Which are you?

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice you have chosen the side of the oppressor"-Desmond Tutu. Take a stance, make a difference

Week 2 - Managers and Leadership

The industrial revolution and refinement of skilled labor made a shift from a "manager" to a "leader". The leader has vision and direction of the team similar to a stage coach rider and his horses. Carol O

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Silence the perfect way if you want to live and adjust..In somehow you will forget who you are and what do you want and people will never respect your being and will abuse you. life is changing..no more silence . thank you Freire

Everyone can be a good leader if he/she can make a positive change in him/herself or people around him/her.I think forgiveness is an important part of the successful leader ( my thoughts about Freire's book).
- Mansour

Week 2

To break the cycle of systematic and institutionalized oppression, we must promote the spirit of justice and empower those whose voices are silenced
-Laura Garcia-

To define oppression for the oppressed you become the oppressor provide them the education to decide for themselves if they are opressed.
Jessica G.

Any Kings out there?

“Leaders learn to manage chaos; know your people; utilize their strengths, and always try to meet their needs; success is everyones”

NUHA AGAIN!!

“An army of rabbits led by a lion is far better than an army of lions lead by rabbit”. Napoleon.. How about an army of lions lead by a lion? Why should I as a leader have to be with followers when I can surround myself with leaders to be a better one! FIRST WEEK

WEEK 1

Leader who knows the strategies that inspire the individuals to trust themselves by opening the door for open-minded dialogue and paying attention for what they say can led the organization to achieve its goals successfully.
ELHAM

Leadership

We can be a leader if we have leadership characteristics. Qualities of a leader may include vision and ability to direct others toward a goal. Carol O

Moayed

Motivation is a really important side of the leadership and I think it is the biggest different between the leadership and management.

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To define leadership without including the traits of a leader is a difficult task. Can these traits and the leaders who exhibit them be part of the definition? ~Jessica

"No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings."

-Posted By: Laura Snyder-

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Today and each day as leaders of our own lives, we make choices about our behavior that offers a positive or negative example to others.
-Laura Garcia-

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Three Leadership traits that I find important. The three F's; FIRM, FAIR, and FRIENDLY.
Melisa

Week 1 Tweets

What are you doing- defining leadership, a leader, or identifying the traits of a leader? It’s not “just semantics”- semantics matter.

A start...

“Teamwork in any given task develops creativity and challenges us to build and strengthen these relationships in our successes and failures”

Week 1 Tweets

“Managers do things right. Leaders do the right thing. “ This qoute is so stuck in my head that not even teflon can unstick it.
- Satish S

My own quote like the one on the top of our syllabus…”If not me, who? If not now, when?”
-Jessie

I really appreciated the idea of safety that came out in class. I feel like it is something we need to give more thought to in our orgs.
~Tony

Which was a more effective leader: Bush or Bin Laden? Not all leadership is positive.
~Dave S

Some call people “followers” while others call them “team members” I think the video got it correct when calling the first follower an equal
~Matthew Blythe

We can’t just learn from the good leaders, ensure to learn from the bad ones as well. Bad leaders are great “how not to” examples.
~Jayson C.

The difference between good and bad leaders is most noticeable during the hard times. Trustworthiness is foundational to good leadership. ~ Andrea S.

Welcome to the wonderful world of Tweets!

Crew,
Jump on here and post 140 characters of brilliance that detail either something that struck you about our class conversation or an opportunity for leadership that you found yourself in that applies the course materials. You are asked to post something each week prior to 12PM on Monday. Good luck tweeting!
~Tony