I connected to a few armored leadership styles in the “The Armory”, and #12 — “Rewarding Exhaustion as a Status Symbol and Attaching Productivity to Self-Worth” stood out the first, and its daring leadership is “Modeling and Supporting Rest, Play, and Recovery”. …

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Perfectionism is in my DNA from my culture and family. I use to think positively about it because it motivated me to keep learning more and doing better. I also observed its negative impacts such as costly time and energy in betterment, feeling not good or satisfied enough, misplacing priorities…

Alicia Garza (Black Lives Matter): Treat our work as if it is in fact hospice care for that which is dying and prenatal care for that which is being born. Having been a caretaker for my dad in the last few years of his life made me realized how precious…

This week’s readings are very rich, and many new concepts are introduced with explanations and examples. I learned so much from Alicia Garza (Garza)’s reflection and Ella Baker (Baker)’s revolutionary rhetoric, and I am especially impressed by how Garza magnified Baker’s approach in decentralized leadership through the “Black Lives Matter”…

This week’s assigned readings are a combined experience of theoretical and application to me. “Critical leadership studies: The case for critical performativity” (“Critical”) first presents two leadership study approaches — functionalist and interpretive — and three paradigmatic assumptions. Then it introduces “critical performativity” that opens up new ways of interpreting…

Among all three Leadership readings assigned for this week, I am most familiar with the article of “What Makes a Leader?” (“Leader”) by Daniel Goleman, as the components of Emotional Intelligence (EI) are frequently used in corporate leadership trainings. I am mostly educated by “A History of Leadership” (“History”) that…

It is such a timely topic as the U.S. government transitioned from a “violent” one to a more “peaceful” one, based on some expert and public views. So, what kind of leadership are we expecting from this new administration? From reading personal and political histories about President Biden and Vice…