A Greenleaf Leadership Quiz
The book On Becoming a Servant-Leader includes a series of lectures that Greenleaf gave back in 1969 at Dartmouth Alumni College. These include some of my favorite writings of Greenleafs, packed with a combination of straight-forward wisdom and amazing depth beyond the mere words.
In one of the lectures he talks about leadership and geniuses:
Leaders often are not geniuses. One of the problems that geniuses have in the world is that they are sometimes led by people who are less developed intellectually. In fact, those of us who are not geniuses have some of the same feelings as we do toward the mayors of our cities, our governors, the presidents of our country, the heads of our firms, the presidents of our universities. They sometimes do not appear too intelligent by the usual standards; yet they are able leaders. Clearly, the requirements of leadership impose some intellectual demands that are not measured by IQ or academic intelligence ratings. The two are not mutually exclusive, but they are different things. The leader needs two intellectual abilities that are usually not formally assessed in an academic way: he needs to ________ and to ________.
Anybody want to take a guess as to what Greenleaf suggests that leaders need that they don't get from a classroom? Don't limit yourself to just a word; each blank represents a couple of words.
In case you don't know, I'll provide the answers tomorrow!
In one of the lectures he talks about leadership and geniuses:
Leaders often are not geniuses. One of the problems that geniuses have in the world is that they are sometimes led by people who are less developed intellectually. In fact, those of us who are not geniuses have some of the same feelings as we do toward the mayors of our cities, our governors, the presidents of our country, the heads of our firms, the presidents of our universities. They sometimes do not appear too intelligent by the usual standards; yet they are able leaders. Clearly, the requirements of leadership impose some intellectual demands that are not measured by IQ or academic intelligence ratings. The two are not mutually exclusive, but they are different things. The leader needs two intellectual abilities that are usually not formally assessed in an academic way: he needs to ________ and to ________.
Anybody want to take a guess as to what Greenleaf suggests that leaders need that they don't get from a classroom? Don't limit yourself to just a word; each blank represents a couple of words.
In case you don't know, I'll provide the answers tomorrow!
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