On Leadership ~ 1st Chapter

The Antithesis of Leadership
In this chapter several important points were made by the author. These included how people substitute excuses for leadership, leadership as opposed ti opportunism, and how decisiveness is critical. I noted in the reading of these 14 pages that there are some extraordinary academic language that was used. For example: parishes, pander, abdicate, interoperable, and levee. I really liked how the author, Donald J. Palmisano used hurricane Katrina as an extreme lack of leadership and how he then proceeded to analyze the event with excerpts from news sources during the actual event. I also liked how he laid out his lessons that he learned. My favorite was... okay, I couldn't decide between two. "False leaders are everywhere during times of calm, and then are inept and indecisive in an emergency," and "To prevent future failures, past failures must be studied. Lessons must be learned and implemented." That's all for now. Chapter 2 here I come!:)

Updates

Hey guys, sorry it's been so long since my last post, but I am doing stuff;) First of all, I have generated a list of potential interview questions and I am in the process of wheedling them down. Second, my dad convinced Bill Freeman (retired army Colonel and current president of San Diego Education Association) to have a future interview with me so I'm trying to set one up. And third, I found a book called "On Leadership" and I have begun to read it and will give an update on the first chapter as soon as I complete it.
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