Foundational
Concepts
Concepts
This term refers to the position one holds in society based on identities like race, class, gender, and sexuality.
What is social location?
Traits are defined as stable individual differences including personality, motives, skills, and cognitive abilities.
What are traits?
This psychologist popularized emotional intelligence in 1995 with a bestselling book.
Who is Daniel Goleman?
This organization created the Clifton StrengthsFinder assessment.
What is Gallup?
This survey instrument measures the five exemplary practices of leadership.
What is the Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI)?
These are commonsense assumptions that shape how people interpret leadership and the world.
What are stocks of knowledge?
These are deeply ingrained and less mutable attributes like personality and cognition.
What are distal attributes?
These two scholars first defined emotional intelligence in 1990.
Who are Peter Salovey and John D. Mayer?
This book by Rath and Conchie popularized the term strengths-based leadership.
What is Strengths Based Leadership?
These two scholars developed the Leadership Challenge Model.
Who are James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner?
This concept describes broadly accepted beliefs that maintain unjust systems by appearing natural and morally correct.
What is ideology?
These attributes are more malleable and adaptable to different situations.
What are proximal attributes?
EIL includes these three major facets.
What are consciousness of self, consciousness of others, and consciousness of context?
According to SBL, individuals need not be well-rounded, but this should be.
What are teams?
This foundational element is described as the basis of leadership in TLC.
What is credibility?
When people accept dominant beliefs as “common sense” even when they work against their own interests.
What is hegemony?
This 19th-century thinker advanced the “Great Man” theory in On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History.
Who is Thomas Carlyle?
This key idea emphasizes that EIL capacities interact dynamically and respond to this factor.
What is context?
These are the four leadership domains in SBL.
What are executing, influencing, relationship building, and strategic thinking?
This practice involves searching for opportunities to innovate and take risks.
What is “Challenge the Process”?
This deconstruction tool describes ignoring a theory’s limitations because it offers simplicity and certainty.
What is willful blindness?
This scholar’s 1948 critique argued that leadership is shaped by situation and environment, challenging pure trait theory.
Who is Ralph Stogdill?
This number represents how many capacities fall under the EIL framework.
What is 19?
One major critique of SBL is that it fails to address these structural factors shaping how strengths are received.
What are power, context, and social stratification (or social location)?
According to TLC, leadership is fundamentally this type of dynamic between aspiring leaders and followers.
What is a relationship?