Bynoe's basic point of citizen and charismatic leaders is that they need to embody the needs of their communities. Each leader needs to know what it is that they are representing; such as the issues they plan on addressing and how they are to fix them. In the article the line she uses in the section on citizen leaders, "have to read newspapers, magazines, and legal documents, as well as other publications related to their issues" (Bynoe, 13). I think this goes for both leaders though because each will have to know what they are talking about, unless they are really good as making up stuff.
The pros of a charismatic leader is mainly they know how to get a crowds attention. They know how to get a crowd stirred up and ready for action. As Bynoe puts it, "three key elements of a charismatic leader: envisioning, energizing, and enabling" (Bynoe, 10). So a charismatic leader knows pretty much how to be a crowd pleasure, almost like a smooth talker they know all the right things to say to keep you interested. The cons of a charismatic leader is they are really only good for the hype. They get the crowd all stirred up and ready for something to be done but in the end nothing is ever done.
The pros of a citizen leader is that they are truly representing for their community. "The citizen leader not only understands the human needs of the community, but can also relate to its people on their own terms..." (Bynoe, 13). With this kind of leader knowing what their communities needs and knows ideas of how to make things better, ultimately makes their job easier and can get along with the community. it will make things easier on the ccommunity knowing that someone knows what needs to be done and genuinely cares about the community. The only con I can think of is if the citizen leader tried moving up the leadership chain and still pressed for the same issues. Some of the issues their community may be facing may be irrelevant to the bigger scale community.
I see Obama as being a charismatic and citizen leader as far as getting a crowd really involved and showing a community he knows we are here. During his campaign he came to Leesburg, VA and I know from experience a lot of people do not know where or what Leesburg is. So for him to pick our area out of all the other possibilities out there, showed even though we aren't really a big popular community its the small communities that make this country. My friend went to the rally and said it was really moving and xhilarating to have a public figure come speak.
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