The second half of class was very interesting today. The video that we watched demonstrated many different opinions and their conversation about them through a clearly biased moderator. Then, we were separated into our debate groups, which definitely led to conflict in terms of leadership roles in my group at least.
First, I would like to discuss a question introduced in the video we watched: What is the relationship between leadership and power? At a very basic level, I would say that leadership is not dependent on power, but power is dependent on leadership. You can't lead without power, but you can have power without leading. Power allows a leader to effectively accomplish his or her tasks and gives them both legitimacy and authority so that followers will support them. In the second case, however, the person with power would be wasting it in terms of having legitimacy and not using it. A bad leader would not be able to effectively utilize their power.
As for our debate group, it was very interesting for us all to be interacting in this leadership class with as much difficulty as we had. It kind of reminded me of the marshmallow challenge because we did not have one leader assigned, which led to us all attempting to do it in our own styles and that definitely did not work. I think it was difficult for us because we were all on equal levels and did not know who should have more authority than others or why. It was also difficult when we tried to determine who would do what role since everyone had different preferences and it was hard to accommodate them all. Overall, as long as we utilize social media and communicate effectively, I'm sure our debate will go well on Wednesday.
It was interesting to see how we all fought for positions and were unable to declare someone in the group the leader to help organize everything and ass along information from one group to another. Although we have made plans with others when to meet to interchange information, the entire group is still unaware when the completion day is. Luckily for social media site Facebook, we can post all our findings and assignments there so we have a clear idea what is going on and prepare for the debate coming up. Im excited!
ReplyDeleteLooking back on what has happened over the past week, I think it is really interesting how social media has both helped and harmed our group. We are able to coordinate some things, but it is difficult when people do not respond. Additionally, it is easy to misinterpret tone of certain things. However, hopefully it goes well!
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