What is the most often mentioned flow activity in the world?
Reading
100
What is the most fundamental of all leadership functions?
Creating vision
100
True or False - A good manager is an effective leader?
False
100
Explain the phrase 'Many chiefs, no indians'
A group/organization filled with leaders and no people to follow orders and do the work
100
Why is the concept of meaning so difficult to to define
Because the 'meaning of meaning' is a circular reference
200
All forms of flow are dependent, directly or indirectly, on what?
Memory
200
What is the alternative to top-down vision creation?
Vision arising out of a group as it accomplishes work
200
According to the 'Leading Minds' research - what have great leaders most used to inspire followers?
Stories
200
Finish the following
Framing Experience --> _________ --> Meaning and Action
Interpretation
200
What three things unify life and give it meaning?
Purpose, Resolution, and Harmony
300
What is the motivation of history's greatest thinkers
The thinking itself
300
What is 'far more important' than creating meaning in a vision?
The ability to create a detectable vision
300
Of all the different stories - which is most often told?
Epic Story
300
What is leadership socially constructed through?
Interaction
300
To be beings existing in flow, we should create harmony based on ______ & ______, not genetic instruction or rules of society
Reason and Choice
400
Remembering the past is instrumental in the creation and preservation of what?
Personal Identity
400
What is the value of leadership subject to?
An interpretive process
400
What are the two main goals of the epic story?
Characterizing heroism and defining leadership
400
What two things do leaders do to their followers' reality?
Frame and define
400
What is the most important part of the ultimate goal?
that it is compelling enough to order a lifetime's worth of psychic energy
500
What is meant classically by 'Philosophy'?
Love of Wisdom
500
What is the 'meaning maker'?
Someone who gives expression to what members of a group or organization seek to accomplish in their work together
500
Name 2 of the 3 ways the Harvard Business Review aims to improve management
- Mirrors challenges faced by managers
- Presents ideas and principles of successful managers
- Strips away the hype around new ideas to better evaluate their effectiveness
500
What is the main distinguishing feature of formal organization
The way experience is structured and defined
500
True or False - Every human culture contains different meaning systems that serve to encompass purpose?