Pros And Cons Of Mao Zedong

1a. In a short paragraph, name the leader & briefly describe why that person is infamous or bad: The infamous leader that I choose to talk about this week is Mao Zedong was at the head of a Communist government in China during the year 1949 when it finally forced the Nationalists to retreat to Taiwan. By Exploiting the immense number of peasants in poverty, Mao ordered that in every village, at least one landlord was to be executed as an example and that all the property was to be equally redistributed. While Mao Zedong campaign to redistribute the property taken from landlords that were executed, It was provoked even further when Nationalist tried to start a rebellion. With that said it grew to a point that he would target anyone who opposed …show more content…
Similar to this, there is evidence that narcissists tend to rise within organizations given their confidence levels and willingness to step on others to get ahead. Given the negative effects of these dark personality traits, it should be easy to see why not all leaders may act in the best interests of their followers. Indeed, Hogan et al. (1990) cautioned that there can be a “dark side” to charismatic leaders. Because they have excellent social skills, sometimes to the point of being charming, they are readily liked by their followers. But sometimes lurking behind the mask of likability is a person with pronounced adjustment problems, such as the psychopaths and narcissists. Only after these people fail in their leadership roles do we ever learn of their maladjustment, which was clearly concealed by their ability to manipulate people to like them” ( Muchinsky & Culbertson, 2016 p.413). Mao Zedong is not looked at like someone like Hitler or Stalin because his people still worship him today, some of the things that he did the people of China never knew about until recent time when the truths about what he did to his people have come out. During the famine of 1959-1961 it said that the high number of …show more content…
He was able to sentence anyone to life in prison that spoke against him which said to be as much as 700,000 people (Rockwell, 2017). Rockwell also states that “Some of the power that was shown were those of anyone suspected of involvement in prostitution, gambling, tax evasion, lying, fraud, opium dealing, or telling state secrets were executed as a bandit. The official estimates that over 2 million were killed and another 2 million imprisoned for life” (Rockwell, 2017). Muchinsky and Culbertson state that “Coercive power is the capacity to punish undesirable behavior. Dismissal, docking of pay, reprimands, and unpleasant work assignments are examples. To the extent that you can sanction others in this way, you have power over them. Like reward power, this capacity to punish is also defined by formal authority and policies inherent In the organization” (Muchinsky & Culbertson, 2017 p.