{"id":5556,"date":"2020-04-07T20:06:50","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T00:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/?p=5556"},"modified":"2020-04-07T20:06:50","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T00:06:50","slug":"reading-response-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/2020\/04\/07\/reading-response-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One thing the Harvey reading addressed is that &#8220;the group comes first&#8221; and the guide for this week posed an interesting question: is this a good thing?\u00a0 I think it is a good thing because unfortunately, power tends to corrupt people and when leaders are too powerful and too self-involved, it becomes problematic.\u00a0 However,\u00a0 when groups get too much power they can take on a sort of &#8216;mob mentality&#8217; so its important to keep a balance of respect for the leader and interest of the group in order to avoid havoc.<\/p>\n<p>I also liked the quote from pg 220 which stated: &#8220;the importance of storytelling to leadership \u2013 not because stories are more true than other forms of communication, but because, well chosen and well told, they convey a kind of condensed truth.&#8221;\u00a0 I think this quote relates to the systems theory of simplification and its benefits.\u00a0 The reading mentions FDR&#8217;s fireside chats but I also thought of crash course educational videos.\u00a0 They are another example of how simplification and context are beneficial in conveying a message.\u00a0 In this case, the crash course teacher\/narrator would take the leader role while the students\/viewers would take the group role.\u00a0 These videos also show how the group&#8217;s best interest is kept in mind because these videos are made specifically to aid the students as extra resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing the Harvey reading addressed is that &#8220;the group comes first&#8221; and the guide for this week posed an interesting question: is this a good thing?\u00a0 I think it is a good thing because unfortunately, power tends to corrupt people and when leaders are too powerful and too self-involved, it becomes problematic.\u00a0 However,\u00a0 when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4680,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5556","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\/5556","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\/4680"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}