Mitten Shaped Flights

Looking back at my personal definition for leadership, I wouldn't really change anything about it. My definition of leadership was the action, thoughts, processes and dedication taken by a person or persons in a passionate and honest attempt to assist, guide and provide for other people. If anything, perhaps this definition sounds more appealing, because it captures all of the heart and soul that I believe leadership can be.  Prior to taking MSLD 511 and learning about all of the leadership types and behaviors, I thought I knew enough about leadership to be dangerous. But, now that we've gone through Northouse's Leadership: Theory and Practice (2018), I can say that my outlook on the various types of leadership has expanded tenfold. I still believe that women are great leaders and they should be scored more appropriately in future opinions. I still believe that Winston and Patterson (2006) went too far in their analysis of leadership.  Dr. P, I humbly apologize, but we ...

This is an excellent time for this blog to happen, as I’ve recently completed my end of the year performance review at work. In my organization, you’re required to do a mid-year review and end of year review so that employees and their leaders have a formalized time to meet to discuss goals. During my recent review, I had the opportunity to discuss where I see myself in a few years. After already serving as a director, logically, my next step is vice-president and with that comes additional leadership requirements. But, during my review, it became apparent that this was going to be an instructional conversation. My boss really tried to get me to focus on what I wanted to do and understand what I was passionate about. “The goal of adaptive leadership is to encourage people to change and learn new ways of living so that they may do well and grow” (Northouse, pg. 258). We went around and around for about 10 minutes as it kept trying to draw closer to the root answer. I found his task ...