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    This document provides a brief history of leadership from an evolutionary perspective. It discusses how today's leadership behaviors are influenced by our biological past as seen in other animal species. Studying the history helps explore leadership concepts, test theories, and develop personal leadership approaches. Early leadership can be seen in insect colonies, bird flocks, wolf packs, and primate groups. As humans evolved from early hominoids to modern societies, the definition of leadership expanded. While some instincts remain, consciousness and learning allow people to develop beyond more primitive behaviors inherited from ancestral species. Understanding this evolutionary context can help explain certain dysfunctional modern leadership styles.

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    This document provides a brief history of leadership from an evolutionary perspective. It discusses how today's leadership behaviors are influenced by our biological past as seen in other animal species. Studying the history helps explore leadership concepts, test theories, and develop personal leadership approaches. Early leadership can be seen in insect colonies, bird flocks, wolf packs, and primate groups. As humans evolved from early hominoids to modern societies, the definition of leadership expanded. While some instincts remain, consciousness and learning allow people to develop beyond more primitive behaviors inherited from ancestral species. Understanding this evolutionary context can help explain certain dysfunctional modern leadership styles.

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    This document provides a brief history of leadership from an evolutionary perspective. It discusses how today's leadership behaviors are influenced by our biological past as seen in other animal species. Studying the history helps explore leadership concepts, test theories, and develop personal leadership approaches. Early leadership can be seen in insect colonies, bird flocks, wolf packs, and primate groups. As humans evolved from early hominoids to modern societies, the definition of leadership expanded. While some instincts remain, consciousness and learning allow people to develop beyond more primitive behaviors inherited from ancestral species. Understanding this evolutionary context can help explain certain dysfunctional modern leadership styles.

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    A Brief History of Leadership

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    This document provides a brief history of leadership from an evolutionary perspective. It discusses how today's leadership behaviors are influenced by our biological past as seen in other animal species. Studying the history helps explore leadership concepts, test theories, and develop personal leadership approaches. Early leadership can be seen in insect colonies, bird flocks, wolf packs, and primate groups. As humans evolved from early hominoids to modern societies, the definition of leadership expanded. While some instincts remain, consciousness and learning allow people to develop beyond more primitive behaviors inherited from ancestral species. Understanding this evolutionary context can help explain certain dysfunctional modern leadership styles.

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    A Brief History of Leadership

    A new idea from ancient times


    • Today’s behaviours
    (what we do) are
    influenced by our
    biological history
    (what we were).
    Leadership
    development is
    possible and
    necessary to help us
    overcome our more
    primitive instincts.
    Why study the history of
    leadership?
    • To explore leadership
    concepts (‘map-
    reading’)
    Map Map
    • To test leadership Reading Testing
    concepts (‘map-
    testing’)
    • To develop richer
    personal leadership Map
    maps (‘map-making’) making
    Health Warning:
    Anthropomorphism

    • Anthropomorphism: ‘seeing’ human behaviour


    patterns in other animals; inanimate objects; and
    symbolic entities (Peter Rabbit; ‘Hal’; The Four
    Horsemen of the apocalypse …)
    Our ancestors’ tale
    • Our ancestors’ tale begins with the earliest common
    ancestor (‘concestor’) of all living creatures.
    • If we search, we can find the messages from over a
    billion years of evolution …
    Concestual links* (1)
    Animal concestor
    1000 Million years
    (?)

    Little creepy
    Mammals Reptiles
    Crawlies
    100 Million years 500 Million years
    >500 Million years

    Lots of other Herd and pack Modern lizards


    Primates Dynosaurs Modern ants, bees
    Mammals animals Birds, fish

    Homo Sapiens
    * Concestor: A shared common
    ancestor (‘Best estimates’ of
    dates)
    Concestual links (2)
    Primate
    Concestor

    Apes Humanoids Other Primates

    Chimpanzees
    Other apes Bonobos Homo Sapiens Monkeys

    Mandrills and
    Gorillas
    baboons
    Concestor links (3)
    Humanoids
    (3,600,000 -)

    Homo Sapiens Other Humanoids


    Neadertals
    (150,000 -)
    (130,000 -28,000)

    Hunter Gatherers Agrarians Industrials


    (100,000 -) (10,000 -) (200 -)
    Leadership: An evolutionary view
    • The further back we
    go into history, the
    broader the definition
    of leadership needed
    • The closer to our
    personal leadership
    experiences, the
    greater the need for
    stipulating context
    It depends what you mean by
    leadership ..
    • Influence processes
    • Mobilizing resources
    to arouse, engage,
    satisfy the motives of
    followers
    • Making sense [of
    what people are
    doing] …articulating
    purpose and values
    •
    Insects, instincts and information
    • Insects behave
    primarily through ‘hard-
    wired’ instincts
    • Scientists have
    developed models
    based on information
    theory
    • Insects with valuable
    resource information
    can ‘lead’ followers to
    food, to safety, into
    battle …
    Do insects show creative
    leadership?
    Do birds show leadership?
    What leadership behaviours can be
    seen in other animal families?
    Leadership among the primates
    Leadership in our closest ancestors
    • Early hominoids
    • Hunter gatherers
    • Agrarian tribalism
    • Industrial society
    • Our informational age
    Atavistic
    Atavistic
    Prototypes
    Prototypes
    Animal
    Animal Animal
    Animal
    Leaders
    Leaders(non
    (non Leaders
    Leaders
    human)
    human) (human)
    (human)

    Heroic
    Heroic
    Territorial
    Territorial Leaders
    Leaders
    Leaders
    Leaders New
    New
    Leadership
    Leadership
    Pack School
    School
    Pack Trait
    Trait
    Leadershi
    Leadershi Theories
    Theories
    pp

    Collective
    Collective
    Leadership Style
    Styleand
    and
    Leadership Contingenc
    Contingenc
    Thought
    Thought yy
    leaders
    leaders Theories
    Theories
    Do we inherit behaviours from
    concestors? *
    Insects: Guided foraging, ‘Home’ building

    Birds, Fish: Flocking, Shoaling, Attraction displays,


    territorialism
    Wolves, dogs: Hunting, collaboration, learning through
    play(?)
    Horses, elephants: Matriarchal ‘schooling’ for herd
    conformity (Mature males isolated)
    Mandrills: Matriarchal large group: (Mature males isolated)
    Chimpanzees: Complex transactions (grooming, nurturing)
    provide social stability and status (‘Social capitalists’)
    (* Selected examples)
    Toward a new idea of evolutionary
    leadership
    • Leadership today has preserved residual ancient forms
    sustained mimetically (through leadership myths)
    • Social and personal development permits
    transcendence of more primitive instincts (through
    consciousness and learning)
    • We become and create ‘the leaders we deserve’
    So what?
    • ‘What’s the use of a
    baby?’ (Faraday)
    • Helps explain bullying
    leaders (Mandrills);
    Charismatic influence
    (Peacocks);
    Anthropomorphism
    (Termites);
    Dysfunctional
    behaviours (Horses);
    Manipulative
    behaviours
    (Chimpanzees)

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