David Logan on tribal leadership
In this video David Logan explains the five cultural/tribal stages in which leaders must be fluent. The stages go from Life Sucks to Life is Great of which both he says contain only 2% of the population. The stages then go from general (life sucks) to personal (my life sucks) to (I’m great, You’re not) back to general (we are great) to (life is great). The lesson in leadership is recognizing into which “tribe” your personnel fall into. Your job as a leader is to be fluent with all tribes and to remember that tribes can “hear” 1 stage up and 1 stage down. You don’t want to leave a tribe where you found them. A leader needs to nudge personnel to the next level. I feel you would want your tribes to be at least to Stage 4 (we are great). This to me shows a team with a positive attitude working together to get a job done. On the 1st day of class when we are going over my classroom policies, I talk about being a team. I always remind them there is NO “I” in team!! Logan say at Stage 4, these people can do remarkable things. Ideally a leader would want tribes to be at Life is great, at which point Logan believes these individuals can change the world.
At first, I was sort of confused about where he was going with all this. As I reflected, I could clearly see how to categorize our faculty. This concept has everything to do with attitude and getting along and ultimately getting a job done. I feel this is such an extremely difficult attribute to change. It is amazing to me how one “Ms/Mr. Negative” can drag a whole team down, yet the same percentage of people are on the other end of the spectrum and don't usuallly have the same effect on a group.
Hi Yvette, I just watched this video and found that you are right. It only takes one negative person in the teacher's lounge or a social setting to make you question so many things about your job or a situation, but if a teacher comes in and says, I just did an incredible lesson!, I usually don't hear, Tell me about it, the response in our lounge is most often, Good for you! This is so true in many aspects of life, family gatherings, teams we may be on, girls night out, where ever. You may have that one friend or co-worker that has that special something (that 2%) he was reffering to, that can make things seem so much better (sometimes than they really are!), but we can buy into ideas either way! We can be positive and make things happen, like in Stage 4 or we can say my like sucks, like stage 2. I hope in leadership roles, I can nudge my faculty to a higher level than they are presently in and I can always look at situations in a positive light and say, Life is GREAT!
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