{"id":2241,"date":"2020-08-25T08:34:38","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T12:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/?p=2241"},"modified":"2020-08-25T08:34:38","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T12:34:38","slug":"the-value-of-history-in-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2020\/08\/25\/the-value-of-history-in-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"The Value of History in Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Defining Leadership in a short and concise manner is next to impossible.\u00a0 The word has developed over the years, and in many places did not even exist until just a few hundred years ago.\u00a0 Bernard M. Bass emphasizes the sophisticated nature of the word, and he helped show me why we have leadership studies courses here.\u00a0 There are many ways in which people throughout history try to define leadership, and\u00a0 this little article makes me wonder if we can correctly identify the word, and if certain groups see different meanings in the same word.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bass drives home one of his central arguments that history presents a variety of types of leaders, but the study of Leadership is more than just history.\u00a0 Leadership Studies is a deeper and more extensive look into society and how leadership is created and executed.\u00a0 Although leadership studies is much more than just learning about leaders, the value of learning the past should not be diminished.\u00a0 Thousands of years of history books help to expand our knowledge of what makes a \u201cgood\u201d leader, and with the knowledge of the past hopefully we can build a better future led by educated people that also understand the pieces of leadership that can not be understood by reading about previous leaders.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defining Leadership in a short and concise manner is next to impossible.\u00a0 The word has developed over the years, and in many places did not&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2020\/08\/25\/the-value-of-history-in-leadership\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Value of History in Leadership<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4919,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4919"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}