Leadership Identity Development: Annotated Bibliography

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Odom, S., Boyd, B., & Williams, J. (2012). Impact of Personal Growth Projects on Leadership Identity Development. Journal of Leadership Education, 49-63.
The author creates a very compelling case with the Personal Growth Project (PGP) assessments that were conducted based on qualitative analysis. The authors conducted a study in which 90 students from Texas A&M University participated in a personal leadership education class. The class was conducted in the fall and spring of 2010 by utilizing 3 classes to reduce the bias in the data. The students were presented with a series of questions with a goal to identify the internal and external leadership identity.
Internal and External leadership Identify Development …show more content…

The three styles of leadership identified by the authors are: Transformational Leadership, Transactional Leadership and Laissez-faire leadership.
Transformational leadership is a style of leadership in which the leader identifies a vision for a committed team while concurrently executing the vision. In this style of leadership, the team is committed to the leader as they have bought-in to the leader’s vision.
Transactional leadership is a style of leadership in which the leader promotes compliance with their vision by utilizing reward and punishment. With this style of leadership, the team’s acceptance of the leader’s vison is less important than their conformance.
Laissez-faire leadership is a style of leadership in which the leader allows the group to perform independently and self-directed. The leader is hands-off and allows the group to make their own decisions as well as choose the direction. In this style of leadership, the leader does not provide a vision, rather allows the employees to formulate their own while still expecting …show more content…

(n.d.). Fearless Dominance and the U.S. Presidency: Implications of Psychopathic Personality Traits for Successful and Unsuccessful Political Leadership. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 489-505.
The author presents what I would deem as a non-compelling case in which they analyze 42 U.S. presidents. The author performs assessments based on historical decisions as well as empirical data to assign scores. The method in which the author performs the assessment is by recruiting 121 experts to evaluate the personality of the 42 president.
The author looks at several traits that have been associated with psychopathic people such as interpersonal dominance, persuasiveness, venturesomeness, poor impulse control, lack of guilt, fearlessness. The then utilize a rating system based on Fearless Dominance (FD) and Impulsive Anti sociality (IA). Based on that information, a Psychopath Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) 2 factors is

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