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From Thomas Cronin's "Thinking and Learning About Leadership"
Yes, we admire the Washingtons and Churchills, but Hitler and Al Capone were leaders too - and that points up a fundamental problem. Leadership can be exercised in the service of noble, liberating enriching ends, but it can also serve to manipulate, mislead and repress.
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The part about the Athletics department requesting that it be removed is interesting.
https://lanthorn.com/73470/opinion/i...-berger-story/
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Originally posted by Horror Child View PostFrom Thomas Cronin's "Thinking and Learning About Leadership"
Berger explicitly stated that Hitler had bad motives and bad intentions, but one could argue that leading for a noble cause is significantly easier than a nefarious cause. His perspective is to understand Hitler's leadership capabilities and apply them to good causes, in the same way that any rehabilitation efforts (juvenile delinquents, incarcerated adults, drug abusers) do.
Hitler's leadership style was to give contradictory orders to his subordinates and to place them into positions where their duties and responsibilities overlapped with those of others, to have "the stronger one [do] the job". In this way, Hitler fostered distrust, competition, and infighting among his subordinates to consolidate and maximise his own power. His cabinet never met after 1938, and he discouraged his ministers from meeting independently. Hitler typically did not give written orders; instead he communicated verbally,
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Originally posted by Fightingscot82 View Post
Yes but as a guy holding a degree in history, he should know more about what he's talking about. Taking a World War II class doesn't even scratch the surface on how Hitler rose to power and what he did to stay there. This description of his leadership style sounds awfully familiar.
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https://lanthorn.com/73470/opinion/i...s-berger-story
Thank you for grabbing and posting this. Not trying to belabor this point....but.....this is disconcerting to me and I would be really disappointed if this was Shepherd. Hearing me Chauncey and Andy?
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