BSP 106: Leadership Step by Step by Joshua Spodek

Joshua Spodek, author of Leadership Step by Step: Becoming the
Person Others Follow, talks about how people aren’t born leaders
but instead develop leadership skills throughout life as a result
of the obstacles life throws at them. He states that every great
leader has learned leadership, but “no one’s born leading.” Spodek
also says he treats leadership as a performance-based field and
that people have to practice being good, effective leaders — much
like one has to practice playing the piano or sports in order to
get better. As an adjunct professor at New York University, Spodek
says that academia teaches people about leadership, but no one
teaches you how to become a leader. As a result, Spodek decided to
tackle that niche and teach people how to become leaders. He does
so by applying the ASEEP leaning method: Active, Social, Emotional,
Expressive, Performance builder. He teaches “getting it” and how
people can lead themselves into certain situations and be
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