If you've read Tribal Leadership, you'd recognize these as "stage 3" leaders.
Their core belief is that if everyone would just be more like them and do what they said, all of their frustration and problems would go away.
Their core belief is that if everyone would just be more like them and do what they said, all of their frustration and problems would go away.
I should add this to my backlog, it sounds like.
tribes are the organizing unit of human
culture is the driving force, and can be observed though the language people use and the relationship structures they have.
Stage 1: "life sucks", no relationships - gangs, prison, essentially you get ahead by taking advantage of people who don't realize life sucks.
Stage 2: "my life sucks", diads - if only some oppressive power authority would change, my life would be better. form diads and complain about the boss, etc.
Stage 3: "i'm great", hub & spoke - rockstar with supporting cast; top achievers; political orgs; win at all costs.
Stage 4: "we're great", triads - relationships organized around values and competency and working to advance people into Stage 4 consciousness.
Stage 5: "life is great", org flow. - when a majority of people in a tribe are in Stage 4, they will pulse into Stage 5 organically, no competition at this level, solving new problems, in flow with life itself.
It's a good "cliche system" to help simplify the complex power dynamic strata in a large organization. I dig it!
It’s the foundation of our leadership development work at EarthPilot.org