Leadership

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Through the use of numerous examples, such as Margaret Sanger, Benazir Bhutto, Sojourner Truth, and Mary Baker Eddy, this paper examines the characteristics of leaders and how they come to fill leadership positions. The author, while focusing mostly on positive female leaders, also details the leadership of Hitler, Pol Pot, Jim Jones, and David Koresh, and explores the reasons why people flocked towards them.

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"There is no single path to leadership. Leaders vary both in terms of their individual talents and in terms of what their society and culture demand of them to be. A leader in times of peace is not the same as a leader in times of war. The dynamics of the group are essential in determining what kind of leader will be best suited to the job. All effective " and enduring " leaders are probably charismatic in some measure and relatively intelligent, but beyond that generalities are hard to enumerate. Leaders vary as groups vary, and groups vary as human nature varies."

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