*In your blog, do not simply list and answer the prompts. Instead, write your blog, incorporating your thoughts into your reflection. Make certain to incorporate your own experiences into your reflection.*
In your Reflection Blog post, please address the following:
Chapter 1 of the Obolensky text begins with a reflective exercise consisting of three questions. Create a reflection blog that responds to the questions asked in that exercise.
1. Has your own attitude toward leaders changed in your life, and if so how?
2. If we take as a starting point the attitude to those in authority/leaders as held by your grandparents, and then look at those attitudes held by your parents, and then by you, and then by the younger generation, is there a changing trend? If so, what is it?
3. Why do you think that this has occurred?
Additionally, as part of your Reflection Blog post, respond to the following:
While we live in a world with more information about leadership and leadership practices why is it that we have an apparent gap in the quality of our leaders and how do you think we can close this gap?
Course Readings (please use for at least 3 of your sources):
Complex Adaptive Leadership (Obolensky, 2014)
• Chapter 1 – A Journey of Discovery
• Chapter 2 – The World Wide Context – A Flow Towards Polyarchy
The Practice of Adaptive Leadership (Heifetz, Grashow and Linsky, 2009)
• Introduction
• Chapter 1
Harvard Business Review Articles:
Reeves, M., & Deimler, M. (2011). Adaptability: The New Competitive Advantage
Harvard Business Review, 89(7/8), 134-141.
Snowden, D. J., & Boone, M. E. (2007). A Leader’s Framework for Decision Making (cover story).
Harvard Business Review, 85(11), 68-76.
