You are leading an inexperienced team through an arduous project that takes a lot of resources and your team has fallen behind on the timeline. Your boss comes to you and says "What's going on? Why aren't you meeting the timeline?" What's your response? *

1. My team is inexperienced. We need better people and training.

2. It's my fault and here's what I'm going to do to fix it.

3. This is a difficult project and resources are too limited.

4. I'm sorry, boss. My bad.

You and your team are supposed to be winning clients. But you are being outperformed by the competition. You hold a meeting to address the problem. What do you say to your team? *

1. Stop making excuses and start taking ownership.

2. It's my fault for not explaining the why and giving you greater resources. Here's what I'm going to do to fix that.

3. Our competitor has better resources and unfair advantages

4. You are all working hard and doing a great job. I appreciate you.

You are a team member talking amongst your peers about the boss, who is a weak leader. What do you say to your teammates? *

1. I'm not the leader so it's not my problem. What can I do?

2. I haven't done enough to help the boss and support the team. Here's what I'm going to do moving forward.

3. The boss is terrible and needs to stop making excuses and casting blame.

4. We all just need to accept that this is the way things are.

5. We need to run this up the chain and get the boss fired.

What's the greatest factor in the success or failure of any team? *

1. Skill

2. Talent

3. Experience

4. Leadership

The only two measures of leadership that matter, effective or ineffective, are determined by ______________ *

1. Whether or not your team and your peers like you

2. Whether or not you get public recognition or bonus for your effort

3. Whether or not you have a good relationship with your boss

4. Whether or not the team succeeds or fails

"No bad teams, only bad leaders" means that only the senior person in charge can influence the success or failure of the team. *

1. True

2. False

As a leader, if your team is failing to accomplish the mission, then you are responsible because you have not: *

1. Properly explained the mission, the end state you are trying to achieve and why.

2. Fired perpetual under-performers on the team, who, despite every effort to train and mentor them, could not perform the task required.

3. Evaluate the ballistic feasibility of the strategic objectives and lead up the chain

4. Provided effective training, mentorship and resources to your team

5. All of the above

If you work for a boss that's unprepared and overwhelmed, you should? *

1. Refuse to work for them until they square away the issues

2. Allow them to fail to eventually get fired and the better person can replace them

3. Take ownership and help the boss better prepare and prioritize efforts for the team

4. Directly confront them and call them out on unpreparedness and incompetence

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