AlexMartynov on Nostr: Thomas Gordon. Group Centered Leadership (1955): 'Traditional leadership approaches ...
Thomas Gordon. Group Centered Leadership (1955):
'Traditional leadership approaches have often failed to bring out the constructive forces that exist in group members, because many of these present forms of leadership have tended to foster group members’ de- pendency upon their leader. The individual members of many groups in our society learn to react to their leaders by submitting to the authority upon which the group’s leadership has usually been based and upon which it has depended. For many of the existing patterns of leadership in our society can be characterized by different degrees of control and manipulation of the individual by their leaders, often for the purpose of satisfying nonhuman values or for satisfying only the values of the leaders themselves.'
'Traditional leadership approaches have often failed to bring out the constructive forces that exist in group members, because many of these present forms of leadership have tended to foster group members’ de- pendency upon their leader. The individual members of many groups in our society learn to react to their leaders by submitting to the authority upon which the group’s leadership has usually been based and upon which it has depended. For many of the existing patterns of leadership in our society can be characterized by different degrees of control and manipulation of the individual by their leaders, often for the purpose of satisfying nonhuman values or for satisfying only the values of the leaders themselves.'