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What does egalitarian mean? - Answer Regarding to the principle that all people are equal
and deserve equal rights and opportunities.
In a meritocracy, what rules? - Answer Merit
Who rises to the top and is awarded prestigious and rewarding positions? - Answer The
smartest, most creative, most expert, and most accomplished individuals.
Officers are not born, rather they are... - Answer ...educated and trained for the profession of
arms.
New officers must do what before assuming their role? - Answer Make an oath of office and
recieve their certificate of commission.
What is the officer's oath main promise? - Answer To support the Constitution against all
enemies.
What does an officer's certificate of commission symbolize? - Answer The President's trust in
the individual officer and the basis for that officer's authority.
While not being officially commissioned, cadet officers can still think of themselves as doing
what? - Answer Pursuing a vocation of leadership and service.
A new officer must transition from the _______ arena to the ________ arena. - Answer
Tactical to operational arenas
Indirect leaders who lead from a distance are said to be concerned with what? - Answer The
development and performance of individuals who do not directly report to them.
Indirect leaders work through who? - Answer Subordinate leaders
Compared to direct leaders, how must indirect leaders act? - Answer More thoughtful and
self-controlling
, What does leadership through creations do for a leader's influence? - Answer Their influence
is now indirectly felt through the symbolic products they make.
The best leaders are so expert, they are even able to influence who? - Answer Their boss
What is it called when a leader influences their boss or people who have more power than
them? - Answer Upward Influence
Because power requires consent, leaders who find themselves in powerful position are held to
what? - Answer An obligation to the public
America expects its leaders to honor the public ______. - Answer Trust
What is defined as the abuse of entrusted power for private gain? - Answer Corruption
What necessary leadership trait involves the careful management of what is not your own? -
Answer Stewardship
The principle of transperency is important because it does what? - Answer It allows people to
see what an organization's operations and practices are.
Professionalism is not the job you do, but __________________. - Answer How you do the
job.
How can professionals advance their field and earn the public's trust? - Answer By adopting a
professional code of ethics.
Code of ethics identify what? - Answer Moral standards that all members of the profession
are expected to honor.
Groups who do not adopt a code of ethics are more susceptable to what? - Answer External
regulation
If a leader does not live up to their code of ethics, what might happen? - Answer They could
be censured or reprimanded, given remidial courses in ethics, or expelled from their group.
What is dissent? - Answer The expression of opinions contrary to the official view, and a
means for a leader to call attention to obligations that are higher than the duty to follow orders.