The Propensity to Lead

M. S. S. El Namaki
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M. S. S. El Namaki: VU School of Management

Chapter 16 in Neo Strategic Management, 2023, pp 157-164 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Most contemporary concepts of leadership entertain the premise that a leader is an individual who is able to convince others to follow him toward an identified goal. It is a process whereby an individual induces “followers” to work toward an individual or a group end result. Creating conviction and fellowship could be explained in terms of many theories. There are trait and behavior theories, situation and contingency theories, functional theories, and transactional and transformational theories, among others (Avolio et al., Annual Review of Psychology, 60, 421–449, 2009). It all, unfortunately, adds up to a rather blurred whole that is, at times, divorced from reality and could, at other times, border on the irrelevant (El Namaki, Concentration: The Dominant Strategic Behavior of the Coming Decade. In: Strategic Thinking for Turbulent Times. Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2014; Henman, Leadership—Theories and Controversies. Semantic Scholar, 2017).

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-37208-7_16

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