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Psychology 1508: Leadership Cultivation
Psychology 1508: Leadership Cultivation
Psychology 1508: Leadership Cultivation
Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole lifes cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. Where is the master who could have instructed Franklin, or Washington, or Bacon, or Newton?... Do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Soft Is Hard
Limbic vs. neo-cortex change
Soft Is Hard
Limbic vs. neo-cortex change
The problem is that most training programs for enhancing emotional intelligence abilities, such as leadership, target the neocortex rather than the limbic brain... The thinking brain can comprehend something after a single hearing or reading. The limbic brain, on the other hand, is a much slower learnerparticularly when the challenge is to relearn deeply ingrained habits... Leadership learning, therefore, requires a different model from what works for the thinking brain: It needs lots of practice and repetition. Daniel Goleman
EI Leadership Skills
Self-awareness Openness to criticism Ability to manage emotions Motivation Self-confidence Honesty and integrity Ability to develop others Courage
Authenticity
Authority is granted to people who are perceived as authoring their own words, their own actions, their own lives. Parker Palmer To be authentic is literally to be your own author, to discover your native energies and desires, and then to find your own way of acting on them. Warren Bennis
This above all: To thine own self be true, And it must follow as night follows day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Shakespeare
Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher
Parker Palmer
Know thyself was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you cannot succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. Warren Bennis
Step 2: Be Thyself
Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. Its precisely that simple, and its also that difficult. Warren Bennis
The One Type of Leader myth How can I be a leader; let me count the ways Overlap between passions and strengths
Excellent team leaders... are aware of their natural stylesthey know what they like to do, what they can do easily and well, and what they can accomplish only with difficulty if at all. They learn over time how to exploit their special stregths and preferences, and how to contain or circumvent their weaknesses. Richard Hackman
Strengths
The real tragedy of life is not that each of us doesnt have enough strengths, its that we fail to use the ones we have. Buckingham & Clifton
Presidents dont do great things by dwelling on their limitations, but by focusing on their possibilities. Henry Kissinger