MANAGERS AND LEADERS

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Managers and Leaders

Managers and Leaders

Introduction

The purpose behind writing the essay is to highlight one of the most common questions about Managers do things right, while leaders do the right thing. This response would close the issue, however, are still without addressing the motivations that lead to the question. According to the author, deep underlying question of idealization, which is the psychological mechanism by which individuals magnify and exalt the characteristics of other people. 

Discussion

Often when one use the word leader referring to people who have excelled dramatically in their exercise of leadership. The collective unconscious makes the conversation quickly bring names like Jesus, Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Churchill and, aberrantly, to Hitler (see the entry “Hitler, a bad leader "). Idealization is a trap because it dissociates the mythical image of the real person, with its flaws, struggles, problems and contradictions. The idealization also leads easily to justify their own inaction. The unconscious reasoning is that the task of leadership is for those great God-like and we relieve the common earth (Mayo & Nohria, 2005, pp. 251-258). 

Definitely not be exercised leadership Gandhi masterfully, but it does little justice to his teaching when achievements are dissociated from the process of development. The hero's personal struggle hard battles included personal and certainly, big mistakes. What made Gandhi was not large as the Mahatma but the way it came to that status. However, the author argues that insofar the process of personal empowerment and de-idealize those considered great leaders approached me the opportunity to cultivate in me the skills and attitudes of effective leadership. 

No such Leaders

It is also common to hear statements that say "there are no leaders" or "we need leaders." The background of the statement is the same that leads to the question discussed above. The collective unconscious cries for idealized mythical figures in history lessons in country and folk legends. When the characters are weighed against those of the current environment idealized figures are very low scores, but who could live up to unattainable standards? 

In idealization of leadership is aggravated by the passivity and dependence that we have cultivated with our historical subject paternalistic power structures, both in the social sphere, as in the organizational and the family. Our dependence on patriarchal figures are expressed in constant search of the leader, hoping that the new president, union leader, manager or director "now get us out of the hole." We tend to feel helpless and waiting for a hero to rescue us. The idealization dependent not allows us to discover that those attitudes and behaviours of effective leadership within our reach (Kozera, 2007, pp. 158-165).

However, the author argues that combating the idealization of the great leaders must change the focus of study leading to the phenomenon of leadership. Following the guidelines of Thomas Gordon (LET: Leaders effective and technically prepared), a leader is anyone who has the responsibility to lead a group.  "Successful leaders born or are they?" It is probably one of the most frequently asked questions that will be considered in the discipline of leadership. Even with generations of analysis devoted to leadership, with many ...