What is it about?
Successful leaders eventually reach a dysfunction phase and become conservative selfserving oligarchic. Large organizations try to prevent this by either term limits or “Golden Parachutes” despite many drawbacks of both solutions; use of intangible rewards in the form of offering leaders possibility of multiple terms with each reelection requiring a higher majority in a proper constituency is proposed instead of both current solutions.
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Why is it important?
The current solutions cause vast recalcitrant problems by replacing leaders either too early, before they reached effectiveness phase, or too late, allowing long periods of oligarchic ineffectiveness after effectiveness phase. The proposed solution will reward leaders by plausible tenure prolongation, prestigious higher majority reelection as far as they are effective and trusted by followers, and plausible creative innovation due to long time horizon, while barring dysfunctional consevatism of oligarchic continuity.
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Leadership is a delicate combination of multiple factors which change throughout the leader’s tenure; over time, effective innovative leaders often become ineffective self-serving entrenched oligarchic conservatives whose prolonged continuity devastate polities and organizations. However, term limits are also dysfunctional, replacing leaders too early and let the dysfunctional rule of entrenched powers behind the throne, as for instance such leadership devastated the Israeli kibbutz movement experinced by me. Tying leaders' continuity to degree of followers' trust while requiring higher degree of trust for each more re-election can prevent the above drawbacks.
Dr Reuven Shapira
Western Galilee Academic College
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This page is a summary of: Leaders’ Timely Succession: Neither Term Limits nor “Golden Parachutes,” Rather Periodic Tests of Trust Ascendance, Journal of Applied Social Science, September 2019, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1936724419876301.
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