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05-18-2008, 01:20 PM
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Do you think people with alpha male or female personalities (otherwise leaders; confident, collected, and sometimes imposing) are born or made? Is it possible for an omega, a person who is shy, quiet, and unassertive/apologetic to become an alpha?
Discuss.
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05-18-2008, 01:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Kansas City | | | It's part nurture, part nature. Some people are genetically predisposed to jump into the leadership role with very little nurturing, some people take a lot of nurturing before they become leaders. |
05-18-2008, 01:39 PM
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05-18-2008, 01:46 PM
|  | I'm a tumbler, born under punches | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Northern California | | You are asking two different questions. Personality is one thing, leadership ability is another. Not every great leader leads in the same fashion. Some people who never thought of themselves as leaders make the best ones. Some lead by example and so on.
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Originally Posted by Vince S. Do you think people with alpha male or female personalities (otherwise leaders; confident, collected, and sometimes imposing) are born or made? Is it possible for an omega, a person who is shy, quiet, and unassertive/apologetic to become an alpha?
Discuss. | |
05-18-2008, 01:54 PM
| | | | There are personality variables correleated with particular leadership styles. For example, transformational leaders have been found to score highly on measurements of extraversion as definied by the Big Five Trait Theory. Again, these are correlations and do not imply causality. It would be difficult to say that a person who scores highly on agreeableness will be destined to become authoritative leadership or being male causes one to take on a more transactional leadership style.
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05-18-2008, 01:59 PM
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05-18-2008, 10:57 PM
|  | Online | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Sunapee, New Hampshire | | | To me, you can tell the people who are natural leaders, and those who have been taught to lead. Those who are taught are much easier to crack and will break down way faster than those who it comes naturally for.
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05-18-2008, 11:05 PM
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05-18-2008, 11:15 PM
| | | | I say it's more nurture than nature. They did a research that showed that the first born son in a family usually has higher leadership qualities than any of his siblings. And the research went on to say that if that son died, the second born takes up those qualities. It was very interesting, I'm going to go look for that link. |
05-19-2008, 12:15 AM
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05-19-2008, 01:06 AM
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05-19-2008, 01:57 AM
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Originally Posted by Vince S. Is it possible for an omega, a person who is shy, quiet, and unassertive/apologetic to become an alpha?
Discuss. | Yes. It has to do with the dynamics of the group they are in though. As the composition of the group changes, the 'leadership' role also changes. I took a small group dynamics course, and on occasion I ended up being the leader of the group while I am normally shy and introverted. It also depended on the situation that the group was in, so as the needs of the group shifted the leader also changed.
I would say a leader is made based on their natural leadership abilities.
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05-19-2008, 05:34 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Houston, TX | | | Well there are some who would be born to be an alpha and will hop right into that role. Then their are those who aren't but due to whatever is happening around them they could become an alpha
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