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Title: Followership and Discretion: Assessing the Dynamics of Modern Leadership (Perspectives)
Author : Harvard International Review
Release Date : January 22, 2004
Genre: Business & Personal Finance,Books,Finance,
Pages : * pages
Size : 254 KB

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The nature and potential of leaders and leadership has long been a preoccupation of political activists and observers. Yet the complexity of present-day world affairs and the reduction of state authority by globalizing dynamics have made the analysis of leadership even harder. Many observers have thus turned to simplified analyses in which the course of events is only ascribed to the judgments, prejudices, and actions of state or international organization leaders. All too often they ignore the fact that leaders operate in a larger context that constrains their policies and limits their conduct. As a result, political assessments and agendas are today crowded with items that revolve around issues of leadership. In recent analyses, Saddam Hussein and George W. Bush have shared the limelight, with Osama bin Laden and Kim Jong-Il as secondary sources of concern. How, a reflective reader might ask, do such leaders manage to wield so much power and have so much influence on global affairs? If these leaders are deemed to have negative impacts, such a view can be confounded by recalling that less than two decades ago, the limelight was occupied by leaders like Vaclav Havel, Lech Walesa, Nelson Mandela, and Mikhail Gorbachev. Each of them stood out at a crucial moment as a leader who elevated spirits, broadened horizons, and facilitated peaceful transitions, achievements that can be described as the servicing of triumphant subgroupism. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]