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Summer 2016 Rethinking the Psychology of Leadership: From Personal Identity to Social Identity Authors S. Alexander Haslam and Stephen D. Reicher View PDF To Dædalus issue Abstract Leadership is an influence process that centers on group members being motivated to reach collective goals. As such, it is ultimately prove...
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ities and characteristics of leaders as individuals in the abstract. To address this problem, we outline a social identity approach that explains leadership as a process grounded in an internalized sense of shared group membership that leaders create, represent, advance, and embed. This binds leaders and followers to e...
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lowers it also produces collective power that allows them to coproduce transformation in the world. The form that this takes then depends on the model and content of the identity around which the group is united. Author Information S. ALEXANDER HASLAM is Professor of Psychology and Australian Laureate Fellow at the Uni...
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al Interactions, Identity and Well-Being program. His research explores group and identity processes in social and organizational contexts, and is exemplified by the recent book The New Psychology of Leadership: Identity, Influence and Power (with Stephen D. Reicher and Michael J. Platow, 2011). STEPHEN D. REICHER is W...
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itish Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He has a longstanding interest in crowd behavior, mass social influence, and political rhetoric. His recent books on these topics include Self and Nation (with Nick Hopkins, 2000) and a five-volume series of readings on Leadership (with S. Alexander Haslam, 2014). “I ha...
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son Mandela “I am, if I am anything, an American. I am an American from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet.” –Theodore Roosevelt “Above all, I am a German. As a German I feel at one with the fate of my people.” –Adolf Hitler 1 Effective leadership is the ability to influence people in a way that motivates the...
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elt, and Adolf Hitler were all effective leaders. We may evaluate their various achievements in very different ways (it would be worrying if we did not) but it would be hard to deny that their capacity to mobilize a mass constituency to bring about these achievements–that is, their capacity for leadership–was truly rem...
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ge–it is highly prized and a major focus of academic and public debate. In fields as diverse as politics and religion, science and technology, art and literature, sport and adventure, and industry and business, leadership is commonly seen as the key process through which people are marshalled to contribute to the colle...
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o millennia: What makes people effective leaders? And, if we discover this, can we train others to be effective leaders themselves? Answering these questions has spawned an industry so vast that its scale is hard to fathom. For example, although their value has been seriously questioned, 2 there are close to one thousa...
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around $14 billion a year on leadership training. It has also launched an academic literature that spans multiple disciplines, uses multiple approaches from laboratory experimentation to historical biographies, and again is so vast that no one could digest more than a small fraction of it. The British Library alone hol...
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hich around forty are simply called Leadership ). Given all this information and knowledge, it might seem arrogant, if not foolhardy, to suggest that there is a need to fundamentally rethink the nature of leadership or that we require (to cite the title of the book we recently coauthored with Michael Platow) a new psyc...
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start by explaining why a new approach is needed. This conviction derives from the fact that classical and contemporary understandings of leadership have been constrained by an individualistic metatheory. This has led researchers and commentators alike to seek the roots of effective leadership within the person of the ...
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trast, that effective leadership is always about leaders and followers seeing themselves as bound together through their joint membership of the same group, and working together to satisfy group needs and realize group ambitions. In short, whereas the existing leadership literature tends almost universally to see the p...
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endeavor to show that it is actually a we thing. Where the vast majority of the tracts on leadership write about its psychology in the first-person singular, we argue that it needs to be written in the first-person plural. Leadership, we suggest, can never be “all about me” (the leader). As our starting quotes from Man...
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rs and followers in the same psychological group. The definition of leadership provided in our opening sentence contains at least four important elements that we need to come to grips with before attempting to make headway. First , leadership is a process, not a property, and it is more akin to a verb than a noun. Acco...
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e something that a person does on his or her own. Precisely because it requires the mobilization of others, it necessarily encompasses other people beyond the leader. This point is made pointedly by Bertolt Brecht in his poem “Questions from a Worker Who Reads.” 4 “Who built Thebes of the seven gates?” he asks, alongsi...
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p the lumps of rock?” Of course the answer is No. Third , this observation speaks to the fact that ultimate proof of leadership is found not within leaders–neither their character, their vision, nor even their actions–but in the followership of those they influence. Brecht’s poem speaks to the fact that in the absence ...
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dership to speak of, no leadership book to write. Accordingly, by telling us only about leaders, most analyses of leadership conceal from us a key term in the leadership equation. Fourth , it is important not to conflate leadership and a range of other processes with which it is commonly associated. In particular, alth...
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management, it is fundamentally about influence . As the social psychologist John Turner put it, it is about power through , rather than power over , others. 5 It is about taking people with you so that they want to follow and do so with enthusiasm, rather than beating them with a stick (or offering a carrot) so that t...
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to do your bidding so long as you are standing over them, but whether they will go the extra mile for you and your cause even when you are absent. In these terms, the question that lies at the core of the leadership process is what it is that allows the plans of an individual to be translated into the aims and desires ...
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w disciples today (at least in academic circles). Building upon this, adherents of a contextual approach supplement such analysis with a consideration of various features of the prevailing social context that either facilitate or else compromise the effectiveness of individual leaders. This approach takes many differen...
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hology of leadership that we will outline sets out an identity approach . This sees leadership as a group process that centers on a psychological bond between leaders and followers grounded in an internalized sense of their common group membership; that is, a sense of shared social identity or “we-ness.” However, to ap...
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ecting on the forms of understanding that it seeks to challenge and move beyond. Plato is commonly acknowledged as having provided, around 380 BC, the first formal analysis of leadership. For him, as for Heraclitus before him, true leaders constitute a rare breed of people who are born with a cluster of attributes and ...
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urage, broadness of vision, and physical prowess. Moreover, because these qualities are so rarely encountered in one person, when they are they need to be nurtured and rewarded. As Heraclitus put it: “The many are worthless, good men are few. … One man is ten thousand if he is the best.” 6 Although largely conversation...
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p thinking for the last two-and-a-half millennia. Its influence today can be seen in the range of popular texts that proliferate in airport bookstores and that serve to catalog the distinctive prowess of the leader of the moment–often as “secrets” to be generously shared with readers. But the popularity of this approac...
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cottish historian and philosopher Thomas Carlyle. His best-selling text On Heroes and Hero Worship declared that “the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.” 7 This thesis of the great man invited everyone from schoolchildren to scholars to se...
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qualified them not only for responsibility and high office, but also for widespread admiration and respect. Today still, it is the exceptional nature of such “stuff” that is used to justify the exorbitant salaries routinely awarded to executive leaders. But what precisely are the qualities involved? It is in pinning do...
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nalism and confidence to sociability and urgency. 8 Yet whatever the target variable, summary reviews have generally concluded that personal attributes prove rather unreliable as predictors of leadership. This is true of the two attributes that have had the most enduring appeal for researchers and commentators alike: c...
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ader] is set apart from ordinary men and treated as endowed with superhuman, or at least specifically exceptional, powers or qualities.” 9 This definition is therefore somewhat ambivalent, referring to both a quality that the individual has, and qualities that he or she is treated as having by “ordinary men.” In the wo...
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lities of the leader: specifically his or her capacity to articulate a group vision, to recruit others to his or her cause, and to develop close and strong relationships with group members. Yet, as we will discuss in more detail below, despite the fact that research provides fairly solid evidence that successful leader...
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capacities of the individual have largely failed. A key reason for this is that, on their own, vision (however brilliant) and empathy (however authentic) are not enough to guarantee success. In contrast, the dimension of Weber’s formulation that theorists tend to ignore seems more promising. For research shows that per...
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nd his colleagues thus observe that it is best thought of as a gift that is bestowed on leaders, rather than one that is possessed by them. 10 Moreover, in bestowing charisma, followers also commit their energies to the leader. But whether followers bestow charisma is not down to the leader alone. Indeed, at different ...
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e more likely to have bestowed him with charisma. And once president, even non-Democrats may have come to see Obama’s charismatic qualities. Despite the fact that the construct of charisma has proved hard to pin down, one might imagine that intelligence would provide researchers greater predictive traction as a result ...
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lligence typically emerges as the best single predictor of leader success. Yet formal measures of leader intelligence (such as IQ scores) still only explain a very small amount of the variance in leader success. In an attempt to improve upon this, considerable energy has gone into refining the analytic construct of int...
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ership; notably either practical intelligence or emotional intelligence. Here again, though, the constructs prove hard to isolate, in part because their form and meaning vary markedly across contexts; and in part because, as with charisma, what really matters is a leader’s perceived intelligence, which is not highly co...
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r) analytic gaze solely on the psychology of leaders, the psychology of followers keeps worming its way into the picture. In response to the limited predictive power of approaches that focus exclusively on the character of the leader, most contemporary leadership researchers endorse contextual approaches that pay heed ...
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character of the individual counts for nothing; but for good reason, theorists and practitioners have found these explanations unconvincing. Accordingly, they tend to embrace contingency models in which context is seen to moderate, but not entirely suppress, the contribution of the leader. Standard contingency models e...
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der and the circumstances of the group that he or she leads. There are many such models, and they constitute the most influential way of thinking about leadership, both in formal academic treatments of the topic and in everyday discourse. In particular, they lend structure and content to a plethora of management and pe...
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(or create) situations in which this style will be effective. The general notion that leadership is the product between contingencies of person and situation makes a lot of sense. Nevertheless, a core problem with standard contingency models is that they treat these two terms as fixed and, most problematically, as havi...
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for leaders to be changed by the social context. Yet if one reflects for just a moment on the leadership of Mandela, Roosevelt, and Hitler, it is clear that in each case, the leader and his social context both exerted a powerful influence upon each other. Indeed, as we explained above, the reason why leadership fascina...
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e to a framework that allows no space for change. Even more fundamentally, however, standard contingency models generally ignore the most important element of the leader’s context: followers. And even when the importance of followers is acknowledged, such approaches fail to build their perspective into the analysis. Do...
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ct the support that followers give to the leader? Yes, it does, and such considerations gain importance as the leadership stakes become higher. Moreover, the fact that the followers’ perspective is ignored in most contingency models helps explain why empirical support for them is mixed at best, and why it becomes weake...
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to new transactional and transformational approaches that make followership a key part of the story. These models mark an important departure (though, as we shall see, not a complete departure) from the traditional individualist metatheory of leadership research. For they treat leadership as a social relationship betwe...
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social exchange in which followers work to realize a leader’s vision to the extent they believe that the leader is working for them in return and that there is equity between what they put in and what they get out of the process. 11 For all their appeal (not least in pointing to the inefficiency of organizations that p...
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bottom), these approaches have important limits. In particular, they presuppose that the terms of the exchange are set. That is, leaders should only provide people with the things they already consider a reward, rather than change what they count as a reward. But, as we have already argued, one of the key accomplishmen...
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ular commodities, equality, environmental sustainability, or whatever. Transactional approaches also presuppose that actors are motivated entirely by personal gain, representing one of the ways they fail to break with traditional individualism. Thus, they reduce followership to the question what’s in this for me? But t...
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dual benefit into a concern for the greater good. In short, it is generally only when leaders and followers prove willing and able to rise above their personal self-interest–to ask instead what’s in this for us? –that they are able to advance their interests. The latter critique provided important impetus for the devel...
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ed on more than just mercantile arrangements in which mutual obligation flows from interpersonal account keeping. Instead, what makes the process remarkable is precisely its capacity to allow people to embrace a bigger vision of their place in the world, to work for the collective good, and thereby to scale new practic...
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hey are able to work together as members of a group. Such an approach marks a revolutionary turn in the study of leadership. Likewise, it requires a revolutionary turn in the way we conceptualize human psychology and, more particularly, concepts like identity and interest. Yet the limitation of transformational leaders...
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not fully break with psychological individualism. Thus, even if they accept that leaders can transform the motivations of followers, transformational approaches still assume that the highest state of motivation and morality is characterized by individual autonomy. 13 And even though they root the leader’s ability to be...
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ies and qualities of the leader (as considerate, intelligent, or whatever). They therefore miss the point–as the examples of Mandela, Roosevelt, and Hitler attest–that in different contexts, people invest in a leader for very different reasons. What made these leaders so effective was precisely their sensitivity to soc...
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a particular place at a particular point in time. This allowed them to mobilize those people to transform the material landscape of society. And this is not just true of Mandela, Roosevelt, and Hitler, but of all leaders. This points to a simple yet fundamental observation: leadership is not just about leaders and foll...
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res us to articulate an analysis of leadership within a broader understanding of basic group processes. Although our review has focused on the limitations of classical and contemporary approaches, these nonetheless provide valuable lessons. In particular, they help us understand what an adequate theory of leadership ne...
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hip are critical, but also vary across contexts; Leadership involves leaders and followers motivating and influencing each other; Leadership transforms not only the world, but also the psychology of the leaders and followers who bring transformation about; and Leaders and followers are bound together by being part of a...
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followers’ conceptions of themselves and each other as group members–we are in a position to explain the previous four. To this end, we draw on the social identity tradition in social psychology precisely because it uses people’s understandings of their own group membership, and that of others, as the starting point fo...
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es in collective terms (“us Democrats,” “us social scientists”) as well as in individual terms (“myself as a thoughtful person”); that collective (or social) identities are every bit as real and important to us as individual (or personal) identities; and that the psychological understandings that flow from social ident...
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ed to the psychology of “I and me” (the province of most psychology theory), not least because our relations with others are fundamentally transformed once we define ourselves and others in collective terms. So when we perceive another person to share the same social identity as us (that is, to be part of our psycholog...
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it is helpful to flesh out four key points that emerge from social identity theorizing and research. First, it is apparent that when (and to the extent that) people define themselves in terms of a particular group membership, they are motivated to see that ingroup as positively distinct from outgroups . That is, as far...
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e of how he or she is doing as an individual, but the perceived standing of the group as whole. For example, if a male baseball player defines himself first as a member of his team, he will care less about his individual statistical accomplishments in a playoff series, and will prioritize instead his team’s advancement...
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y is always meaningfully bound up with social context. In particular, it depends on whether a given group membership has been a basis for our self-definition in the past (so that it is accessible) and whether it allows us to make sense of our place in the situation that confronts us (so that it is fitting). 17 For exam...
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upporter of the party and is at present watching the election results, rather than a baseball game on the other channel. Third, when we define ourselves in terms of social identity, it is apparent that this is a basis not only for perception but also for behavior . If we see ourselves as Democrats, we do not just see t...
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iation of a Democratic victory), but we also behave differently. We go to particular meetings, we support particular candidates, we cheer particular events–and we also enact and share these experiences with particular people (even to the extent of hugging complete strangers as “our” president is elected, provided they ...
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social and organizational processes, including social connection, communication, coordination, and cooperation. 18 That is, we feel more connected to ingroup than to outgroup members, we trust and respect them more, we are more concerned for them, we communicate more and better with them, and we are more likely to help...
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deed makes possible every form of group behavior. 19 Fourth, and more critically still for present purposes, social identity is also the basis for social influence processes. Thus, when people define themselves in terms of a given social identity, they seek both to discover what being a member of that group entails and...
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o guidance from others as to what is appropriate. But who do we turn to? And when there are multiple voices advocating multiple responses, which do we attend to and which do we ignore? The obvious answer is that we turn to fellow ingroup members. For if we share social identity with them, and hence share common perspec...
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em, at least on issues of relevance to the group. So when it comes to the question of how to respond to a matter of current political import, Democrats are most likely to turn to fellow Democrats. However, given the choice, we would not turn to just any old group member. The more we see someone as knowledgeable about t...
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from other groups–in technical terms, the more we see them as prototypical of the group–the more we will pay heed, 20 the more we will follow what such people say, and the more effort we will put into supporting their proposals. 21 This is, of course, an implicit theory of leadership (even if the original work on group...
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into an explicit theory with three core premises. The first premise of the new psychology of leadership is that effective leaders (those who can influence and harness the energies of followers) need to be seen to be representative of a shared ingroup . This is true in two senses. One, that we have already discussed, is...
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must be clear that they are a group member before all else. It is important, at this point, to preempt a potential point of confusion. In arguing that leaders need to be prototypical, we are not suggesting that they are typical in the sense of being average group members. 22 Rather, they stand for all the qualities tha...
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magical” of all leadership ingredients: charisma. 23 The second sense of being representative is that leaders need to be seen as acting for the group. Indeed, one of the things that is most toxic to leadership effectiveness is the perception that one is either acting for oneself or, even worse, for an outgroup. That ex...
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being entreated to take on the burdens of office. It also explains why Cincinnatus–who came back from retirement to save Rome and, once successful, returned to obscurity–is often held up as a paragon of good leadership. Certainly, evidence suggests that where leaders are seen as promoting their own agenda or enrichment...
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w regarded by many of those who once revered him. In this way we see that key qualities of leadership–like charisma–are not qualities of the leader, but are rooted in the relationship between the leader and group identity. This in turn allows us to understand why the qualities that define leadership vary from group to ...
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progressive Republicanism, and Hitler prototypical of Nazi Germany are evidently different. But in each case, the relationship between the individual and the social category was the same. At this point, the attentive reader may object that we are open to the same criticism we have (more than once) made of others. That ...
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here is no room for creativity or transformation. The leadership process becomes entirely passive as people simply wait for circumstances to hoist the mantle of prototypicality on their shoulders. This criticism would be war-rented if social identity were fixed or taken for granted. But it isn’t. Identity is an eminent...
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dership is the ability to take advantage of this. Hence, the second premise of the new psychology of leadership is that effective leaders need to be entrepreneurs of identity . That is, they need to be able to construe (and reconstrue) what the group is, who they themselves are, and what they advocate, so as to place a...
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s: Franklin Delano Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy. FDR was struck down in his early adulthood with infantile paralysis (thought at the time to be polio). Because it undermined those Platonic qualities considered critical for leadership–virility, energy, physical prowess–this ought to have been, according to that model, ...
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s; but at the same time, he was willing to show himself to be symbolic of people overcoming profound hardship. In particular, when Roosevelt proposed a train tour to support his 1934 presidential campaign, advisors begged him not to present his broken body before the electorate. But he did. In town after town, he labor...
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vercome economic paralysis and to flourish again. It was a message articulated most famously in his First Inaugural Address: “This great Nation … will revive and will prosper. … The only thing we have to fear is fear itself–nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into...
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isease, which led to the crumbling of his spine). But his narrative of America was a young, vibrant nation breaching a new frontier. To personify this narrative, he not only hid his disability entirely, but at his own inauguration, where all around him wore warm hats to combat the freezing cold, he insisted on showing ...
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ension to leadership can be taken a step further. Thus, leadership is not just about how the leader acts, but also how the leader shapes the performance of followers. For in order to make their versions of shared identity compelling, they need to make them real. Obviously, a critical part of this is success in enacting...
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tions, commemorations, festivals, rallies–in which people are encouraged to act out the leader’s vision of group values. Accordingly, the third premise of the new psychology of leadership is that effective leaders need to be impresarios of identity . This involves choreographing groups and group life in ways that actua...
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1934 Nazi Nuremburg rally, Triumph of the Will . The film begins with Hitler’s plane descending through the clouds, casting the shadow of a cross on the expectant masses waiting below. Hitler then walks through the rigorously ordered, serried ranks of the faithful before ascending to a platform in front of and above th...
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nic community–combined with the Führerprinzip –a rigidly vertical form of political authority. 25 Indeed, the extent to which the performance aimed to actualize group values of hardness and order is exemplified by the care with which Albert Speer chose the materials used in the construction of the Nuremberg arena: gran...
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from the social identity approach to leadership. All relate to problems that arise from endorsing too narrow an understanding of leadership–problems that have routinely beset the classical and contemporary approaches that we seek to move beyond. The first is that, when it is effective, leadership can never be the exclu...
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for them to be performed only by those in positions of formal authority. Leaders thus need loyal lieutenants to engage in these processes, but they also need ordinary group members to do the same. Indeed, much of the power of a social identity analysis is that it explains not only how leaders are able to be creative, b...
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ut also do so in imaginative and generative ways. In these terms, the transformational power of social identity is that it is not simply a source of creative leadership, but also of the engaged followership upon which its success depends. 26 Relatedly, leadership–and the processes of identity-building that underpin it–...
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e followers around a collective sense of “who we are” and “what we are about.” However, this alone is not sufficient to sustain those followers’ enthusiasm in the long run. Instead, social identity is ultimately only of use to the extent that it allows group members to create a better future for their group. Accordingl...
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se leaders who advance it–will fall by the wayside. Yet where, and so long as, mobilization succeeds in creating positive realities that reflect a given definition of identity, then that definition, and the leaders who help to advance and embed it, will enjoy considerable support. In these terms, then, the X factor tha...
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ctures that allowed a particular model of “us” to be lived out and translated into material change in the world. This, though, leads to a final point about the dangers of imagining that leadership is an exclusively positive process. The trap here is that precisely because our own leadership, and that of those we follow...
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lined to see leadership as an inherently virtuous process. Indeed, this inclination is cemented within social and organizational science more generally in the form of a strong, usually implicit assumption that leadership is an unalloyed good (which is why the leadership industry is so vast). Yet although we have argued...
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o focus on these three figures to make it clear that our analysis is explanatory rather than normative. That is, the model of identity leadership that we have presented seeks to understand what makes leadership effective, not what makes it good. The question of what makes leadership normatively good or bad, we suggest,...
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ies and the group values are defined is critical. Contrast the Nazi definition of German identity with Mandela’s definition of South African society. As the Nazis saw it: “What is the first commandment of every National socialist? … Love Germany above all else and your ethnic comrade [ Volksgenosse ] as yourself.” 27 A...
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ed myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to ach...
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the other proposes a racially inclusive version. The one values love for the category, but hostility to those outside it. The other values harmony and equality between peoples. The one facilitated genocide, the other ultimately prevented racial war. Regarding the issue of identity process , here the issue concerns the ...
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at the root of questions of political authority. The right to define identity is at its clearest in religious contexts in which there is a sacred text, and authority lies in the hands of those who are allowed to interpret it: the clergy alone, the clergy with congregational participation, or the congregation as facilit...
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tic leadership (where leaders guide a collective conversation about “who we are”) to hierarchical leadership (where leaders claim special access to the definition of group identity, but do not exclude the participation of the population) to authoritarian leadership (where leaders claim to so embody the group that any c...
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ap particular leaders onto particular categories. Nonetheless, this framework may be helpful in allowing us to identify the signs of creeping authoritarianism and nip it in the bud. In this way, although the new psychology of leadership is intended primarily to offer an analytic approach, it can, we hope, be directed t...
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onsider carefully the ways in which that tool is fashioned and wielded. Share Prev ious Essay Leadership, Equality & Democracy Next Essay Presidential Leadership & the Separation of Powers To Dædalus issue Endnotes 1 Mandela quoted in Julie Frederikse, The Unbreakable Thread: Non-Racialism in South Africa (Bloomington:...
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Press, 2003), 46; and Hitler quoted in Gordon W. Prange, Hitler’s Words (New York: American Council on Public Affairs, 1944), 101. 2 Barbara Kellerman, The End of Leadership (New York: Harper Collins, 2012). 3 S. Alexander Haslam, Stephen D. Reicher, and Michael J. Platow, The New Psychology of Leadership: Identity, In...
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