Leadership

Part 3: The Personal Side of Leadership

Chapter 4: The Leader as an Individual

Chapter 5: Leadership Mind and Heart

Chapter 6: Courage and Moral Leadership

Chapter 7: Followership

Chapter 4: The Leader as an Individual

Your Leadership Challenge

After reading this chapter, you should be able to:

• Identify major personality dimensions and understand how personality influences leadership and relationships within organizations.

• Clarify your instrumental and end values, and recognize how values guide thoughts and behavior.

• Define attitudes and explain their relationship to leader behavior.

• Explain attribution theory and recognize how perception affects the leader–follower relationship.

• Recognize individual differences in cognitive style and broaden your own thinking style to expand leadership potential.

• Understand how to lead and work with people with varied personality traits.

Chapter Outline

100 Personality and Leadership

107 Values and Attitudes

112 Social Perception and Attribution Theory

116 Cognitive Differences

121 Working with Different Personality Types

In the Lead

102 Bob Iger, Walt Disney Company

105 Chris Hughes, Facebook and MyBarackObama.com

109 Craig Newmark and Jim Buckmaster, Craigslist

115 Kevin Kelly, Emerald Packaging

119 Jeff Koeze, Koeze Company

Leader’s Self-Insight

101 The Big Five Personality Dimensions

106 Measuring Locus of Control

108 Instrumental and End Values

117 What’s Your Thinking Style?

122 Personality Assessment: Jung’s Typology

Leader’s Bookshelf

111 What Got You Here Won’t Get You There

Leadership at Work

126 Past and Future

Leadership Development: Cases for Analysis

127 International Bank

128 Environmental Design International

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