Good Morning...Please respond to the following questions on your blog site. REMINDER: After today you should have responded to at least 6 people. Most of you only have around two so I don't want to hear a lot of I am done or people on facebook...make sure ALL of your assignments are done 1st!

1. Reactions to the latest pages you have read. What have you found interesting so far? What do you agree/disagree with?

2. What leadership traits has the subject of your book shown? Or what leadership traits has your author talked about being important? Use specific examples from the book including page number.

3. Talk about a specific quote or passage that has stood out to you so far. What is it? Why do you feel it is important?

4. Give me an example of a time that you had to make an ethical decision. What was the situation? Who (no names necessary) was involved? What was the ethical dilemma? Ultimately what did you decide to do and why?

My reactions to what i have read so far is wow. I really enjoyed reading this novel because it has taught me some things about being a leader and how in a situation like what the main character faced, i do have some sort of game plan in order to make my team into a winning, positive, tennis team in the upcoming season. It also gave me an inspiration in working with my team members to build the team i want to build.

Some leadership traits the main character has shown is the courage to change(p.40) and having faith in her employees(p.44). She has shown courage to change by accepting the fact that one of her groups who she managed was terrible at getting their work done and she desperately wanted them to change in a positive which was the outcome of the novel basically. Throughout this process of which her employees had been transformed into a workable bunch of people, she had faith in her employees.

"Life is too precious to spend any time at all, much less half of my waking hours, in a toxic energy dump." This quote is important to the novel because this is what the main character said in the beginning of the novel when she had the meeting with Lonnie, who runs the fish market. At the beginning of the novel, she felt that her company was hopeless with the third floor not being functional but her views about the third floor changed when she noticed change later in the novel. This is important to the novel because this novel basically built around this fact that the third floor was like a toxic energy dump and needed to change.

A time when i had to make an ethical decision was when my best friend was sick. I had to choose whether to get him medicine or go to an Iowa football game. By the way, this happened a few years ago. My friend's parents were out of town for the weekend and so were mine. I had to choose either to help him and get his medicine he needed and to get him food and all of that stuff or go to the Iowa football game with my other friends. My decision was to help my best friend out who has been my friend ever since i was four years old. I felt good about this ethical decision because i told myself that the hawkeyes had a tougher game the next week so i will go to that instead and i ened up doing that.