Las raíces del liderazgo

Few concepts have received such widespread attention over the last two decades as that of leadership. This article takes a phenomenological approach to leadership. First, we shall look at the myths that obscure reality, and then at the characteristics of people who have followers (because leadership becomes a solitary exercise if it has no impact on other people). Second, we shall illustrate these traits through the story of the Persian king Cyrus, as depicted by Xenophon in his Cyropedia, a work which the world’s foremost management scholar, Peter Drucker, describes as the first systemic book on leadership.