{"id":842,"date":"2019-09-23T16:49:40","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T20:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/?p=842"},"modified":"2019-09-23T16:49:40","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T20:49:40","slug":"leaders-citizen-leaders-and-the-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2019\/09\/23\/leaders-citizen-leaders-and-the-public\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaders, Citizen Leaders, and The Public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A typical follower will experience occasional indecisiveness or hesitancy to step up.\u00a0 This idea from the citizen leader article verifies that some are naturally imposed to be leaders, while others prefer to stay in the background.\u00a0 The importance of leaders are often overstated in society, and the article talks about how it is important to develop more a more active participatory population. While this theory makes sense, it is also important for an effective leader to take initiative.\u00a0 This action can be taken through understanding the community\u2019s unity and identity because the leader will better be suited to address the needs of the general public. Having a sense of the public\u2019s identity is important because there are certain individuals who are more willing to step up and show the characteristics to be the face of a movement, so being able to lead without forgetting about the common person is very important.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The article talks about how the issue with modern-day leaders is that they seem, \u201cstripped of a communal identity.\u201d\u00a0 While it is important to develop an active citizen base, it is even more key for a leader to be able to act on the behalf of the public with their best interest in mind.\u00a0 A leader that has this sense of communal identity will be able to inspire their followers to act, creating a leadership hierarchy within their support system. Though I\u2019m trying to argue that the best leader inspires others into action and creates, I am not disagreeing with the author\u2019s point of the importance of an active citizen base.\u00a0 Creating a culture of accountability and driven individuals will not only make more effective leaders, but it will make a more efficient society.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A typical follower will experience occasional indecisiveness or hesitancy to step up.\u00a0 This idea from the citizen leader article verifies that some are naturally imposed&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2019\/09\/23\/leaders-citizen-leaders-and-the-public\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Leaders, Citizen Leaders, and The Public<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4529,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4529"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}