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| Leadership is one of the most relevant aspects of the [[organization]]al [[context]]. However, defining leadership has been challenging. The following sections discuss several important aspects of leadership including a description of what leadership is and a description of several popular theories and styles of leadership. This article also discusses topics such as the role of [[emotions]] and [[vision]], as well as leadership effectiveness and performance, leadership in different contexts, how it may differ from related [[concepts]] (i.e., management), and some [[critiques]] of leadership as generally conceived. | | Leadership is one of the most relevant aspects of the [[organization]]al [[context]]. However, defining leadership has been challenging. The following sections discuss several important aspects of leadership including a description of what leadership is and a description of several popular theories and styles of leadership. This article also discusses topics such as the role of [[emotions]] and [[vision]], as well as leadership effectiveness and performance, leadership in different contexts, how it may differ from related [[concepts]] (i.e., management), and some [[critiques]] of leadership as generally conceived. |
− | | + | <center>For lessons on the [[topic]] of '''''Leadership''''', follow [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Leadership this link].</center> |
| According to the late Jules Masserman, American [[Psychoanalysis|psychoanalyst]] and former member of the faculty of [http://www.medschool.northwestern.edu/ Northwestern University medical school], leaders must fulfill three [[functions]]: the leader must provide for the well-being of the led, provide a social organization in which people feel [[relative]]ly secure, and provide a set of [[belief]]s. | | According to the late Jules Masserman, American [[Psychoanalysis|psychoanalyst]] and former member of the faculty of [http://www.medschool.northwestern.edu/ Northwestern University medical school], leaders must fulfill three [[functions]]: the leader must provide for the well-being of the led, provide a social organization in which people feel [[relative]]ly secure, and provide a set of [[belief]]s. |
| ==Theories of leadership== | | ==Theories of leadership== |
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| The fundamentally anti-democratic nature of the leadership principle is challenged by the introduction of concepts such as autogestion, employeeship, common civic [[virtue]], etc, which stress individual responsibility and/or group authority in the work place and elsewhere by [[focus]]ing on the skills and [[attitude]]s that a [[person]] needs in general rather than separating out leadership as the basis of a special class of individuals. | | The fundamentally anti-democratic nature of the leadership principle is challenged by the introduction of concepts such as autogestion, employeeship, common civic [[virtue]], etc, which stress individual responsibility and/or group authority in the work place and elsewhere by [[focus]]ing on the skills and [[attitude]]s that a [[person]] needs in general rather than separating out leadership as the basis of a special class of individuals. |
| Similarly various historical calamities are attributed to a misplaced reliance on the principle of leadership. | | Similarly various historical calamities are attributed to a misplaced reliance on the principle of leadership. |
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| + | '''Leadership''' is vital to [[progress]]. [[Wisdom]], [[insight]], and [[foresight]] are indispensable to the endurance of nations. [[Civilization]] is never really jeopardized until able leadership begins to vanish. And the [[quantity]] of such wise leadership has never exceeded one per cent of the [[population]]. [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_81#81:6._THE_MAINTENANCE_OF_CIVILIZATION] |
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| ==References== | | ==References== |
| ===Notes=== | | ===Notes=== |