Italy who is the leader

Which kind of leadership is likely to emerge worldwide? Which kind of national culture has encouraged Berlusconism? Which leadership concepts and theories have been changed through Italian history and how has this happened?

The role of ethics in leadership studies, for example, went through different periods in which its weight in the field continuously changed. In Marc Aurelius ethics and responsibility was a fundamental ingredient for a would-be-leader; while in Machiavelli, apparently, amoralism was a fundamental characteristic for a leader whose only aim was to keep governing a nation.

Moreover, in the recent climate, the rise of Berlusconism understood as a leadership model in both business and politics based on the ideal of self-made man is accompanied by a leadership crisis in left parties and in alternative that is, based on different values leadership models in business.

Organizations such as the Catholic Church and Mafia have provided paradoxical examples of leadership phenomena. The Church itself provides complex instances of leadership processes that have contributed to the development and institutionalisation of the central leadership concept of Charisma since St.

To what extent has the Church provided models for everyday organization and to what extent can religious Charisma be a useful tool to clarify modern Charisma? Is religious Charisma a normative notion asking for a true leader to behave ethically?

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Palermo Italy AFP — Italy's former interior minister and far-right leader Matteo Salvini went on trial Saturday for allegedly illegally blocking over migrants in dire sanitary conditions from disembarking from a rescue ship. Salvini, the leader of the far-right League party who is known for an "Italians first" policy, is charged with kidnapping and abuse of office for using his position as interior minister to detain the migrants at sea in August On the opening day of trial in Palermo, prosecutors asked that they be allowed to question Salvini, who was present in court, on the stand.

The hearing, which came a month after the trial was first postponed, was largely procedural and lasted less than three hours before Judge Roberto Murgia set the next hearing for December He has said the decision was not his alone, but agreed by the government, including by the then-prime minister, Giuseppe Conte. He entered politics after his elder brother, who was president of the region of Sicily, was murdered by the Mafia The Italian president is a largely ceremonial figure, but he wields important powers at times of political instability, a frequent scourge in Italy, when he can dissolve parliament, call elections and pick prime ministers.

Prime Minister: Matteo Renzi. Matteo Renzi became the youngest prime minister in modern Italian history after triggering the ousting of his fellow centre-left Democratic Party PD colleague Enrico Letta in February Mr Renzi came to power with a programme of rapid economic and political reform, including tax cuts, investment in jobs and removing law-making powers from the upper house, the Senate.

Unusually, the PD leader was not a member of parliament when President Giorgio Napolitano nominated him to form a government, but the outgoing mayor of his native Florence.