By crafting solutions to bring people and resources together across national, cultural, and organizational boundaries" (Cabrera and Unruh, 2012. p. 12), Paul delivered a consistent message that was reliant on others to assist in reaching a greater population. People are the primary subject of ideological analysis (Robbins, 1996) and communicating with people was the main purpose of Paul's travels. The people encounters provide dialogue and disagreement for ideological analysis regarding the biases, opinions, and preferences between the participants. These encounters ranged from amiable gatherings in the synagogues to hostile confrontations with an angry mob or disputing the words of the sorcerer Bar-Jesus. Today’s leaders could learn from Paul, because he had uncompromising ethics with deep humility, and demonstrated it when he stated, I make myself a slave to everyone, to win over as he adapted to the various cultural customs and traditions in order to convert and win over citizens for …show more content…
Leaders articulate a vision that emphasizes values shared by leader and followers (Jacobsen & House, 2001) and infuse seemingly disconnected organizational activities with those shared values (Shamir & Howell, 1999), which guides behaviors of followers (Tsai et al., 2009). Leaders are most effective when follower self-concepts and values are the same with the values espoused by the leader (Lord & Brown, 2001). The shared sense of values and culture stems in part from the leader acting to transform followers personal values. Leader–follower value congruence occurs when as a result of the leader acting to influence the values of followers, and from the leader’s purposeful attempts to appeal to existing follower values and culture. Leaders are expected to be better than other leaders at shaping the values of others, and also at tailoring their messages to tap into or prime pre-existing values and culture of followers and potential followers (Brown & Trevino,