Leaders are born, not made: Looking into Leadership Theories

Title: Leaders are born, not made: Looking into Leadership Theories
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Leaders are born, not made: Looking into Leadership Theories

There has been constant debate on weather leaders are born or are they made. There are leadership theories to support this statement or to disprove this statement. This idea is backed up by the trait theory which says that all good leaders are born with special traits that helps them become a good leader, and people with out those traits will not be able to become good leaders. However with the behavioral theories, things are …showed first 75 words of 840 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 840 total…of the above theorist focus on behavioral theories which is based on success being actions that are describable, this means that good leadership can be learnt through what successful leaders does rather than inheriting it, leading to a different statement 'Leaders are made, not born'. I believe behavioral theories are better than trait theories because this allows people to have more chance to develop and become a successful leader as opposed to simple psychometric test.

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