Chapter 01: What Does It Mean to Be a Leader?

Chapter 01: What Does It Mean to Be a Leader?

Copyright Cengage Learning. Poweredby Cognero.Page 1 1.The leadership process is an influence relationship among leaders and followers who intend real changes and outcomes that reflect their shared purposes.

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ANSWER: True

RATIONALE: The leadership process is an influence relationship among leaders and followers who intend real changes and outcomes that reflect their shared purposes.

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DIFFICULTY: Easy

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LEARNING OBJECTIVES: 1.1 - Explain the full meaning of leadership and see the leadership potential in yourself and others.NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States - BUSPROG: Reflective Thinking STATE STANDARDS: United States - AK - DISC: Motivation Concepts - DISC: Environmental Influence

TOPICS: 1-1 Why We Need Leadership

KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Knowledge 2.Leadership is a people activity.

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ANSWER: True

RATIONALE: Leadership is a people activity and is district from administration paperwork or planning activities.

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DIFFICULTY: Moderate

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QUESTION TYPE: True / False

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LEARNING OBJECTIVES: 1.1 - Explain the full meaning of leadership and see the leadership potential in yourself and others.NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States - BUSPROG: Reflective Thinking STATE STANDARDS: United States - AK - DISC: Leadership Principles

TOPICS: 1-1 Why We Need Leadership

KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Comprehension 3.A shared mindset that represents a fundamental way of thinking about, perceiving, and understanding the world is called an emergent leader.

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ANSWER: False

RATIONALE: Paradigm is a shared mindset that represents a fundamental way of thinking about, perceiving, and understanding the world.

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DIFFICULTY: Easy

REFERENCES: p. 7

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LEARNING OBJECTIVES: 1.2 - Describe the five fundamental transformations facing today’s leaders and organizations.NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States - BUSPROG: Moderate - BUSPROG: Reflective Thinking STATE STANDARDS: United States - AK - DISC: Motivation Concepts - DISC: Environmental Influence

TOPICS: 1-2 The New Reality for Leaders

KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Knowledge

• Leaders today must keep things running on a steady, even keel for the organization to be successful.
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ANSWER: False

RATIONALE: In the past, many leaders assumed that if they could just keep things running on a steady, even keel, the organization would be successful.

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DIFFICULTY: Easy

REFERENCES: p. 10

QUESTION TYPE: True / False

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LEARNING OBJECTIVES: 1.2 - Describe the five fundamental transformations facing today’s leaders and organizations.NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States - BUSPROG: Reflective Thinking STATE STANDARDS: United States - AK - DISC: Motivation Concepts - DISC: Environmental Influence

TOPICS: 1-2 The New Reality for Leaders

KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Comprehension

• A leadership principles adopted from the “Code of the West” is taking pride in your work.
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ANSWER: True

RATIONALE: The Cowboy Code or the Code of the West are basic values that provided an informal code of conduct for pioneers settling the western American frontier have been distilled into ten principles that may still be applicable to leaders.

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DIFFICULTY: Easy

REFERENCES: p. 13

QUESTION TYPE: True / False

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LEARNING OBJECTIVES: 1.2 - Describe the five fundamental transformations facing today’s leaders and organizations.NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States - BUSPROG: Reflective Thinking STATE STANDARDS: United States - AK - DISC: Leadership Principles

TOPICS: 1-2 The New Reality for Leaders

KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Comprehension

• Derailed managers are successful people who excelled in a functional area and were expected to go far, but they 2 / 4

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reached a plateau, were fired, or were forced to retire early.

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ANSWER: True

RATIONALE: Derailment refers to a phenomenon in organizations in which a manager with an impressive track record reaches a certain level but goes off track and can’t advance because of a mismatch between job needs and the manager’s personal skills and qualities. Derailed managers are successful people who excelled in a functional area and were expected to go far, but they reached a plateau, were fired, or were forced to retire early.

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DIFFICULTY: Moderate

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QUESTION TYPE: True / False

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LEARNING OBJECTIVES: 1-5 - Identify the primary reasons for leadership derailment and the new paradigm skills that can help you avoid it.NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States - BUSPROG: Analytic - Technology STATE STANDARDS: United States - AK - DISC: Motivation Concepts - DISC: Environmental Influence

TOPICS: 1-5 Leadership Can Be Learned

KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Comprehension

• An example of a Level 5 leader is Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, who transformed the organization’s leader mindset

from a “know-it-all” to a “learn-it-all.”

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ANSWER: True

RATIONALE: Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, who joined in 1992 at the age of 25 and was relatively unknown, moved to transform Microsoft leaders form a know-it-all” to a “learn-it-all” mindset.

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DIFFICULTY: Moderate

REFERENCES: p. 14

QUESTION TYPE: True / False

HAS VARIABLES: False

LEARNING OBJECTIVES: 1- 2 - Describe the five fundamental transformations facing today’s leaders and organizations.NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States - BUSPROG: Analytic - Technology STATE STANDARDS: United States - AK - DISC: Motivation Concepts - DISC: Environmental Influence

TOPICS: 1-2 The New Reality for Leaders

KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Knowledge

• The best leaders, at all levels, are those who are genuinely interested in other people and find ways to bring out the best

in them.

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ANSWER: True

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ways to bring out the best in them. Successful organizations pay attention to developing leaders in the soft skills needed to effectively lead technical people in a changing environment.

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DIFFICULTY: Easy

REFERENCES: p. 25

QUESTION TYPE: True / False

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LEARNING OBJECTIVES: 1-5 - Identify the primary reasons for leadership derailment and the new paradigm skills that can help you avoid it.NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States - BUSPROG: Analytic - Technology STATE STANDARDS: United States - AK - DISC: Leadership Principles

TOPICS: 1-5 Leadership Can Be Learned

KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Comprehension

• Leaders focus on establishing detailed plans and schedules for achieving specific results.
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ANSWER: False

RATIONALE: Both leadership and management are concerned with providing direction for the organization, but there are differences. Management focuses on establishing detailed plans and schedules for achieving specific results, then allocating resources to accomplish the plan.

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DIFFICULTY: Moderate

REFERENCES: p. 15

QUESTION TYPE: True / False

HAS VARIABLES: False

LEARNING OBJECTIVES: 1-3 - Summarize the fundamental differences between leadership and management.NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States - BUSPROG: Analytic - Technology STATE STANDARDS: United States - AK - DISC: Motivation Concepts - DISC: Environmental Influence

TOPICS: 1-3 How Leadership Differs from Management

KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Knowledge

• If a person is known to have very strong intentions about the organization’s future, they have strong will.
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ANSWER: True

RATIONALE: Strong will means having very strong intentions about the organization’s future.

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DIFFICULTY: Moderate

REFERENCES: p. 14

QUESTION TYPE: True / False

HAS VARIABLES: False

LEARNING OBJECTIVES: 1-2 - Describe the five fundamental transformations facing today’s leaders and organizations.NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States - BUSPROG: Analytic - Technology STATE STANDARDS: United States - AK - DISC: Motivation Concepts - DISC: Environmental Influence

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