Why Leadership is so Hard

This structure is about making progress CG23. So the emphasis here is on the production of change-PH3—something that is intrinsically difficult.

Producing change first requires a model of the current situation that also helps to represent the new situation following progress. THEE contains a typology of approaches to modeling social situations i.e. representing reality-PH'3. These correspond to a set of 7 identity types that appear to correspond to distinctive styles of leadership.These styles are, as usual, distinctive and fundamentally incompatible.

For effective control of the group and member activities, the leader should have a mastery of the situation and be able to handle people well. This style currently has the THEE-name: natural-PH'3L1.

Not everyone in a leadership position is a natural leader; and those who are natural leaders may go unrecognized and neglected, or even get humiliated and crushed by arrogant dominating superiors.

The 6 other methods of leadership in PH'3 will work more or less well or perhaps not at all—depending on cultural factors, the nature of the situation and the change required.


Originally posted: 20-Oct-2011