What do you consider your own strengths and weaknesses for leadership? Discuss your answer with another student.
Describe the best leader you have known. How did this leader acquire his or her capability?
Look through recent magazines and newspapers and identify one leader who seems to illustrate the “leader-as-hero” mindset and one who seems more typical of the humble Level 5 leader described in the text. Describe their differing characteristics. Which was easier to find?
