A Critique of Impassioned Leadership

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I.INTRODUCTION The paper entitled On Impassioned Leadership: A Comparison Between Leaders from Divergent Walks of Life authored by Joan F. Marques, a professor at Woodbury University consist of 28 pages reviewed biographies of well renowned leaders and further discussed each leadership traits using the phenomenological approach in order to find common themes among these remarkable individuals and draw an overall conclusion and later applied the process of horizonalization, also known as phenomenological reduction in order to eliminate redundancies in between arguments. Also, the writer applied textural and structural description in order to compile the findings as they are presented. Mainly, data on this paper is based on a review made by students during several semesters in 2004-2006 wherein the author herself gave series of biographical documentaries of various leaders in which the students chose on popular leaders like Fidel Castro, Jesus Christ, Mother Theresa, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Al Capone. These leaders as a person together with their characteristics and their leadership traits were reviewed together with the various determinants that occurred during their rise to prominence. This paper presented the positive and negative leadership traits as listed by the students based from their own reviews of the provided documentaries. After which, these traits were compared and contrast to bring out similarities and contradictions. Purposely, this paper wanted to detect a set of common factors among the leaders mentioned in order to create a profile of important qualities needed in leadership. II. SUMMARY Based on the findings of this study, an interesting combination of leadership theories surfaced which includes the oldest theory, the leadership trait paradigm, charisma theory which is an element of trait theory, leader behavior paradigm,
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