Exam 5: Leadership Mind and Heart

A) It includes motivation based on fear of losing a job.
B) It provides a great intrinsic pleasure.
C) It is present in organizations where people mindlessly follow orders.
D) It always lead to high achievement.

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A) They have to allow their subordinates do the thinking for them.
B) They have to maintain strong preconceptions and suspend beliefs and opinions.
C) They have to forget many of their conditioned ideas.
D) They have to stick to mental models that worked in the past.

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A) They encourage beginners to blindly accept paradoxes.
B) They understand the limitations of past experience.
C) They see the questioning of their ideas as a threat.
D) They advise new employees to openly agree with long-held assumptions.

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Systems thinking is the ability to see t...

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A) personal mastery
B) stereotyping
C) emotional intelligence
D) systems thinking

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A) regard their assumptions as fixed truths rather than temporary ideas.
B) draw on subtle aspects of themselves and appeal to those aspects in others.
C) do not let their emotions and beliefs affect others.
D) use fear to motivate others effectively.

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A) It sees diverse perspectives as a threat.
B) It includes the ability to see the separate elements of a system.
C) It creates a gap between current reality and the vision of a better future.
D) It is a mental discipline for seeing patterns and interrelationships.

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A) a part of a leader's mental model.
B) regarded by a leader as fixed truths.
C) a personality trait.
D) an expression of the organizational mission.

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A) It plays an important role in creating avoidance behavior in an organization.
B) It is not used in the decision making process in times of uncertainty and change.
C) It is used to give people a sense of meaning and purpose when major changes occur ahnost daily.
D) It sticks to a domestic mental model that sees everything from one's own limited personal perspective.

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A) The behavior of accepting what one gets in the future rather than what one wants in the future
B) The practice of bridging the disparity between current reality and the vision of a better future
C) The discipline of continually focusing on what one wants as the desired future
D) The discipline of accepting assumptions and standard ways of doing things

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A) They remove the opportunity for blinding employees to reality.
B) They eradicate secrecy and cautiousness among employees.
C) They eliminate avoidance behavior among employees.
D) They destroy the opportunity for feedback from employees.

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A) accepting the standard way of doing things.
B) employing fear-based motivation.
C) regarding assumptions as fixed truths.
D) being emotionally connected to others.

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A) all leaders score higher than most people on tests of cognitive ability.
B) all leaders have similar scores in emotional intelligence tests.
C) all five elements of mind are interdependent.
D) all elements of mind prevent shifting of mental models.

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