Friday, February 24, 2012

Hitler's Leadership Style

Adolf Hitler, regardless of his wrong doings and the obvious evil that he empowered, was one of the great leaders of our time and changed the way that our society looked at war. The fact that Hitler came from a front-line soldier with no real future in a leadership role to the chancellor of Germany and the commander of a great army shows his great will and ability to meet his goals and to manipulate people to achieve a vision. The article is about Hitler's leadership styles by Dr Geoffrey Megargee reveals some of Hitler's styles as a military commander.

First of all, Adolf Hitler was a man that emphasized precision and detail in every aspect. Whenever his staffs presented him information on the status of their missions, every point had to be precise and consistent with previous presentations.The reason is Hitler had a strong memory and can remember all the information given. He will become very angry when he detected some clashed in formations. I think this style can be quite helpful because every leader should have this kind of style in order to become a good leader.


Then, Hitler was also stubborn and another one of his style is distrusted his generals. He did this not because he did not respect them but in part for good reason. Hitler was trying to overcome a certain amount of timidity and to create some working cooperation among his senior officers. As a result of his action, Hitler's decisions early in the war were sometimes as good as or better than his generals. This is one more great style showed by Hitler because he was brave and confident enough to make a decision by distrusted his generals. I totally respect the attitude because I think as part of a team, we should not always follow the others decisions although we know it is wrong. If we have better ideas, just express it. I am sure the others are willingly to consider and accept your suggestion if it is good enough to impress them.

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Other than that, Adolf Hitler sometimes reliance on his instinct whenever he wanted to make a decision. Hitler tended to reject any information or suggestion given that did not fit his preconceptions. As the result, he were lacking many of the qualities needed to control military affairs with consistent success. In my opinion, this is not a good example of leadership style because one does not simply use his own instinct in making big decision.




In any war, strategy plays an important role to determine the result. In Hitler case, the article stated that Hitler did not planned his strategy well enough and it was the main reason that led inevitably to Germany's eventual defeat. Besides that, Hitler was a type of man that was too confident with himself. He always assumed an easy victory and had no back-up plan when success eluded him. Hitler always went to war with the belief that his armies would win the war simply by winning battles and they would win because of their racial and ideological superiority. However that all was a big mistake and in the end it was the nation that exhausted itself. In my opinion, whatever we are doing, it all need good planned strategy in order for it to success. If you fail to plan, then that is useless to try because you already failed before you start.

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