Tribal Leadership*

This is my weekly live show that I do on Fridays, at 1pm CST on dotJENNA.tv. This particular show is very important because it pulls together many of the concepts I’ve been teaching over the past month, as we discuss leading your tribe through social media. An exciting topic for these exciting days in which we live. Please leave a comment, would love to hear your opinions, even your critiques are important to me and very much considered.

My notes in prep for the show are below. I do these shows as a way to get the info out in the open, and hope to complete these as full-articles + the show at a later date. Don’t forget to watch on next Friday! Talk to ya soon!

Tribal Leadership Notes

<blockquote>It’s always interesting to watch people who have been incredibly successful in their own businesses work in a group made up of equally strong personalities. It takes a special kind of leader who can effectively manage a team of veritable strangers and find the best way to get strong, winning performances from them. ~ Donald Trump</blockquote>

1. Like building a family, building relationships with a large group.

A. Togetherness

People are more easily led than driven.
~David Harold Fink

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who
would be affected by it. ~ Marian Anderson

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
~Eric Hoffer

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The very essence of leadership is its purpose. And the purpose of leadership is to accomplish a task. That is what leadership does–and what it does is more important than what it is or how it works.
~Colonel Dandridge M. Malone

A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and

visionless … someone’s got to make a wake up call.
~Warren Bennis

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you.
~Max DePree

The real leader has no need to lead – he is content to point the way.
~Henry Miller

You need to figure out where you are going.
Where are you leading people to go?
How are you leading people to make their lives better?
How are you rallying people to a cause, one that circulates around what you do?

To be able to lead others, a man must be willing to go forward alone.
~Harry Truman

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
~John Quincy Adams

A leader’s role is to raise people’s aspirations for what
they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.
~David R. Gergen

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision.
~Theodore Hesburgh

Tribes have customs… wear hair the same, look alike,

symbolism – Hair in 2 coils

Like minded, artistic

imitative
Hospitable & frugal
Sit indian Style
Chief leads by example, tribe mimics his motions

Chief is official political officer
Execute will of defined group of people
possession of common territory

Clan, family,
more complex forms of social organization
Chosen for personal merit.

Communities are formed on basis of interests and obligations.

Enlarged community is a tribe

Some tribes, any ambitious warrior can make himself chief by acquisition of suitable prop and force of his own character

customs
rituals
positions
come together for common good
function
chief was there to meet needs, serve
culture & tradition
Elders – Experience & wisdom

Tribal Leaders sought for exp & wisdom
Leaders followed because of generosity, kindness & concern
Showed responsibility for welfare of tribe
Emerged as leaders through contributions to community

No power over people, people were free to cease following the leader at any time.

Holistic Leadership – Diff comm members shared in leadership tasks

Leadership had spiritual significance

Guardians of tribal culture.

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