BETWEEN INVINCIBILITY AND VULNERABILITY OF A LEADERSHIP MODEL
Zorina GHILEȚCHI, PhD Student
Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova
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Universal Decimal Classification: 005:321.01
JEL Classification: F51, F52
Abstract
The reality in which we live increasingly tests axioms that once appeared to be dogmas rather than a field of principles with a right to exist until proven otherwise. Today, a leader’s power of persuasion faces the reverse situation in which the ability to influence does not necessarily require a feeling of approval that transitions into adhesion. Behind these changes lies a certain mode of manifesting and exercising power—one that knows how to negotiate its own position.
In our view, the leadership practiced by Donald Trump, President of the United States of America, encompasses not only reactive characteristics suited to a global order in full transformation, but also fixative traits of a future-oriented leadership capable of strategic transaction. As we move toward a new structure of
global power, the leader becomes a player who maximizes outcomes through coercive capacity and the anticipation of undesirable results. In other words, reality imposes a new propedeutics of modern leadership within a world of constant recalibration, where crises and uncertainty increasingly become permanent, thereby requiring a more combative style of leadership.
Consequently, those who validate the profile of a leader must support, with agility, the agenda of the interests they represent. Thus, for clarity, we emphasize that the way a leader chooses to pivot the interests of their supporters will determine the distinction of a leadership capable of ensuring the transition between present
and future.
Keywords: leadership, power, adhesion, decision, negotiation
