Myths around leadership talent travel faster than papers. Each item pairs a folklore line with a tighter claim.
Worldwide notes name real systems — 영재교육, 예고, 部活, CTY, AIS, Iten — as places and policies, not racial essences.
Myths
- Leaders are born with a glow — Weber’s charisma is a relation Situations grant and withdraw it.
- Extraversion is the talent — A modest correlate Merkel-type files exist.
- A prefect badge identifies the gift — It identifies who was picked Access and compliance.
- Great men make history alone — Carlyle’s genre Followers and structures vanish in that telling.
- Women lead by nature differently — Essentialism Access and stereotype first.
- Business-book traits travel everywhere — Domain knowledge and legitimacy matter Transfer is partial.
Worldwide
- South Africa — Mandela and a negotiated state — Leadership as coalition under a world audience.
- Singapore — Lee’s long office — A development-state file taught with its costs.
- Liberia — Sirleaf’s reconstruction — A West African postwar presidency in the syllabus.
- Germany — Merkel’s coalition years — Federal, low-glow leadership as a type.
- United States — Business-school trait industry — Where the glow books are printed.
- New Zealand — Ardern-era crisis talk — A small-state communication file.
Leadership talent: drop the folklore that ranks groups. Keep the systems that can be named and improved.