ANSWER THESE 6 QUESTIONS ON 8 PAGES!!
Answer the questions listed below and submit them in the drop box located in MyCourses by the last assignment due date indicated in your drop box. Minimum paper requirement is 10 double spaced pages that will include a cover page and a references page. No late assignments will be accepted.
Maximum points: 100
Questions:
1) In the book, John states, “A leader’s credibility begins with personal success . . . To gain credibility, you
must consistently demonstrate three things: initiative, sacrifice and maturity.”
i. Define “initiative.”
ii. Define “sacrifice.”
iii. Define “maturity.”
2) A good leader will “fail forward fast.”
a. Are you willing to ‘risk’?
b. Does fear drive you more than the potential good outcome.
3) What does it mean, as a leader, to say “People may teach what they know, but they reproduce what they
are?”
a. How is this lived out in a healthy organization?
b. How is this lived out in a dysfunctional organization?
4) Determine not to know everything. Consider the benefits of the following key points.
a. Know the people who know the right answers.
b. Only 20 percent of all information will give you 80 percent of what you need to make good decisions. This
is the Pareto Principle
c. By taking yourself out of the middle of everything, you reduce your personal importance to your organization but you allow yourself to do what is personally important to you. Explain.
5) In leaving his San Diego church, John illustrates the consequences, good and bad, of trading off when we
have some significant achievement behind us. Have you made a trade-off or let one slip by? Why? What lessons did either of those decisions teach you?
6) John poses the question, “What kind of a bridge are you building for those who follow behind you?”
Answer the question with regard to your legacy and also to your daily leadership
they also want a cover page and citation page
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