From the course: Leadership Styles, Behaviors, and Approaches
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Modern leadership traits
From the course: Leadership Styles, Behaviors, and Approaches
Modern leadership traits
- Think about great leaders like John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, and others. One question people ask about leaders like this is, were they born great, or did they achieve greatness? If there's such a thing as a natural born leader, what does that mean for you and me? Let's look at the oldest systematic approach to studying leadership, the traits approach. This provides one possible answer to the question about the belief in the existence of natural born leaders. The traits approach has several key characteristics. The underlying belief of this model is that certain individuals rise to leadership positions because they are innately special. They possess the inborn traits that predispose them to leadership roles. In his book, "Leadership: Theory and Practice," Peter Northouse did a meta-analysis of decades worth of studies with dozens of potential traits. He saw five leadership traits that rose to the top, intelligence, self-confidence, determination, integrity,…
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