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Does the charismatic Leadership theory represent a significant development in the field? Taking a look at the writings concerning leadership, it can be seen that this topic has been a long living interest for men. Plato wrote about leadership in his work "The Republic" in 400 BC, Sun Tzu tackled the topic of strategy and leadership in "The Art of War" around 350 BC and Machiavelli discussed this topic in the 16th century. Although it took some time until the first scientific approach was formulated in the 1930's by the trait approach, which was followed by behavioural approach in the late 1940's. After that came the contingency approach and since the early 1980s the transformational approach attempted to explain leadership, which includes the idea of charismatic leadership. The trait approach postulates that the leaders are outstanding through their specific personality traits, cognitive abilities, interpersonal styles and other ability factors that distinguish them. This...

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