Leaders and potential leaders can learn from leaders past who are looked upon as great leaders and contributors. We look at what makes historical leaders tick, considering people from the corporate world, politics, social activiism, military and sports.
By Professor Ronald Deluga
- Historiometric procedures were used to examine American presidential charismatic leadership (Franklin Roosevelt through Ronald Reagan) from three theoretically related perspectives. These approaches encompassed transformational, behavioral, and attributional charismatic leadership. Five archival and two newly generated data sets were used to create a general index of charismatic leadership for each of the nine presidents.
The indices indicated that Roosevelt and Ford were the highest and lowest rated charismatic presidents, respectively. Cluster analysis revealed several salient clusters including Reagan-Kennedy, Truman-Johnson-Nixon, and Carter-Ford. Key events of the respective presidencies were used to explain the various clusters.
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By Larry R. Donnithorne
- Douglas MacArthur has been described as a brilliant strategist, a farsighted administrator, and flamboyant to his fingertips. Here are his principles of leadership summarized. Considered a good example of the transformational leader.
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- Learning from other great leaders is essential to our personal leadership journey. In the article “Benjamin Franklin’s Extraordinary Leadership” by Jack Uldrich, in Leader to Leader we have an example of a leader who did walk the walk and left a good trail. Some of Benjamin Franklin’s achievements include:
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By Paul Sheppard
- A profile of Gerstner, former ceo of IBM and credited with using his leadership ability to turn around the giant corporation. Also considered an example of the transformational leader.
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- Discussions about American leaders almost always include Martin Luther King Jr., who left a significant mark of American society. Here's a brief biography, which focuses less on King as a leader, but provides context.
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