TY  - JOUR
T1  - Outstanding Leadership Traits of a Superman in the History of the World,
Cyrus the Great
AU - Aghaei, Enayat Allah AU - Shirvani, Alireza 
JO  - International Business Management
VL  - 10
IS  - 17
SP  - 4079
EP  - 4084
PY  - 2016
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1993-5250
DO  - ibm.2016.4079.4084
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ibm.2016.4079.4084
KW  - Leadership
KW  -leadership teachings of Cyrus the great
KW  -leadership traits
KW  -favorite leadership traits
AB  - In order to provide leadership model based on the teachings of Cyrus the great, mixed research
method is used. To do this, first of all among relevant concepts128 teachings obtained by using inductive
content analysis and the available assumptions in the three general components of leadership. In the
population of Experts the snowball technique was used to access the authorized number of samples and also
13 people worked on the implementation of the Delphi technique. Verification and arrangement of the extracted
variables in the form of three components in Delphi questionnaire were done by using experts’ opinion and its
validity were approved by professors and experts of management, culture and history. Its reliability was also
confirmed by Cronbach’s alpha coefficient 0/961. For consensus in experts’ opinion, the three-stage Delphi
technique was used and in the final phase approved factors were identified by 75% of the experts that in the
field of leadership traits 8 variables were referred to as “important”. To determine the degree of the importance
of elected leadership traits, the similarity index was calculated. The results show that the attributes of “integrity
of the leader” and “self-restraint and patience”, have the highest and lowest ranking among eight favorite
leadership traits and some suggestions were made in line with the results. The result show that what now
known as the leadership traits by the scientists, Cyrus the great had them altogether and this is a source of
pride. We hope that this learnings were used not to blame the past but as a reminder to take the responsibility
of our future.
ER  -