ABSTRACT
The symbolic leadership concept assumes that reality, created and lived by employees in companies is a social construction, with leadership being a part of this reality. 1
Albert Einstein once stated: ‘Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses … in other words, “Perception is Reality”.’ 2
Barack Obama was at one time the symbol of hope to the post-baby boomers. The President, however, has lost this position of symbolic leadership, perhaps irretrievably, due to a worsening economy and an incoherent foreign policy. 3
Madame President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance. 4
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