Title: Leadership is earned
Date:Aug. 18, 2014
What is leadership? Can I be a leader of a team? Yes, I can.
Leadership is not concerned with gender, race, but the ability to serve.Anyone can be a leader. However many people discriminate based on gender. This blog gives an example of a woman assistant coach in the NBA. many people doubt this. Why can’t a woman be a leader of a group of men? Definitely, they can!
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Now we are studying in Sauder to learning and practice building our leadership ability. In class 3, Paul and Jeff told us that to be a leader we should develop our skills now, and a good leader is that you can make an operation better than without you. To be a good manager, you should know what business you are in, its value proposition which we talked about a lot in class, and not take risks on vulnerable people.
And a leader cannot work alone. “Leadership is a team sport, and you need to engage others in the cause” (Kouzes & Posner, 2010, pp. xxi-xxiv). Hence, as a leader, you should show respect to your followers, and gain their loyalty.
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Blogs: http://smallbusinessbc.ca/post/leadership-earned
“Leadership is a team sport, and you need to engage others in the cause”
Kouzes, J., & Posner, B. (2010). The truth about leadership. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
http://smallbusinessbc.ca/post/leadership-earned