Answer to Question #198013 in Economics for Abdul basit

Question

Pedagogical strategy that promotes participation and interaction. It also fosters a deeper and more active learning process. In addition to exposing students to different approaches and ways of thinking, working with other students in groups can promote a sense of belonging that combats the anonymity and isolation that many students experience at a large campus. Working together in groups also gives students the opportunity to learn from and teach each other. Classroom research has shown that students often learn better from each other than they do from a teacher (Barkley et al. 2005, pp.16-20). f. What is the major barrier to being a leader?

g. Are there personal and/or professional costs to being a leader? If so, explain

h. Leadership: nature, nurture or both? Can it be learned?

i. Has a particular book or person influenced your leadership style?

Answer 1

f. Good leadership is always recognised, but the way you are recognised is likely to be different than it was when you simply did a good job. Being a leader does not mean that people are going to congratulate you for a job well done. Recognition for being good leader can often come in the form of increased responsibility; people sharing their challenges with you; and an increased understanding of the bigger picture. These can all add to your stress as a leader, but leading shouldn't be about recognition. A leader's job is to recognise others and know what their personal impact is.

g.

• Leadership can sometimes feel lonely. 
• A common aphorism is that you can’t please everybody, and this is particularly true in leadership.
• Your freedom will be sacrificed.
• You might lose yourself.

h. Contemporary thinking endorses that leadership is a combination of both nature and nurture. Over the past decade research from multiple sources concluded that people who lead do so in different ways or choose not to lead at all indicating there must be an inherent desire to lead present.

i. The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating back more than 2,000 years ago. The work, which is attributed to the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu, is composed of 13 chapters – each one is devoted to an aspect of warfare and how it applies to military strategy and tactics. The Art of War is one of the most influential strategy texts in East Asian warfare and has influenced military thinking, business tactics, legal strategy and beyond.