All posts tagged: Leadership

Why We Crave Strong Leaders in Crisis — And Why That Might Be a Problem

Published by Trotzendorff

1. The Pat­tern: Cri­sis Hits, and We Look Up Take a moment and think back to the last time you felt tru­ly uncer­tain — maybe dur­ing a glob­al pan­dem­ic, a major reor­ga­ni­za­tion at work, or a per­son­al cri­sis. Chances are, you found your­self grav­i­tat­ing toward some­one who seemed to have all the answers. A boss. A polit­i­cal fig­ure. A loud voice in a crowd­ed room.

The «Real Men» Dilemma: Why Leaders Struggle to Say «I Don’t Know»

Published by Trotzendorff

Lead­er­ship has long been entwined with tra­di­tion­al mas­cu­line norms. The ide­al leader is often seen as deci­sive, strong, in con­trol, and emo­tion­al­ly sto­ic – traits stereo­typ­i­cal­ly cod­ed as male. In fact, clas­sic research found peo­ple implic­it­ly asso­ciate lead­er­ship with being male («think man­ag­er, think male»). Many orga­ni­za­tions still oper­ate like a «mas­culin­i­ty con­test» cul­ture. Some core unwrit­ten rules of this old-school mas­cu­line code include: