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WorksheetsThe Dichotomy of Leadership Chapter 1-2
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
What are the Four Laws of Combat?
Cover and Move, Simple, Prioritize, Execute and Decentralized Command.
Cover and Move, Plan, Initiative and Execute.
Cover and Move, Simple, Organize and Prioritize.
When does Centralized Command is taken too far?
When leaders understand the strategic goals to execute.
When too much autonomy is giving to subordinate leaders who don’t fully understand strategic goals and how to execute in support of those goals.
Leaders must find the ___________. They must push hard without pushing too hard.
Motivation
Balance
Strategy
Lack of vision doesn’t mean that the leader is too hands-off with a team.
True
False
What makes the best leaders and best teams great is that when they make mistakes, they acknowledge them, take ownership, and make corrections to upgrade their ________________.
Performance
Trust
Effort
There are limitless dichotomies in Leadership, but none as difficult as this: when leaders develop close relationships with their people, they may not be willing to make those people do what is necessary to complete a project or a task.
True
False
What can happen when leaders take the attitude of Extreme Ownership on everything and leave subordinates with nothing to own?
Subordinates improve their performance.
Subordinates have more freedom to perform.
Subordinates shut down mentally because the leader’s micromanagement is too controlling.
True Extreme Ownership means that a leader is responsible of everything, whether a team succeeds or fails is all up to the leader, this means that the leader must do everything.
True
False
Micromanagement fails because no one person can control multiple people executing a vast number of actions in a dynamic environment, where changes in the situation occur rapidly and with unpredictability.
True
False
To correctly balance the micromanager and the hand-off leadership style, the leader must?
Maintain an equilibrium where the team have the guidance to execute but at the same time the freedom to make decisions and lead.
Maintain an equilibrium where the team cannot make decisions without the leader approval.
We can avoid “Too many coaches, not enough players” when the leader assign and clearly delineate the chain of command, roles, and responsibilities of the team leaders and don’t give them proper authority.
True
False
To balance being a leader and being a follower. Being _________, but not cocky. To be aggressive, but still __________. To be bold, but at the same time thoughtful.
Confident / Cautious
Smart / Cautious
Confident / Bold
In order to help your team, sometimes you have to hurt them.
True
False
What happens when a micromanager tries to control every thought and action of each individual on the team.
People trust the leader.
Leader is respected.
People become accustomed to being told what to do.
Micromanager and Hands-off leadership styles are opposites.
True
False
