Chapter 13-16 and Narcissus

Question 1

What are the three primary components provided as exercises at the end of the chapter for an individual to determine how effective their personal leadership is?

Answer 1

1. Integrity
2. Initiative
3. Servanthood

Question 2

When developing personal leadership, _____ wrote the book _____ to promote the self-serving moral dilemma that it is easier to develop the perception that one has the qualities of a good leader instead of working hard to actually develop those qualities.

Answer 2

Machiavelli, The Prince.

Question 3

What is a compelling desire for some type of achievement or distinction?

Answer 3

Ambition.

Question 4

A president, general, CEO of a corporation, pastor, principal of a school are examples of what?

Answer 4

Formal Positional Leadership.

Question 5

Taking action to bring about change in your everyday situation by mobilizing resources around you is the definition of _____.

Answer 5

Personal Leadership.

Question 6

The ability to take action that brings about change in one’s area of influence by mobilizing others to accomplish a shared vision is the definition of _____.

Answer 6

Informal Personal Leadership.

Question 7

What is the order in which a person develops their leadership skills?

Answer 7

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Question 8

When an individual believes their life and behavior is primarily ruled by the decisions and actions of other people or outside circumstances, they display _____.

Answer 8

External Sense of Victimization.

Question 9

When an individual believes that under the guidance of God their life and behavior is governed by their personal decisions and actions, they display _____.

Answer 9

Internal Sense of Responsibility.

Question 10

What is the primary reason an individual is unable to see the possibilities of what our all-knowing, all-powerful God has for their lives?

Answer 10

They are too focused upon themselves.

Question 11

What are the five qualities that help to produce informal positional leadership?

Answer 11

1. Credibility
2. Inspiration
3. Persuasion
4. Empathy
5. Partnership

Question 12

Who was the person from the Old Testament highlighted in the chapter as being an example of informal positional leadership?

Answer 12

Jethro.

Question 13

Individuals display the quality of _____ when they focus on equality and mutual respect rather than dominance and subordination.

Answer 13

Partnership.

Question 14

The quality of _____ grows out of emotional strengths and can be developed an enhanced if a person seeks it and begins to practice it.

Answer 14

Empathy.

Question 15

_______ is built upon the principles, convictions and insights that are developed in personal leadership.

Answer 15

Credibility.

Question 16

Individuals display the quality of _____ when they can effectively communicate insights in a manner that clearly explains the concept, benefits, and value of an idea.

Answer 16

Persuasion.

Question 17

Individuals display the quality of _____ when they can communicate good ideas to others in a way that they can understand is important.

Answer 17

Inspiration.

Question 18

Individuals display the quality of _____ when they are able to understand and imaginatively enter into the experience and feelings of another person.

Answer 18

Empathy.

Question 19

Individuals display the quality of _____ when they can demonstrate behaviors in their own life that reinforces credibility and evokes others to aspire to follow them.

Answer 19

Inspiration.

Question 20

_____ is the belief of others that you can make a difference, so they take action to follow you.

Answer 20

Credibility.

Question 21

What are the five qualities that help to produce formal positional leadership?

Answer 21

1. Serving
2. Modeling
3. Positioning
4. Envisioning
5. Investing

Question 22

_____ is the mindset in a leader that places the needs of those led before one’s own self-interests.

Answer 22

Serving.

Question 23

_____ is the intentional and regular practice of being able to ask others to perform a task because they know you are willing to do it yourself.

Answer 23

Modeling.

Question 24

What are the four ways a leader can show that \_\_\_\_\_ in those they lead is a priority?
1. 
2. 
3. 
4.

Answer 24

Investing.

1. Spend time with them.
2. Provide adequate resources.
3. Provide access to information.
4. Share.

Question 25

The quality of _____ is the capacity to imagine and articulate exciting future possibilities. 1. One of the roles under this capacity is that of a _____. In this role the leader imagines a better future, avoids boundaries, and allows creativity to run free. 2. Another role under this capacity is that of a _____. In this role the leader helps those led to catch and endorse the same vision, as well as expand and enhance the vision. 3. Another one of the roles under this capacity is that of a _____. In this role the leader provides resources for empowering those led to accomplish the shared vision.

Answer 25

Envisioning. 1. Dreamer 2. Dream-Caster 3. Dream-Maker

Question 26

What are the three ways a formal leader can position themselves in relation to those they lead?

Answer 26

1. Above 2. Ahead 3. Alongside

Question 27

This position is recommended to be used by a leader about 50% of the time.

Answer 27

Alongside.

Question 28

Leaders in this position promote individual development, increase appreciation of diversity, and results in a sense of self-worth in those they lead.

Answer 28

Ahead.

Question 29

Leaders in this position have authority and are expected to use it.

Answer 29

Above.

Question 30

Leaders in this position see their role as an opportunity to collaborate with their fellow workers.

Answer 30

Alongside.

Question 31

This position is recommended to be used by a leader about 45% of the time.

Answer 31

Ahead.

Question 32

Leaders in this position use fear as a motivator resulting in compliance rather than growth.

Answer 32

Above.

Question 33

Leaders in this position may find difficulty in determining who is actually responsible for the follow through of any given project.

Answer 33

Alongside.

Question 34

Leaders in this position can lull their followers into an unhealthy dependence upon a benevolent leader.

Answer 34

Ahead.

Question 35

This position is recommended to be used by a leader about 5% of the time.

Answer 35

Above.

Question 36

What are the five qualities that help to produce personal leadership?

Answer 36

1. Principles 2. Conviction 3. Initiative 4. Insight 5. Trailblazing

Question 37

_____ compels people in a way that stirs them to want to take action.

Answer 37

Conviction.

Question 38

Most of the greatest inventions of the world came about through people with ______ who are constantly challenging the status quo with new possibilities and concepts.

Answer 38

Insight.

Question 39

People with _______ display an attitude that arises primarily from an internal sense of responsibility.

Answer 39

Initiative.

Question 40

People who exhibit ______ are not afraid to take the risks that are necessary to reach a better place.

Answer 40

Trailblazing.

Question 41

People display _____ when they don’t care about popularity or manipulation when taking action to bring about change due to their inner compass.

Answer 41

Principles.

Question 42

_____ impels people in a way that transforms moral principles into moral action.

Answer 42

Conviction.

Question 43

People with _____ believe they can make a difference and take action.

Answer 43

Initiative.

Question 44

People who are honest and whose words are dependable show they have _____.

Answer 44

Principles.

Question 45

_____ propels people forward into the actual process of taking action.

Answer 45

Conviction.

Question 46

People with ______ have the capacity to discern the hidden nature of situations and generate solutions to perplexing challenges.

Answer 46

Insight.

Question 47

People of _____ believe that if good can be done, it should be done

Answer 47

Conviction.

Question 48

People who exhibit _____ with recognize a path before others do; travel the path themselves; and reveal the path to others.

Answer 48

Trailblazing.

Question 49

Narcissus was the son of the river god _____.

Answer 49

Cephissus.

Question 50

Narcissus was the son of the nymph _____.

Answer 50

Liriope.

Question 51

Narcissus is the origin of the term _____, which is a fixation with _____ and one's _____.

Answer 51

Narcissism, oneself, physical appearance.

Question 52

_____ realizes that Narcissus was proud and disdained all who loved him.

Answer 52

Nemesis.

Question 53

How did the person in the question above respond to Narcissus’ behavior?

Answer 53

Attracted Narcissus to a pool.

Question 54

What was the result of Narcissus’ temptation?

Answer 54

He drowned in an attempt to pursue what he could not attain – the experience of self-love.

Question 55

Defines the fundamental purpose of your existence, succinctly describing why you exist and what you are meant to do with your life.

Answer 55

Mission.

Question 56

Depicts a long-term view of the way your world will look in the future if you are successful in carrying out your mission.

Answer 56

Vision.

Question 57

Describes the strategy that culminates in you actually fulfilling your mission.

Answer 57

Action.

Question 58

Situation with a good chance or prospect for advancement or success.

Answer 58

Opportunity.

Question 59

Any question or matter involving danger, doubt, uncertainty, or difficulty.

Answer 59

Problem.

Question 60

A system of principles used for guidance in practical affairs.

Answer 60

Philosophy.

Question 61

What one believes to have relative worth, merit, or importance.

Answer 61

Values.

Question 62

A compelling desire for some type of achievement or distinction.

Answer 62

Ambition.

Question 63

To make clear and distinct.

Answer 63

Articulate.

Question 64

Cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force.

Answer 64

Draw.

Question 65

Existing conditions or surroundings.

Answer 65

Circumstances.

Question 66

Moral excellence.

Answer 66

Virtue.

Question 67

Frederick Buechner’s quote stating that individuals will find their life calling in “the _____ that you need most to do and that the _____ most needs to have done.”

Answer 67

Work, world.

Question 68

Is our call to serve the world an optional one?

Answer 68

No.

Question 69

In teaching that we are to accept “who we are” are doing “what we are created to do”; the textbook used what teaching on the dynamics of Christians working together?

Answer 69

Body of Christ.

Question 70

We are to recognize which people will respond to us; the textbook used the example of how Paul was effective preaching to the _____, while Peter was most effective preaching to the _____.

Answer 70

Gentiles, Jews.

Question 71

____ is an example of someone we learned about early in the school year who was never happy in accepting God’s role in his life.

Answer 71

Jonah.

Question 72

What are the six concepts in the Great Commission (Matthew 18-20) that guide our personal mission and set the context for our overall Life Calling?

Answer 72

1. Go. 2. Make disciples. 3. Baptize. 4. Teach. 5. Have all authority. 6. Christ is with you.

Question 73

What five areas did the textbook identify as the needs of the world that draw us?

Answer 73

1. People. 2. Locations. 3. Problems. 4. Opportunities. 5. Situations that we are currently encountering.

Question 74

See in one’s mind something of beauty, charm, value, or desirability.

Answer 74

Dream.

Question 75

Mental image representing something in a graphic sense.

Answer 75

Picture

Question 76

Purpose toward which an endeavor is directed.

Answer 76

Goal.

Question 77

Job, assignment, chore, or act of work to be carried out.

Answer 77

Task.

Question 78

Ability to arouse an animating, quickening, or exalting influence.

Answer 78

Inspiration.

Question 79

Ability to see in one’s mind something that is not real in the immediate setting.

Answer 79

Imagination.

Question 80

A plan, method, or series of actions for obtaining a specific goal or result.

Answer 80

Strategy.

Question 81

A line of thought or action leading from one point of reference to another.

Answer 81

Direction.

Question 82

What four key elements stand out as components in the working definition of leadership provided in the text?

Answer 82

1. Vision 2. Action 3. Mobilization 4. Change

Question 83

We are to discover that vision = _____ and that vision ≠ _____.

Answer 83

Picture, task.

Question 84

_____ is an individual who gave one of the best examples of displaying a passionate vision in his “I Have a Dream” speech.

Answer 84

Martin Luther King Jr.

Question 85

``` In this person’s speech, the author illustrated the four forces within the needs of the world that drew this person and will draw us, list the specific forces in this case: A. People force: B. Contextual force: C. Problem force: D. Location: ```

Answer 85

A. Americans. B. Racial Bigotry. C. Equal Rights. D. United States (especially the American South).

Question 86

In the text, the author outlined the following three ingredients that will help you form a life-changing vision: 1. _____: is the ingredient of developing a life-changing vision through the formation of a conscious idea or mental image of something you have never before wholly thought of in reality. 2. _____: is the ingredient of allowing the voices of your spirit, soul, and heart to speak as loud as your mind and body. 3. _____: is the ingredient of guiding your dreams towards your own images rather than those of others.

Answer 86

1. Imagination. 2. Inspiration. 2. Independence.

Question 87

The scripture that states “Without a vision, the people perish.”

Answer 87

Proverbs 29:18

Question 88

In God’s calling to “Open our Eyes” the textbook used the account of _____ to teach us how to see possibilities in situations where we once only saw challenges.

Answer 88

Elisha.

Question 89

In God’s calling to “Look at Everything” the textbook used the account of Jesus and _____ to teach that life is greater and more fulfilled when we look beyond meeting just our physical needs.

Answer 89

Samaritan Woman.

Question 90

In God’s calling to “Look Forward to a New Heaven and New Earth” the textbook used the account of the disciple _____ teaching the people to be ready for Jesus’ second coming.

Answer 90

Peter.

Question 91

In God’s calling to “Lift Up Your Eyes” the textbook used the account of _____ to teach about hope and encouragement in the times of despair and discouragement.

Answer 91

Isaiah.

Question 92

In all of these teachings, we are called to “see” beyond ourselves. What is the primary reason we are called to “see” beyond ourselves?

Answer 92

Moves us beyond the temptation of selfishness.

Question 93

List the four steps that turn vision into action.

Answer 93

1. Establish direction. 2. Set SMART goals. 3. Develop a strategy. 4. Take actions.

Question 94

What are S.M.A.R.T. goals?

Answer 94

``` (S)​ Specific (M)​ Measurable (A)​ Achievable (R)​ Relevant (T)​ Time-Framed ```

Question 95

At the end of our textbook, the author concludes that Life Calling becomes a reality and we feel a sense of fulfillment because we’ve attained these three desires of our heart.

Answer 95

1. Meaning. 2. Significance. 3. Hope.

Question 96

His father’s career was?

Answer 96

Psychiatrist/College Administrator.

Question 97

His mother’s career was?

Answer 97

1st grade teacher.

Question 98

What did he enjoy doing as a child that was discouraged once he entered school?

Answer 98

Daydreaming, imagining, and making up stories.

Question 99

What did he state became the structure of his education?

Answer 99

Acquisition of knowledge/memorization of facts.

Question 100

What was the pattern of life he experienced regularly while in school?

Answer 100

Being disciplined in the principal's office.

Question 101

Upon entering college, what experience made him change his view of learning?

Answer 101

An English instructor who encouraged him to be creative.

Question 102

How confident in his future was he after graduating college?

Answer 102

Not very.

Question 103

How did the majority of his family react to his career choices after college?

Answer 103

Running joke about the variety of different jobs.

Question 104

What realization changed his career outlook?

Answer 104

No matter what job he took, he found himself helping others.

Question 105

What was the primary connection you made to his story?

Answer 105

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