{"id":23664,"date":"2020-03-05T06:12:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T12:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/corevalues.com\/?p=23664"},"modified":"2020-03-05T06:12:16","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T12:12:16","slug":"lessons-in-leadership-from-the-animal-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corevalues.com\/dev\/2020\/03\/05\/lessons-in-leadership-from-the-animal-kingdom\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons in Leadership from the Animal Kingdom"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Leadership skills are skills inherent in the animal kingdom.\u00a0 Animals exhibit excellent governance aptitude. We kid you not. For instance, those that travel in groups are found to depend on interactions among its members when making migratory decisions.\u00a0 They do so by making distinct noises understood only by their own kind.<\/p>\n

Male chimpanzees who rise through the \u201cranks\u201d are observed to exhibit intelligence, intimidation, and political alliances.\u00a0 Elephants, on the other hand, rely on the oldest and largest female to make major decisions for the group.\u00a0 The existing matriarch can easily be overcome by another who is better able to care for the needs of the herd.<\/p>\n

It isn\u2019t different when it comes to the human species. Flourishing organizations the world over possess two characteristics in common \u2013 good leadership and team-based work culture.<\/p>\n

Does leadership impact you?<\/h4>\n

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The book begins with the story of a young, tight-knit family tasked to read a book, The Tiger Lord\u2019s Trials, <\/em>for a weekend school assignment.<\/em>\u00a0 The tale narrates the story of two tiger tribes each with a dedicated leader, Kali and Ashoka.\u00a0 But that\u2019s where their similarity ends.<\/p>\n

Kali\u2019s tribe had fewer tribe members, less food, and a village in need of repair.\u00a0 The animals seemed to live in fear and everyone kept to themselves.\u00a0 Ashoka\u2019s tribe, on the other hand, seemed to have more food, sturdier homes, and happier animals.\u00a0 Everyone in Ashoka\u2019s tribe spent a lot of time together!<\/p>\n

Where lies the difference in leadership?<\/h4>\n

The differences lay in culture and leadership set by Kali and Ashoka.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t until heavy rains that wiped away their village did this stark difference become evident. \u00a0Despite the rising water, Kali wouldn\u2019t let his tribe abandon the village.\u00a0 That was, until the mudslide forced everyone to flee.<\/p>\n

But the story only begins from here.\u00a0 The process of rebuilding his village took on a more dramatic turn as Kali found that everything that had gone wrong \u2026 was because of him.<\/p>\n

He didn\u2019t trust<\/a> his members. As a result, nobody spoke up for fear of being shut down.\u00a0 Because he found it beneath him to trust anyone else, he was reluctant to depend on members who possessed the necessary task skills he was not be an expert in.<\/p>\n

Kali also thought himself untouchable. He didn\u2019t make the effort to get to know his members on a more personal level. As such, he was seen as someone who lacked empathy (when in fact, he cared a whole lot for his tribe!).\u00a0 Forget about taking risks or being celebrated for successes.\u00a0 As a leader, he found it hard to acknowledge anyone for a job well done and everyone was severely punished and reprimanded for honest mistakes.<\/p>\n

Does this leadership allegory sound familiar?<\/h4>\n

If this sounds eerily familiar, \u00a0its because the same frequently happens in the workplace. The story is fictional, of course (and who doesn’t enjoy a good story).\u00a0 But the lack of trust, employee turnover because of a poor management style,\u00a0 a toxic workplace culture that doesn’t\u00a0 allow bilateral communication, underutilized skills and talent\u2026 all these (and more) are very pressing issues in many organizations.\u00a0 In fact, the workplace, could very well be the fictional jungle in the story with either a Kali-like boss or an Ashoka-like leader.<\/p>\n

Discover how the issues were resolved HERE<\/a><\/strong>. \u00a0It could very well be the key to turning things around by improving leadership in any organization with similar issues.<\/p>\n

Copyright TIGERS Success Series, Inc. by Dianne Crampton<\/p>\n

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Leadership skills are skills inherent in the animal kingdom.\u00a0 Animals exhibit excellent governance aptitude. We kid you not. For instance, those that travel in groups are found to depend on interactions among its members when making migratory decisions.\u00a0 They do so by making distinct noises understood only by their own kind. Male chimpanzees who rise […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[266,700,259,733],"tags":[925],"class_list":["post-23664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership","category-leadership-team-building","category-leadership-team-development","category-leadership-training","tag-leadership-executive-leadership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corevalues.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corevalues.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corevalues.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corevalues.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corevalues.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/corevalues.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corevalues.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corevalues.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corevalues.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}