{"id":2252,"date":"2020-08-25T10:26:38","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T14:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/?p=2252"},"modified":"2020-08-25T10:26:38","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T14:26:38","slug":"leadership-as-a-broad-concept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2020\/08\/25\/leadership-as-a-broad-concept\/","title":{"rendered":"Leadership as a Broad Concept"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In Bernard Bass\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Meaning of Leadership, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">he touches on the idea that there is no concise and rigid definition of \u201cleadership\u201d. Professor Bezio mentioned this same issue on the first day of class, and I am curious to see how we start to broadly define it throughout the course.\u00a0 &#8220;The meaning of leadership may depend on the kind of institution in which it is found\u201d, this quote from the article hones into the idea that leadership looks different in every situation, every institution, and every person. There is no way to have one simple definition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bass\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Concepts of Leadership<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> illustrated that the leadership qualities that society values has changed overtime, and will continue to. In my Leadership and the Social Sciences class we discussed that there are many cognitive, interpersonal, and personality traits that all prove to be important to have as a leader. These include integrity, self-confidence, wisdom, expertise, authoritarianism, passion, and many more. The historical views of leadership discussed in this article from time periods as far back as B.C. times seem to emphasize power and authority as the most necessary traits to have to become a successful leader.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In today\u2019s society I believe we value more than just law and order and power within our leaders. As followers, we want to relate to our leaders on a more personal level and follow them because they are passionate, not simply because they seem to be powerful and mighty.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Bernard Bass\u2019s Meaning of Leadership, he touches on the idea that there is no concise and rigid definition of \u201cleadership\u201d. Professor Bezio mentioned this&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2020\/08\/25\/leadership-as-a-broad-concept\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Leadership as a Broad Concept<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4904,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2252","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\/2252","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\/4904"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}