Tribal Leadership: Culture Breeds Motivation

Tribal leadership:

Culture breeds motivation

by Greg Meskens (if this helps please leave me an email at mynamewithoutspaces@hotmail.com glad to help

Introduction

What is motivation and how do we get people to have it? What are the driving forces behind it? How can we apply this to our life, our work and our relationships with others. The term Tribal Leadership is coined first by David Logan in 2008, it is based on a new perspective on human motivation. It teaches modern day leaders to govern 'tribes' or organizations based upon the innate theories of what drives humans in cultures past and present. I will give an overview of how this theory came to be by looking at past view points on the subject of human needs and motivation. The paper will look into the evolutionary history of motivation. How people go from self-actualization to becoming the driving force behind a whole culture. How cultures and societies form within any organizational structure today and what we can do to be the driving force of our 'culture' as we progress trough the stages of tribal development.

I will give an explanation of Tribal Strategy so we as future leaders can learn how to move our tribe forward to the next stage in development. Moving forward to greatness is a team effort that starts with a little nudge from a tribal leader. We all have the capabilities to become such tribal leaders, for that we need to acknowledge in which stage we are our selves and move us and others around us forward.

Self-actualization and hierarchical structures

"Thus man is a perpetually wanting animal." (Maslow, 1943)

Maslow's hierarchy of needs, a theory first uttered in a Theory of Human Motivation from 1943 describes the process of human motivation. Maslow states that human organisms experience several stages of growth propelled by the innate needs or desires. Motivation to satisfy this need is the driving catalyst behind human evolution. It is often depicted as a pyramid, although in...