3. Today’s behaviours
(what we do) are
influenced by our
biological history (what
we were). Leadership
development is
possible and necessary
to help us overcome
our more primitive
instincts.
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4. To explore leadership
concepts (‘map-reading’)
To test leadership
concepts (‘map-testing’)
To develop richer
personal leadership
maps (‘map-making’)
Map
Testing
Map
making
Map
Reading
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5. Anthropomorphism: ‘seeing’ human behaviour
patterns in other animals; inanimate objects; and
symbolic entities (Peter Rabbit; ‘Hal’; The Four
Horsemen of the apocalypse …)
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6. Our ancestors’ tale begins with the earliest
common ancestor (‘concestor’) of all living
creatures.
If we search, we can find the messages from over a
billion years of evolution …
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7. Animal concestor
1000 Million years
(?)
Mammals
100 Million years
Lots of other
Mammals
Reptiles
500 Million years
Primates
Little creepy
Crawlies
>500 Million years
Herd and pack Dynosaurs Modern ants, bees
animals
Modern lizards
Birds, fish
Homo Sapiens * Concestor: A shared common
ancestor (‘Best estimates’ of
dates)
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8. Primate
Concestor
Apes
Other apes
Humanoids
Bonobos
Other Primates
Gorillas
Homo Sapiens Monkeys
Mandrills and
baboons
Chimpanzees
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10. The further back we go
into history, the
broader the definition
of leadership needed
The closer to our
personal leadership
experiences, the
greater the need for
stipulating context
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11. Influence processes
Mobilizing resources to
arouse, engage, satisfy
the motives of
followers
Making sense [of what
people are doing] …
articulating purpose
and values
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12. Insects behave
primarily through
‘hard-wired’ instincts
Scientists have
developed models
based on information
theor y
Insects with valuable
resource information
can ‘lead’ followers to
food, to safety, into
battle …
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17. Early hominoids
Hunter gatherers
Agrarian tribalism
Industrial society
Our informational age
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18. Heroic
Leaders
Heroic
Leaders
Atavistic
Prototypes
New
Leadership
School
New
Leadership
School
Trait
Theories
Trait
Theories
Animal
Leaders
(human)
Style and
Contingency
Theories
Style and
Contingency
Theories
Atavistic
Prototypes
Animal
Leaders (non
human)
Animal
Leaders (non
human)
Territorial
Leaders
Territorial
Leaders
Pack
Leadershi
p
Pack
Leadershi
p
Collective
Leadership
Collective
Leadership
Animal
Leaders
(human)
Thought
leaders
Thought
leaders
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19. Insects: Guided foraging, ‘Home’ building
Birds, Fish: Flocking, Shoaling, Attraction displays,
territorialism
Wolves, dogs: Hunting, collaboration, learning through
play(?)
Horses, elephants: Matriarchal ‘schooling’ for herd
conformity (Mature males isolated)
Mandrills: Matriarchal large group: (Mature males isolated)
Chimpanzees: Complex transactions (grooming, nurturing)
provide social stability and status (‘Social capitalists’)
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20. Leadership today has preserved residual ancient
forms sustained mimetically (through leadership
myths)
Social and personal development permits
transcendence of more primitive instincts
(through consciousness and learning)
We become and create ‘the leaders we deserve’
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21. ‘What’s the use of a
baby?’ (Faraday)
Helps explain bullying
leaders (Mandrills);
Charismatic influence
(Peacocks);
Anthropomorphism
(Termites);
Dysfunctional
behaviours (Horses);
Manipulative
behaviours
(Chimpanzees)
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