a brief history of leadership. a new idea from ancient times today’s behaviours (what we do) are...
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A Brief History of Leadership
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A new idea from ancient times
• 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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Why study the history of leadership?
• To explore leadership concepts (‘map-reading’)
• To test leadership concepts (‘map-testing’)
• To develop richer personal leadership maps (‘map-making’)
Map Testing
Map making
MapReading
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Health Warning: Anthropomorphism
• 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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Our ancestors’ tale
• 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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Concestual links* (1)
Animal concestor1000 Million years
(?)
Mammals100 Million years
Lots of otherMammals
Reptiles500 Million years
Primates
Little creepy Crawlies
>500 Million years
Dynosaurs Modern ants, beesHerd and pack
animals Modern lizards
Birds, fish
Homo Sapiens* Concestor: A shared common ancestor (‘Best estimates’ of dates)
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Concestual links (2)
PrimateConcestor
Apes
Other apes
Humanoids
Bonobos
Other Primates
Gorillas
Homo Sapiens Monkeys
Mandrills and baboons
Chimpanzees
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Concestor links (3)
Humanoids(3,600,000 -)
Neadertals(130,000 -28,000)
Homo Sapiens(150,000 -)
Other Humanoids
Hunter Gatherers(100,000 -)
Agrarians(10,000 -)
Industrials(200 -)
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Leadership: An evolutionary view
• 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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It depends what you mean by leadership ..
• 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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Insects, instincts and information
• Insects behave primarily through ‘hard-wired’ instincts
• Scientists have developed models based on information theory
• Insects with valuable resource information can ‘lead’ followers to food, to safety, into battle …
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Do insects show creative leadership?
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Do birds show leadership?
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What leadership behaviours can be seen in other animal families?
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Leadership among the primates
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Leadership in our closest ancestors
• Early hominoids• Hunter gatherers • Agrarian tribalism• Industrial society• Our informational age
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HeroicLeaders
HeroicLeaders
New LeadershipSchool
New LeadershipSchool
Trait Theories
Trait Theories
Style and ContingencyTheories
Style and ContingencyTheories
AtavisticPrototypes
AtavisticPrototypes
TerritorialLeaders
TerritorialLeaders
Pack Leadership
Pack Leadership
CollectiveLeadership
CollectiveLeadership
AnimalLeaders (non human)
AnimalLeaders (non human)
AnimalLeaders (human)
AnimalLeaders (human)
Thoughtleaders
Thoughtleaders
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Do we inherit behaviours fromconcestors? *
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’)
(* Selected examples)
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Toward a new idea of evolutionary leadership
• 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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So what?
• ‘What’s the use of a baby?’ (Faraday)
• Helps explain bullying leaders (Mandrills); Charismatic influence (Peacocks); Anthropomorphism (Termites); Dysfunctional behaviours (Horses); Manipulative behaviours (Chimpanzees)