Abstract
The author suggests two new principles of addressing the phenomenon of leadership: 1) leadership is an integral trait of personality and represents a person’s willingness and ability to influence the environment with his values and ideas. Existential reflection is the necessary basis of leadership. 2) Leadership is a phenomenon of “psychic reality” and may differ from one culture to another. The article describes a series of experiments that examine the personality qualities most frequently associated with leadership in the Russian mass consciousness.
Highlights
Psychology of leadership is one of the popular research topics in contemporary social psychology
Existential reflection is the necessary basis of leadership
Leadership starts with the person creating a system of values that can make people act that can serve as the meaning of their lives
Summary
Psychology of leadership is one of the popular research topics in contemporary social psychology. We do not even have an understanding of the notion of leadership that would be shared by majority of researchers and coaches. This contradiction between growing interest to the phenomenon of leadership and the abundance of available information—and distinct lack of serious results in leadership training worldwide, as well as inconsistency of scientific studies of this phenomenon, makes our research important for understanding what leadership truly is and how it can be recognized and developed—provided such development is possible at all
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