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Through the years, our view of what leadership is and who can exercise it has changed considerably. Leadership competencies hav
Through the years, our view of what leadership is and who can exercise it has changed considerably. Leadership competencies hav
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2012-02-27
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Through the years, our view of what leadership is and who can exercise it has changed considerably. Leadership competencies have remained constant, but our understanding of what it is, how it works, and the ways in which people learn to apply it has shifted. We do have the beginnings of a general theory of leadership, from history and social research and above all from the thoughts of reflective practitioners such as Moses, Julius Caesar, and James Madison, and in our own time from such disparate sources of wisdom as Gandhi, Winston Churchill, Mao Tse-tung, and Henry Kissinger, who have very little in common except that they have not only been there but tried with some fairness to speculate on paper about it.
But tales and reflective observation are not enough except to convince us that leaders are physically strong and abnormally hard workers. Today we are a little closer to understanding how and who people lead, but it wasn’t easy getting there. Decades of academic analysis have given us more than 350 definitions of leadership. Literally thousands of empirical investigations of leaders have been conducted in the last seventy-five years alone, but no clear understanding exists as to what distinguishes leaders from non-leaders, and perhaps more important, what distinguishes effective leaders from ineffective leaders and effective organizations from ineffective organizations.
Never have so many labored so long to say so little. Multiple interpretations of leadership exist, each providing a fragment of insight but each remaining an incomplete and wholly inadequate explanation. Most of these definitions don’t agree with each other, and many of them would seem quite remote to the leaders whose skills are being examined. Definitions reflect fashions, political tides and academic trends. They don’t always reflect reality and sometimes they just represent nonsense. It’s as if what Braque once said about art is also true of leadership: "The only thing that matters in art is the part that cannot be explained. "
Many theories of leadership have come and gone. Some looked at the leader. Some looked at the situation. None has stood the test of time. With such a track record, it is understandable why leadership research and theory have been so frustrating as to deserve the label "
the La Brea Tar Pits
" of organizational inquiry. Located in Los Angeles, these asphalt pits house the remains of a long sequence of prehistoric animals that came to investigate but never left the area.
"The La Brea Tar Pits" in paragraph 4 probably signifies things that ______.
选项
A、can be traced back to the prehistoric age
B、are traps for those who want to inquire
C、are located in one place forever
D、don’t deserve full investigation
答案
B
解析
最后一段第一句作者说:许多关于领导艺术的理论流行一段时间就消失了。第四句起作者说:这些理论没有一个能经得住时间的检验。有了这样的记录我们就不难理解为什么关于领导艺术的研究和理论这样令人沮丧,以至于人们把它说成是组织研究的“死亡陷阱”。这里所说的“死亡陷阱”是在位于洛杉矶的一处沥青坑里发现了不同纪的史前动物的遗址,这些动物来到此处是想探个究竟,结果就回不去了。
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