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 Servant Leadership

 Week  6- Responsibility?

 It should be your responsibility to lead ... in a way that's going to be beneficial to [your players]... all their lives, not just through their athletic days. John Wooden

What is Responsibility?

Responsibility is the social force that binds us to a course of action demanded by social force or personal conscience.

 I must do something" always solves more problems than "Something must be done."  ~Author Unknown

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.  ~Joan Didion

 

Assignments for Week 6

Directions:

1. Read: What is responsibility?

2. Read:  Lesson 6 Perspective.

3. View Video clip.

4. Do all three readings in:  Readings on Lesson 6.

5. Answer Multiple Choice Questions regarding Scenario on Bill Armwood.

 

 

Lesson 6 Perspective:

The purpose of this lesson is to argue for the worth of social and moral responsibility.  Social responsibility deals with the duties and obligations that one has to the social construct of society.  Moral responsibility has to do with the duties and obligations that one has to all of the individuals who each and every one of us comes in contact with.  How we treat people and how we do the work and business of our lives is a direct reflection on our ability to be responsible human beings and thus honorable servant leaders.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the creative light of altruism or the darkness of destructive selfishness. This is the judgment. Life's persistent and most urgent question is 'What are you doing for others?" Martin Luther King.
 

 

Barry Bonds the poster child for the use of anabolic steroids.

 

 

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Readings Lesson 6:

1. Responsibility of Self

2. Perspective: Anabolic Steroids

3. Scenario: Bill Armwood

Multiple Choice Questions - Lesson 6 

1. Are performance enhancing drugs alright to use if they make a player healthy enough to play?

1a. Yes

1b.  Depends

1c.  No
 

Video ClipTexas Football Brawl 2.   If you know a player is injured and wants to play, is it your responsibility to tell them they cannot?

2a. Yes

2b. Depends

2c. No 

 

 

 

Assessment 6: 

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Click here for Lesson 7.