{"id":5251,"date":"2020-03-22T16:59:35","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T20:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/?p=5251"},"modified":"2020-03-22T16:59:35","modified_gmt":"2020-03-22T20:59:35","slug":"evolution-of-leadership-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/2020\/03\/22\/evolution-of-leadership-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Evolution of Leadership Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found this reading very interesting, particularly looking at how the things people look for in leaders hasn\u2019t changed much despite the massive changes to our society. Being tall and strong aren\u2019t particularly helpful in today\u2019s world for leaders, and yet these qualities are still surprisingly sought after. We see this play out time and time again especially in US politics, as candidates who play up the strong man identity tend to do better in elections.<\/p>\n<p>I also found it an interesting thought that for the vast majority of human history leaders operated on a small, interconnected and familial scale. This does make sense to a certain extent, especially as you go back thousands of years. However, even five thousand years ago we did see certain societies operating on a far larger scale, such as in Egypt and China. While within those societies there was still a lot of small scale leadership as well, particularly in Egypt we still see hierarchal and top down leadership styles, even five thousand years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this reading very interesting, particularly looking at how the things people look for in leaders hasn\u2019t changed much despite the massive changes to our society. Being tall and strong aren\u2019t particularly helpful in today\u2019s world for leaders, and yet these qualities are still surprisingly sought after. We see this play out time and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4687,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-responses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4687"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}