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Enduring Features of Leadership
June 17, 2014
The key to success is simple: Make people dream.
-Gérard De Nerval
-Gérard De Nerval
"Any leader who wishes to be effective must acknowledge, and attempt to deal realistically with, the enduring features of leadership," observes Howard Gardner in Leading Minds: An Analysis of Leadership. "While leaders will differ from one another in the extent of their ambition, the size of their audiences, and the uniqueness of their message, all of them must confront the six enduring features:"
"A leader is likely to achieve success only if she can construct and convincingly communicate a clear and persuasive story; appreciate the nature of the audience(s), including its changeable features; invest her own (or channel others') energy in the building and maintenance of an organization; embody in her own life the principal contours of the story; either provide direct leadership or find a way to achieve influence through indirect means; and, finally, find a way to understand and make use of, without being overwhelmed by, increasingly technical expertise."
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Displaying 1 CommentYuba City, CA (California ), United States
I am confused by the last sentence in the June 16,2014 summary of the article "Can Babies Read and Write?" After cautioning the reader against spending too much time focusing on literacy at the expense of sensory based learning experiences the article ends with "Babies can read and write, but should they?". If by "babies" you mean four and five year old children then I can understand the authors position. If you mean children age 0-2 then this statement was not proven anywhere in the excerpt and seems illogical at best. In any case ending the article with this statement runs the risk of confusing the reader and adding to the authors concerns that adults will become preoccupied with literacy/reading at the expense of other critical and developmentally appropriate experiences.
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