development of a leader must face danger of crisis
- confidence, not just functional ability is the goal of an extremist leadership development
- always emphasize the trust must be earned
- demand demonstrated flawless performance
- know when to pull the plug
because in extremis settings often require perfect execution first time, teach simple task to perfection, and chain them into complex task. Require a minimum of____ repetitions of physical task
25
the real problem with the emotion in dangerous and more mundane settings is that it tends to change the way people..
view the possibilities and probabilities of various outcomes. In other words, emotion influence judgment of both the followers in the leaders
best leaders exhibit their calmest most levelheaded demeanors when…
the circumstances are the most dangerous
when reading other people what should you be assessing in Extremis settings
assess when others are in touch with the degree of threat of the impact in the environment… watching their excitement level spirit and motivation… there should be a match
what is…. embracing the suck
in situation when conditions are difficult or miserable it’s essential to motivate even the most dedicated individuals… do with misery and intelligently and with positive energy
part of leadership is preventing people from being ___ instead keep them in learning mode oriented them to the task at hand.. the environment
self focused
when people are in touch with the environmental threats, they naturally focus outward, inherently motivated toward survival.. therefore when developing leaders you should
foster and reward continual scanning and analysis of what happening. enacted since making helps keep the leader and the led situationally aware, which equals survival
when developing a leadership orientation…you should read other people for signs that their attention is..
turning inwards. worry or other emotions is an indication that the individual is turning inward rather than maintaining focus outward and continuing to learn and piece together solutions to threats
in groups in danger, shared risk, particularly among the leaders and the led, makes the organization for survivable and the leader more
more trusted by followers
often highly competent and ambitious individuals were drawn to the challenge of high-risk activities. keep in mind the need to recognize
the need to recognize, reward, and foster selflessness, sharing, and looking out for others
ensure that everyone understands how rick decisions are made you and the difference between
a calculated risk in an ill advised gamble
one of the biggest challenges with risk management is
having the personal discipline to tell the truth. truth telling has risk
people in leadership roles must occupy those roles for the right reasons, settings, those reasons often translate into…
lifestyle that reflects more passion than practicality
the best and extremist leaders align their values with the challenges they face. Success is defined as …
success is defined as excellence, with survival. In the peer sets, lifestyle takes a backseat to the commitment to lead.
When you get accomplished a deconstructing’s peoples motivations it’s much easier to…
to coach them into the right frame of mind for the challenges they are accepting and the risk they are taking with their lives in the lives of other people
the popularity of skills focused training has a lot to do with the need for leader development to demonstrate
value added to organizational leaders… for predictable and measurable return on investment
skills-based leader development may change what a person knows and what a person is capable of doing but…
leadership is also what one is— the “Be” concept… it takes time and powerful experience to change the character of an individual
another problem with the skills focused approach is it usually lacks any quality of inspiration
inspiration is the key to embedding qualities and individuals character: when we are truly passionate and inspired about something, or fundamental character changes to match
four techniques that the Department of behavioral sciences and leadership at West Point is used to add to the developmental preparation of budding in extremist leaders
- inspired by telling stories of real situations- stories inspire
- inspired by using technology to link to in extremeis people and places
- inspired by fusing reality and development
4 inspired by exceeding people’s expectations
leaders in in Extremis settings must learn how to use lateral and hierarchal communications to share knowledge and learn rapidly unshared knowledge is a basis for
unnecessary deaths
the definition of values used by famous psychologist Milton Rokeach simply referred to
concepts to which people attach the most worth for example life liberty and the pursuit of happiness
