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Emerging definition of Leadership week. 10

2011-11-13T21:52:50Z

Komives, Lucas, and McMahon

Three key dimensions that help us understand different types
of groups are purposes, structure, and time.
* Purpose: Group exists for various purposes. Perfect maxim for purpose is: "Form follows functions." The purpose of a group should lead to the structures and procsses needed to help the people in the group accomplish their puporses.
* Structure: relates to the mechanisms for how the peolple in the group relate to each other. Some are very strictly structured while others are undefined and evolve. Role of the leader greatly differs based on how strictly the group is structured.
* Time: The group may be time-limited (meeting once to discuss a specific issue or completing a task in three meetings), or it may meet for a specified amount of extended time. The time differences of a group raises different tasks. If it is time limited, it might require the group to be more active and motivated to establish certain task in given time period while the another might not.

Group development: forming, storming, norming, and performing
* Forming: Group's initial stage when team building and trust are eatablished. Suggested strategy is open and trusting relationship with value inclusion.
* Storming: Group's stage when different opinions and actual work begin to emerge. If a group disagrees on the purpose or fail to clarify it at this stage, this stage can be destructive for the group. In order to avoid this havoc, a group should re-visit the forming stage. If the group successfuly pass this stage, it is very likely that a group will establish a stronger trust.
* Norming: As a group acknoweledges and resolves key differences, it is a group's stage to patternize the role and procedures. It is a stage when group members establish identity and intimacy. Also it is a stage when the group's personality is more defined and cleared.
* Performing: Group's fourth stage which cycles into a solid mature stage. Time-limited groups will need to get to this stage faster than groups which are not.

Emerging definition of Leadership Week 9

2011-11-05T01:07:42Z

Kezar's Article's discussion point:
There is a different view of leadership between women and men. Most of women think about the leadership is a cooperating and collective process rather than it is a personal performance. The leadership does not illustrate from individualistic endeavor, but it shows through whole group's performance.

Tatum Article:
I personally found this article more interesting than others' not only because I recognized the name before, the article contained racial values which is relative to my condition.
§ There are differences in 'Racism' and 'Racial prejudece.' As Wellmen discribes, Racism is a 'system of advantage based on race,' and Racial prejudice is not enough to be a sufficient substitute for Racism. Tatum asserts that Racism, ultimately is a 'prejudice combined with social power' which gives certain group an advatage on social, cultural, and economical advantage and discision making.
§ Racism is like a moving conveyer belt, with Active racist moving on the same direction and passive racist (or bystanders) just standing on it. Even when one is doing nothing, the cycle keeps on moving. To overcome this cycle, one must be an active 'anti-racist' moving against the direction of this conveyer belt.

Emerging definition of Leadership Week 7

2011-10-22T01:57:38Z

Themes:
Barbuto & Wheeler:
A servant leader tends to use leadership to help and serve for other people. This leadership is kind of like a self-sacrifice spirit. People can be developing to a servant leader who has some distinct characteristics such as calling, persuasion, healing, and empathy and so on.
Astin, H & Asitn, A:
Each individual is different, so a good leader should understand individual differences. Then the leader should to find a common purpose for integrating all individual as a group. Like an ensemble, a good ensemble cannot have a dominant voice overpower other voices. An excellent leader must have an understanding of the strengths of each contributor and knows the whole process for providing feedback to each member to improve performance of the group.

Emerging definition of Leadership Week. 6

2011-10-15T23:43:41Z

This week's reading, Heifetz's Leadership in a (permanent) crisis dealt about where leadership 'goes', unlike the other articles which talked about where leadership 'comes from' which made this article more interesting. Risk, is unavoidable, in leadership and most people tend to go back to their old ways to minimize this risk. Whether the leader goes back to the old way or not, truly, a 'good' leader is who is able to stabilize this crisis and control the situation.

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

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2011-09-12T06:12:16Z

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