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The Leadership Book Flashcards

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Where do you find the leadership?

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Leadership begins with you. You already have it.

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What is leadership about?

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Leadership is not about who you are or where you come from. It is about what you do.

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What does leadership begin with?

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Leadership begins with taking that first step.

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What are the category of role models that most people said were the most influential?

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Family member
-Teacher or coach
-Community or religious
-business leader
-Political leader
-professional athlete
-Entertainer
-non-not sure or other

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What’s the first most influential leader?

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Most people said his mom or dad are the most influential leader of all.

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What is the second place for most influential leaders?

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A teacher or a coach

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Who was the third most influential leader?

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A community or religious leader

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For the over 30 crowd who is the number two leader?

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A business leader

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Where are leader role models found?

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Leader role models are local. You can measure it by the people you know that caused you to look to them for guidance along the important journeys your life. You also definitely find leader role models “close to home” in your organization.

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What is the concept of the five practices of of exemplary leadership?

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The five practices of exemplary leadership is the model of best practices leadership that emerged from research.

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What are the five practices of exemplary leadership?

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1) model the way
2) inspire a shared vision
3) challenge the process
4) enable others to act
5) encourage the heart

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What are you as a leader accountable for?

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You are accountable for the leadership you demonstrates

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Even if you’re not in the management position, you have to do what?

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You have to take responsibility for the quality of leadership people experience.

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What are the 10 fundamental truths about leadership and becoming an effective leader?

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1) you make a difference
2) credibility is the foundation of leadership
3) values drive commitment
4) focusing on the future sets leaders apart
5) you can’t do it alone
6) trust rules
7) challenge is the crucible for greatness
8) Lead by example or don’t lead at all
9) the best leaders are the best learners
10) leadership is an affair of the heart

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Everything you do as a leader is based on what assumption?

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It’s the audacious assumption that you matter

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What do you need as a leader?

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Whatever you need, you already have

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How old do you have to be to demonstrate leadership?

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You can demonstrate leadership at any age.

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Who is the most important leader?

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You are the most important leader

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People working with leaders who demonstrate the five practices of exemplary leadership are significantly more satisfied with what?

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-significantly more satisfied with actions and strategies of their leaders
-feel more committed, excited, energize, influential, and power
-and they are more productive

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What are the necessary building blocks to greatness?

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Fundamentals

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What are the top four characteristics of admired leaders?

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1) honest
2) forward – looking
3) inspiring
4) Competent

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As a leader, what are you accountable for?

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You are accountable for the leadership you demonstrate.

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What does being honest mean for admired leadership characteristics?

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Being honest means telling the truth, and having ethical principles and clear standards by which you live.
To be honest with others also requires being honest with yourself.
Understanding, what stirs your personal passion and what’s worth making painful sacrifices sacrifices for.
-You have to know in your heart that you truly believe what you were saying

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What does being forward looking mean?

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-Having a sense of direction in a concern for the future of the organization
-You must know where you’re going if you expect others to willingly join you on the journey. People won’t follow you until they can see how they share in the future You envision.

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What does being inspiring mean?

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-sharing the genuine enthusiasm, excitement, and energy you have about the exciting possibilities ahead
-Your energy signals, your personal commitment and your optimism signals your hope
-Others need you to encourage them to retire, engage more fully, and put forth greater effort.
-If you want others to voluntarily engage in challenging pursuits, then you have to uplift your constituent spirits.
-You have to give them reason to believe that tomorrow will be even better than today.

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What does being competent mean?

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-it refers to your track record and your ability to get things done. People have to believe that you know what you’re talking about and that you know what you were doing. Competence inspires confidence that you will be able to guide the enterprise, large or small, in the direction in which it needs to go.leadership competence is different from technical competence. You don’t have to be the most skilled engineer to lead a high technology company.

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What are the 4 qualities that the majority of your constituents look for in you?

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1) being honest
2) Forward-looking
3) inspiring
4) competent

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What are the basic measures of whether others will consider you to be the leader that they be willing to follow?

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The four characteristics of admired leaders. Being honest, forward-looking, inspiring, and competent.

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What three out of the four characteristics make up source credibility?

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Honest, competent and inspiring are three of the top four items selected in this research.

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In assessing believability of sources of communication, researchers typically evaluate people on three criteria, what are those three criteria?

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-Perceived trustworthiness
-Expertise
-dynamism

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What is trustworthy, expertise and dynamism strikingly similar to?

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They are similar to essential qualities of honest, competent, and inspiring three of the top four items selected in this research.

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What is the foundation of leadership?

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Credibility

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What is the additional leadership quality that the vast majority of constituents have other than source credibility factors?

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They expect leaders to be forward looking. People must believe that you know where you are headed and have a vision for the future.

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What is the Kouzes – Posner First Law of Leadership?

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Credibility.
If you don’t believe in the messenger, you won’t believe the message.

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What happens when people say their manager exhibits low credibility?

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They significantly more likely to produce only if they are watched carefully, are motivated primarily by money, say good things about the organization, publicly by criticizing it privately, consider looking for another job and feel unsupported and unappreciated.

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What is a reciprocal relationship?

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Leadership is a reciprocal relationship.

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What makes the difference between being an effective leader and being an ineffective leader?

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Credibility credibility will determine whether others want to follow you or not.

38
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What is the foundation of leadership?

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Credibility.

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What is credibility behaviorally?

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They do what they say they will do. TDWTSTWD.

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What is the Kouzes-Posner second law of leadership?

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DWYSYWD or do what you say you will do.

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What does it mean to be credible in action?

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You must do what you say you will do.

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People want to know what about their leaders?

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They want to know who you are? People want to know your values and your beliefs

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Before you can effectively lead others, what do you have to understand?

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You have to know who you are, where you came from, and the values that guide you.

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What do values represent?

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Values represent the core of who you are.

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What has the most significant impact on employees feelings about their work and what they’re doing in the workplace?

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Clarity about personal values.

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What is the second most desirable quality of a leader?

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Being forward looking

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What was the top ranking attribute for being a good leader and a good colleague?

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Being honest

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The quality that most separates leaders from individual contributors is what?

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Being forward looking

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What is the quality that most differentiates leaders from individual contributors?

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Forward-looking

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What requires you to spend more time in the future?

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Developing the capacity to envision the future. Meaning more time, reflecting on the future, more time reading about the future, and more time talking to others about the future.

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What is the critical success factor for the top three jobs in organizations?

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Relationships with subordinates. You can’t do it alone.

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What does a leader coordinate?

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A leader merely coordinates, and puts into action, the wants and desires of the group.

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If trust comes first, what comes second?

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Following come second.

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When constituents trust you what happens to them?

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-they feel liberated
-self-confident
-and secure enough and their relationships to explore new territories and opportunities

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How do you demonstrate others that you can be trusted?

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You have to have both character, (which is honesty and integrity) and the abilities (competence, and expertise) to do your job and to look out for their welfare.

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What are the four things you need to keep in mind to be trustworthy?

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1) behave predictably inconsistently
2) communicate clearly
3) treat promises seriously
4) forthright and candid

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What’s the difference between “need to know” and “need to share” in communication?

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A need to know approach controls information. I need to know approach although sometimes necessary signals distrusted by limiting access to information.
A need to share mentality Foster’s information exchange important for trust. A need to share approach signals trust by providing access in response to information whether receivers have an immediate need for the information or not. I need to share approach also provides information employees need in a timely and useful manner. It also stimulates employees at all organizational levels to communicate information critical for problem-solving, change, and innovation.

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What’s the definition of the growth mindset?

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It’s based on the belief that you’re basic qualities are the things you can cultivate through your efforts. Individuals have a growth mindset, believe people can learn to be better leaders.

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What is a fixed mindset?

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Believing that your qualities are carved in stone. Those with the fixed mindset think liters are born and no amount of training is going to make you any better than you naturally are. Which is not true.
Individuals with fixed mindset, give up more quickly and perform more poorly than those with growth mindset

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What are five elements of deliberate practices?

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1) it is designed specifically to improve performance which means there is a methodology and a very clear goal
2) it has to be repeated a lot. It must be done over and over again until it’s automatic.
3) feedback on results must be continuously available. Every learner needs feedback.
4) It is highly demanding mentally. Developing expertise requires intense, concentration and focus.
5) you must appreciate that it isn’t all that much fun. Deliberate practice is not designed to be fun maybe not that much fun but the knowledge that they are improving and getting closer to superior performance is what makes them better. No pain no gain.

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What is servant leadership?

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Where in the task of leaders is to serve others.

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What is considered the crucible for greatness?

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Challenge

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Of all the characteristics of admired leaders, only four consistently received an average of over 60%. What are they?

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Honest, Forward looking, inspiring, and competent

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Which characteristic in author’s surveys did voters pick least often?

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Independent

65
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What three characteristics make up source credibility?

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Trustworthiness, expertise, and dynamism.

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What is the foundation of leadership?

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Credibility

67
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What is the foundation of leadership?

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Credibility

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What is the Kouzes-Posner first law of leadership principal?

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If you don’t believe in the messenger, you won’t believe the message.

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