Ideas by Jackson Faith tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2011-01-18:/faith005/ideasbyjacksonfaith//13267 2011-04-16T21:05:43Z Movable Type Enterprise 4.31-en Week 13 tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2011:/faith005/ideasbyjacksonfaith//13267.286747 2011-04-16T20:54:03Z 2011-04-16T21:05:43Z Week 12: Good leaders adapt to every situation and use their style of leadership to motivate their peers, it is a process rather than a position. It is needed in any group situation and becomes more important in our digital... faith005 Week 12: Good leaders adapt to every situation and use their style of leadership to motivate their peers, it is a process rather than a position. It is needed in any group situation and becomes more important in our digital world where there is dwindling face to face contact. Online interactions require more leadership to be successful.


Week 13: Good leaders adapt to every situation and use their style of leadership to motivate their peers, it is a process rather than a position. It is needed in any group situation and becomes more important in our digital world where there is dwindling face to face contact. Each stage of group work requires the members to be engaged to be most efficient

This week I stuck with most of my prior definition but, the Komives, S. R., Lucas, N., & McMahon, T. R. (1998) reading really made me think about how there are stages that groups go through. Each of these stages is important to the final product and to be most efficient each member needs to be fully engaged and contributing. I could not open up the other reading, hence why I did not use it in my definition this week, damn computers.


Resource:
Komives, S. R., Lucas, N., & McMahon, T. R. (1998). "Interacting in Teams and Groups." Exploring Leadership: For college students who want to make a difference (pp. 165 - 194). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

]]> Week 11 tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2011:/faith005/ideasbyjacksonfaith//13267.284465 2011-04-01T22:27:00Z 2011-04-01T22:52:26Z Week 10: Good leaders adapt to every situation and use their style of leadership to motivate their peers, it is a process rather than a position. Week 11: Good leaders adapt to every situation and use their style of leadership... faith005 Week 10: Good leaders adapt to every situation and use their style of leadership to motivate their peers, it is a process rather than a position.

Week 11: Good leaders adapt to every situation and use their style of leadership to motivate their peers, it is a process rather than a position.

I kept my definition the same this week. I did this because the two readings from this week did not impact me enough to change my point. Goleman, D., Boyatzis, R., & McKee, A. (2002) gave great insight as to how to initiate, and also sustain, great leadership. Kegan, R., & Lahey, L. L. (2009) also gave insight as to how to sustain quality leadership but, the information presented did not change my view point.

Resources:
Goleman, D., Boyatzis, R., & McKee, A. (2002). "Metamorphosis: Sustaining leadership change." Primal Leadership: Learning to lead with emotional intelligence (pp. 139 - 168). Boston: Harvard Business School Press.
Kegan, R., & Lahey, L. L. (2009). "We Never Had a Language for It" Immunity to Change: How to overcome it and unlock the potential in yourself and your organization (pp. 61 - 84). Boston: Harvard Business Press.

]]> Week 10 tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2011:/faith005/ideasbyjacksonfaith//13267.282851 2011-03-25T14:59:12Z 2011-03-25T15:15:06Z Week 8: Good leaders adapt to every situation and use their style of leadership to motivate their peers. Great leaders have worked to understand how to lead themselves which in turn, helps them to understand how to lead others. Week... faith005 Week 8: Good leaders adapt to every situation and use their style of leadership to motivate their peers. Great leaders have worked to understand how to lead themselves which in turn, helps them to understand how to lead others.

Week 10: Good leaders adapt to every situation and use their style of leadership to motivate their peers, it is a process rather than a position.

This week I pulled the point that leadership is a process rather than position from Astin, H. S., & Astin, A. W. (1996). In the back of my mind I knew this but I never applied it to leadership. In my fraternity we have elected positions that carry out necessary tasks. To accompany this we have a saying, "Not having a position does not mean you cannot contribute." We all pitch in to create events with or without a position. Take for example the concert we threw last semester. We raised $7,000 for charity and had a really fun night of live music. Majority of the planning for that event was done by individuals without positions. Leadership is the same way. A person may have been appointed a leader but that does not stop other leaders from coming forward and contributing. Leaders have no boundaries for what they can do, other than the ones they set for themselves.

Resources:
Astin, H. S., & Astin, A. W. (1996). A social change model of leadership development: Guidebook (version III) (pp. 4 - 27). Los Angeles: University of California Los Angeles Higher Education Research Institute.

]]> Week 8 tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2011:/faith005/ideasbyjacksonfaith//13267.279880 2011-03-12T21:56:13Z 2011-03-12T21:56:33Z Week 6: Good leaders adapt to every situation and use their style of leadership to motivate their peers. Great leaders have worked to understand how to lead themselves which in turn, helps them to understand how to lead others. Week... faith005 Week 6: Good leaders adapt to every situation and use their style of leadership to motivate their peers. Great leaders have worked to understand how to lead themselves which in turn, helps them to understand how to lead others.

Week 8: Good leaders adapt to every situation and use their style of leadership to motivate their peers. Great leaders have worked to understand how to lead themselves which in turn, helps them to understand how to lead others.

This week I kept my definition the same. Both of the readings from this week were interesting and only one I felt applied to leadership. I do feel that we all need to take a step back and analyze our situations, but I do not feel this should be apart of our definition. The piece on panicking vs choking was interesting but I really did not feel applied to leadership at all, it was just an interesting piece.


Heifetz, R. A., & Linsky, M. (2002). "Get on the balcony." Leadership on the Line: Staying alive through the dangers of leading (pp. 51 - 74). Boston: Harvard Business School Press.

Gladwell, M. (2000). "The Art of Failure: Why some people choke and others panic." The New Yorker, 84 - 92. Retrieved from http://www.gladwell.com/pdf/choking.pdf

]]> Week 8 tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2011:/faith005/ideasbyjacksonfaith//13267.279879 2011-03-12T21:48:35Z 2011-03-12T21:49:48Z faith005 Week Six tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2011:/faith005/ideasbyjacksonfaith//13267.277686 2011-02-27T02:45:31Z 2011-02-27T03:03:55Z Leadership Week 5: Week 6: Good leaders adapt to every situation and use their style of leadership to motivate their peers. Great leaders have worked to understand how to lead themselves which in turn, helps them to understand how to... faith005 Leadership Week 5:

Week 6: Good leaders adapt to every situation and use their style of leadership to motivate their peers. Great leaders have worked to understand how to lead themselves which in turn, helps them to understand how to lead others.

This week's article brought to mind the saying of, "One needs to understand them self, before they can understand others," or something to that affect. In other words, to understand how other people work, you first have to understand yourself. I think this very much applies to leadership because if you cannot lead and motivate yourself, then how can you lead and motivate others. I added this to my last week's post because I feel that it provides the background information of how great leaders become that way.

Resources:
Lee, R. J., & King, S. N. (2001). Ground Your Leadership Vision in Personal Vision. Discovering the leader in you a guide to realizing your personal leadership potential (pp. 31-54). San Francisco, Calif.: Jossey-Bass ;.

]]> Week 5 tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2011:/faith005/ideasbyjacksonfaith//13267.276568 2011-02-19T20:09:25Z 2011-02-19T21:18:56Z Leadership Week 4: Good leaders adapt to every situation and use their style of leadership to motivate their peers. For myself I need to utilize the techniques of Woo, Harmony, positivity, restorative, and futuristic to be success full. Leadership Week... faith005 Leadership Week 4: Good leaders adapt to every situation and use their style of leadership to motivate their peers. For myself I need to utilize the techniques of Woo, Harmony, positivity, restorative, and futuristic to be success full.

Leadership Week 5: Good leaders adapt to every situation and use their style of leadership to motivate their peers.

This week I stuck with my main point from last week. The Goleman, D., & Boyatzis, R. article on Social intelligence and the biology of leadership did not change my definition of leadership. I do find it fascinating that there is biological evidence that some brains are more well suited to work with others but the article was not much more than a conversation piece. Kyle's article provoked thought about where leaders should be placed in a situation. I like the idea that leaders should act as the center piece and not as the steeple point; for me this just is evidence that good leaders are grounded and humble. Kyle article did not influence my core definition of leadership though.

Resources:
Goleman, D., & Boyatzis, R. (2008). "Social intelligence and the biology of leadership." Harvard Business Review, 86(9), 74-81. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=keh&AN=33983120&site=ehost-live
Kyle, D. T. (1998). "The sovereign: The power of presence." The Four Powers of Leadership: Presence, intention, wisdom, compassion (pp. 159 - 191). Deerfield Beach, FL: Health Communications Inc.

]]> Week Four Resources tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2011:/faith005/ideasbyjacksonfaith//13267.275456 2011-02-13T21:47:43Z 2011-02-13T21:48:02Z 1) Rath, Tom, and Barry Conchie. Strengths based leadership: great leaders, teams, and why people follow. New York: Gallup Press, 2009. Print.... faith005 1) Rath, Tom, and Barry Conchie. Strengths based leadership: great leaders, teams, and why people follow. New York: Gallup Press, 2009. Print.

]]> Leadership, Week Four tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2011:/faith005/ideasbyjacksonfaith//13267.275455 2011-02-13T21:36:09Z 2011-02-13T21:47:09Z Leadership: The act of employing techniques that motivate others to better our society. Leadership: Good leaders adapt to every situation and use their style of leadership to motivate their peers. For myself I need to utilize the techniques of Woo,... faith005 Leadership: The act of employing techniques that motivate others to better our society.

Leadership: Good leaders adapt to every situation and use their style of leadership to motivate their peers. For myself I need to utilize the techniques of Woo, Harmony, positivity, restorative, and futuristic to be success full.

My definition changed quite a bit this week. After reading Strengths Based Leadership I realized that I wasn't being true to my style of leadership. The StrenghtsFinder was able to show me my style and I completely agree with it. I am more of an encourager than a commander.

]]> Week 2 tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2011:/faith005/ideasbyjacksonfaith//13267.271516 2011-01-30T05:47:38Z 2011-01-30T05:50:09Z Leadership: The act of employing techniques that motivate others to better our society. Leadership Week 2: The use of skill that invoke the action of others, can be done through many different styles.... faith005 Leadership: The act of employing techniques that motivate others to better our society.

Leadership Week 2: The use of skill that invoke the action of others, can be done through many different styles.

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