Article Review of

Crucibles of Leadership – By Warren G. Bennis and Robert J. Thomas, a Harvard

Business Review Paper

Submission by:
Bobde Neha
2020PGP101
 Article summary
The article begins by addressing the ideas that make a leader, how individuals can find
value in traumatic events and benefit from even the most challenging circumstances. The
author illustrates how Sidney Harman, co-founder of Harmon International and President of
Friends World College, managed a crisis in the Bolivar factory to further describe this. This
leads to the disclosure that there is technology to serve the men, not the opposite when a
worker failed to meet a delay of 10 minutes. He began to incorporate his Business college
apps.

Learning From Difference 

Because the traumatic experience of the victim unleashes rage, and some even withdraw, the
most common form of crucibles includes experiencing prejudices. The experience can be the
worst, but it will certainly result from it. Assist the person with a better understanding of
dissonance to emerge. The article talks about Liz Atman, now Motorola's vice president, who
spent a year in rural Japan at Sony's camcorder trying to crack the ice with the foreign
country and recognise the various regional operations. The article provides vivid instances of
how people became victims of social pressures and how they resisted.

Prevailing over darkness

Some crucibles, as defined by the article, lead to suppressed soul areas, are some of the
toughest crucibles involving either abuse or disease, and to understand this, the report offers
an example of Sidney Rittenberg taking crucible in communist China in the form of 16 long
years of unjust confinement. What emerged was a good businessman and they could not split
him with a professional life. He is committed to the idea; if not, it has also strengthened this
philosophy.

Meeting Great Expectations

The other portion of the paper addresses how not all encounters with crucibles contribute to
trauma. It is noted that they may have a positive, if not difficult, experience. Have a mentor
who, at many levels, will push your boundaries, influence you. This makes a person a
powerful tool for the profound culture around him.

The Essentials Of Leadership 

It goes on to describe the post. It is a blend of strength and abilities. To understand the
context that enables a person, above all, not only to survive an ordeal, but to learn from it and
to become more assertive, more determined and more committed than ever before. Instead of
being killed by them, these qualities allow leaders to evolve from their crucibles to find an
opportunity where others can only see despair.

Critical Review 

What makes a great leader is discussed in this article. Why do some people seem to naturally
know how to inspire staff—bringing out their trust, commitment, and dedication—while
others fail over and over again? The formula might clarify how great leaders come to be,
according to the report, but Bennis and Thomas think it has more to do with the ways people
manage adversity. Bennis and Thomas call these "crucibles." of forming interactions. They
were made stronger and more optimistic by these encounters and changed their sense of
purpose in some fundamental way. The authors explore the concept of the crucible in depth
through a number of examples. They also demonstrate that great leaders have four important
abilities, the most crucial of which is "adaptive capacity" and an almost supernatural capacity
to overcome adversity and emerge stronger than ever.

The papers put a meaning on the word crucibles, and it informs us that crucibles need to be
hopeful that they can also be dangerous. Despite being positive or negative, the effects of
crucibles have helped leaders accomplish the common good. The article has presented
several examples where individuals have benefited from their struggles instead of
succumbing to these instances.

The article, on the other hand, does not comment on how one can understand that a crucible
is positive in building a company or just a combination of instances and choices that the
person is able to do that has made him successful.

This post, on a final note, offered insight into how crucibles help create a leader and what
separates them from others.