Perceptions Of Leadership

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and inter-personal skills that are necessary to become a successful leader. Finally, when analyzing my original perceptions, I stated that childhood experiences play a major role in leadership development. I thought that Church and school leadership roles as a child were vital experiences in the development of a leader. I think that the basic attitudes, morals, and values of an individual are developed and honed as a child. Qualities such as these play a major role in the development of a leader and need to be taught and stressed as a child.
I learned from the Bennis audio that there are many other aspects to the development of a leader. There are many qualities that I think of . For instance, the audio spoke of �Ed� who had plenty of technical knowledge, business knowledge, education, and judgement skills. He lacked people skills and vision. While I found it obvious that a leader needed people skills, it never occurred to me that vision is also an important ...

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followers. Perhaps one of the most interesting aspects I found in the Bennis audio was that present feelings are really memories of past behavior. This idea makes complete sense, but it is one that I�ve never given much thought too. Now, I think that as a leader a person must make sure that they don�t react to a situation strictly from a feeling stance. The feeling may be based on a past experience that failed. If a leader reacts to a similar situation in the same way because they are scared of failure, then they will never realize their true potential as a leader.
Some of my original perceptions of leaders changed, while other perceptions remained the same. I found that many of ...

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