title: Mathematical leadership vision.
abstract: This article is an analysis of a new type of leadership vision, the kind of vision that is becoming increasingly pervasive among leaders in the modern world. This vision appears to offer a new horizon, whereas, in fact it delivers to its target audience a finely tuned version of the already existing ambitions and aspirations of the target audience. The leader, with advisors, has examined the target audience and has used the results of extensive research and statistical methods concerning the group to form a picture of its members' lifestyles and values. On the basis of this information, the leader has built a "vision." The vision is intended to create an impression of a charismatic and transformational leader when, in fact, it is merely a response. The systemic, arithmetic, and statistical methods employed in this operation have led to the coining of the terms mathematical leader and mathematical vision.
authors.affiliation: Psychology Department, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel. hambur@mail.biu.ac.il
authors.forename: Y A
authors.initials: YA
authors.lastname: Hamburger
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007557:Israel; D007857:Leadership; D008402:Mass Media; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011641:Public Relations; D012945:Social Values; D013223:Statistics as Topic