Beowulf And The Teaching Of Leadership Essay

In this article “Beowulf and the Teaching of Leadership” by Tom Loughman and John
Finley , where they both attempt to teach the meaning of Leadership:
To Help reveal some of these insights,this study has three main purposes: (a) examine the character of Beowulf as a leader of his warrior band and nation; (b) explain the ways in which the hero Beowulf fits into the conger-Kanungo model of charismatic leadership; and,(c) explore how the epic poem dramatizes risk of an over reliance upon a charismatic leader.
(Tom and John 155) Leadership is the action of guiding people ,does Beowulf really qualify to be a leader? Does he put all of his pride aside to guide his men and his kingdom to safety from the “man-eating demon” Grendel. As stated in Conger …show more content…
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From my belief beowulf was to much of a leader through all of his defeats and thinking all of his men will stay by his side something called “ loyalty-the quality or state or an instance of being loyal” his men were far from loyal:
King Beowulf and his thanes ultimately breaks down when the dragon appears.
Although beowulf has treated them with respect,praise,and rewards-as a good king should-his retainers (except for his nephew Wiglaf) leave him high and dry to suffer his fate with the fire-breathing “wyrm”.(Conger and Kanungo 160) with beowulf being left basically to die the question now is who will take the place of a warrior who will step up and fill the empty shoes Beowulf left behind? Conger and Kanungo’s (1994) Charismatic
Leader Model “Potential Drawbacks of Charismatic Leaderships” “to bring this point into a present context,what is likely to happen with a company such as Apple when Steve Jobs finally decides to give up the reins”(Conger and Kanungo 160). If somebody can not bring that same type of power like the original brung the energy will never in life be the

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