Leadership: Leaders, Followers, Environments

QUESTIONS TO TEST COMPREHENSION

1. Explain how adaptation and temporariness affect the leader-follower interaction or “dance.”
2. Describe the biological and evolutionary roots of authority.
3. Describe childhood antecedents that might influence or predict later leadership.
4. Describe how ability, personality, and opportunities influence leader development.
5. Discuss the impact of leader derailment within an organization and recruitment or continuance of highperforming teams.
6. Think of leaders you have known and describe their source of power, which emanates from five foundations (legitimate, reward, referent, punishment, and expert power).
7. Discuss and contrast the managerial challenges of a matrix structure with those of a poor leader who undercuts lower level managers by ignoring or perverting the chain of command.