Leadership reconsidered

Question 1

What is traditional leadership?

Answer 1

• Concerned with achieving instrumental goals
• Ensure conformance to established modes of doing work
• Authoritative, task-oriented communication
• Emphasis on logical/rational decision making

Question 2

What is the feminist approach to leadership?

Answer 2

Both feminine and masculine approaches have value depending on the situation (Cultural revisionist)

Rationality, organizational goals, and autonomy (masculine) should not super cede emotional, relational priorities, and connection

Question 3

What is servant leadership?

Answer 3

servant leadership begins with a solitary searches for fulfillment (while serving begins with a commitment to others)

Servant leadership does not question gendered leadership practices and structures (Serving is committed to the feminist vision)

Question 4

What is serving?

Answer 4

Doing things for others that enable them to do their jobs, serving means taking obstacles out of employees ways rather than putting them up (buzzanell sending dan a thank you on textbook) (look back at quotes)

Question 5

What are the elements of serving?

Answer 5

Hopefulness for fundamental change
Strength in the feminist vision
Watchfulness lest service becomes servitude (doing it for them)
humbleness in knowledge that the server is an instrument of change (you have power, but when you interact with others it is about what my people have done)
Wonderment at passages of self, other, community, and principal growth (fascinated by the small things)