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Leadership, Culture, and Custom: How to Generate Leadership Strength by Creating Structures

In: The Psychology of Human Leadership

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  • Michael Paschen
  • Erich Dihsmaier

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In the previous chapters we primarily understood and explained leadership as a relationship phenomenon. We explained the nature of the leadership relationship. We shed light on the various relationship contracts that leaders conclude with their followers, and we understood the matter of charisma as an interaction between the leader and the followers in which the charismatic relationship obtains its strength and energy from the leader’s ability to remove fears. Yet we also interpreted leadership as a relationship phenomenon when discussing the leadership situation and possible leadership goals. The leader’s job in dealing with the situation is to interpret its critical elements so that they are accessible to the followers. The fears that arise from the crisis become the material that enables the charismatic relationship contract to be concluded. The same is true for goals. Like the lock-and-key principle in biology, goals must represent accessible promises and hopes for the future for followers. The goals formulated must provide a specific answer to the current crisis. At this point, they are the leader’s communicative achievements, which consist in endowing meaning, motivation, and assertion, and which also ensure the success of the leadership process.

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  • Michael Paschen & Erich Dihsmaier, 2014. "Leadership, Culture, and Custom: How to Generate Leadership Strength by Creating Structures," Springer Books, in: The Psychology of Human Leadership, edition 127, chapter 6, pages 125-142, Springer.
  • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-642-37054-0_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-37054-0_6
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