November 2011
2 posts
Achievement Vs Effort
When I was in elementary school (a long time ago) I remember receiving report cards with two grades for each subject, one for achievement (A,B,C,D,F) and one for effort (E, S, NI). I remember being perplexed by an A/NI grade I got at one point. Anecdotally, it seems at least the assessment of effort has been in practice for some time.
My father was a NCAA champion wrestler, and I wrestled a bit...
My thoughts on leadership
In the last post, we talked about how people define leadership in different ways. Hearing about these characteristics of leadership further convinces me that we have to look beyond the dictionary to define leadership, because you cannot add all the qualities of a leader in to one definition. That being said, one summary of these characteristics could be that a leader is someone that people in his...
