Which adjectives below describe positive aspects of someone's character?

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 392.

Match the words from the text on the left with their definitions on the right.

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Comprehension / interpretation

1. Why is it difficult to give the exact description of leadership?

2. Do you agree with Peter Drucker's definition of leadership?

3. Why did the assumption that ‘there were some specific traits which made leaders different from non-leaders' fail?

4. What practical way of describing leadership is suggested?

5. Do you agree that directive behavior is primarily one-way communication?

6. Do you agree that supportive behavior is primarily two-way communication?

7. Assess the advantages of the leadership styles mentioned in the text.

1) aspiration a) mainly, chiefly

2) conviction b) to recognize difference between

3) empathy c) practical judgment gained from experience

4) foresight d) ambition, strong desire for success

5) determination e) the art and practice of establishing and supporting good

6) to excel relations between people or nations

7) to facilitate f) air of certainty

8) to reinforce g) kind heartedness, sympathy

9) to distinguish h) feature, characteristic

10) common sense i) to be much better than

11) diplomacy j) the ability to foresee

12) trait k) to promote, to stimulate

13) primarily l) firm resolve

m) to make stronger or firmer