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Dilemmas of Leadership chapter 11 Sporting Leadership

10 Questions - Developed by: Tudor Rickards - Updated on: 2014-09-01 - Developed on: 2014-08-18 - 2,086 taken

This quiz tests your knowledge of sporting leadership. It is based on chapter 11 of Dilemmas of Leadership (Edition 3)

1

What is the focus of chapter 11 ..?

Understanding why sport should be kept free of political influences
Understanding how sport and its leadership processes help shape individual and cultural beliefs
Understanding how playing sport improves moral standards

2

Sporting leadership ..?

Is distinct from the dilemmas facing business and military leaders
Provides its own situational versions of more general leadership dilemmas
Was studied first by Plato in his gymnastics academy in the suburbs of Athens

3

A key sporting dilemma is ..?

Whether great athletes are born or made
Why Australia wins so many Olympic medals
Why Australia wins so many Winter Olympic medals

4

Which of these statements is not included in the Olympic charter ..?

The Olympic Games will be awarded to each of the five continents in turn
Olympism is a philosophy of life
The goal of Olympism is to place sport at the service of the harmonious development of humankind

5

Which of these three statements is in the Olympic charter ..?

The practice of sport is a human right
The IOC is the servant of the athletes competing in the games
The IOC will resist all attempts to influence its decisions through political pressures

6

Which statement is claimed in Chapter 11 ..?

Spartak tennis club created more top-twenty women players between 2005 and 2007 than the whole of the United States
The Williams Sisters, The Polgar Sisters and The Klitchco brothers were all coached using the Gladwell principles of 10,000 hours of practice
Sven-Göran Eriksson introduced compulsory saunas for the English football team

7

The concept of flow ..?

Has been described as the state of concentration in which skilled effort is achieved in an apparently effortless way
Was derived initially from studies of ballet dancing
Was derived initially from studies of motor racing

8

Focal dystonia ..?

Is the technical term for The Yips in golf
Is a medical condition resulting from swimming in polluted water
Was discovered in laboratory experiments examining the optical skills of tree frogs

9

Self one and Self two refer to ..?

The progress made by an athlete towards a performance goal
Has been described as the state of concentration in which skilled effort is achieved in an apparently effortless way
Levels of personal moral advancement

10

Which of the following statements on Rugby Union is false ..?

There are many recorded episodes of deliberate attempts at grievous bodily harm in Rugby Union
Violence on the sports field is a product of Rugbys recent professionalisation
Rugby Union is a sport which prides itself in the traditional sporting values of personal discipline

Comments (3)

Olivia (85354)

1080 days ago

I got 3 right. I will do better if I read the chapter and try agai.

Olivia (22171)

1101 days ago

I got 3 right. I will do better if I read the chapter and try again.

Olivia (22171)

1139 days ago

I have some understanding of the contents of the chapter.

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