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Great Leaders: The Secret That Freud Understood

What was Freud’s vital insight about groups and leaders?
Post published by Susan Heitler Ph.D. on Feb 04, 2015 in Resolution, Not Conflict

Freud mostly is known for his brilliant insights about subconscious motivations and the individual psyche. My favorite sentence from all of Freud’s writing about various kinds of problems (link is external), however, expresses his wisdom about leadership. Groups, Freud wrote, take on the personality of the leader.  Great leaders therefore need to be great people

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