Like Me or Not like Me?

I spent a good hour reading through everyone's blogs to find some sort of similarity between myself and others based on leadership views. I think I have a very different leadership outlook in the sense it is about you and accomplishing something that gives personal gratification. I have done this my whole life and I never thought I was a "leader" until I came to college and people started nominating me for leader positions on groups and having a professor say to my face that "its hard to see great natural born leadership". You can argue I am for trait based theory and I do agree with it since I see it in myself and others I know but I also feel it can be learned. That is why I feel Melanie and I have similar blogs. We did have the exact same PMAI results and agree on similar aspects of a leader we admire. What is interesting to me though is she never thought she was a born with leadership traits and had to learn them. I feel I was the type of person to always take control but like I said it is college where I learned that is my leadership shining through. Like Melanie I had to learn to work with what I was give to mold myself into what I am today.

For someone who also had similar PMAI results as mine, I would say Caroline and myself are very different when it comes to leadership. She feels she is a relationship based leadership style and I believe I am task oriented. For similar results on a tests you could slightly assume we would have a some parallel views. But I believe that is the beauty in all of this. You really get to see a side of someone that doesn't get to be expressed and once its out there its undeniable. I hope that people don't get offended when someone claims their views are mismatched but it should open your eyes in to other perspectives that can potentially improve your own.