Juliette Derbyshire

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Leadership Book Review Ch. 12 & 13

Leadership Book Review Ch. 12 & 13

Review

James Kouzes and Barry Posner’s The Leadership Challenge, Chapters 12 and 13: Celebrate the Values and Victories and Leadership is everyone’s business.

In chapters 12 the authors examine how good leaders celebrate accomplishments and core values of the company. In chapter 13 the authors talk about the importance of leadership and why it is something that should be done well everywhere. The…

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Leadership Book Review Ch. 11

Leadership Book Review Ch. 11

Review

James Kouzes and Barry Posner’s The Leadership Challenge, Chapter 11, Recognize Contributions.

This chapter discusses ways to encourage others to do their best and to be recognized for it. They dive deep into how to expect the best from your followers and then provide personalized and or creative recognition. 

Kouzes and Posner connect providing good feedback with what a leader does to…

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Leadership Book Review Ch. 10

Review

James Kouzes and Barry Posner’s The Leadership Challenge, Chapter 10, Strengthen Others.

This chapter discusses stories that revolve around allowing others choice in their work day and confidence that they can do their job. With these two things, it is shown that people will be more proud of their work and be more invested in it. 

Kouzes and Posner wrote: “Individuals who are not confident…

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Leadership Book Review Ch. 9

Leadership Book Review Ch. 9

Review

James Kouzes and Barry Posner’s The Leadership Challenge, Chapter 9, Enable Others to Act.

This chapter discusses stories that revolve around the topic of trusting your team and facilitating relationships. Both of these enable team members to feel trusted, work better, and feel welcome in the team. 

One story stood out as it was talking about a leader that was compared to another. One was…

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Leadership Book Review Ch. 8

Leadership Book Review Ch. 8

Review

James Kouzes and Barry Posner’s The Leadership Challenge, Chapter 8, Experiment and Take Risks.

This chapter discusses the stories of the importance of experimenting by taking small wins and learning from experience. 

The authors write: “You can’t achieve anything new or extraordinary by doing things the way you’ve always done them. You have to test unproven strategies” (p. 171). Thinking…

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Leadership Book Review Ch. 7

Leadership Book Review Ch. 7

Review

James Kouzes and Barry Posner’s The Leadership Challenge, Chapter 7, Search for Opportunities.

This chapter discussed seizing a challenge, asking questions, and being adventurous in finding different ways to constitute change. The main points of this chapter were to seize a challenge and to exercise “outsight”.

Instead of standing by and accepting a broken system for what it is, Kouzes and…

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Leadership Book Review Ch. 6 Review Review of James Kouzes and Barry Posner’s The Leadership Challenge, Chapter 6, Enlist Others. This chapter discussed how to include others in a vision, lead others who have the vision and delegate to those who share it.

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Leadership Book Review Ch. 5 Review Review of James Kouzes and Barry Posner’s The Leadership Challenge, Chapter 5, Envision the Future.

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Leadership Book Review Ch. 4

Leadership Book Review Ch. 4

Review

James Kouzes and Barry Posner’s The Leadership Challenge, Chapter 4, Set the Example.

 Leaders are always on stage, in front of people and seen for what they do, according to the authors. This chapter discusses the many ways in which leaders set the example for their followers. Stories of managers discussing values and then doing something small to act on those values were a highlight of…

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Leadership Book Review Ch. 3 Review James Kouzes and Barry Posner’s The Leadership Challenge, Chapter 3 discusses how to model the way as a leader.

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Leadership Book Review. Ch 2

Leadership Book Review. Ch 2

Review

As it turns out, I will only be reviewing James Kouzes and Barry Posner’s The Leadership Challenge, today specifically will be Chapter 2.

So then, as for Chapter 2, the four main characteristics desired in leaders was discussed and confirmed to fit into the Five Practices neatly. Each of the four main characteristics was explained and supported.

Honest, competent, inspiring, and…

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Leadership Book Review: Beginning Chapters

Leadership Book Review: Beginning Chapters

Review

James Kouzes and Barry Posner’s The Leadership Challenge Chapter 1 and Tyler Wigg-Stevenson’s The World is Not Ours to Save Chapters 1-3.

Chapter 1 seems to be the foundations for how to be a good leader. The authors, Kouzes and Posner, tell stories of two great leaders and how they were able to make a difference. For those studying leadership or even just curious, this is the goal and…

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Long Time, No Post

Long Time, No Post

To those of you reading this, I have not posted in almost a year to this day. I wanted to explain why and express in writing how I am considering continuing this blog. Originally, I started this blog because I wanted a place to write about what was going on in my life, but as of late the things going on in my life revolve around the relationships I am in, such as friendships and dating…

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We totally went to the Hollywood sign the other day. Except we actually did... (at Griffith Observatory)

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Got to celebrate with @megnog16 💕 Happy Easter everyone 💝 (at Pasadena Civic Center)

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Loved our day in LA @megnog16 (at 9th Street Pizza)

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Went to see Beauty and the Beast, but ended up hitchin' a ride with these guys