Leadership Concepts Fundamental Leadership Skills Essay

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Therefore, it is important that leaders be sufficiently mature and psychologically evolved to avoid the common psychological impediments to learning from others (Fitch, 2010). More specifically, effective leaders are capable of empowering others (Maxwell, 2007) and of allowing others to contribute to their knowledge base without feeling challenged by the isolated reversal of their leader-follower relationship where circumstances (such as technical expertise) make that advisable for the benefit of the organization (Gove, 2010). In principle, leaders who are threatened by the success of others in their organizations (Maxwell, 2007), or who cannot assume the role of learner because they perceive that dynamic as threatening to their authority (Fitch, 2010; Gove, 2010) are less likely to increase their own knowledge base from interactions with others in their organizations.

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Having recently been promoted into a leadership position in which I am responsible for increasing their productivity, I hope to emulate the three principles of good leadership outlined by Maxwell. Additionally, I plan on doing everything possible to avoid the psychological traps that are functions of egoism (Fitch, 2010). Finally, I plan to fully embrace the notion that I have as much to learn from my subordinates as they may have to learn from me in other contexts, particularly in isolated circumstances in which they may have more to offer me than the other way around (Gove, 2010)......

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