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Leadership Concept Check



True/False
Before you do this quiz, review the slide presentation. Indicate whether the sentence or statement is true or false.
 

 1. 

Effective and moral leaders use power to reach their own ends.
 

 2. 

Your personal mission statement is your life philosophy or creed.
 

 3. 

Aggressive behaviors are more effective in interpersonal relations than either passive or assertive behaviors.
 

 4. 

Leadership and management are the same.
 

 5. 

If you don’t have goals, it really doesn’t matter what you do because you don’t have any desired outcomes.
 

 6. 

Self-assessments should always be verified by soliciting feedback from relevant others.
 

 7. 

Tolerating failure is one of the strategies to empower people.
 

 8. 

Managers and leaders tend to have a higher internal than external locus of control.
 

 9. 

Your values determine what you believe is desirable or undesirable.
 

 10. 

Effective leaders solve problems on their own.
 

 11. 

People should be paid for what they know instead of what they do.
 

 12. 

Planning is concerned with what, how, and when things need to be done.
 

 13. 

Goal setting is an ongoing process and sometimes requires changing direction.
 

 14. 

A vision should be a part of your purpose.
 

 15. 

Writing down your thoughts about significant experiences increases the likelihood of learning from them.
 

 16. 

A SWOT analysis examines the fit between your personal Situation With appropriate Organizational Theories.
 

 17. 

Cognitive style affects how you think about relating to others not how you actually behave.
 

 18. 

Honesty and ambition are “instrumental values.”
 

 19. 

To increase self-awareness, your need to know needs to be stronger than your fear of knowing.
 

 20. 

Locus of control can change over time.
 

 21. 

The autocratic style promotes empowerment.
 

 22. 

Comparing actual results with your expectations will show your strengths and weaknesses.
 

 23. 

To be most productive, you should go into solitude with a list of things to accomplish.
 

 24. 

The secret to creating high-performance teams is to put the right person, in the right place, right now:
 

 25. 

Self-awareness is the basis for all the other components of emotional intelligence.
 

 26. 

No matter how effective your strategies are, they cannot succeed if they aren’t implemented properly.
 



 
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