Mooc Final Leadership Crisis

Lorena Reyes-Retana Bremer
A01190485
Project Critical Reflection: Leadership Crisis

Donald Trump is elected
What happened?
Donald Trump taking over the White House and all the implications since. Donald Trump, the
actual President of the United States, is in the news everyday because of leadership decisions.
Including having his leadership style as a center of attention, no wrong-answer guy. Also
choosing his staff based on loyalty and not on knowledge. He is making promises that are almost
impossible to keep. Appealing to the hate and racism in the Country (creating even more
division than before).
What were the results?
Negative
 There has been a mixed result in the advancement of the new policies.
• There is a clear abuse of power.
• Continuation of lies and misinformed facts.
• There has been disengagement on company moral because of the staff turnover in the White
House.
• There is a lack of a strong well-maintained team in the White House.
• Hate and division continue to be the talk in the country.
(Statistically significant surge on hate crimes. The counties that voted for President
Trump by the widest margins experienced the largest increases in reported hate
crimes).
Positive
• There is a shift starting to happen where there is a bigger involvement of the people in
government/political activities (bigger voter turnout, more people speaking their voices,
more education on current facts, millennial political involvement). According to The
Business Insider, specifically the 2018-midterm elections broke the early voting records
for non-presidential elections (45%-50% only in early voting in comparison to total
voting of 60% in 2016, as well as the fundraising for congressional elections, the number
of candidates running, the number of female candidates running, 63% in senate races).
Why did this happen?
• There was discontent in the previous political party.

• There has been an abuse of power (corruption) and a need for a change.
• There was a charismatic and entertainment factor to Donald Trump.
• Extroverted personality and the self-assured attractiveness of Donald Trump.
What class concepts are relevant to this situation?
• The characteristics of a leader are very important in this case: it is mentioned that a leader
has to be attractive to those who he is leading (Donald Trump’s extroverted,
entertaining and self-assured personality was a key factor in him winning the election)
• Power: power has become one of the most relevant themes in Donald Trump’s presidency.
The abuse in power leading to corruption, lying and bad policy control.
• Values: which are not necessarily related to morals. And how they predict ethical
behavior. Donald Trump is clearly in the Self-Enhancement (Power and Achievement)
and he is lacking Self-Transcendence (Universalism, Benevolence), that which are
important in a leader of a country.
• Weak Moral Identity: where he is more likely to use power in his own self-interest.
• When Justice is low, political skill predicts performance.
• The relationship between power and politics: how coercion, rewards and composition are
constantly in play in this case.
What did I learn from this?
There is a clear relationship between leadership and politics. There is also a huge
connection between power and politics. I found it very interesting to have an example of
leadership (Donald Trump) in which all the concepts of the course could be interrelated,
showing me that this terms and facts are not only theory but that they are happening everyday
and can be applied in our lives.
Furthermore, I learned that a leader doesn’t necessarily have to be the nicest or most
intelligent, but one that resonates with the majority of the people he’s leading. Likewise, that
being chosen a leader doesn’t automatically mean that you are a good one. And lastly that
leadership style necessities change according to the environment, and the type of leadership
that may work at one time may be ineffective at another.
REFERENCES
https://www.businessinsider.com/2018-midterm-election-records-early-voting-women-lgbt-
candidates-2018-11#military-or-intelligence-veteran-candidates-6
Rushin, Stephen and Edwards, Griffin Sims, The Effect of President Trump's Election on Hate
Crimes (January 14, 2018). Available at
SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3102652 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3102652

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Lorena Reyes-Retana Bremer

Project Critical Reflection: Leadership Crisis

What were the results?

Why did this happen?

• There was discontent in the previous political party.

What class concepts are relevant to this situation?

What did I learn from this?

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