Jinki's blog tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2011-09-13:/hong0376/jinkihong//14340 2011-12-04T04:46:48Z Movable Type Enterprise 4.31-en my emerging definition of leadership tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2011:/hong0376/jinkihong//14340.325394 2011-12-04T04:45:24Z 2011-12-04T04:46:48Z Last week: The great leadership seems to require having a clear view of reality and some perspective on the bigger picture in order to see what is really going on, an attitude to be to everyone, and an understanding of... hong0376 Last week: The great leadership seems to require having a clear view of reality and some perspective on the bigger picture in order to see what is really going on, an attitude to be to everyone, and an understanding of the group and the team, such as how they interact in a group and how they work.

This week: A great leader seems to require having a great communication skill and understanding lots of factors of communications to deal with people.

My analysis: according to Komives, Lucas, and McMahon (1998), "Context - The house of mirrors illustrates that while one communicator means one thing, the other may experience something completely different" (p. 52). Since leaders might have to communicate with not a single person, but rather lots of people in a certain group or a team. Miscommunication might make people misunderstand the objective or goal of a group, which causes an unorganized group because people have different goals from leaders' goal. This reading taught me about the importance of communication between people and some factors of communication, which can cause conflict between communicators due to miscommunication.

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.

]]> the definition of leadership tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2011:/hong0376/jinkihong//14340.322915 2011-11-20T03:03:10Z 2011-11-20T03:03:35Z Last week: The great leadership seems to require having a clear view of reality and some perspective on the bigger picture in order to see what is really going on, an attitude to be to everyone, and an understanding... hong0376 Last week: The great leadership seems to require having a clear view of reality and some perspective on the bigger picture in order to see what is really going on, an attitude to be to everyone, and an understanding of the group and the team, such as how they interact in a group and how they work.

This week: The great leadership seems to require having a clear view of reality and some perspective on the bigger picture in order to see what is really going on, an attitude to be to everyone, and an understanding of the group and the team, such as how they interact in a group and how they work.

My analysis: After reading the article assigned for this week, it did not affect my emerging definition of leadership at all. Like Boyatzis said (2006), "Through intentional change theory, we can understand how individuals, groups, organizations, and whole communities, and even countries can change in desired ways" (p. 619). Understanding the intentional change theory might be useful to a leader in several ways, such as how people achieve their desired goals and the process of the intentional change. However, I think that this theory should be used by all individuals, not just by a leader because a leader seems to be a person who is in the top of a group or a team and looks at overall relationship of members and a process of the group or the team. So, this theory should be used by members in a group to achieve their personal objectives.

]]> Definition of leadership tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2011:/hong0376/jinkihong//14340.321471 2011-11-10T23:17:16Z 2011-11-10T23:17:53Z Last week: I would like to add more to the definition of leadership. I think that the great leadership is followed by having a clear view of reality and some perspective on the bigger picture in order to see... hong0376 Last week: I would like to add more to the definition of leadership. I think that the great leadership is followed by having a clear view of reality and some perspective on the bigger picture in order to see what is really going on and an attitude to be fair to everyone.

This week: the great leadership seems to require having a clear view of reality and some perspective on the bigger picture in order to see what is really going on, an attitude to be to everyone, and an understanding of the group and the team, such as how they interact in a group and how they work.

My analysis: ""Interacting in Teams and Groups" this article strongly affected my thought on leadership. I think that a great leader should have a great understanding regarding a group or a team that he or she would like to lead. Without that, a leader might have a difficulty leading since each team or group has different character. As Komives, Lucas, and McMahon mentioned (1998), "There are many different dimensions to how groups are structured, and each has implications for the leadership dynamics in that group" (p. 166). Sometimes leaders may have to lead a group that is already formed by another leader, so, understanding a group or team seems significant to a leader. Not only that, but I also strongly believe that a great leader should be fair to everyone regardless of their race, gender, and age and have a good perspective in order to see a bigger picture of a situation.

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.

]]> my emerging definition of leadership tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2011:/hong0376/jinkihong//14340.319853 2011-11-06T04:51:51Z 2011-11-06T04:53:47Z Last week: "Get on the balcony" According to Heifetz and Linsky (2002), "achieving a balcony perspective means taking yourself out of the dance, in your mind, even if only for a moment. The only way you can gain both a... hong0376 Last week: "Get on the balcony" According to Heifetz and Linsky (2002), "achieving a balcony perspective means taking yourself out of the dance, in your mind, even if only for a moment. The only way you can gain both a clearer view of reality and some perspective on the bigger picture is by distancing yourself from the fray. Otherwise, you are likely to misperceive the situation and make the wrong diagnosis, leading you to misguided decisions about whether and how to intervene"

This week: I would like to add more to the definition of leadership. I think that the great leadership is followed by having a clear view of reality and some perspective on the bigger picture in order to see what is really going on and an attitude to be fair to everyone.

My analysis: I agree with Gladwell's point and some example, especially the story of car sales man in taking care of the customer part. I think that a great leader should also be fair to everyone regardless of their gender so that they could lead people to a right way. Especially, according to Gladwell (2005), Bob Golomb, a car sales man' story, "trying not to judge people on the basis of his or her appearance" (p. 89). This story teaches me a lot in terms of what a great leader should do and the most important ability I have to have as a leader.

Comments: Jinki, the way this is proceeding is not quite what the assignment calls for. I realize you are just adding new pieces to each week, but the point of this assignment is for you to integrate your overall ideas into a single definition, not just pull quotations from each week's readings and add them on each week. I did not quite realize this was happening in this way before today, so I won't count off extensively on this, but you need to amend this starting this week or I will begin deducting points. Please see me for office hours if you have questions.
Grade: 8 out of 10 points.
Clarity of the new definition: 1 points out of 2 possible
Thoughtfulness of the analysis: 6 points out of 6 possible
Grammar, spelling, and APA style: 1 point out of 2 possible

Gladwell, M. (2005). "The Warren Harding Error: Why we fall for tall, dark, and handsome men." Blink: The power of thinking without thinking (pp. 72 - 98). New York: Pushkin Enterprises.

]]> my emerging definition of leadership tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2011:/hong0376/jinkihong//14340.318411 2011-10-30T03:31:37Z 2011-10-30T03:32:51Z Last week: "Leadership is made" According to Terry (2001), "Some people believe that leadership is not born. It is made. It is learned from experience. The reason I like to work with adults is that most of us are wounded.... hong0376 Last week: "Leadership is made" According to Terry (2001), "Some people believe that leadership is not born. It is made. It is learned from experience. The reason I like to work with adults is that most of us are wounded. As we get out in the world and battle around, we get beaten up. We can become perpetual victims or we can learn from these painful experiences, deepen our understanding of things, and master new insights and skills" (p. 24).

"Foster adaptation". According to Heifetz, Grashow, and Linsky (2009), "Executives today face two competing demands. They must execute in order to meet today's challenges. And they must adapt what and how things get done in order to thrive in tomorrow's world. They must develop "next practices" while excelling at today's best practices" (p. 65).

"Building community" According to Barbuto and Wheeler (2007), "Do people feel a strong sense of community in the organization that you lead? Servant leaders have a strong sense of community spirit and work hard to foster it in an organization. They believe that an organization needs to function as a community. A servant leader instills a sense of community spirit in the workplace. Those who want to be great servant leaders need to work hard to build community in the organization"
This week: "Get on the balcony" According to Heifetz and Linsky (2002), "achieving a balcony perspective means taking yourself out of the dance, in your mind, even if only for a moment. The only way you can gain both a clearer view of reality and some perspective on the bigger picture is by distancing yourself from the fray. Otherwise, you are likely to misperceive the situation and make the wrong diagnosis, leading you to misguided decisions about whether and how to intervene"

My analysis: the concept of getting on the balcony is what I would like to achieve. I believe that leaders should try to step away and try to see something with variety angles in order to see what is really going on. Sometimes I tend to have a narrow view on something I have to deal with, which makes me misperceive the situation and make the wrong diagnosis. Although it is really hard for me to have variety view in order to see what is really going on my group, I think I have to own this skill to become a great leader.

Comment: Nice thoughts. Remember to cite properly -- use the authors' last names and the year for APA style, not their first names and initials.
Grade: 8 out of 10 points
Clarity of the new definition: 2 points
Thoughtfulness of the analysis: 5 points
Grammar, spelling, and APA style: 1 point

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.

]]> my emerging definition of leadership tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2011:/hong0376/jinkihong//14340.316588 2011-10-23T00:45:22Z 2011-10-23T00:46:35Z Last week: "Leadership is made" According to Robert (2001), "Leadership is not born. It is made. It is learned from experience. The reason I like to work with adults is that most of us are wounded. As we get... hong0376 Last week: "Leadership is made" According to Robert (2001), "Leadership is not born. It is made. It is learned from experience. The reason I like to work with adults is that most of us are wounded. As we get out in the world and battle around, we get beaten up. We can become perpetual victims or we can learn from these painful experiences, deepen our understanding of things, and master new insights and skills" (p. 24).

"Foster adaptation". According to Ronald, Alexander, and Marty (2009), "Executives today face two competing demands. They must execute in order to meet today's challenges. And they must adapt what and how things get done in order to thrive in tomorrow's world. They must develop "next practices" while excelling at today's best practices" (p. 65).

This week: "Leadership is made" According to Robert (2001), "Leadership is not born. It is made. It is learned from experience. The reason I like to work with adults is that most of us are wounded. As we get out in the world and battle around, we get beaten up. We can become perpetual victims or we can learn from these painful experiences, deepen our understanding of things, and master new insights and skills" (p. 24).

"Foster adaptation". According to Ronald, Alexander, and Marty (2009), "Executives today face two competing demands. They must execute in order to meet today's challenges. And they must adapt what and how things get done in order to thrive in tomorrow's world. They must develop "next practices" while excelling at today's best practices" (p. 65).

"Building community" According to John E and Daniel W (2007), "Do people feel a strong sense of community in the organization that you lead? Servant leaders have a strong sense of community spirit and work hard to foster it in an organization. They believe that an organization needs to function as a community. A servant leader instills a sense of community spirit in the workplace. Those who want to be great servant leaders need to work hard to build community in the organization"

Work Cited

Barbuto, J. E., & Wheeler, D. W. (2007). "Becoming a Servant Leader: Do you have what it takes?" Retrieved from www.ianrpubs.unl.edu/epublic/live/g1481/build/g1481.pdf

Heifetz, R., Grashow, A., & Linsky, M. (2009). "Leadership in a (permanent) crisis." Harvard Business Review, 87(7), 62-69. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=keh&AN=41997981&site=ehost-live

Terry, R. (2001). "Deciding what you believe." Seven zones for leadership: Acting authentically in stability and chaos (pp. 20 - 40). Mountain View, CA: Davies-Black Publishing, Inc.

My analysis: After I read reading assigned for this week, it was more difficult for me to define leadership with a couple of sentences. Once I read more articles regarding leadership, I get to know more about leadership and just keep adding new emerging definition of leadership. The reason why I add "building community" for this week blog posting is because this is the exact same as what I am doing as a president of my debate club. I am currently a president of a debate club. It was really hard for me to make all members work together because everyone didn't have a strong sense of belonging at first and they worked individually. I tried to work hard to be a good example to other members and to build community in my group. I cannot say that I made good community in my group, but my effort made our group work well and become a real group.

]]> my emerging definition of leadership tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2011:/hong0376/jinkihong//14340.315343 2011-10-16T04:23:39Z 2011-10-16T04:25:20Z Last week: "Leadership is made" According to Robert (2001), "Leadership is not born. It is made. It is learned from experience. The reason I like to work with adults is that most of us are wounded. As we get out... hong0376 Last week: "Leadership is made" According to Robert (2001), "Leadership is not born. It is made. It is learned from experience. The reason I like to work with adults is that most of us are wounded. As we get out in the world and battle around, we get beaten up. We can become perpetual victims or we can learn from these painful experiences, deepen our understanding of things, and master new insights and skills" (p. 24).

This week: "Leadership is made" According to Robert (2001), "Leadership is not born. It is made. It is learned from experience. The reason I like to work with adults is that most of us are wounded. As we get out in the world and battle around, we get beaten up. We can become perpetual victims or we can learn from these painful experiences, deepen our understanding of things, and master new insights and skills" (p. 24).

"Foster adaptation". According to Ronald, Alexander, and Marty (2009), "Executives today face two competing demands. They must execute in order to meet today's challenges. And they must adapt what and how things get done in order to thrive in tomorrow's world. They must develop "next practices" while excelling at today's best practices" (p. 65).

Work Cited

Heifetz, R., Grashow, A., & Linsky, M. (2009). "Leadership in a (permanent) crisis." Harvard Business Review, 87(7), 62-69. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=keh&AN=41997981&site=ehost-live

Terry, R. (2001). "Deciding what you believe." Seven zones for leadership: Acting authentically in stability and chaos (pp. 20 - 40). Mountain View, CA: Davies-Black Publishing, Inc.

My analysis: I still strongly agree with the definition of leadership "Leadership is made". I would also like add more for my emerging definition of leadership for this week. The main reason why I would like to add more is because "Foster leadership" is really related to "Leadership is made". Like I mentioned before, leadership is made, especially it is learned from experiences. In order to foster adaptation, a leader has to know a lot of things that can be economy, politics, current social trends, and so on. All these things are mostly learned from a lot of experiences, especially hands-on experience. Leaders today have to be flexible in their thinking to adapt to something new they face. To adapt flexibly, leaders must own a lot of experiences to deal with a lot different situations in modern society. As old saying goes, a frog in the well. Leaders have to be a frog outside of the well instead of a frog in the well, which means leaders have to experiences a lot of things to deal with any difficulties and adapt to something new they face wisely.

Edit comment: You're not citing quite properly, but I get the point. Please check your APA style. Also, your analysis doesn't really explain why you don't think the readings for the week are relevant to your definition -- which is the assignment. You don't have to change your definition, but you do need to react to the readings and explain why the ideas from the readings aren't impacting how you think about leadership. Grade: 7 out of 10 points Clarity of the new definition: 1 point Thoughtfulness of the analysis: 4 points Grammar, spelling, and APA style: 2 points

]]> Definition of leadership tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2011:/hong0376/jinkihong//14340.313280 2011-10-07T20:35:03Z 2011-10-07T21:07:11Z Last week: "Leadership is made" According to Robert, "Leadership is not born. It is made. It is learned from experience. The reason I like to work with adults is that most of us are wounded. As we get out in... hong0376 Last week: "Leadership is made" According to Robert, "Leadership is not born. It is made. It is learned from experience. The reason I like to work with adults is that most of us are wounded. As we get out in the world and battle around, we get beaten up. We can become perpetual victims or we can learn from these painful experiences, deepen our understanding of things, and master new insights and skills" (p. 24).

This week: "Leadership is made" According to Robert, "Leadership is not born. It is made. It is learned from experience. The reason I like to work with adults is that most of us are wounded. As we get out in the world and battle around, we get beaten up. We can become perpetual victims or we can learn from these painful experiences, deepen our understanding of things, and master new insights and skills" (p. 24).

Terry, R. (2001). "Deciding what you believe." Seven zones for leadership: Acting authentically in stability and chaos (pp. 20 - 40). Mountain View, CA: Davies-Black Publishing, Inc.

My analysis: Two readings assigned for this week were hard to apply to definition of leadership. Therefore, emerging definition of leadership for this week is still the same as last week's definition. Paul and Elder mainly talks about ethics and how to be a ethical person by ethical reasoning. Kidder explains how people make a decision between two right choices. I think that ethical reasoning is what not only leaders should follow but also all people should follow in order to avoid egocentrism. One thing I want to say is that the importance of making a decision between two right choices because this is what we always face in our life. Especially, when Kidder talks about "Individual versus community", this is quite difficult task for a leader when they make a decision as a leader. I think that leader is a person who lead many people with some certain abilities. one of abilities leaders should have might be to make a right choice for community. I do not say that this is my new definition of leadership for this week, but this is the most important qualification leaders should have.

Edit copy: Jinki, this is still not meeting the requirements of the assignment. Please check the syllabus for the required format.
Grade: 9 out of 10 points
Clarity of the new definition: 2 points out of 2 possible
Thoughtfulness of the analysis: 6 points out of 6 possible
Grammar, spelling, and APA style: 1 point out of 2 possible

]]> Definition of leadership tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2011:/hong0376/jinkihong//14340.309926 2011-09-25T04:02:36Z 2011-09-25T04:51:12Z Honestly, I have never thought of what leadership really is, I only assume that a person with a power that can be money, political power, and strongness has a leadership. Also, I used to think of leadership as a... hong0376 Honestly, I have never thought of what leadership really is, I only assume that a person with a power that can be money, political power, and strongness has a leadership. Also, I used to think of leadership as a inborn ability because when I read biography of leaders all over the world, they were extraordinary people when they were even young and they became leaders after all. I don't still know much about leadership, but I believe that leadership is a inborn ability. from last week.

After reading some articles about leadership, those articles has a little changed my thoughts regarding leadership. as I mentioned last week, I only thought of leadership as a leader itself and their inborn abilities. I did not think of many different styles of leaders and some factors leaders should have to lead people. first thought on leadership was very similar to the authoritative style. according to Daniel Goleman (2000), "The authoritative leader is a visionary; he motivates people by making clear to them how their work fits into a larger vision for the organization. People who work for such leaders understand that what they do matters and why authoritative leadership also maximizes commitment to the organization's goals and strategy" (p. 83). like the the authoritative style, I thought that leaders are people who are in the top position and give people orders and control their people. However, after reading articles, I believe that the affiliative style leaders seem to be an ideal leaders to me. According to Daniel Goleman (2004), "The affiliative leader says, "people come first." This leadership style revolves around people - its proponents value individuals and their emotions more that tasks and goals. The affiliative leader strives to keep employees happy and to create harmony among them. He manages by building strong emotional bonds and then reaping the benefits of such an approach, namely fierce loyalty" (p. 84). So, I think that the affiliative leaders are real leaders who I would like to admire. Not only giving orders to people and standing in the top of the system, but leaders have to take care of their people and try to create harmony. Although I do not have many ideas about leadership so far and I also believe that leaders have their inborn abilities to some extend, this is true that the concept of the affiliative style has changed my thoughts on leadership quitely.

Goleman, Daniel. (2000). Leadership that gets results. Havard Business Review, 78(2), 78-90

]]> Hello, This is my first post. tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2011:/hong0376/jinkihong//14340.307668 2011-09-14T02:49:24Z 2011-09-14T02:49:44Z Honestly, I have never thought of what leadership really is, I only assume that a person with a power that can be money, political power, and strongness has a leadership. Also, I used to think of leadership as a... hong0376 Honestly, I have never thought of what leadership really is, I only assume that a person with a power that can be money, political power, and strongness has a leadership. Also, I used to think of leadership as a inborn ability because when I read biography of leaders all over the world, they were extraordinary people when they were even young and they became leaders after all. I don't still know much about leadership, but I believe that leadership is a inborn ability.

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