{"id":5534,"date":"2020-04-07T13:16:33","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T17:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/?p=5534"},"modified":"2020-04-07T13:16:33","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T17:16:33","slug":"bezio-and-harvey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/2020\/04\/07\/bezio-and-harvey\/","title":{"rendered":"Bezio and Harvey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I think the Bezio article brings up an important point when evaluating history and historical leaders. It can be easy to glorify the accomplishments of past \u201cGreat Man\u201d leaders without considering the context they lead within. As we talked about in our discussion group on Monday, many people are quick to praise Thomas Jefferson and label him as an American hero for the work he did and structures he put in place at the formation of our country. However, that does not include the fact that he was an abusive slave owner who built his accomplishments upon the forced labor of other human beings. Understanding that context is hugely important when looking at Jefferson. Knowing those facts, it is clear that that is not the type of person that we should praise as a nation and should not regard him as one of the \u201cGreat Man\u201d leaders of American history.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Harvey\u2019s chapter also echoes the importance of understanding \u201cWhere are we?\u201d when studying leadership. The context that a leader is trying to lead within is going to enormously change what is appropriate for that circumstance. Being the CEO of an international company is going to require hugely different leadership strategies than a teacher leading a classroom. Even the age group that a teacher is teaching will have an impact on what methods are appropriate and successful for leadership within that context. Like Bezio, Harvey emphasizes learning about our position in the world as well as other questions directed at learning about ourselves before we can look to the future and envision our goals. Understanding how leaders &#8211; whether that is a historical figure, contemporary, or ourselves &#8211; fit into the world around them is the first step in learning about them and becoming more effective.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think the Bezio article brings up an important point when evaluating history and historical leaders. It can be easy to glorify the accomplishments of past \u201cGreat Man\u201d leaders without considering the context they lead within. As we talked about in our discussion group on Monday, many people are quick to praise Thomas Jefferson and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4446,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-responses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4446"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}