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Spaatz Leadership (Learn to Lead
Volumes I-IV) Questions and Answers
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Why do volunteers volunteer? ✔✔1. They were asked
- They are affiliated with an organization
- Personal connection to the mission
- Enjoy the type of work performed
- Learn new skills
- To meet new people
4 arts for sustained involvement: ✔✔1. Active listening
- Mentoring
- Public dialogue
- Evaluation and reflection
(Volume 4) 3 principles that made strategic bombing successful ✔✔1. Principle of mass
- Principle of objective
- Principle of economy of force
Asch Paradigm ✔✔Conformity in groups
I.M. ✔✔Inspirational Motivation
Define BANTA ✔✔The plan to follow if negotiation would fail
The process of discussing and debating ethical questions causes people to rethink and refine their initial and immature positions, thereby propelling them up Kohlberg's stages ✔✔Kohlberg's Principles for Character Development
L.F. ✔✔Laissez-Faire
C.R. ✔✔Contingent Reward
I.S. ✔✔Intellectual Stimulation
List the 6 stages in Kohlberg's Theory ✔✔1. Obedience and Punishment
Occurs when someone redirects feelings about something onto something less threatening ✔✔Displacement
Analysis, logic, science, and math are attributed to: ✔✔Left brain thinking
A regularly interacting or interdependent group of items forming a unified whole ✔✔A system
When each person within an organization establishes a personal vision, suddenly the organization nears a ____ ✔✔Shared vision
Emotions, intuition, art, and creativity are attributed to: ✔✔Right brain thinking
Define the 80/20 Rule ✔✔Leaders should spend 80% of their time on the top 20% of the issues they face
4 stages of a team's lifecycle ✔✔Forming, Storming, Norming, and Performing
Demonstrates a low concern for results and a high concern for people ✔✔1, 9 Style: Accommodating
Found in the middle of the grid figure with medium levels of concern for both people and results ✔✔5, 5 Style: Status Quo
Demonstrates low concern for people and results ✔✔1, 1 Style: Indifferent
Name the fallacy: "we've always done it this way" ✔✔Appeal to tradition
Name the fallacy: "a thought/information not relevant to the issue at hand" ✔✔Red herring
When a person fails to acknowledge facts that would be apparent to others ✔✔Denial
Entails removing oneself from events, people, things, etc., that bring to mind painful thoughts and feelings ✔✔Withdrawl
The abuse of entrusted power for private gain ✔✔Corruption
The habitual disposition toward the good for good's own sake ✔✔Virtue
Any program designed to shape directly and systematically the behavior of young people ✔✔Character education
The war-fighter's essential duties ✔✔Code of conduct
Leaders who are concerned with the development and performance of individuals who do not directly report to them ✔✔Leadership from a distance
Define: "code of rules and ethics for working together in groups" ✔✔Parliamentary procedure
Basic fairness requires that a good number of members be present for the committees work to be legit ✔✔The Quorum
Executive-level leader who tasks the project manager with running the project, and/or approves that individual's request to launch the new initiative ✔✔The Project Sponsor
Name: "Discussions among ten individuals are difficult enough; discussions among one hundred people are virtually impossible on practical grounds" ✔✔Manageable group size
6 tools leaders can use to ensure productive committee meetings ✔✔1. Goal statements
- Objective-driven agendas
- Read-ahead
- Oral presentation
- Agenda sequencing and breakouts
- Closings and minutes
Course critiques, customer surveys, help desk logs, scores on final exam, and similar tools provide managers with feedback they can use to improve the project ✔✔Feedback Instruments
4 functions of management ✔✔1. Planning
- Organizing
____ is a learning process that provides an opportunity for positive growth ✔✔Constructive discipline
Brief verbal cues indicating your progress through an outline ✔✔Signpost
Warriors defend ____ ✔✔Something valuable- their personal honor; warrior spirit
4 most common forms of a speech ✔✔Manuscript, memory, impromptu, and extemporaneous
Right and wrong is a matter of roles, laws, and other externals ✔✔The social order
5 types of conflict ✔✔Parallel, displaced, mis-attributed, latent, and false
To restrict within certain limits ✔✔Circumscribe
L.E.A.D. Model ✔✔Lead with a clear purpose
Empower to participate
Aim for consensus
Direct the team
3 core learning capabilities of teams ✔✔Aspiration, reflective conversation, and understanding complexity
5 components of the Path-Goal model ✔✔Directive leadership, supportive leadership, participative leadership, achievement-oriented leadership, and task/subordinate (or follower) characteristics
The process through which leaders try to solve performance problems and develop their people ✔✔Coaching
Intersection between corporations and the public's trust ✔✔Corporate social responsibility (CSR)
U.S. Air Force doctrine states that leaders are ____ ✔✔Made through experience, education, and training
Relating to the principle that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities ✔✔Egalitarian
Strong interpersonal skills lead to ✔✔High interpersonal intelligence
A curiosity about the ability to notice people's feelings and concerns ✔✔Social analysis
Studying the issue in detail ✔✔In-depth discussion
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence ✔✔"Peter principle"
The reason for an action ✔✔Motivation
A leader exhibits essentially two kinds of behaviors: ✔✔Task and relationship behaviors
To adopt or support a cause, a belief, or a way of life ✔✔Espouse
Name the fallacy: "one thing leads to another" ✔✔Slippery slope
____ occurs when we "leap" to generalizations without testing them ✔✔Leaps of abstraction
Actions that relate to how a job or project gets done ✔✔Task behaviors
A simple expression of belief in oneself ✔✔Motivational self-statements
Critical aspect of path-goal theory ✔✔The structure of the task
All the different impressions, interpretations, evaluations, and expectations you have about yourself, other people, and situations ✔✔Appraisals
____ refers to the role of the leader to clear paths subordinates have to take in order to accomplish the goal ✔✔Path-Goal Model
The ideal style and integrates a high concern for people and results ✔✔9, 9 Style: Sound
Mind maps are ✔✔Radial, graphical, and non-linear
To generate ideas through quick, free-flow of thoughts ✔✔Brainstorming
SQ3R ✔✔Survey, Question, Read, Recall, and Review
____ explains leadership in terms of the personality and character of their leader ✔✔Trait Theory
Military hierarchy ✔✔Top-down hierarchy
____ provides a professional format for presenting concerns and solutions ✔✔Staff study report
The practice of stepping back from an issue or problem so as to take more of it in ✔✔Big-Picture Thinking
Motivators from within you ✔✔Intrinsic rewards
An exchange or transfer between leaders and followers ✔✔Transactional Leadership
The lowest level of leadership ✔✔Tactical arena
Biggest obstacle to shared thinking ✔✔Emotional insecurity
An error of reasoning; a mistake in logic ✔✔Logical Fallacy
Fallacy that misrepresents the opposing position, making it seem weaker than it is ✔✔Straw Man Fallacy
I.D. the needs, options, programs, and resources ✔✔Policy Management
3 core elements to public management ✔✔Policy management, resource management, and program management
____ of the organization can only be compiled with long-range planning ✔✔Future picture
4 core concerns for negotiating ✔✔Actions acknowledged, affiliation, feeling respected, and fulfilling roles and activities
- How to combine their inputs
- How to evaluate them
When a system enlists a crowd of humans to help solve a problem defined by the system owners ✔✔Crowd-sourcing
4 keys to strategy ✔✔1. Products offered
- Market needs
- Production capability
- Return/profit
____ are a function of how this direction is achieved ✔✔Operations
D.E.A.D. conflict styles ✔✔Discussion, Engagement, Accommodation, and Dynamic
____ must be separated from long-range planning and precede it ✔✔Strategic thinking
Long-range plans tend to be ____ even though they pretend it's not ✔✔Inflexible
Long-range planning usually begins with assumptions about 3 items ✔✔Environment, Organizations's strengths and weaknesses
Long-range plans tend to be overly ✔✔Optimistic
A fundamental tenet; a determining characteristic ✔✔Principle
Individuals who continually work on themselves to develop skills to provide consultation; collaborative networks to create social innovation ✔✔Social artists
____ are what make change work ✔✔Details
7 core factors in successful change management ✔✔Clarity, engagement, resources, alignment, leadership, communication, and tracking
8 pitfalls of change ✔✔1. Ineffective case
- Cost not recognized
