A new leader style…

Yes, is it time for a radically new leader style? But are we going to get one, and not only trials in that direction in USA?

There has been a LOT of talk in the media about the election of a new president in USA, and here is something you could read in a local newspaper here yesterday about Barack Obama and his leader style:

“According to co workers Obama is known for his calmness and has therefore been called No Drama Obama. The coming president is expected to bring a leader style characterized by discussions and deliberation (betänksamhet) about. It’s a large contrast to Bush who is known for going on gut feeling.”

In the posting “Brave New World” the blog Do nothing day also wrote about leaders. That politicians with honest intentions (genuinely honest), i.e. those who aren’t out for the power in itself and for their own purposes of whatever kind, strive for agreement, to bring about cooperation, not to polarize or divide and rule. Something Obama seems to be more interested in than the leaving president. Obama seems to want to unite rather than to split.

But do we need saviors? And if so why? Is this a healthy sign that we have such needs?

I came to reflect over things yesterday in another blogposting "Capitalism and lack of freedom..." about a review of for instance a book by the professor in sociology Richard Sennett, and wonder if the reason to why more men are conservative and neoliberal is that more men (than women) are served by “the order of things” at least in short-term, an order we have had for thousand of years more or less. They don’t want to change this order, and definitely not as radical as would be needed? They would rather want to set the clock back many of them? Push the responsibility on someone else; their fathers and mothers in symbolic forms? Even if one asserts something else and does this with great emphasis. The greater the emphasis the more you have to convince yourself? But men looses on this, because they loose themselves in this deal!?

And “the market” is something many people in power positions want to push the responsibility on?? Very practical.

Because many don’t want to take responsibility for anything and not for themselves either? On the other hand they want to have power and rule the roost (vara herrar på täppan)?

Yes, it is as the psycho historian Bob Scharf writes in his essay "Leaders," the more defended tend to lead. And this is about leadership on all levels, from the micro to the macro level. From the family to being president for the United States of America???

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
-Martin Luther King Jr.