S6-Ep6: Attitudes on Leadership

Guests: Lynn Shollen & Sam Wilson, researchers at Christopher Newport University and Swinburne University of Technology

Odds are good you aren’t happy with our leaders. Less than 1/3 of Americans believe their leaders are effective.

 

That’s according to the Leadership Attitudes Survey. Dr. Lynn Shollen joins us to share more of the results. Dr. Sam Wilson chimes in to reveal insights from the Australian Leadership Index. The two studies had remarkably similar findings.

 

The bottom line: most of us feel our leaders are too far removed from the everyday experiences of ordinary people.

 

So what can leaders do about it? Listen in to find out!

 

Produced in association with the International Leadership Association: https://ilaglobalnetwork.org/ .

 

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• Onboard with Care: Welcoming a New Leader with Brenda Hampel & Erika Lamont
• The Anxious Achiever with Morra Aarons-Mele
• Ignite Your Leadership Game with Dre Baldwin

 

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Lynn’s research is online, too, at https://cnu.edu/las/ . The group’s e-mail address is ldsp-survey@cnu.edu .

 

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Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:

• Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
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• Women and Leadership: Journey Toward Equity by Sherylle J. Tan & Lisa DeFrank-Cole

 

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About Our Guest:  

Dr. S. Lynn Shollen is Associate Professor of Leadership Studies and department chair in the Department of Leadership and American Studies at Christopher Newport University, a public liberal arts institution in Newport News, Virginia, in the United States. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in Higher Education Policy and Administration. Her research interests include identity and the faculty to administrator transition, identity and perceptions of leadership, leadership identities construction, and teaching about women and leadership.

 

Dr Sam Wilson Senior Lecturer in Leadership in the Department of Management and Marketing at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. He is also co-director of the Thriving in Society 4.0 program of the Social Innovation Research Institute and Deputy Director of the Social Psychology of Innovation Research Group, also at Swinburne. He earned his PhD from the University of Melbourne in experimental social psychology. His research interests span psychological studies of the future self to large, national studies of community beliefs about leadership for the greater good in the government, public, private and not-for-profit sectors.