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”-------
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