Perceptions Of Leadership

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and inter-personal skills that are necessary to become a successful leader. Finally, when analyzing my original perceptions, I stated that childhood experiences play a major role in leadership development. I thought that Church and school leadership roles as a child were vital experiences in the development of a leader. I think that the basic attitudes, morals, and values of an individual are developed and honed as a child. Qualities such as these play a major role in the development of a leader and need to be taught and stressed as a child.
I learned from the Bennis audio that there are many other aspects to the development of a leader. There are many qualities that I think of . For instance, the audio spoke of “Ed” who had plenty of technical knowledge, business knowledge, education, and judgement skills. He lacked people skills and vision. While I found it obvious that a leader needed people skills, it never occurred to me that vision is also an important ...

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followers. Perhaps one of the most interesting aspects I found in the Bennis audio was that present feelings are really memories of past behavior. This idea makes complete sense, but it is one that I’ve never given much thought too. Now, I think that as a leader a person must make sure that they don’t react to a situation strictly from a feeling stance. The feeling may be based on a past experience that failed. If a leader reacts to a similar situation in the same way because they are scared of failure, then they will never realize their true potential as a leader.
Some of my original perceptions of leaders changed, while other perceptions remained the same. I found that many of ...

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