Deck 1: What Does It Mean to Be a Leader

Question 1

Reasons for executive derailment include:

A) insensitive, abrasive, intimidating, bullying style.
B) good people skills.
C) overmanaging: unable to delegate or build a team.
D) both insensitive, abrasive, intimidating, bullying style and overmanaging: unable to delegate or build a team.

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Since the 1970s, leadership ideas may focused on how leaders and followers interact and influence one another.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Managers and leaders are different because:

A) Managers learn a set of skills for planning, organizing directing, and controlling.
B) Leaders must find the capacity to help create a vision of what the organization can be.
C) Leadership calls for caring about and engaging the whole employee.
D) Managers maintain stability while leaders promote change.

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Era 4 represents the learning leader who has given up control in the traditional sense.

Question 5

The new paradigm of leadership acknowledges that we live in a world characterized by uncertainty.

Question 6

A study showed that leaders who failed were described as having good human skills.

Question 7

Attempts to achieve teamwork, empowerment, and diversity can succeed only if:

A) leaders follow the principles and practices of the industrial era.
B) managers want to treat people the way they treat machines or the bottom line.
C) leaders value change over stability, control, competition, and uniformity.
D) leaders hire people who think and work alike.

Question 8

Leadership is considered an art because of a growing body of objective facts and knowledge that describe the leadership process.

Question 9

Self-Directed teams:

A) have structured jobs and work processes.
B) break down boundaries between departments.
C) use strict top-down control.
D) do not share power.

Question 10

The Great Man Theories are emerging leadership theories

Question 11

The recent ethical violations in the business world has led to a shifted in mindset from the individual leader as a hero.

Question 12

Leadership focuses on getting everyone lined up in the same direction.

Question 13

The Behavior Theories studied larger-than-life leaders.

Question 14

Empowerment emphasizes collaboration over competition and conflict.

Question 15

Many organizations were built on assumptions of uniformity and specialization.

Question 16

Leadership involves all EXCEPT:

A) creating change.
B) influencing followers.
C) maintaining stability.
D) shared purpose.

Question 17

Management and leadership are the same thing.

Question 18

The move to empowerment is an integral part of the old paradigm.

Question 19

Leaders of today must maintain strict control of work processes to assure that the organization functions efficiently.

Question 20

Leadership is defined an influence relationship among leaders and followers who intend real changes that reflect their shared purposes.

Question 21

A learning leader emphasizes:

A) relationships
B) stability.
C) competition within the organization.
D) rational management.

Question 22

The belief that leaders were born with certain natural abilities of power and influence characterizes:

A) Great Man theories.
B) Trait theories.
C) Era 1 leadership theory.
D) Transformational leadership theory.

Question 23

Level 5 leaders have :

A) strong egos.
B) big ambitions.
C) unpretentious personalities.
D) larger-than-life personalities.

Question 24

Leadership is a science because of all EXCEPT:

A) Leadership research is a growing scientific field.
B) Leadership is a growing body of objective facts.
C) Leadership depends upon an individual's personality traits and people skills.
D) Training in leadership skills can help achieve organizational goals.

Question 25

The theory of a leader who puts others' needs and interests above his own is called:

A) servant leadership.
B) transformational leadership.
C) charismatic leadership.
D) transactional leadership.

Question 26

The financial crisis on Wall Street started partly with:

A) empowerment.
B) loan originators.
C) self-directed teams.
D) leadership vision.

Question 27

Leadership experts agree that effective leaders:

A) have the courage to act on their beliefs.
B) know who they are.
C) know what they stand for.
D) all of the choices

Question 28

Strong leadership is needed because:

A) the environment of the 21st century is predictable.
B) planning, leading, organizing, and controlling are the required skills for the future.
C) giving workers clear job assignments is the main task of a business executive.
D) of globalization, e-commerce, telecommuting, virtual teams, and outsourcing.

Question 29

When a leader aligns followers, it means:

A) organizing a structure to accomplish the plan.
B) staffing the structure with employees.
C) directing employees and monitoring implementation of the plan.
D) developing a shared culture.

Question 30

Leaders at these Wall Street. companies prided themselves onfinding new and clever ways:

A) to package mortgage-related assets.
B) to earn lucrative fees.
C) to push subprime loans to borrowers with low incomes.
D) all of the choices.

Question 31

In the new reality for leadership, the new paradigm does NOT include:

A) uniformity.
B) collaboration.
C) diversity.
D) information.

Question 32

Leadership vision is:

A) a picture of the future.
B) a desired future.
C) an ambitious view of the future.
D) all of these choices.

Question 33

Leadership does not contain the personal quality of:

A) emotional connections (Heart).
B) emotional distance.
C) open mind (Mindfulness).
D) nonconformity (Courage).

Question 34

____ considered if a leader acted in an autocratic or democratic manner toward followers and how this correlated to leadership effectiveness.

A) Trait Theories
B) Influence Theories
C) Great Man Theories
D) Behavior Theories

Question 35

Era 3 and Era 4 leaders focus on all EXCEPT:

A) diversity.
B) vertical relationships.
C) team leadership.
D) collaboration.

Question 36

Many business professors such as Harvard's Bill George. think that the crisis on Wall Street was caused by:

A) good economic policies.
B) a crisis in leadership.
C) Era 2 leadership.
D) influence theories.

Question 37

Most people have never tried to be a leader because

A) they don't have leadership skills.
B) they lack the personality traits necessary for leadership.
C) they have no idea of what leaders actually do.
D) it requires executive coaching.

Question 38

Whereas management calls for keeping an eye on short-term results, leadership means keeping an eye on all EXCEPT:

A) a compelling vision.
B) the long-term future.
C) the horizon.
D) the bottom line.

Question 39

In the new paradigm, leaders emphasize all EXCEPT:

A) accountability.
B) self-interest.
C) responsibility.
D) integrity.

Question 40

Leadership is an art because of all EXCEPT:

A) Leadership is a growing body of objective facts and knowledge.
B) Leadership has skills that cannot be learned from a textbook.
C) Leadership takes practice.
D) Leadership takes hands-on experience.

Question 41

Era 4 represents the _____________ who has made the leap to giving up control in the traditional sense.

Question 42

Charismatic leadership is included under:

A) influence theories.
B) behavioral theories.
C) trait theories.
D) contingency theories.

Question 43

Management and leadership are not the same. Explain.

Question 44

____________________ is an influence relationship among leaders and followers who intend real changes and outcomes than reflect their shared purpose.

Question 45

One of the most important aspects of shifting to the new paradigm of leadership is:

A) using a hierarchy of authority.
B) using teams.
C) intentionally using human skills.
D) overmanaging.

Question 46

A picture of an ambitious desirable future for the organization or team is a(n) ____________________.

Question 47

What does empowerment mean?

Question 48

Why do some managers reach a plateau, get fired, or become forced to take early retirement?

Question 49

Describe the new reality for leadership.

Question 50

Leadership based on the qualities and personality of the leader is called ____________________.

Question 51

Era 2 sees the emergence of :

A) severe global competition.
B) hierarchy and bureaucracy.
C) constant change.
D) pre-industrial and pre-bureaucratic society.

Question 52

____________________ is the attainment of organizational goals in an effective and efficient manner through planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling organizational resources.

Question 53

Management is both an art and a science. Explain.

Question 54

____________________ are studies of larger-than-life leaders to define a leader.

Question 55

Most leaders recognize that trying to maintain stability in a world of change is:

A) possible because of globalization.
B) a losing battle.
C) an important goal.
D) the goal of crisis management.

Question 56

According to ____________________, leadership is a process that meaningfully engages all participants and enables each person to contribute to achieving the vision.

Question 57

The theories that consider the contextual and situational variables that influence what Leadership behaviors will be effective are called ____________________

Question 58

Effective leaders and effective followers are:

A) people with different traits.
B) people with different behaviors.
C) the same people, playing the same role.
D) the same people, playing different roles at different times.

Question 59

Good leadership brings about ____________________

Question 60

During ____________________, a leader was conceptualized as a single hero who saw the big picture and how everything fit into a whole.

Question 61

Give an overview of the various leadership theories.

Question 62

What does leadership involve?

Question 63

Explain the leadership shift from hero to humble.