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  1. Sep 2021
    1. Bass acknowledged “the day to day behaviors of the leader may be relatively unimportant to the supervisor-subordinate relationship compared to the leader’s behavior when a subordinate experiences an intense demand or when a leader experiences a highly unexpected response” (Bass, 1990, p.49).

      I think this aligns with leaders leading by doing. If the intense demand of the subordinate is met with the supervisor helping, that relationship is going to be positive rather than the supervisor feeling doing the work is beneath them fostering anger and resentment for the leader.

    2. being flexible, thinking quickly, sustaining the confidence of your people in uncertain times, and creating rules that work for individuals from widely diverse backgrounds” (Baron, 1999, p. xiv-xv).

      This reminds me so much of classroom teaching. When I was getting my master's degree, the professor that did my observations wrote FLEXIBLE, FLEXIBLE, FLEXIBLE at the bottom of my last observation because without fail every observation that she tried to perform came with a set of challenges (testing day so the school wouldn't let her in for example). I am strongly a type A personality, so that was a hard one for me to learn.