Abstract
As of today, the majority of leading management experts have so far not even been able to scientifically verify the correlation between leadership behaviour and corporate success: What are we actually looking for when it is the personality of a “successful leader” that we are focusing on?
The tendency of nature to remain true to itself can teach us a lot. Under this aspect, current management methods can easily be judged, fads and superficial suggestions recognised as such, and we can focus instead on what has already proven itself in principle.
Margaret J. Wheatley, Management Professor
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Notes
- 1.
The forefather of management consultants, Peter Drucker, points out that an ideal leader does not necessarily have to be a natural leader. The many successful executives, he has met in his life, “were very different personalities, they represented very distinct values and opinions and had very different strengths and weaknesses” [in Drucker and Paschek (2004)].
- 2.
- 3.
In addition to a comparable mobile, as type of sculpture consisting of carefully equilibrated parts that move, especially in response to air currents, ours is dynamic and alive, but more on that later.
- 4.
Many thanks in this respect to the Change-Support-Team in Bonn.
- 5.
The issue of management diagnostics had much more space. If at this point you have a special interest, perhaps it is worth looking in “Evolutionary Leadership” (2006).
- 6.
Source: CST-Profiling database (more than 300.000 individual data records).
References
Buckingham, M., & Coffman, C. (2001). Erfolgreiche Führung gegen alle Regeln. Frankfurt/M.: Campus Verlag.
Caspar, F. (1996). Beziehungen und Probleme verstehen (S. 119). Bern: Huber.
Drucker, P. F., & Paschek, P. (2004). Kardinaltugenden effektiver Führung (pp. 9, 229). Frankfurt: Redline.
Föhl, M. (2001). Täterprofilerstellung: ein methodenkritischer Vergleich aus rechtspsychologischer Perspektive (S. 172). Frankfurt/M.: Verlag für Polizeiwissenschaft.
Jüttemann, G. (1995). Eignung als Prozess. In M. Sarges (Hg.), Management-Diagnostik (2. Auflage, S. 67). Göttingen: Hogrefe.
Müller, Th. (2004). Bestie Mensch: Tarnung–Lüge–Strategie (S. 44 f). Salzburg: Ecowin.
Musolff, C. (2002). Täterprofile und Fallanalyse. Eine Bestandsaufnahme. In C. Musolff & J. Hoffmann (Hrsg.), Täterprofile bei Gewaltverbrechen. Mythos, Theorie und Praxis des Profilings (S. 1–33). Berlin: Springer.
Neuberger, O. (2002). Führen und führen lassen: Ansätze, Ergebnisse und Kritik der Führungsforschung (6. Auflage, S. 251). Stuttgart: Lucius und Lucius.
Reichertz, J. (2002). Meine Mutter war eine Holmes. Über Mythenbildung und die tägliche Arbeit des Crime-Profilers. In C. Musolff & J. Hoffmann (Hrsg.), Täterprofile bei Gewaltverbrechen. Mythos, Theorie und Praxis des Profilings (S. 37–69). Berlin: Springer.
Stogdill, R. M. (1974). Handbook of leadership: A survey of the literature. New York: Free Press.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2016 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Alznauer, M. (2016). Leadership Personality: Myth or Reality?. In: Leading Naturally. Management for Professionals. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45111-3_7
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45111-3_7
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-662-45110-6
Online ISBN: 978-3-662-45111-3
eBook Packages: Business and ManagementBusiness and Management (R0)