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Leadership Lessons: Why Did Trump Win?
Jaap de Jonge, CEO, Netherlands, Editor
Donald Trump will be the next (Republican) US President... His win over (Democratic) rival Hillary Clinton surprised the pollsters, the media, who not?
There are many reasons behind his victory, but - since this is 12manage - from a management/leadership perspective, what do you think were the main reasons Trump was able to convince so many people and gather so many followers?...
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Great Discussion
Somesh Kumar, Project Manager, Ireland, Member Hi Jaap,
I was thinking about this as well and it seems Trump has some kind of |
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Trump: Asset or Liability?
R.Ijland, Entrepreneur, Netherlands, Member Despite his nasty remarks about groups and people, despite his business failures "The Donald" is still a winner and he appears to believe strongly ... |
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Trump's Leadership May Change Now
Miller, Australia, Member Donald Trump indeed knew and understood the audience well. Like Brexit people, many Americans are sick of politicians doing things right. He portrayed... |
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How Trump Won: Marketing
Paul Strodike, Management Consultant, South Africa, Member I fully concur with the opinions expressed in this article and I would like to add that not only did he listen to the audience but he also marketed... |
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Trump's Leadership Style
Prabhakr H Waghodekar, HR Consultant, India, Member Successful leaders' styles can neither be analysed within the theoretical or scientific frame work constrained with 'n' factors that hardly make space... |
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Complete Arsehole and not a Leader
Per Eklund, ICT Consultant, Sweden, Member From my point of view it's sad that Trump was elected. True leadership requires integrity, courage, respect, compassion, honour, honesty, wisdom an... |
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Trump Manipulated the System to His Advantage
Regina Sampson, Entrepreneur, United States, Member As a businessman, he has been taught to seize the opportunities presented. He addressed basic instincts, gained their buy-in, and exp... |
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Trump Spoke his Mind
Gabriel Uunona, Lecturer, Namibia, Member I think that the most contributing factor to Trump's victory is the way he spoke his mind. Many politicians would pretend and have a sheep's sk... |
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Conditions why Donald Trump Won
Garigipati Sudhir, Management Consultant, India, Member 1. Clinton and her camp became overconfident of their victory with exit polls.
2. Trump ran the tortoise ran i.e., he was continuously focused. |
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Leadership Lessons - Why Did Trump Win?
Indradeb Prasanta Pal, Partner, India, Member Trump studied the way Indian leader Modiji (at that time outcast by US's 'Politically Correct Brigade') campaigned and won the Indian election in May ... |
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Why Did Trump Win? Leadership Perspective
Anders Ljunggren, Management Consultant, Sweden, Member Trump knew some of the most important things you have to communicate to make people to believe in you.
1. You have to be able to read and underst... |
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Trump Leadership: Act on Feelings of Many People
mohammad shahajahan, Manager, Bangladesh, Member I think Trump was able to read the feelings of many people.
The Democrats have been ruling for 2 terms and the expectation of the Americans was n... |
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Trump's 'Strategy for the Layman'
Sergey Baltin, Manager, Russian Federation, Member Trump said what "sits in the heads" of the majority, but they are afraid to say - stop to total liberalism, it's time of conservatism.
Trump is t... |
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Trump Won Because he is a Skilled Manipulator
Bruce Cropper, New Zealand, Member He is a very skilled manipulator on a massive scale. He identified the disaffection ("disgruntlement"?) of large numbers of lower and middle cl... |
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Leadership Perspective on Why Trump Won
Lanuzo, Professor, Philippines, Member Simple:
- A Leader sets direction and decides on the right things to do.
- A Manager does the things right.
- A Supervisor shows how to... |
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Management Principles by which Trump Won
maxmillian, Analyst, South Africa, Member I think his first speech where he was straight and blunt about people and groups was just a draw card to get every one to listen to him and hav... |
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Destruction of the Middle Class
Miller, Australia, Member Politics hmmmm
The notion of a middle class disappeared 20 years ago replaced with above average poor WORKING people. In Australia a refugee has ... |
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Did Trump Really Won?
Zimin Andrew Alexander, преподаватель, консультант, Russian Federation, Member Clinton actually won more voters (> 1 mln.).
Trump won a majority at electoral college.... |
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Trump Leadership and Machiavelli
Reijling, Business Consultant, Netherlands, Member Trump could have been a student of Machiavelli, although I doubt weather he has ever read "Il Principe".
He was able to give the people the feeli... |
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Trump Explored People's Pains
Antonio Sidnei, Business Consultant, Brazil, Member Trump explored the hurts, disappointments, financial crises, unemployment of Americans and associated all this with the politics of the ... |
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Trump Knew the Market Really Well
Helen Strong, Business Consultant, South Africa, Member It was about 2 months before the election. I heard Trump itemizing all the different segments of the market, and speaking to their hopes and fears. |
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Leadership Lessons - Why Did Trump Win?
Patricia Hind The tone of the recent American election was set by an unprecedented use of social media, which defined the election narrative. The scale and the natu... |
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Leadership Lessons: Why Did Trump Win?
Sandy Musallam, Editor, United States, Member His campaign marketing strategy was almost the same as the Ronald Regan's campaign in 1980. Trump's marketing campaign strategy was to exploit the ... |
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Trump Won the Presidency with Marketing
Leigh Cowan, Management Consultant, Australia, Member Marketing is NOT just Marketing Communications... Most political party power brokers don't understand Marketing. Trump (or his trusted advisory... |
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Don't Poke the Bear
D. Combs, Lecturer, United States, Member Trump's message resonated with the average American. Many in the mainstream forgot about the quiet majority. Trump's ability to capture them with his ... |
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Trump's Master Cards to the White House
peter Alemoh, Accountant, Nigeria, Member Donald Trump was able to clinch the ticket to the white House against many odds. Despite his uncomplimentary remarks against America people and instit... |
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Consistency of Trump
Tommie Njobvu, Educationist, Zambia, Member Trump remained consistent with his core messages, the more he talked, the more people believed him, even when it may initially have sounded/see... |
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Why Did Trump Win? He Explored Hate
RUBEN ACOSTA, Manager, Mexico, Member Trump won because he explored and exploited the amount of hate that is internalized in most of the American people against immigrants, it is no... |
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Strategies and Factors Used and Helping Trump
Joe Joseph, Consultant, United States, Member Some points to ponder on the winning strategies Trump used:
1. He used the principle of Attention! Attention! And Attention!
For exam... |
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President Obama's Actions Created the Environment
RaghdMuhi Al-Deen Jassim, Management Consultant, Iraq, Member It's known that the environment before the act plays a main role in the coming action. If you consider the preceding steps of president Obama in the p... |
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Causes of the Victory of Trump
Paul Thompson, Teacher, Jamaica, Member I am suggesting that Mr. Trump's victory was based on:
1. His success in speaking directly to the deep seated wishes of many Americans who... |
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How Did Trump Win? He Gave the People a Circus
Jose Luis Hernandez Magallon, Business Consultant, Mexico, Member To the populace "give them bread and circus" Roman emperors used to abide with common citizens with this saying. Trump gave them the circus, th... |
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Almost Populism
Riccardo Barile, Director, Germany, Member Hi, I believe that Trump won because of its ability to understand and to listen the voice of the American middle class. His behavior has been quite |
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People were Looking for an Honest Leader
Bruce Marshall, Business Consultant, United States, Member Personally, I believe Mr. Trump won this election for two reasons.
First that at least half the American people are fed up with the country's ... |
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TRUMPED THE ODDS
Dr Robin C Hesler, Canada, Member There are many great points noted in the responses. Trump won, but he didn't either. Many did not vote in the USA and H. Clinton won a million more vo... |
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Why Did Trump Won?
Ahmad Sultan Abdulla, Consultant, Malaysia, Member I've read a majority of comments and agree with most. Allow me to add some of my perspective probably not previously exhibited above.
First, his ... |
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Brand Equity-Trump Economics
RAJI GEORGE, Management Consultant, Sultanate of Oman, Member Trump's victory was well known in advance to our circle even before concluding his election campaign.
This is based on scientific conclusions and... |
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Why Did Trump Win
Ishmael Molutsi, Manager, Botswana, Member I think the ability to express yourself without hiding the truth and subsequently defending your utterances are causes of trust. So the masses got con... |
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Psychological Triumph for Trump
Jayaraman, Coach, India, Member Donald Trump played a masterstroke in understanding the psychology of the people and made the best use of them through nicely drafted speeches. He dis... 15-10-2018 |
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