Codes for Leadership

Com 459Jeff McNeill

Lyn Jang

Hope Change

Code for leadership Code for leader

Creating hope for change is the role of the leaderMeaning: leader finds hope which brings change, and hope should

Be the one people desire

What people do?

People turn to leaders, but sometimes turn away :meaning: people have the power, need to kill the leader to become

One oneself

People both love and hate leaders (depends on how leaders lead people)

What people want the leader to do for them?

1. Provide them external direction & make room for self-expression (need interaction)

2. Able to adapt to the “mood” of others (importance of emotion)

Why they do it (Reptilian)

In mother’s view

Make children can grow

Make children away from home

Children’s view

Want to strike out

Want to regress

The family is a potent image, mother provide the early imprint

A symbolic womb

“Logic of emotion”

When it happens… When leader’s style and skills meet the people’s appetite for a leader.( leader have to understand and figure out the code )

When do people need the leader?

FrustrationsAwareness

UrgencyCall for leadershipHope for change

What the leader need?Need to create a latent

Crisis and declareA breakdown

In advance of other’sDesire to change

Keys for leadersleaders

ActingAs

believers

Use storiesAnd words

To connect withPeople’s emotions

Verbs & simple languageAre most effective

Symbols are the language of leaders

As mother/Mentor coach

Metaphor for leaders“Dreamer of the heart”“ Poet”

“Speaking to the heart”“Importance of emotion- the logic of emotion”

-the connection between the limbic and the reptilian”

Off Code

Leadership is not about Logic and scientific fact Words to use ( hope, change, stories, pictures, symbols,

personal experience ), words of emotion

Words to LOSE-----numbers, policy, system, processes, graphs, “ the cortex

explanation”-------