Lead the Way tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2011-09-10:/kenyo065/leadtheway//14285 2011-10-30T02:24:29Z Movable Type Enterprise 4.31-en Week 7 Definition tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2011:/kenyo065/leadtheway//14285.318400 2011-10-30T02:19:12Z 2011-10-30T02:24:29Z Last Week's Definition: Leadership is the ability to guide yourself and others based on what you believe to achieve a goal successfully through trust, motivation, and persuasion. This Week's Definition: Leadership is the ability to guide yourself and others based... kenyo065 Last Week's Definition: Leadership is the ability to guide yourself and others based on what you believe to achieve a goal successfully through trust, motivation, and persuasion.

This Week's Definition: Leadership is the ability to guide yourself and others based on what you observe and believe to achieve a goal successfully through trust, motivation, and persuasion.

Analysis: This week my definition has changed a little bit. I added the part about observing. I think that this is a big part of leadership. Observation was a big part of what Heifetz and Linsky (2002) were getting at in their article. Perspective plays a big part in the way people lead. If you are able to see things in the eyes of multiple people, higher ups and lower status people, you will be able to effectively lead more people.

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.

]]> Week 6 Definition tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2011:/kenyo065/leadtheway//14285.316636 2011-10-23T04:03:29Z 2011-10-23T04:19:02Z Last Week's Definition: Leadership is the ability to guide yourself and others based on what you believe to achieve a goal successfully through trust, motivation, and persuasion. This Week's Definition: Leadership is the ability to guide yourself and others based... kenyo065 Last Week's Definition: Leadership is the ability to guide yourself and others based on what you believe to achieve a goal successfully through trust, motivation, and persuasion.

This Week's Definition: Leadership is the ability to guide yourself and others based on what you believe to achieve a goal successfully through trust, motivation, and persuasion.

Analysis: My definition has not changed at all since last week. According to Barbuto and Wheeler (2007) servant leadership is a calling (p 1.) I think that leadership can be learned or acquired over time. Though all leadership is not "servant leadership" I don't necessarily think that any type of leadership has to be a "calling." Most of my definition was supported by both of the articles this week. However, unlike Astin and Astin (1996), I don't feel like leadership has to produce a change. It can involve change or just successfully continue a process.

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

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 5 Definition tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2011:/kenyo065/leadtheway//14285.315329 2011-10-16T02:44:23Z 2011-10-16T03:02:35Z Last Definition: Leadership is the ability to guide yourself and others based on what you believe to achieve a goal successfully through trust and persuasion. This Week's Definition: Leadership is the ability to guide yourself and others based on what... kenyo065 Last Definition: Leadership is the ability to guide yourself and others based on what you believe to achieve a goal successfully through trust and persuasion.

This Week's Definition: Leadership is the ability to guide yourself and others based on what you believe to achieve a goal successfully through trust, motivation, and persuasion.

Analysis: My definition of leadership has not changed very much this week. Most of what Heifetz, Grashow, and Linsky said is consistent with my definition. According to Heifetz, et al (2009), leaders should "generate" leadership (68). For this reason, I have included the word motivation. I feel that many successful leaders were able to motivate the masses and that's why they were able to lead.

Heifetz, R., Grashow, A., & Linsky, M. (2009). "Leadership in a (permanent) crisis." Harvard Business Review, 87(7), 62-69.

]]> Week 3 Definition tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2011:/kenyo065/leadtheway//14285.311385 2011-10-01T16:18:27Z 2011-10-01T16:28:37Z Last week's definition: Leadership is the ability to guide yourself and others to achieve a goal successfully through trust, compassion, stability, and hope. This week's definition: Leadership is the ability to guide yourself and others based on what you believe... kenyo065 Last week's definition: Leadership is the ability to guide yourself and others to achieve a goal successfully through trust, compassion, stability, and hope.

This week's definition: Leadership is the ability to guide yourself and others based on what you believe to achieve a goal successfully through trust and persuasion.

Analysis of the differences in the definitions: My definition has changed a bit since last week. I added the part about beliefs because according to Terry (2001) everyone's definition of leadership is different based on their beliefs. (p.20-40). I also changed the ending of my definition because after reading this article I thought about how Hitler successfully led people to do horrible things, but led them nonetheless. I took out compassion and added persuasion because it really depends on how a leader sells what they are trying to accomplish if the followers will follow or not.

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.

]]> Week 2 Definition tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2011:/kenyo065/leadtheway//14285.309917 2011-09-25T01:03:40Z 2011-09-25T01:24:11Z Last week's final definition: Leadership is the ability to guide yourself or others to achieve a common goal successfully. This week's definition: Leadership is the ability to guide yourself and others to achieve a goal successfully through trust, compassion, stability,... kenyo065 Last week's final definition: Leadership is the ability to guide yourself or others to achieve a common goal successfully.

This week's definition: Leadership is the ability to guide yourself and others to achieve a goal successfully through trust, compassion, stability, and hope.

Analysis of the differences in the definitions: My definition has changed slightly from last week. I took out the word common because I realized that the goal really doesn't have to be common as long as it gets accomplished. I also added the "through trust, compassion, stability, and hope" part after reading the "Follower's Four Basic Needs" according to Rath & Conchie (2009). What followers need must be part of what leaders need to possess.


Rath, T. & Conchie, B. (2009). "Understanding why people follow." Strengths based leadership: Great leaders, teams, and why people follow. (pp. 82). New York: Gallup Press.

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