REFLECTIONS ON CHARACTER AND LEADERSHIP

PRISONERS OF LEADERSHIP 137 We know that in the mass of mankind there is a powerful need for an authority who can be admired, be ...

138 REFLECTIONS ON CHARACTER AND LEADERSHIP Idealizing Transference As the heart of this process is a lingering striving to reco ...

PRISONERS OF LEADERSHIP 139 In the context of these three interdependent transference reactions, the defense called ‘ identifi c ...

140 REFLECTIONS ON CHARACTER AND LEADERSHIP with reality. Here, leaders fulfi ll a function by providing the group members with ...

PRISONERS OF LEADERSHIP 141 is very changeable. Consequently, the group members may fall back into a fi ght – fl ight mode. Even ...

142 REFLECTIONS ON CHARACTER AND LEADERSHIP As in the case of Robert Clark, here was an individual who was apparently well - adj ...

PRISONERS OF LEADERSHIP 143 to contend with the frustration of their own dependency needs (Kernberg, 1978 ). For some leaders, c ...

144 REFLECTIONS ON CHARACTER AND LEADERSHIP Top executive management development programs (including the kind of group coaching ...

PRISONERS OF LEADERSHIP 145 Endnotes Most of the material for this chapter has already appeared in print under the same title in ...

THE SPIRIT OF DESPOTISM: UNDERSTANDING THE TYRANT WITHIN The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse ...

THE SPIRIT OF DESPOTISM 147 Leadership by terror achieves its ends and gains compliance by the use of arbitrary power beyond the ...

148 REFLECTIONS ON CHARACTER AND LEADERSHIP which a population is completely subjugated to a political system aspiring to total ...

THE SPIRIT OF DESPOTISM 149 a new type of social life or a new kind of human being. Russia under Stalin would be a good example ...

150 REFLECTIONS ON CHARACTER AND LEADERSHIP When formerly colonial or communist countries become independ- ent, people generally ...

THE SPIRIT OF DESPOTISM 151 and inwardly directed (to members or groups within the country ’ s own population). Both forms often ...

152 REFLECTIONS ON CHARACTER AND LEADERSHIP How despotic regimes are maintained One interesting question is why it is that some ...

THE SPIRIT OF DESPOTISM 153 sway behavior and increase their narcissistic tendencies, Mugabe of Zimbabwe being one of the more r ...

154 REFLECTIONS ON CHARACTER AND LEADERSHIP typically establish a pseudo - scientifi c or extremist religious base to undergird ...

THE SPIRIT OF DESPOTISM 155 believers of the shakiness of their belief system, often triggering anger and violence. Whichever pa ...

156 REFLECTIONS ON CHARACTER AND LEADERSHIP Cambodia were used to paralyze their country ’ s populace. The Ministry of Intellige ...