{"id":399,"date":"2019-09-01T19:11:27","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T23:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/?p=399"},"modified":"2019-09-01T19:11:27","modified_gmt":"2019-09-01T23:11:27","slug":"riggio-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2019\/09\/01\/riggio-response\/","title":{"rendered":"Riggio Response"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before doing this week\u2019s readings, the term \u201ccharisma\u201d is something I had heard many times, but I had never thought about how to define it. According to Riggio, charisma is \u201cthe special quality some people possess that allows them to relate to and inspire others at a deep emotional level.\u201d Charismatic people tend to be emotionally expressive, enthusiastic, driven, eloquent, visionary, self-confident, and responsive to others. I thought it was interesting that the word was originally used in a religious context to describe figures such as Moses, Buddha, Jesus, and Mohammed, who were widely considered to have divine characteristics that allowed them to influence and inspire their followers. This idea sounds almost identical to the Great Man Theory, which is that some people are born with certain characteristics that inherently make them better leaders.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Something else that I found interesting in this reading was German sociologist Max Weber\u2019s theory that the key to charismatic leadership is the relationship between the leader\u2019s qualities and followers\u2019 belief in both the leader and the leader\u2019s cause. Weber also believed that leadership context was very important and charismatic leaders are more likely to emerge during chaotic times. This is something that we talked about in my Leadership 102 class last semester. Given the qualities that many charismatic leaders possess, Weber\u2019s idea makes sense because people might be more likely to seek out a leader with these qualities in times of uncertainty.<\/span><\/p>\n

One of the questions that Riggio is asked in the <\/span>Psychology Today <\/span><\/i>interview is whether he thinks leaders are born or made, and his answer is that \u201cthis isn\u2019t something that requires my opinion, but this question has been well researched. Twin studies by Richard Arvey and his colleagues have estimated that leadership is about \u2154 made and \u2153 born.\u201d This stuck out to me because in class on Thursday, we discussed the same question and there was a wide range of opinions, so it was interesting to learn that people have done studies and come up with a numerical formula to explain where leadership traits come from. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before doing this week\u2019s readings, the term \u201ccharisma\u201d is something I had heard many times, but I had never thought about how to define it.…<\/p>\n

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