Dayo Sowunmi's slidedeck: Overcoming the selfie way of life - International Leadership Association (ILA) 20th Annual Global Conference, West Palm Beach, Florida USA

1. ILA 20th Anniversary Global Conference:
Authentic Leadership for Progress, Peace & Prosperity
West Palm Beach FL #ILA2018WPB
Dayo Sowunmi II, GAICD
October 25, 2018
Overcoming The Selfie Way Of Life:
A Leadership Perspective

2. Setting The Theme…
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• The book notes how in winter, hedgehogs huddle together
to keep warm
• However, they hurt each other with their spines, and then
move away from one another
• As they start to feel cold again, they huddle together
again, and the cycle repeats itself until eventually they find
a ‘happy medium’, a distance apart where they are not
too close to hurt each other with their spines and not too
far apart to feel cold…

3. Overview
1 Global Social Media Growth
2 Re-defining Norms, Values & Ethical Baseline
3 Selfies, Narcissism & Non-Authenticity
4 How To Maintain Healthy Ethical Baseline?
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4. Global Social Media Growth
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7.5
3.8
2.8
4.9
7.6
4.0
3.2
5.1
POPULATION INTERNET USERS ACTIVE SOCIAL
MEDIA USERS
MOBILE PHONE
USERS
GLOBAL TRENDS
(IN BILLIONS)
2017 2018

5. Re-defining Norms, Values & Ethical Baseline
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• 90% of participants said their peers’
selfies were self-promotion
• Only 50% of participants considered
their own selfies as self-promotion
• This is the Selfie paradox *
* Diefenback & Christoforakos (2017) The Selfie Paradox

6. Re-defining Norms, Values & Ethical Baseline
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• Study found link between Selfies and
Narcissism/Non-Authenticity *
• When “selfie-ism” meets leadership &
governance
• Measuring one’s ethical baseline
* Diefenback & Christoforakos (2017) The Selfie Paradox

7. Ethical Baseline Model
7© Dayo Sowunmi 2018
Extreme
IMPACT
R R R R R
High A R R R R
Medium A A A R R
Low G A A A R
Negligible G G A A A
IMPACT/FRAME OF REFERENCE
Individual Family Community National Global
Yes
Maybe
No
Actions you
would do
Actions you
would not do
Actions you
might do

8. Ethical Baseline (Narcissist)
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Extreme
IMPACT
G g g a r
High G g g g a
Medium G g g g g
Low G g g g g
Negligible G G g g g
IMPACT/FRAME OF REFERENCE
Individual Family Community National Global
Yes
No
© Dayo Sowunmi 2018

9. The First ‘Selfie’?
9Narcissus by Caravaggio (1590s)

10. Seven Deadly Sins of Narcissism
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1. Shamelessness (inability to process healthily)
2. Magical thinking (“I am perfect”)
3. Arrogance (leading to debasing others)
4. Envy (false sense of superiority)
5. Entitlement (“I am special”)
6. Exploitation (disregard for others’ feelings)
7. Bad boundaries (“people there to serve me”)
Hotchkiss, Sandy & Masterson, James F. Why Is It Always About You?:
The Seven Deadly Sins of Narcissism (2003)

11. Top 5 Global Risks
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In Terms of Likelihood AND Impact
1. Extreme weather events
2. Natural disasters
3. Large-scale involuntary
migration
4. Terrorist attacks
5. Interstate conflict
..Source: World Economic Forum
Global Risks Report 2017

12. Maintaining Healthy Ethical Baseline
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“The illusion of choice…”

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Why are we doing things the
way we do now?
Maintaining Healthy Ethical Baseline

14. Wrap Up
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“The illusion of choice…”

15. Circling Back…
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Next time someone uses social media to get under our
skin, we’ll remember those hedgehogs and take a
moment to review our ethical baseline, before we
respond (or choose not to respond)