首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
Leadership is hardly a new area of research, of course. For years, academics have debated whether leaders are born or made, whet
Leadership is hardly a new area of research, of course. For years, academics have debated whether leaders are born or made, whet
admin
2015-06-22
35
问题
Leadership is hardly a new area of research, of course. For years, academics have debated whether leaders are born or made, whether a person who lacks charisma(capacity to inspire devotion and enthusiasm)can become a leader, and what makes leaders fail. Warren G. Bennis, possibly the world’s foremost expert on leading, has, together with his co-author, written two best-sellers on the topic. Generally, researchers have found that you can’t explain leadership by way of intelligence, birth order, family wealth or stability, level of education, race, or sex. From one leader to the next, there’s enormous variance in every one of those factors.
The authors’ research led to a new and telling discovery: that every leader, regardless of age, had undergone at least one intense, transformational experience — what the authors call a "crucible"(severe test). These events can either make you or break you. For emerging leaders, they do more making than breaking, providing key lessons to help a person move ahead confidently.
If a crucible helps a person to become leader, there are four essential qualities that allow someone to remain one according to the authors. They are: an "adaptive capacity" that lets people not only survive inevitable setbacks heartbreaks, and difficulties but also learn from them; an ability to engage others through shared meaning or a common vision; a distinctive and compelling voice that communicates one’s conviction and desire to do the right thing and sense of integrity that allows a leader to distinguish between good and evil.
That sounds obvious enough to be commonplace, until you look at some recent failures that show how valid these dictums(formal statements of opinion)are. The authors believe that former Coca-Cola Co. Chairman M. Douglas Ivester lasted just 28 months because "his grasp of context was sorrowful. "Among other things, Ivester degraded Coke’s highest-ranking African-American even as the company was losing a $200 million class action brought by black employees. Procter&Gamble Co. ex-CEO Durk Jager lost his job because he failed to communicate the urgent need for the sweeping changes he was making.
It’s striking, too, that the authors found their geezers(whose formative period, as the authors define them was 1945 to 1954, and who were shaped by World War II)sharing what they believed to be a critical trait — the sense of possibility and wonder more often associated with childhood. "Unlike those defeated by time and age, our geezers have remained much like our geeks(who came of age between 1991 and 2000, and grew up "virtual, visual and digital")—open, willing to take risk, hungry for knowledge and experience, courageous, and eager to see what the new day brings", the authors write.
A leader can hardly maintain his/her position unless he/she______.
选项
A、fulfils all necessary quality requirements
B、helps people to prevent defeats and sorrows
C、fails to attract people with common concerns
D、lacks appealing and strength of character
答案
A
解析
细节题。第三段第一句“If a crucible helps a person to become leader,there arefour essential qualities that allow someone to remain one according to the authors.”苦难造就领导,有四个基本品质能够确保一个人一直担任领导。这和A符合所有必备/必需的品质一致。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/WA74777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
Knowingthatyouarepaidlessthanyourpeershastwoeffectsonhappiness.Thewell-knownoneisnegative:athinnerpaypacke
AccordingtoarecentGallupWorldPoll,1.1billionpeople,orone-quarteroftheearth’sadults,wanttomovetemporarilytoa
AccordingtoarecentGallupWorldPoll,1.1billionpeople,orone-quarteroftheearth’sadults,wanttomovetemporarilytoa
TheCollisionBetweenNetworkGenerationMeetTraditionalManagementTheirdefenderssaytheyaremotivated,versatileworke
AmericanPrivateClinicsTransformTowardtheMedicalInstitutionsAquietrevolutionistransforminghowmedicalcareisde
NewToolstoResearchEarthquakeOnDecember16th,1811,theresidentsofNewMadrid,Missouri,werestartledoutoftheirb
Reagan’sPoliticalPurposePoliticalplatformsareusuallywrittenforelectioncampaignpurposes,thenquicklyscrappedaft
InTheNewRealities,thelatePeterDrucker,describedmanagementasa"liberalart"thatis,theapplicationofknowledge,se
Scienceisanenterpriseconcernedwithgaininginformationaboutcausality,ortherelationshipbetweencauseandeffect.Asim
随机试题
教育工作的主体部分和教育的基本途径是教学,这是因为()。
合成血红素的部位是
下列金融市场中,属于资本市场的是()。
金融创新对金融和经济发展的推动,是通过()的途径来实现的。
心理学领域当前的观点包括()。
下列标点符号使用不正确的一项是()。
生物多样性是人类赖以生存和发展的基础,是地球生命共同体的血脉和根基。关于我国的生物多样性保护的目标,下列说法正确的有()。①到2025年,构建国家生物多样性监测网络和统一有序的生物多样性保护空间格局②到2025年,基
在电子现金支付方式中,银行通过________________来确认该现金身份的合法性。
下面关于曼彻斯特编码的叙述中,错误的是__________。(2010年下半年试题)
十进制数32转换成无符号二进制整数是()。
最新回复
(
0
)