Leadership

Leadership

THEORY

MAIN PREMISE/ASSUMPTIONS OF THEORY: VIEW OF LEADERSHIP

CRITIQUE OR THEORY

EXAMPLES/EVIDENCE IN THE/YOUR WORKPLACE OF THEORY AS STILL IN USE

TRAIT/ GREAT MAN THEORY

Leaders are born and not made.

Great leaders will arise when there is a great need.

Most leaders were male and the thought of a Great Woman was generally in areas other than leadership

The idea of the Great Man also strayed into the mythic domain, with notions that in times of need, a Great Man would arise, almost by magic. This was easy to verify, by pointing to people such as Eisenhower and Churchill, let alone those further back along the timeline, even ...