I like the idea of studying different known leaders, Fiedler's study seems to be one where you would say "Well of course that's how you study leadership." But it seems that a great deal of the studies focus on leaders as a whole, not necessarily well known leaders, political figures, military men and the like.
By the end of chapter 7, I decided that I was quite amazed by the intensity and amount of all the studies done on leadership. It always seems as though we've covered everything you could possibly think of, but then Northouse introduces a whole new topic or element.
The three-part assertion message isn't that new to me, I've always known them as the "When...I" statements. I've never considered the fact that this is a means of asserting oneself but now that I think about it that certainly makes sense.
While I found many of Gibbins-Klein's points to be very useful she didn't mention that some of these things can backfire. Take for instance the book publishing, if it is a poorly done book (this technically can apply to ALL types of media) then relationships are made weaker, not stronger.
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