When Donald TrumpChoice won, caused sheer horror through the media and Internet. But aren't we ourselves to blame for this development because we still worship an old-fashioned understanding of leadership?

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Trump: Negative Role Model for the Management of the Future?

No doubt, the election of Donald Trump appalled many - but was it really that surprising? Now begins the research of causes - and it takes in some place simply too short.

The understanding of the causes in the election success of the entrepreneur Trump is also essential for the understanding of leadership, which in many Companys reigns. To put it bluntly: that's what entrepreneur Trump is negative Role model for the management of the Future?

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Old white men had trumped Trump into office, wrote about Robert Basic on Facebook, i.e. those who, like Trump, have a rather conservative world view and Anxiety in change. Basic himself, at 50, is no longer whole jung, however, as one of the digital pioneers in his contribution, sees himself forced to clear differentiated from this group.

Oscar winner Micheal Moore is a little clearer: In his contribution 5 Reasons Why Trump Will Win he predicted an election victory for Trump back in July. He cited Trump as “The Last Stand of the Angry White Man” or the fear of losing power to one as reasons Ms. as well as the missing Trust in Hillary Clinton, to which the eMailaffair as well as the recent WikiLeaks revelations for sure still contributed a lot.

Rust Belt Brexit: The Rage of the Suspended

And above all, of course, the phenomenon that Moore described as Rust Belt Brexit: Trump succeeded in gaining democratically dominated states like Pennsylvania before, using the fears of the working class against globalization and mass unemployment with (false) promises.

Fear, anger and frustration of those who have been suspended - these are precisely the patterns of explanation that are now permeating the analyzes in the (German) media, always with a view to the general elections in Germany in the coming year and always with the undertone, but the situation to improve and engage in dialogue with those frustrated and depraved, thus convincing them of their good, true and important values.

Filterblase or the stupid trump selectors

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But it is not that easy. This is often quoted in connection with the US election Dunning-Kruger effect, is indeed a cognitive distortion in which relatively incompetent People have a tendency to overestimate themselves. Emphasis Honestly: Who doesn't overestimate themselves from time to time? And who likes to be told they're stupid and incompetent? Even.

So, if in the media and in my timeline the horror outweighs the stupid, stupid Trump voters, this not only reveals a gigantic filter bubble, which suggests the majority thinks like you, but it always swings a bit of arrogance and arrogance with wanting to teach these people.

Arguing in post-factual society

Or like brain researcher Gerald Hüther recently in one Talk of Deutschlandfunk on the subject Arguing in post-factual society meaningfully said: With the raised index finger one reaches nothing, changes of the attitudes arise only if the experience values ​​change. Not for nothing Günther Dueck asks something provocatively in his blog: What checks one with 30 IQ points less?

Should one leave it to persuade other people at all? And in an emergency, simply search for space yourself? Why it is even necessary to reach dissenters writes attorney Nina Diercks on Facebook:

How do you reach the others? How do you explain complex facts and at the same time understandably that the simple solution that is offered for this is generally not at all? [...] Democracy, the guarantor of security and peace, lives from the conflict. It lives on compromise. But also acceptance. Perhaps it is simply what needs to be conveyed more in all directions: democracy and thus freedom always consist of compromises, of conveying opposite positions.

4 Obstacles in dialogue with others

In the attempt to convince other people or to move to a more differentiated thinking, one also encounters several closely interwoven problem areas.

  1. Some people just do not want to listen / discuss: For example, because they do not understand the long-term benefits of such a discussion. Because they basically do not like to discuss. Because you do not even understand the other's discussion approach (see 2) or want to understand it (see 3).
  2. Missing education: The problems are closely interwoven with our education system. For it is still strongly oriented on the industrial age and divides people into different classes at an early stage, which should fit as seamlessly as possible into the predefined economic system. Creative, entrepreneurial thinking as well as digital craftsmanship, as is now being demanded in the course of digitization, is not taught and therefore overwhelmed many, especially in the older generation.
  3. Narcissism: Some people have mature psychological problems behind their behavior. For example, narcissists have an early acquired inferiority complex, which they compensate for with an exaggerated self. As a result, they are difficult to deal with criticism, so block it immediately, but try to get rid of their personal frustration by exercising power over others. Trump himself is the best example of this, but it can also take far more absurd traits, for example if you act in a kind of defiant class pride against the "up there" or the "evil digitization" instead of looking at society as a community, by and in which you live yourself. There are not a few cases for this, some of which are based on 2nd.
  4. Understanding of leadership: After all, an old-fashioned concept of leadership and (often associated with it) masculinity still prevails in our society. Steve Jobs, not only a total interpersonal asshole according to his biographers, is also admired by reasonable people as a brilliant entrepreneur. Just recently, together with my highly esteemed colleagues, I led to the unanimous opinion that a manager has to take decisions, cases and responsibility. The fact that in the course of a digital and global world that is sure to become increasingly networked is often overlooked that individuals are no longer able to overlook complex problems and make appropriate decisions. In fact, team-oriented, networked management structures are much more contemporary because they are more innovative, as Gunter Dueck once explained at Zukunft Personal. Trump has certainly also won because he embodied the strong man to solve the problems in the course of the authoritarian management perspective. His openly displayed sexism certainly did him more good than harm, because it also corresponded to the apparently strong, powerful, sexually dominant image of men - and thus apparently had a terrifying effect on women.

Complexity creates fear

The basic Problem is therefore: With globalization and digitization we are in the midst of a fundamental social change that many simply cannot cope with and which scares too many in its complexity. That's why we then like to resort to the usual patterns of behavior that have been practiced for decades and taken over from earlier role models, and often simply too Solutions .

In other words, with all the desire, now the Trump or potential AfD voters to want to retune, should not be forgotten that often enough can lead to the exact opposite, see above. And that the problem will not be as easy to solve as one would like, probably not to 2017. That in the end it will not always be about good, mutual understanding, but simply about which group has the power of interpretation.

Conclusion

So what can you do? Can you do anything at all? Or one can only hope that people like Robert Basic are right, the one on Facebook summarized optimistically:

In all my conversations with the younger ones, the bottom line is that I always find that their attitude makes me feel positive. No matter where they come from, what they believe in, whether Jews, Christians, Muslims, Buddhists. Completely independent of where you live. It promises a more open, more permeable and even more global Welt to become someone who understands each other better. Which will further pave the way for national thinking to belong on the “trash heaps of tribal peoples”. They - the young - will teach us that fears of other cultures, other sexualities and the aspiring woman - if I may call it that - are nothing more than traditional brackets for misidentified groups of citizens, the demagogues and the powerful always serving their own interests could take advantage of.


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