Leader, this word has magic in it. This word has some power and has some responsibility. Leader, it is the position every passionate person wants to be. Leadership has been described as “a process of social influence in which one person can enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common task" .A leader does not suffer “analysis paralysis” but is always doing something in pursuit of the vision, inspiring others to do the same .It really has value. Being a leader is great feeling.
We really get royalistic feeling when we guide people under us who believe in us. It’s not people under us, its feeling of comradeship. Many persons try to become leader which they aspire to be. Now let us know about one such great leader in 19th and 20th century without considering victory. Let’s focus on the mindset and way of thinking.
What is your feeling when you hear the name Adolf Hitler? Let me guess, your first thought would be the man who started the World War II. Yeah you’re damn correct. Now let’s see other side of he becoming leader because I don’t think German people are too dumb make a wrong person leader. He may be negative person but an effective leader.
Adolf Hitler may seem an evil and a terrifying man, but he was a man with a mission and vision. His passion, dependability and confidence made Germany a powerful nation.one of Hitler quality that made him a well-known leader is his dependability. He wanted to be most powerful person in Germany and also wanted to make Germany as the most powerful country in the world. In spite of being in prison for more than one year Hitler dint let his determination fade. After being released Hitler continued his movement indirectly, as he was prohibited to make any public summit. But after getting public support Hitler became chancellor of Germany and later the undisputed leader.
Hitler was very famous among his people. He used to be in them and treated them as a family. He played with their children and enjoyed with them. This lead to his popularity, his people were ready to die for him. Hitler was no doubt a man of caliber with excellent cleverness and management skills; still he lost due to his overconfidence. He attacked both England and Russia together without realizing environment condition of Russia which caused it’s lost to Russia and England both.
When looking at Hitler's behavior with the goal of analyzing his leadership style and leadership success, it is important to keep in mind that the focus of the article is to look at how well and in what manner he led. To say that he was a poor leader based on his actions or his extremely unethical goals would be a disservice to the analysis. He is the man who believed in his ideas and his thoughts. He believes his ideology is precise. In short he was self-centered men. He believed in hand to hand fight with little mind.
One other thing to look at in the style approach was Hitler's ability to manipulate people into thinking that he was their friend (or at least not a threat) in order to achieve his goals. Hitler's primary goal was to expand Germany and to take over a part of Eastern Russia. In light of this goal, Hitler made sub-goals that involved eliminating certain armies that would hinder in his goals. Knowing that Germany had just been defeated in WWI, Hitler used that as an excuse to build up his army and through manipulative discussion and empty promises of peace. he flattered the leaders and told stories about how much the war had scarred his country and how he wanted peace .Although Hitler seems to have had great communication skills, again, the only reason that he drove himself to talk to these people was because they were almost taking orders from Hitler to let him do as he pleased. This was done only to attain another step in accomplishing his goals and his lies showed total disregard for the countries that he spoke with because he ended up attacking them. All that Hitler cared about was his tasks. To say that Hitler was seen as controlling and overpowering is an understatement and this is an extreme case where I would say that this leader is an actual "one" where communicating with people interpersonally is concerned. To me, this shows the sociopath that was Adolf Hitler because he really did not care about anyone but himself.
This look at the style approach only really shows Hitler as a leader who simply used his positional power to push everyone around, possibly giving the impression that he wasn't much of a leader as much as he was a bully.
In my opinion, Adolf Hitler's style of leadership during the late 1930's and early to mid 1940's was the most efficient way to get the things done that he wanted to have done. During a time of war, there is little time to sit there and support people or take time to help someone out with something, you could get shot or lose important position while this is happening. I think that the most important part of Hitler's drive to win WWII was the fact that he very clearly, from the beginning told his prospective followers of his vision and how he planned on making this vision become a reality. This vision gave the subordinates motivation in a very dark time in Germany and by using the expectancy theory, he gave his troops the drive needed to attempt to carry out their goal. Of course Hitler's actions were absolutely evil, but he did use the situation to his advantage and to try to accomplish his goals, as terrible as some of them were. I think that driving his troops through nationalism was a great situational approach because the country was once so proud and at that time had nothing to be proud about.
Well till now we tried to know why he became leader and why people of Germany made him their dictator, now, let’s see what mistakes he committed which made him demonic.
The first was in not having sound moral judgment and allowing personal interests to dictate his governments’ actions, thereby misusing his supporters trust and, eventually destroying the lives of many of them.
The second was in not trusting his subordinate’s judgment in their own sections of expertise. This happened in many cases and an example would be during the war in north Africa where he did not allow his soldiers to retreat from the continent until it was far too late, for the reason of nothing more than his idea of national pride. This lead to the destruction by death or capture of nearly his entire army in Africa.
A third was in being overtly authoritarian, and not allowing any contrary views to be aired. It helped initially in implementing his policies but eventually it became dangerous to even talk about ideas contrary to the official party line. It consequently discouraged free thinking and honesty especially amongst his chief subordinates. This meant that the men who rose to power did so not based on ability or merit but on telling him things he wanted to hear.
By putting himself into a position of great power and fear, Hitler understood the situation that he was in and acted accordingly. If you think about this situation in a business sense, think about a boss who has made an example of firing a few people who would not perform as ordered to, and how the next person is going to feel when ordered to do something. Hitler struck fear into his army but at the same time maintained loyalty and motivation for the soldiers to arrive at Hitler's vision. For the boss of the business, if production was his only concern, it is very unlikely that employees would work harder for any reason other than to not be fired. The boss' goal or vision would not likely be a priority to the employee as it was to the Germans. In the case of the boss, however, I am not saying that the boss would not be successful as a leader, I am only trying to show Hitler's success in leadership because of his consciousness to the situation and his ability to exploit it most efficiently.
Hitler's situational analysis and leadership style based on the analysis and the situations that he created for himself make Hitler a great leader and a great man in the respect that he turned nothing into something huge. It is unfortunate that he used his abilities for evil rather than good, but his accomplishments as a leader must be regarded as great. This style of leadership would not be likely to succeed in a growing, innovative corporation today, but in the setting that Germany and Adolf Hitler found themselves in during the 1930's, the style proved to be very successful when referring to the definition of leadership that we have been concerned with this term.
We really get royalistic feeling when we guide people under us who believe in us. It’s not people under us, its feeling of comradeship. Many persons try to become leader which they aspire to be. Now let us know about one such great leader in 19th and 20th century without considering victory. Let’s focus on the mindset and way of thinking.
What is your feeling when you hear the name Adolf Hitler? Let me guess, your first thought would be the man who started the World War II. Yeah you’re damn correct. Now let’s see other side of he becoming leader because I don’t think German people are too dumb make a wrong person leader. He may be negative person but an effective leader.
Adolf Hitler may seem an evil and a terrifying man, but he was a man with a mission and vision. His passion, dependability and confidence made Germany a powerful nation.one of Hitler quality that made him a well-known leader is his dependability. He wanted to be most powerful person in Germany and also wanted to make Germany as the most powerful country in the world. In spite of being in prison for more than one year Hitler dint let his determination fade. After being released Hitler continued his movement indirectly, as he was prohibited to make any public summit. But after getting public support Hitler became chancellor of Germany and later the undisputed leader.
Hitler was very famous among his people. He used to be in them and treated them as a family. He played with their children and enjoyed with them. This lead to his popularity, his people were ready to die for him. Hitler was no doubt a man of caliber with excellent cleverness and management skills; still he lost due to his overconfidence. He attacked both England and Russia together without realizing environment condition of Russia which caused it’s lost to Russia and England both.
When looking at Hitler's behavior with the goal of analyzing his leadership style and leadership success, it is important to keep in mind that the focus of the article is to look at how well and in what manner he led. To say that he was a poor leader based on his actions or his extremely unethical goals would be a disservice to the analysis. He is the man who believed in his ideas and his thoughts. He believes his ideology is precise. In short he was self-centered men. He believed in hand to hand fight with little mind.
One other thing to look at in the style approach was Hitler's ability to manipulate people into thinking that he was their friend (or at least not a threat) in order to achieve his goals. Hitler's primary goal was to expand Germany and to take over a part of Eastern Russia. In light of this goal, Hitler made sub-goals that involved eliminating certain armies that would hinder in his goals. Knowing that Germany had just been defeated in WWI, Hitler used that as an excuse to build up his army and through manipulative discussion and empty promises of peace. he flattered the leaders and told stories about how much the war had scarred his country and how he wanted peace .Although Hitler seems to have had great communication skills, again, the only reason that he drove himself to talk to these people was because they were almost taking orders from Hitler to let him do as he pleased. This was done only to attain another step in accomplishing his goals and his lies showed total disregard for the countries that he spoke with because he ended up attacking them. All that Hitler cared about was his tasks. To say that Hitler was seen as controlling and overpowering is an understatement and this is an extreme case where I would say that this leader is an actual "one" where communicating with people interpersonally is concerned. To me, this shows the sociopath that was Adolf Hitler because he really did not care about anyone but himself.
This look at the style approach only really shows Hitler as a leader who simply used his positional power to push everyone around, possibly giving the impression that he wasn't much of a leader as much as he was a bully.
In my opinion, Adolf Hitler's style of leadership during the late 1930's and early to mid 1940's was the most efficient way to get the things done that he wanted to have done. During a time of war, there is little time to sit there and support people or take time to help someone out with something, you could get shot or lose important position while this is happening. I think that the most important part of Hitler's drive to win WWII was the fact that he very clearly, from the beginning told his prospective followers of his vision and how he planned on making this vision become a reality. This vision gave the subordinates motivation in a very dark time in Germany and by using the expectancy theory, he gave his troops the drive needed to attempt to carry out their goal. Of course Hitler's actions were absolutely evil, but he did use the situation to his advantage and to try to accomplish his goals, as terrible as some of them were. I think that driving his troops through nationalism was a great situational approach because the country was once so proud and at that time had nothing to be proud about.
Well till now we tried to know why he became leader and why people of Germany made him their dictator, now, let’s see what mistakes he committed which made him demonic.
The first was in not having sound moral judgment and allowing personal interests to dictate his governments’ actions, thereby misusing his supporters trust and, eventually destroying the lives of many of them.
The second was in not trusting his subordinate’s judgment in their own sections of expertise. This happened in many cases and an example would be during the war in north Africa where he did not allow his soldiers to retreat from the continent until it was far too late, for the reason of nothing more than his idea of national pride. This lead to the destruction by death or capture of nearly his entire army in Africa.
A third was in being overtly authoritarian, and not allowing any contrary views to be aired. It helped initially in implementing his policies but eventually it became dangerous to even talk about ideas contrary to the official party line. It consequently discouraged free thinking and honesty especially amongst his chief subordinates. This meant that the men who rose to power did so not based on ability or merit but on telling him things he wanted to hear.
By putting himself into a position of great power and fear, Hitler understood the situation that he was in and acted accordingly. If you think about this situation in a business sense, think about a boss who has made an example of firing a few people who would not perform as ordered to, and how the next person is going to feel when ordered to do something. Hitler struck fear into his army but at the same time maintained loyalty and motivation for the soldiers to arrive at Hitler's vision. For the boss of the business, if production was his only concern, it is very unlikely that employees would work harder for any reason other than to not be fired. The boss' goal or vision would not likely be a priority to the employee as it was to the Germans. In the case of the boss, however, I am not saying that the boss would not be successful as a leader, I am only trying to show Hitler's success in leadership because of his consciousness to the situation and his ability to exploit it most efficiently.
Hitler's situational analysis and leadership style based on the analysis and the situations that he created for himself make Hitler a great leader and a great man in the respect that he turned nothing into something huge. It is unfortunate that he used his abilities for evil rather than good, but his accomplishments as a leader must be regarded as great. This style of leadership would not be likely to succeed in a growing, innovative corporation today, but in the setting that Germany and Adolf Hitler found themselves in during the 1930's, the style proved to be very successful when referring to the definition of leadership that we have been concerned with this term.
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