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
