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Disadvantages Of Charismatic Leadership

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Charismatic leaders have been the boon and the bane of humanity for as long as recorded human history illustrates. Most people agree that charisma can be a double-edged sword capable of producing both positive and negative outcomes. (Lussier, Achua, 20216) This is where we as humans wonder about our existence. We lead and we are led. Some successes are recorded while many failures fall by the wayside. Still, there are some successes we would rather not have experienced. There is a game which children have played over the years. The game is aptly named, “Would You Rather”. In this game, one asks the group, “Would you rather meet your demise by …?” The choices are generally between two equally horrific or disgusting ways your life might …show more content…

The assigned value to each leader is directly linked to the values instilled in or owned by the beholder. Magnificence is esteemed in saving other humans from a demise such as death. We may presume that Oskar Schindler is a hero. This was established by Schindler risking his life, liberty, and property to save as many Jewish people as he could from the horrors of genocide during World War II. Although, when we further look into his life, he was a human with his human frailties some might consider sins. We learn that Schindler did not actually create a list as was made popular in the movie directed by Steven Spielberg. “Instead, Marcel Goldberg, a Jewish “clerk” assigned to the new Plaszow commandant Arnold Buscher, played the largest role in compiling the transport list. It is generally agreed that Buscher, an SS officer, “could not have cared, within certain numerical limits, who went on the list,” according to Thomas Keneally. It’s also agreed that Goldberg engaged in a certain amount of corruption in who he added to the list and, moreover, that there was not even one “list” but rather different lists that emerged over a series of months.” (Anderson, 2014) Contrary to popular beliefs, Schindler was an ordinary business man who, being at the right time and right place in history, evolved from having monetary interests, into the interest of saving Jewish people from the horrors of the concentration camps. As we consider the greatness of saving human

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