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In the beginning we had gods and goddesses. Hero-leaders. They are part of our collective psyche, and they serve a psychological purpose.
page: 3
tags:
leaders
Like all histories, the history of leadership is one of intrusions and interruptions. It does not follow a linear path.
page: 10
tags:
leadership
history
If the Age of Enlightenment was about anything, it was about casting doubt on what previously had been presumed our proper place here on earth and in the kingdom of heaven.
page: 13
tags:
doubt
Rudeness to children counts as rudeness.
page: 30
tags:
behavior
To keep a house in which every object, down to the smallest bibelot, is in perfect taste is in shocking taste.
page: 30
tags:
tidiness
Why does technology exonerate the kind of foul expression that you would not tolerate anywhere else?
page: 63
tags:
technology
behavior
In this day and age, for reasons of culture and technology, charisma is difficult to sustain. Charisma depends on the leader's personal capacity to attract, even enthrall, groups of followers.
page: 70
tags:
charisma
Merit is the basis of the exchange between the presumably estimable leader on the one hand, and the presumably pliable follower on the other.
page: 71
tags:
merit
Leadership is judged on only two criteria: ethics and effectiveness. A good leader is presumed to be effective and ethical, and a bad, not.
page: 72
tags:
leadership
ethics
effectiveness
The leadership industry also needs to focus on teaching people how to follow with integrity, which can mean refusing to follow, refusing to go along with leaders who are ineffective or unethical or both.
page: 172
tags:
integrity
ethics
Approach them with dignity and they will be respectful. Be yourself a good son and a kind father, and they will be loyal. Raise the good and train the incompetent, and they will be zealous.
page: 177
tags:
leadership
The agreement on what exactly constitutes good character remains elusive.
page: 179
tags:
character
There is too wide a gap between professed commitments to ethical integrity and actual workplace practices.
page: 179
tags:
ethics
integrity
In our zeal for efficiency, and in our belief that almost anyone can and should learn to do almost anything as quickly and expeditiously as possible, we have condensed and contracted learning to lead to meet the demand for instant gratification, characteristic of the twenty-first century.
page: 179
tags:
learning
efficiency
Both the servant leader and the transformational leader have merit that is intrinsic and both include followers in the process of creating change.
page: 182
tags:
merit
leadership
Most of the pedagogies are concerned only with maximizing good leadership, as opposed to minimizing bad leadership, an imbalance that can be explained only if you follow the money.
page: 183
tags:
leadership
What if the kind of learning becoming a leader entails is as much art as science, requiring immersion in, among other things, the liberal arts--subjects such as history, philosophy, and literature, and for that matter music and art?
page: 194
tags:
leadership
Followers matter; they have always mattered and they matter more now than before. To exclude followership from the leadership curriculum is theoretically indefensible and practically irresponsible.
page: 194
tags:
followers
We should encourage learning how to follow--how to engage; how to collaborate and compromise; how to serve and support good leaders; how to challenge and even take on bad leaders; how to speak truth to power.
page: 194
tags:
following