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A 4 page paper revisiting the question of whether leaders are born or made. The paper discusses personality and Maslow’s hierarchy of needs to arrive at the conclusion that certainly the leader must have specific innate traits, but those traits alone likely will not allow the individual to achieve real leadership ability. Leaders are born, but those “born” leaders also require inputs such as education and experience that can lead to the observation that they were made rather than born. The more reasonable position includes both. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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should it be that some people develop to be the "take charge" type who organize everything around them, while others are more laissez faire in their approach to life and
individuals? Leaders emerge from most sizeable groups; the purpose here is to assess whether those leaders are born with their leadership abilities or whether they have learned specific leadership
skills over time. The thesis here is that the best answer to this old question is that leaders are both "born" and "made." Personality Base
The thesis statement above is not the hedge it appears to be. Certainly, there are those who emerge as leaders at very young age, seeking to
organize a group of toddlers in how the group should take turns with an item of interest. There are others who appear to be born followers, who may eventually
become unlikely or even unwilling leaders. Maltby (n.d.) asks the basic question again, noting that the "question continues to dominate the study of
leadership today. Volumes of research have been written." There are many definitions of leadership, and one that Maltby (n.d.) offers is one taken from Jay Conger. This definition
holds that leaders establish direction; gain commitment; and motivate members of the group (Maltby, n.d.). Support for this definition can be found in
the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). Originally developed by Isabel Briggs Myers and Katherine Cook Briggs in the 1940s, the MBTI is based on personal preference and the psychology of
Carl Jung. The MBTI indicates the respondents preferences on four personality type dimensions: * Extroversion (E) or Introversion (I) * Sensing (S) or Intuition (N) * Thinking (T) or
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