Dead Poets Society Leadership

For The Good of The People
Andrew DuBrin describes socialized charismatic leadership as a leader who restrains the use of power in order to benefit others. He also recognizes that there is another type of leader known as the personalized charismatic. Personalized leaders are those who use their abilities for their own personal gain. In the Dead Poets Society we see many different kinds of leadership. We see Transformational leadership as well, which is a focus of what that leadership accomplishes. Every leader has a goal, every leader has a vision and it's what they do with these goals and visions that determine what kind of leader they are.
When we think of socialized charismatic leadership the first person that comes to mind from the film
Charismatic leaders have a vision, but transformational leaders have a goal, and Professor Keating definitely had many goals. He had goals of changing the way the boys thought, were taught, and perhaps the way that they looked at themselves. Once could say that without John Keating's leadership, Neil never would've gone through with the play which was such a personal success for him. John Keating knew that he had the ability to make a profound difference in these boys. He did not use these powers to teach discipline, or honor or anything that they had already been taught in the past. He used these powers to teach them that in life, you have to make your own decisions, use your own judgment, and use you own passion in order to have a meaningful life. These boys have been trained all of their lives to be like studying robots and it takes true charisma and a good leader to undo these thoughts of belonging. Not all of the leaders in this movie were the elders, however. It doesn't take someone in a higher position to have an impact on your life. The boys, themselves, in this film show tremendous amounts of transformational as well as charismatic leadership through their time together. While some attempts at leadership fail, such as Nuwanda's article, it still showed charisma and made a large transformation in the attitude of everyone at the school. We see a leader in Neil all throughout the movie, pushing to experiment with the dead poets society and to not be lead by those above