Leadership Today: Practices for Personal and Professional Performance

Joan Marques, Satinder Dhiman

Chapter 20 Leadership and Ambition - all with Video Answers

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Chapter Questions

Problem 1

Ambition is fueled by personal traits, such as your level of thoroughness, how outgoing you are (extraversion), your emotional state (neuroticism), and your general mental ability. Please consider your own levels of thoroughness, extraversion, neuroticism, and general mental ability, and explain how you use these traits in setting ambitious goals?

Asma Venkitta

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Problem 2

How do you feel that your ambition has been encouraged or inhibited so far? Reviewing the gender influences on ambition in this chapter: do you feel that your gender contributed to this encouragement or inhibition? Please explain.

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Problem 3

Read the section about negative and positive ambition, and then provide an example of each, either in your own life, from people you know, or from research? (About 150 words minimum per example)

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Problem 4

This chapter discusses six personal problem areas in being ambitious: (1) lack of focus, (2) losing control, (3) strength becoming a weakness, (4) psychosomatic effects, (5) workaholism, and (6) loss of happiness. Please reflect on each of these problem areas, and select which of these six is a current or foreseeable problem area that may affect you. Explain your answer (about 300 words)?

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Problem 5

Which of the four professional downsides of ambition do you consider most problematic? Have you ever been the victim of any of these four downsides? If so, please explain? If not, please select one or more of these four downsides and explain how you will avoidthem from happening if ever you become a leader in a professional setting?

Deborah Taylor

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