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	Great man theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Great man theory is a theory held by some that aims to explain history by the impact of "Great men", or heroes: highly influential individuals, either from personal charisma, genius intellects, or great political impact.
		History which only follows around "great men", especially when "greatness" is determined primarily by political status, is a shallow view of the past, and additionally one which excludes entire groups of people from being part of "history", including labor forces, ethnic minorities and cultural minorities.
		When the Great Man theory is applied to film, the history and evolution of film is explained exclusively with reference to notable directors, technicians, and media proprietors, neglecting the efforts of crews, assistants, outside constraints and social contexts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_man_theory (392 words)

	William James - Great Men and the Environment
		On that assumption I gladly allow that were the intelligence investigating the man's or the sparrow's death omniscient and omnipresent, able to take in the whole of time and space at a single glance, there would not be the slightest objection to the milky way or the fatal feast being invoked among the sought-for causes.
		Just so the great man, whether he be an important from without like Clive in India or Agassiz here, or whether he spring from the soil like Mahomet or Franklin, brings about a rearrangement, on a large or a small scale, of the pre-existing social relations.
		Then the origin of the great man is natural; and immediately this is recognized, he must be classed with all other phenomena in the society that gave him birth as a product of hits antecedents.
	www.des.emory.edu /mfp/jgreatmen.html (8094 words)

	Great Projects: The Building of America . Interviews \| PBS
		Now this is not to say that this is purely the great man theory of history but rather that it is one central component of all history of any type, but certainly in engineering it must be seen that way as well and Ammann is a wonderful example of that.
		And the very fact that his entrepreneurial side, particularly in the twenties when he was selling his bridge, that that was left out of all of the discussions later on about Ammann, that in the testimonials and in the ceremonies commemorating him and in the articles about him, none of this was ever mentioned.
		And so the very fact that talented people are chosen, people of great ability are chosen to carry out major tasks in the bridge, doesn't diminish the fact that there is a leader and the leader is the one that has the vision.
	www.pbs.org /greatprojects/interviews/billington_9.html (871 words)

	Heroes and Great Men
		For millennia people have sought a great man to deliver them from their miseries, as with those Jews who wanted to be rescued by another king like David - the Messiah.
		It is not a few great man who deserve glorification; it is that great body of common persons, in the laboratories, on the farms and in industry in general who are the real heroes.
		The Great Man Theory holds is about the impact that great individuals are supposed to have on the course of history.
	www.fsmitha.com /com/napoleon.htm (292 words)

	TRAITS
		Lucretia is advised by the friar to capture a young man in the street at night, have sex, and have him die from the fatal effects of the potion.
		As is Nietzsche and the Superman Theory of Leadership.
		Once again Leadership Theory is restricted to the WILL TO SERVE half of Figure One and there is no dialectic interplay, allowing the traits to emerge from the material condition or for people to be multi-trait.
	cbae.nmsu.edu /~dboje/teaching/338/traits.htm (7564 words)

	NCLL - Research - Library - Theory
		Social Influence Motivation Theory suggests that, "since the practice of management relies heavily in on social influence processes, social influence motivation as measured by power motivation, measure of desire for influence, or measures of prosocial influence motivation (often inappropriately labeled dominance), will be predictive of managerial success and leader effectiveness." (House & Aditya 1997, p.
		Situational Theory "holds that different types of leader behavior; for example, supportive, directive, or participative, are causal variables whose effect in terms of subordinate effort and satisfaction is moderated by the type of task to be performed and the capability level (e.g.
		Cognitive Resource Theory "is a person-by-situation interaction theory in which the person variables are leader intelligence and experience, and the situational variable is stress experienced by leaders and followers." (House & Aditya 1997, p.
	www.latinoleadership.org /research/library/theory.html (869 words)

	Great Man Theory
		Great leaders will arise when there is a great need.
		The idea of the Great Man also strayed into the mythic domain, with notions that in times of need, a Great Man would arise, almost by magic.
		Gender issues were not on the table when the 'Great Man' theory was proposed.
	changingminds.org /disciplines/leadership/theories/great_man_theory.htm (173 words)

	The CEO Refresher - Leadership & Management Theory Defined (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Description: Path-goal theory is based on the tenets of expectancy theory which suggests that subordinates will be motivated if they think they are capable of performing their work, if they believe their efforts will result in a certain outcomes, and if they believe that the payoffs for doing their work are worthwhile.
		As interest one of the oldest leadership theories, researchers have focused their attention on the leader's actions rather than their attributes, which led to the emergence of the behaviorist theories.
		This idea is known as the "Scientific Management Theory." This theory was dictated by a set of universal bureaucratic and scientific management principles to be applied in all situations.
	www.refresher.com /!mvetheory.html (2966 words)

	carnatic.com > Karmasaya : Full Text Search Results : Great
		A man who is a well-known criminal may succeed and become the president, the prime minister; or vice versa: he was not a criminal before, but when he becomes the president or prime minister of a country he becomes a criminal...
		The great Bhishma, the grandfather of the Pandavas, was fatally wounded during the war of the Mahabharata, waited on his deathbed of nails for the onset of this season before finally departing from the earth-plane.
		She knows that all she is missing is a man's strenuous work and responsibility, that her stri dharma is equally as great as a man's purusha dharma, even though they are quite different by nature.
	www.carnatic.com /karmasaya/index.php?full=Great (16547 words)

	Greatness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Greatness is a concept that is heavily dependent on a person's perspective and biases.
		In Europe the most lauded rulers were given the attribute "the Great" (e.g.
		An especially common assembly of great things are greatest hits collections of tracks that are often released by music groups.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greatness (162 words)

	Great Man Theory Analysis -- Julius Caesar - A True Great Man
		By following and exploring the political ideals and abilities of Caesar, as well as his military ability and prowess, this essay hopes to clearly demonstrate that he was indeed a great ‘event-making man’, possessed of exceptional ambition, incredible intelligence, remarkable cunning, and inordinate bravery.
		In order to properly evaluate Caesar as a ‘Great Man’, we must first establish the criteria by which he is to be judged, the criteria of the ‘Great Man’ Theory.
		According to Russell Hooks, author of an essay on the Great Man Theory, a ‘Great Man’ is an event-making man. A person who, through conscious will and extraordinary shows of leadership skills and intelligence, influences the flow of history.
	www.123helpme.com /preview.asp?id=68001 (1693 words)

	Mideast relocations - The Washington Times: Commentary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Great men of evil character spread evil, and great men of good character oppose them.
		Yasser Arafat is a man who has made a difference, and the difference has led to violence and carnage, anarchy and war.
		He is the great man of evil character and he has yet to run up against a great man of good character equal to the task of eliminating him.
	www.washtimes.com /commentary/20030918-073346-4340r.htm (608 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Britain's Uncompromisingly Great Man
		"In his great wartime speeches of 1940-45, Churchill was to proclaim time and again his belief that his country was superior -- by reason of its championship of democracy, personal liberty, and the rule of law -- to the totalitarian regimes it opposed.
		Churchill refused to accept either, and his great speeches -- in which over and over again he invoked the history and heritage of his country -- persuaded the rest of his country to follow him.
		Among historians these days, at least on this side of the ocean, the "great-man theory" of history is out of fashion, but in this instance Keegan and Lukacs leave no doubt that it was because this one man rose to the challenge that freedom not merely survived but prevailed.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A3833-2002Oct9?language=printer (1034 words)

	EconLog, Tolstoy and the Great Man Theory, Bryan Caplan: Library of Economics and Liberty
		The really interesting question, which game theory has only begun to address, is how society turns a short Corsican into a Great Man. Personal ability and a charismatic personality are clearly part of the story.
		You know as an economists you should think the great man plays the same role in history as the entrepreneur does in economics.
		I am not a fan of the great man theory of history, but I’ll give some credence to what I’m going to call abominable person theory, as explained wonderfully at Mahalanobis: [I]nfluential mistakes create something neither anticipated nor in......
	econlog.econlib.org /archives/2005/08/tolstoy_and_the.html (948 words)

	Whiskey Bar: Great Man Theory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		This was a man with an eight-track mind, and when it suited him to seem stupid or silly, he would do so with abandon, as at a press conference, where he regularly confused people with doublespeak whenever he felt it necessary.
		Her great moment was during the Nika revolt, when the two factions of the chariot teams (the Blues and the Greens) were united in a riot that was happening in the Hippodrome (right next to the palace).
		He was a swine of a man and a jabbering dupe of a president.
	billmon.org /archives/001512.html (11030 words)

	The Glittering Eye » Blog Archive » The “Great Man” theory of history
		The great man theory of history is most closely associated with the British philosopher and historian, Thomas Carlyle.
		A purist in the “great man” theory would interpret American history solely in the lives of giants like Washington and Lincoln, the history of the migration of peoples solely in the lives of figures like Attila and Temujin, and 20
		My own view can, perhaps, best be described in a metaphor: the road of history may be paved with the biographies of great individuals but its path was laid by diverse hands and shaped by forces like human nature, economics, geography, and climate.
	theglitteringeye.com /?p=2136 (1120 words)

	Functional Theory of Group Decision Making
		In order for the decision to be an effective one, the people making the group decision must first overcome the task and social problems of the objective properties from the task, and the structural properties of the group.
		Hirokawa is presently researching the functional theory more in depth by testing the functional perspective, and is specifically looking into health care teams and how they perform.
		When he is not working with the functional theory of group decision making, he enjoys reading, and has many hobbies like fishing, tennis, golf and softball.
	www.colostate.edu /Depts/Speech/rccs/theory59.htm (732 words)

	Gene Expression: Machiavelli & the Great Men
		Both the Manchus and the Timurids, who were the ancestors of the Moghuls, consciously intermarried with the descendents of Genghis Khan to bolster their pretensions toward imperium (though this would have involved the marriage of non-Genghiside males with Genghiside females, so this would not be part of the spread of the haplotype in question).
		Clearly, the circumstances of geography and social environment are important variables that determine the likelihood that a Great Man will express world changing capacities and be the focal point for social & political changes of historical import.
		But, seeing as how the steppe peoples of Central Asia tended to produce Great Men regularly between 400 CE and 1700 CE, one might look to these people to see if their psychological profiles tend to be characterized by a different distribution than the more settled peoples of the Eurasian periphery.
	www.gnxp.com /MT2/archives/002792.html (546 words)

	Mike Linksvayer » Abominable person theory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		I am not a fan of the great man theory of history, but I’ll give some credence to what I’m going to call abominable person theory, as explained wonderfully at Mahalanobis:
		Thus good ideas are not so dependent on “great men” because there are lots of smart people and they eventually find the truth (witness the simultaneous discovery of things like evolution by Wallace and Darwin, calculus by Newton and Leibniz, or marginal analysis in economics by Menger, Jevons, and Walras).
		So for an individual to have great impact, it is probably in some wrong-headed idea about something not obviously falsifiable.
	gondwanaland.com /mlog/2005/09/01/abominable-person-theory (406 words)

	Logic Research, Department of Mathematics, Univ. of Manchester, UK
		A particular attraction of this area is the interaction of ideas from various parts of mathematics, namely algebra, logic (in the form of model theory) and (abelian) category theory.
		Attached to the Ziegler spectrum is a localisation theory and corresponding sheaf theory, which may be regarded as a kind of non-commutative geometry attached to any category of modules (and to more general categories, arising from algebra, geometry and topology, which share some properties with categories of modules).
		There is a possibility that there will be applications back to the model theory of other (than modules) types of structure, perhaps to model-theoretic stability theory, but that is rather speculative and would lie some way ahead.
	www.ma.man.ac.uk /DeptWeb/Groups/Logic/ModelTheory.html (620 words)

	Asia Times: NIPPON: Forget the Great Man theory
		The Great Man theory of history doesn't apply in Japan.
		I can't remember who replaced Masayoshi Ohira when he died suddenly of a heart attack in 1980 - although I covered the story breathlessly as a Tokyo-based correspondent.
		In what historians may see as the supreme irony of his term in office, he was getting good grades just last weekend for an unusually quick and helpful response to a Hokkaido volcanic eruption - and then his temporary successor took a full day to let the nation know that Obuchi was comatose.
	www.atimes.com /japan-econ/BD05Dh01.html (450 words)

	The Demolished Man \| The A.V. Club
		Although these classic novels are some 40 years old, Alfred Bester's first two novels uphold this timeless principle and deliver a couple of great reads to boot.
		The Stars My Destination deals with hatred, revenge and the Great Man theory of history; it's considered one of the greatest science fiction novels ever written.
		Scientific fact and science-fiction fashion might have left these books behind, but few contemporary offerings in the genre are written with their thoughtfulness and craft.
	www.avclub.com /content/node/19088/print (139 words)

	Reason Magazine - Great Americans and the Smithsonian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		D.C. businesswoman and philanthropist Catherine B. Reynold's wallet flapped shut this week, after curators at the Smithsonian Institution wailed and moaned at her offer to give $38 million to create a new exhibit.
		One might guess that the museum's curators were horrified that the reviled Great Man theory of history, one they've spent years moving into storage, was about to reassert itself as the Great Corporate Busybody theory.
		The U.S. is overrun with museums, and the really exciting ones are often the ones that don't presume to have figured out, on behalf of 286 million Americans, which people or objects deserve space on the great pedestal defining American life.
	www.reason.com /news/show/33382.html (363 words)

	Theory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Leaderless Resistance: Wonder Weapon of the Antis Fred Wallace examines the favorite ill-tempered, dull-witted theory of the reactionaries.
		Creationism A great majority of the anti-abortion protesters, both Catholic and Protestant, are opposed to Darwin's theory of the evolution of the species.
		man's root sin is humanism - the desire to be his own god." The Reconstructionists find a recent development to be especially menacing: environmental humanism.
	my.execpc.com /~awallace/theory.htm (1882 words)

	Rising Hegemon: The "Great Man (or Woman) Theory"
		There is no doubt that much of the "greatness" of individuals is a combination of depth of crisis and success in meeting it, with a liberal portion of fawning propoganda added to the mix.
		But a review of American History does reveal that in our history great crisis have produced great individuals, and we have been fortunate in their being chosen by and large, though not always.
		I may have seen a "great historical" moment in September 11, 2001, but it takes petty and small people to turn huge moments in history into what we have today.
	rising-hegemon.blogspot.com /2005/07/great-man-or-woman-theory.html (547 words)

	A great voyage propelled and sunk by its leader \| csmonitor.com
		It was 19th-century Scottish historian Thomas Carlyle who put forward the theory that history is shaped by the acts of Great Men.
		US Navy Lt. Charles Wilkes perhaps belongs to a more exclusive group of characters, fictional and historical, who embody the Flawed Great Man Theory, which provides that people who accomplish amazing things often do so despite horrendous shortcomings.
		None of the grievances of his officers held up in court, and his only guilt was found to be in the excessive flogging of his sailors and marines.
	www.csmonitor.com /2003/1028/p15s02-bogn.htm (734 words)

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