From classical leadership model (Bennis, Boyatzis etc) to a new one, based on the classical values, of ancient Greece of course. What can make our world better? Presented in Youth Time Summer School in Siena Italy, June 2014.

1. Leadership & philosophy
YOUTH TIME SUMMER SCHOOL
SIENNA ITALY
JUNE 24 2014

3. Leadership & philosophy

4. What we shall talk about…
How we could become better leaders
meaning useful people to our communities
offering things to our teams for mutual benefit
Or the
poet leader
Pattern in history

5. Everybody talks about them.
Why?

6. 3 parts + 1 conclusion
Part I
Classical
leadership
Part II
Classical
philosophy
and leadership
Part III
Modern
philosophy and
leadership
Part IV
So what?

7. leadership is an art
poetry is an art
is leadership also poetry?
Lets suppose we do accept the classical
leadership matrix, don’t we?

11. Part I
Classical leadership

12. 1 2
3 4
INSIDE YOU OUTSIDE YOU
MANAGE YOU MANAGE OTHERS

13. 1
INSIDE YOU OUTSIDE YOU
MANAGE YOU MANAGE OTHERS

14. 1. Know
thyself
Know thyself
means separating
who you are and
who you want to
be, from what the
world thinks you
are and wants you
to be

15. Know
thyself
Self- knowledge,
self invention are
lifetime
processes …[…]…
Noone can teach
you how to
become yourself
except you.

16. Know
thyself
• You are your own
best teacher
• Accept
responsibility,
blame noone
• You can learn
anything you want
to learn
• True understanding
comes from
reflecting on your
experience

17. Clear?

18. 2. how to learn
II systems
• Maintenance
learning (maintain an
existing system)
• Shock learning
(occurs when events
overwhelm people)
eg crises
2OUTSIDE YOU

19. 2. We have the
Innovative
learning
• Anticipation (being
active and
imaginative rather
that passive and
habitual)
• Learning by
listening to others
• Participation
(shaping events,
rather than being
shaped by them)
learning by action

20. Clear?

21. 3
MANAGE YOU

22. 3. Your values
• Conflicts and
resolutions

23. Conflicts and resolutions
Conflicts
• Blind trust vs suspicion
• Independence vs depend.
• Initiative vs imitation
• Industry vs inferiority
• Identity vs confusion
• Intimacy vs isolation
• Generosity vs selfishness
• Illusion vs delusion
Resolutions
Hope
Autonomy
Purpose
Competence
Integrity
Empathy
Maturity
Wisdom

24. Your values
• Conflicts and
resolutions
• Test and
measure
yourself

25. What do you want?
How can YOU best expresses YOU
the first test is knowing what you
want, knowing your abilities and
capacities, and recognizing the
differences between the two.

26. What do you want?
How can YOU best expresses YOU
the second test is
knowing what drives you,
knowing what gives you satisfaction
and knowing the differences
between the two.

27. What do you want?
How can YOU best expresses YOU
the third test is knowing what your
values and priorities are, knowing
what the values and priorities
of your organization are and
measuring the differences
between the two.

28. What do you want?
How can YOU best expresses YOU
the fourth test is- having measured
the differences between what you
want and what you are able to do,
and between what drives you and
what satisfies you, and between
what your values are and what the
organisation’s values are….

29. The question:
Are you able and willing
to overcome
those differences?

30. Your values
• Conflicts &
resolutions
• Test & measures
• Desire to
succeed
• A true sense of
mastery of the
task at hand
• Strategic thinking
• Synthesis

31. The means of self- expression
are the steps to leadership
• Reflection leading to resolution
• Resolution leading to perspective
• Perspective leading to point of view
• Point of view leading to tests and measures
• tests and measures leading to desire
• Desire leading to mastery
• Mastery leading to strategic thinking
• Strategic thinking leading to full self expression
• The synthesis of full- expression= leadership

32. The synthesis of full-
self- expression= leadership

33. 4
MANAGE OTHERS

34. 4. You and others
• Moving through
chaos
• Getting people
on your side

35. Getting people
on your side
• Constancy. Even if
the leader is being
surprised, he stays
on the course
• Congruity. They
practice what they
teach
• Reliability. They are
ready to support
anyone
• Integrity. They honor
their commitments
and promises

36. You and others
• Moving through
chaos
• Getting people on
your side
• Integrity is the basis
of trust
• Adopt to changes
• Opportunity=
empowerment
• meaning=
engagement
• Learning= leading

37. 1 2
3 4

38. Lets put everything in a slide

39. The modern leadership matrix
Know thyself
Innovative
learning
the synthesis of full-
self-expression=
leadership
Learning=
leading
INSIDE YOU OUTSIDE YOU
MANAGE YOU MANAGE OTHERS

40. Part II
Classical philosophy and leadership

41. The modern leadership matrix
Know thyself
Innovative
learning
the synthesis of full-
self-expression=
leadership
Learning=
leading
INSIDE YOU OUTSIDE YOU
MANAGE YOU MANAGE OTHERS

42. Lets connect them
Alexander’s relation to Aristotle’s
teaching,
and also that he rejected some of them
Parthenon as a societal art expression
Plato’s philosophical dialogues
Socrates Know Thyself

43. The modern leadership matrix
Know thyself, then, means
separating who you are and
who you want to be from
what the world thinks you
are and wants you to be.
Innovative learning
Anticipation (being active and imaginative
rather that passive and habitual)
Learning by listening to others
Participation (shaping events, rather than
being shaped by them)
full- expression= leadership
Reflection leading to resolution
Resolution leading to perspective
Perspective leading to point of view
Point of view leading to tests and measures
tests and measures leading to desire
Desire leading to mastery
Mastery leading to strategic thinking
Strategic thinking leading to full self expression
The synthesis of full- expression= leadership
You and others
Moving through chaos
Getting people on your side
Integrity is the basis of trust
Adopt to changes
Opportunity= empowerment
meaning= engagement
Learning= leading

46. Self enhancement-
Emotional awareness
Emotional intelligence (EI) is the ability to
monitor one's own and other people's
emotions, to discriminate between different
emotions and label them appropriately,
and to use emotional information to guide
thinking and behavior.
In social psychology, self-assessment is the
process of looking at oneself in order to
assess aspects that are important to one's
identity. It is one of the motives that drive
self-evaluation, along with self verification
and self enhancement.

47. How deep?

49. Do you think they were philosophers
and not practitioners?

50. Several anecdotes suggest that Thales was not solely a
thinker but was also involved in business and politics. One
story recounts that he bought all the olive presses in
Miletus after predicting the weather and a good harvest for
a particular year. In another version of the same story,
Aristotle explains that Thales reserved presses ahead of
time at a discount only to rent them out at a high price
when demand peaked, following his predictions of a
particularly good harvest. This first version of the story
would constitute the first creation and use of futures,
whereas the second version would be the first creation and
use of options. Aristotle explains that Thales' objective in
doing this was not to enrich himself but to prove to his
fellow Milesians that philosophy could be useful, contrary
to what they thought.

51. Lets return to the story

52. WHY HIM?????

53. He was the wisest
because he knew that he knew nothing

54. Died by drinking hemlock
Accused for blasphemy and
corrupting youth

55. Democratic Athens killed the most famous philosopher ever?

56. Does Socrates
SELF
ACCEPTANCE
of death,
remind you of
anyone else?

57. Didn’t they both decide to die ?

58. (We are not going to discuss about that now,
because we are now talking about leadership)

59. Philosophy is a dialogue / study
about the Question of death
• Do you know any famous death in
Greece? (except Socrates) ?
• What was the philosophers relation to
that?
• What is the leaders’ relation to that?

60. Lycurgus, Empedocles

61. Lycurgus, Empedocles
Lycurgus was exiled to death
Empedocles jumped into Etna, IT

62. How realistic is….
…To KNOW that you are going to die
And not to be afraid of it.

63. How did this realization of death
was translated by ancient Greek leaders?
Any stories to share?

65. So realistic that led to
sarcasm and cynicism

67. Self awareness that was creating people
that were not afraid to die….
If not what do you need to do not to be
afraid of dying?

68. PAUSE
We are discussing about
philosophy and Sparta??
Where is Athens?
Some facts about this
misperception

69. Socrates, Plato & Aristotle
admired the Spartan system
In fact Aristotle was exiled twice from Athens

70. But we know that Athens has Parthenon,
Sparta had nothing to compare to that

71. Doric Ionian CorinthianAre you sure?

72. In terms of aesthetics,
Parthenon is a Doric style temple
(*why so much about Parthenon??)

73. Quite impressive, isnt it?

74. Ancient Greeks actually had a
complete educational system
that supported self awareness
Both religious (faith) and educational (logos)

77. Who Am I?
• Where am I going?
• Why I am alive?
• Why do we die?
• Does God exist?
• What the f* am I doing
here???????????
• What is worth living
for?
Birth of
philosophy,
logos etc
Ulysses
Art &
expression

78. Emotional awareness & poets
Emotional
intelligence (EI) is
the ability to
monitor one's own
and other people's
emotions, to
discriminate
between different
emotions and label
them appropriately,
and to use
emotional
information to guide
thinking and
behavior.
=

79. Emotions = drama
Dramatic question being asked to the spectator
-Real time -

82. Theater
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of fine art that uses
live performers to present the experience of a real or
imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The
performers may communicate this experience to the audience
through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music, and
dance. Elements of design and stagecraft are used to enhance
the physicality, presence and immediacy of the
experience.The specific place of the performance is also
named by the word "theatre" as derived from the Ancient
Greek θέατρον (théatron, "a place for viewing"), itself from
θεάομαι (theáomai, "to see", "to watch", "to observe").
That what theater really is!!!!

83. Drama learning process
1. A Hero Acts> Actor <action
2. Lives his drama< dro <drastic
3. Meets truth <tragic – agony to
spectator
4. Reaches Consciousness = self
awareness = katharsis
5. Question of Life & Death values
come into surface
6. So spectator LEARNS while he
FEELS
Place= theater, tragedy
Music - dance= more action

84. The Hero – King
• Acts> Actor
<action
• Lives a drama<
dro <drastic
• Meets truth
<tragic
• Reaches
Consciousness =
self awareness
Spectator
Question
of Life & Death
values
So spectator
LEARNS while he
FEELS
Reaches
Consciousness =
self awareness
Place= theater,
tragedy
Music - dance=
more action

85. So that is
how
Know
Thyself
really
WAS
happening

86. The Hero – King
• Lives a drama<
dro <drastic
• Meets truth
<tragic
• Reaches
Consciousness =
self awareness
• Through the POET
POET

88. YOU
How you want to live
How you want to express that?
How do you live How do you express YOU?

91. Idiots are out of Greek “Polis”
Man is by nature a political animal.
He who is unable to live in society, or who has
no need because he is sufficient for himself, must
be either a beast or a god.
Aristotle
 participating in social life was obligatory eg.
Check term IDIOT describing selfish persons

92. Ancient Greeks, Social
& Organizational awareness
“We Greeks believe that
a man who takes no part
in public affairs is not
merely lazy, but good for
nothing” Thucydides
One of the penalties
for refusing to
participate in politics
is that you end up
being governed by
your inferiors. Plato
“For as man is the
best of all animals
when he has
reached his full
development, so he
is worst of all when
divorced from law
and justice.”
Aristotle

93. Everybody talks about them.
Why?

94. Ex- wrestler,
burned his plays when 21 y.o.
real name Aristocles
His top student, left Academy
after failed to succeed his
teacher, to Lesvos and Vergina

95. Created a new poetical form,
philosophical dialogue & gave
us the world of IDEAS
Created modern science with
observation and experiment,
studied nature & everything

96. They created the PHILOSOPHY LEGO for us to play today!!!

97. Man is by nature a political animal.
law and justice in societies
One of the penalties for refusing to
participate in politics is that you
end up being governed by your
inferiors.

98. Man is by nature a political animal.
law and justice
One of the penalties for refusing to
participate in politics is that you
end up being governed by your
inferiors.

99. Man is by nature a political animal.
law and justice
One of the penalties for refusing to
participate in politics is that you
end up being governed by your
inferiors.

101. How can you set your self into action?

102. Through – what else- stories of course
eg Hercules labours

104. Iliad & Odyssey

105. Heroes, myths are eternal patterns

106. Archetypes to inspire real people
OR
educational tool for youth to memorize easier?
Thermopyles, Greece

108. Man is by nature a political animal.
law and justice
One of the penalties for refusing to
participate in politics is that you
end up being governed by your
inferiors.

109. Got it. Next?

110. Relationship management & Influence
whose influence was more than of Hellenistic Age?

112. Alexander’s Importance of education
Στον πατέρα μου οφείλω το ζην, στον δάσκαλο μου το ευζην
I owe my living to my father, but I owe
my good life to my teacher.

113. Alexander’s
bio notes
• He had Achilles as a hero
• His teacher was Aristotle
• He never lost a battle
• He built Alexandria’s
almost everywhere
• He was cosmopolitan
AGAINST elitish Aristotle
beliefs
• He died in Babylon,
summer 323 BC, 32 y.o.
leaving no successor

114. Openness or Cosmopolitanism
I am not an Athenian
but a citizen of the world- Socrates

115. Man is by nature a political animal.
law and justice
One of the penalties for refusing to
participate in politics is that you
end up being governed by your
inferiors.

116. What do they have in common?
1. Know thyself
2. Innovative
learning
3. full-
expression=
leadership
4. Global
influence

117. A complete theory for life
and death that affected
their actions in daily life.
melancholic people that
expressed through art, in
order to ignore death, with
beauty & harmony.

118. *beauty and harmony?
why so much about Parthenon??

122. This why it
is
considered
important

123. What have we learned from that?
We need
Heroes – doers
Poets – doers

124. The classical philosophy model
was a model that gave a full reply to
life & death questions
Through its art and expression
So? Did any modern poets realized this?

125. Part III
Modern philosophy and leadership

126. Lets see some modern examples
of leaders through stories of course
is the
poet leader
pattern being repeated?

127. Story no1.

128. French Revolution 1789

129. Who were the philosophers of 1789?
Originating in the 17th century
Francis Bacon, Baruch Spinoza, John Locke
Pierre Bayle, Voltaire, Francis Hutcheson,
David Hume and Isaac Newton
In France, Enlightenment Encyclopédie by
Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert
with contributions by
hundreds of leading intellectuals who were
called philosophes,
notably Voltaire, Rousseau and Montesquieu

136. Robespierre execution, 1794

137. Only a genius like Shakespeare could find the words
to do Napoleon justice. Shakespeare has Cassius
describe Julius Caesar. The words could apply to
Napoleon.
Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus, and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs, and peep about
To find ourselves dishonorable graves.
— Julius Caesar, Act I, scene ii

138. 2nd story

139. Russian revolution, 1917

141. • Poet Marx
• Hero Lenin/Stalin

145. Gulag Museum in Moscow

146. 3rd story

147. German Reich, 1933

151. Ubermensch & Nietzsche’s nihilism
“God is dead. God remains dead. And
we have killed him. Yet his shadow
still looms. How shall we comfort
ourselves, the murderers of all
murderers? What was holiest and
mightiest of all that the world has yet
owned has bled to death under our
knives: who will wipe this blood off
us? What water is there for us to clean
ourselves? What festivals of
atonement, what sacred games shall
we have to invent? Is not the greatness
of this deed too great for us? Must we
ourselves not become gods simply to
appear worthy of it?”
Nietzsche, The Gay Science, Section
125, tr. Walter Kaufmann

153. Conclusions?
All ideologies tend to generate totalitarian personalities
The rest is a matter of values and interest

154. Any non violent examples of
philosophers -revolutionists?

155. Back to Jesus- Socrates model

156. Differences?

157. Logic

158. Faith

159. Logic VS Faith
Guess who won!!!

160. Church did!!!

162. Did people became better?
no F way
and they still have the same questions

163. 1966

164. Part IV
So what?

165. 2009

166. Are there no
“good” examples?

167. “For
classical
learning I
have ever
been a
zealous
advocate”
Thomas
Jefferson

168. Thomas Jefferson
"[As to] the extent to which classical learning should be carried
in our country... The utilities we derive from the remains of the
Greek and Latin languages are, first, as models of pure taste in
writing. To these we are certainly indebted for the rational and
chaste style of modern composition which so much distinguishes
the nations to whom these languages are familiar... Second.
Among the values of classical learning, I estimate the luxury of
reading the Greek and Roman authors in all the beauties of their
originals. And why should not this innocent and elegant luxury
take its preeminent stand ahead of all those addressed merely to
the sense?... Third. A third value is in the stores of real science
deposited and transmitted us in these languages, to wit: in
history, ethics, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, natural
history, etc.“
Thomas Jefferson to John Brazier, 1819. ME 15:208

169. US Founding Fathers

171. Decline process

172. Decline process

173. What can make us better?

176. Leadership and change

177. Aesthetics revolution

178. Beauty & values
• “…happiness is an activity and a complete
utilization of virtue, not conditionally but
absolutely.”
Aristotle

179. So who and
WHERE
are the poets today??

180. THANK YOU BUT