Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Trait Leadership
I always new that trait leadership existed. That people who had achieved greatness were always looked up too and you wanted to be like them, but I never knew that first, there was a term for this. Secondly, that there was a person that they defined through looks to be a recognized as leaders in the 1930’s to the 1950’s. The book says that this has died down as far as specific looks and yet there is a different kind of icon today. Society and our media says that to be successful you have to be tall, good looking and super model thin. As for a man they as well have to be tall, good looking, and have a very nice toned body. It is a different society that says that to be in any way successful a person needs to be beautiful. Nothing has really changed. In our earlier years “tall, blond, white males from upper-class or upper-middle class families” was the norm, essentially nothing has changed we just have a broader view of what “good looking” is.
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It is interesting how the core criteria of a desirable leader stays the same with time. Society seems to place a heavy emphasis on superficial traits (tall, good looking, etc). A female must be pin-thin in order to be sought after. Ten, twenty, even thirty years from now there will probably be similar standards that society will place on leaders. Trait leadership seems to not be time sensitive, although, like you mentioned, it has potential to become more broad or more narrow.
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