An Examination of Leadership Conceptualisation in the Professional World
This general scope of this paper is intended to analyze, compare, and synthesize key themes related to the conceptualisation of leadership in the professional world. The paper examines three areas of peer-reviewed literature linked to leadership to set the context for this paper, those being: Fearless dominance and the U.S. presidency: Implications of psychopathic personality traits for successful and unsuccessful political leadership by Lilienfeld et al. (2012), Leadership styles and associated personality traits: Support for the conceptualization of transactional and transformational leadership by van Eeden, Cilliers, & van Deventer (2008), and lastly, Impact of Personal …show more content…
In order to analyze, compare, and synthesize the leadership development of learners, I have once more drawn on the three previously mentioned core articles (Lilienfeld et al., 2012; van Eeden, Cilliers, & van Deventer, 2008; Odom, Boyd, & Williams, 2012). All three articles examine the growth of leaders. In the first article (Lilienfeld et al., 2012) examines the behavior of other leaders, portraying how individual challenges and experience are vital to the development of leadership. Lilienfeld et al. (2012) also discusses the particular roles in which leaders assume in their lives, such as peer leadership, and leading others as well as serving under them, all of which are necessary to developing as leaders. The second article (van Eeden, Cilliers, & van Deventer, 2008) hints on the differences across leaders and how their behaviors become values in which we identify with. Leaders have the great potential of influencing such behaviors in others. Leaders can be born from merely observing the behaviors of others. According to the third article (Odom, Boyd, & Williams, 2012) leadership can be contagious. The development of leaders is highly dependent on the modeled leadership behaviors in which are seen in others. The success of learners in growing themselves as leaders is centered on their interactions with other leaders. In particular, the extent to which learners see leadership positively exhibited impacts their own motivation to accomplish such leadership goals (Odom, Boyd, & Williams,
This general scope of this paper is intended to analyze, compare, and synthesize key themes related to the conceptualisation of leadership in the professional world. The paper examines three areas of peer-reviewed literature linked to leadership to set the context for this paper, those being: Fearless dominance and the U.S. presidency: Implications of psychopathic personality traits for successful and unsuccessful political leadership by Lilienfeld et al. (2012), Leadership styles and associated personality traits: Support for the conceptualization of transactional and transformational leadership by van Eeden, Cilliers, & van Deventer (2008), and lastly, Impact of Personal …show more content…
In order to analyze, compare, and synthesize the leadership development of learners, I have once more drawn on the three previously mentioned core articles (Lilienfeld et al., 2012; van Eeden, Cilliers, & van Deventer, 2008; Odom, Boyd, & Williams, 2012). All three articles examine the growth of leaders. In the first article (Lilienfeld et al., 2012) examines the behavior of other leaders, portraying how individual challenges and experience are vital to the development of leadership. Lilienfeld et al. (2012) also discusses the particular roles in which leaders assume in their lives, such as peer leadership, and leading others as well as serving under them, all of which are necessary to developing as leaders. The second article (van Eeden, Cilliers, & van Deventer, 2008) hints on the differences across leaders and how their behaviors become values in which we identify with. Leaders have the great potential of influencing such behaviors in others. Leaders can be born from merely observing the behaviors of others. According to the third article (Odom, Boyd, & Williams, 2012) leadership can be contagious. The development of leaders is highly dependent on the modeled leadership behaviors in which are seen in others. The success of learners in growing themselves as leaders is centered on their interactions with other leaders. In particular, the extent to which learners see leadership positively exhibited impacts their own motivation to accomplish such leadership goals (Odom, Boyd, & Williams,