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By Emily Barnhill              At first glance this article about New York City’s ban on large sugary soft drinks seems completely irrelevant to a class based on the ideas behind leadership. However when I stumbled across this while idly scrolling through the Huffington Post and read through it leadership actually […]

I found this video talking about what it means to be a leader today. The speaker is Drew Dudley, and he is talking at the TED conference in Toronto. A great thing he talks about is how some people think leadership is bigger than them and about changing the world, so they don’t expect it […]

In the first 2012 Presidential Debate, Obama v. Romney, Obama said something very distinct about leadership. In his rebuttal to Romney’s plan for his term in office, he stated that a leader is is someone who is able to make plans and have ideas. Although this isn’t the exact quote, Obama was right. Being able […]

                      Can a leader lie to you? I just want to start this post off with saying my particular basis of beliefs. I have been a devoted Democrat since the Kerry Vs. Bush election. I consider myself a liberal but I grew up in a small […]

Hey guys if you haven’t already noticed, I am extremely shy and I only speak when spoken too. I have noticed that when we talk in class about leadership strategies we always break up into groups of leadership my a direct central leader and leadership by a group of people doing different tasks, but I […]

What do you think about when you hear the word leader? A politician? Professor? Maybe even a law enforcement officer? All of these people may be leaders, but leadership extends far beyond these people. Leaders make a substantial difference in the community and in the lives of people around them. A leader is courageous and […]

Hey guys, so I had the privilege of attending the Leadership Conference this past Saturday, and it was a really great experience. The speakers were phenomenal in their approach to how leadership and civility go hand in hand. From the Conference, I came up with a shortened definition of civility which is basically doing the […]

In class, we discuss what a leader is. The characteristics of a leader, what a leader does, what is not a leader. But looking into leadership as a role, we barely take time to discuss the challenges that certain leaders face today. Women leaders have been marginalized and people often overlook the difficulties of being a […]

Okay, leadership is such an easy subject that you can’t even consider it a topic suitable for idle conversation. But if you still wanna know much I studied the concept of one person telling everyone else what to do with their lives, I can tell you this: I’ve rarely studied the subject at all. The “leader” […]