PeopleNology Monthly
The Culture of your company creates the present and future of your company.
Making money is not that difficult, making lots of money requires the help and full
participation of every person on the payroll.
There are five reasons to follow another human being.
PeopleNology can show you how to get dozens, hundreds
or thousands of people to follow you. To become a leader
you must have the basic understanding of why and how
people will follow your leadership.
Several different psychological disciplines and principles
come to play within creating a following. Notice, very
important. The reason people will follow you is not what
you’ve been taught or even experienced. People start to
follow you for their own reasons, most of them with a
negative shadding that changes into a bright wonderful experience over time. Do
not expect people to follow you because you say so... doesnt work like that no
matter what you think.
Disciplines
Leadership Followership
Five reasons to follow
Fear of retribution
Blind hope
Faith in leader
Intellectual agreement
Buying the vision
There are many reasons to follow. Here are levels of rationale that followers can
use when deciding to follow a leader. Note how they start off as negative and
become more positive.
If you are seeking to lead people, it is a good idea to get
a good understanding of why will they follow you.
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3 "General" posts on 7/25/2006
PeopleNology If you are seeking to lead people, it is a good idea
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Posted on Tue, Jul 25 2006 @ 12:41 PM [EST]
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Fear of retribution is the most common reason,
retribution is a very neagive reason to follow a person even though its the most
common.
“ If you don’t follow the rules I’m going to fire you”
Following out of fear is not so much following as being tugged along at the end of
a short rope. You have economic power over people and you can cause them to
fear what you’ll do to them. “ Do what you’re told and stay
out of trouble.” Retribution management is old style and
creates an old style, low performing company. You can only
threaten people so long and then you have to do something
about it. Retribution leadership will fail the future and this
type of leader in trucking uses the coercive push that will only
work as long as the follower/employee sees no other choice.
Fear is not the tool of effective leaders (and certainly not ethical leaders). At
best, fear-based approaches gain weak commitment and need constant
attention lest the follower freezes or flees.
Blind hope
"We gotta do something. I hope this works!"
Here, the follower is desperate for some solution, and what you the leader is
offering is either the only option they see or the best of a relatively weak set of
choices. People play the only game in town. The follower/employee is thus not so
much following out of agreement but from a lack of alternatives. He’ll drive your
older truck until he can drive a new one. You wear your old shoes until you buy a
new pair. You say yes sir until you can walk away. People that follow you
because your offering just blind hope, “ it will get better” are not really working
with you to improve your company. You don’t want to have people on your payroll
that settle for leftovers, weak ideas, hope without planning.
Leaders should watch out for hopeful followers, who are likely either to be
disappointed and disillusioned and will quickly leave your company. When less
than perfect outcome ensues these weaker people are always looking for another
better hope, a bigger and safer ship, more money and less miles. These people
are not builders they a blind followers. They cannot create because they’re always
looking for more money and less effort jobs.
Gregory Bodenhamer’s PeopleNology Curiosity of People
PeopleNology is a protected Gregory Bodenhamer Intellectual Property - All Rights Reserved and Protected 2006
PeopleNology@Hotmail.com Mechanicsburg Pa 17055
Gregory Bodenhamer’s PeopleNology Curiosity of People - Medicine for Your Trucking Company
CULTURE
Fear of retribution is the most common reason,
retribution is a very neagive reason to follow a person even though its the most
common.
“ If you don’t follow the rules I’m going to fire you”
Following out of fear is not so much following as being tugged along at the end of
a short rope. You have economic power over people and you can cause them to
fear what you’ll do to them. “ Do what you’re told and stay
out of trouble.” Retribution management is old style and
creates an old style, low performing company. You can only
threaten people so long and then you have to do something
about it. Retribution leadership will fail the future and this
type of leader in trucking uses the coercive push that will only
work as long as the follower/employee sees no other choice.
Fear is not the tool of effective leaders (and certainly not ethical leaders). At
best, fear-based approaches gain weak commitment and need constant
attention lest the follower freezes or flees.
Blind hope
"We gotta do something. I hope this works!"
Here, the follower is desperate for some solution, and what you the leader is
offering is either the only option they see or the best of a relatively weak set of
choices. People play the only game in town. The follower/employee is thus not so
much following out of agreement but from a lack of alternatives. He’ll drive your
older truck until he can drive a new one. You wear your old shoes until you buy a
new pair. You say yes sir until you can walk away. People that follow you
because your offering just blind hope, “ it will get better” are not really working
with you to improve your company. You don’t want to have people on your payroll
that settle for leftovers, weak ideas, hope without planning.
Leaders should watch out for hopeful followers, who are likely either to be
disappointed and disillusioned and will quickly leave your company. When less
than perfect outcome ensues these weaker people are always looking for another
better hope, a bigger and safer ship, more money and less miles. These people
are not builders they a blind followers. They cannot create because they’re always
looking for more money and less effort jobs.
Gregory Bodenhamer’s PeopleNology Curiosity of People
PeopleNology is a protected Gregory Bodenhamer Intellectual Property - All Rights Reserved and Protected 2006
PeopleNology@Hotmail.com Mechanicsburg Pa 17055
Gregory Bodenhamer’s PeopleNology Curiosity of People - Medicine for Your Trucking Company
CULTURE
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Posted on Tue, Jul 25 2006 @ 12:39 PM [EST]
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Faith in leader
"What a great person and manager, he’s the best in the business.”
It’s nice to have people think you’re the smartest manager on the block. The
follower/employee is really blind to any solution but is very willing to follow you
because they have faith in you. Notice the reasons
to follow are getting a little more positive as we
move down a persons thinking trail.
People that believe in you remains blind to the
solution because of their tremendous faith in you.
They are still not participating in your business,
they wait for you. They believe that you will always
supply the magic of the future, the best plan, the
brightest idea and provide them with everything
they need.
Their faith in you as the leader is still based on
hope and they may become disappointed down the
road, but there is more of a commitment to you. If you have a plan that fails, by
the logic, faith and belief in the leader, the follower/employee will accept some
situational explanations for failure rather than looking for the real reason.
Greg Bodenhamer
write me today.. for more
Gregory Bodenhamer’s PeopleNology Curiosity of People
PeopleNology is a protected Gregory Bodenhamer Intellectual Property - All Rights Reserved and Protected 2006
PeopleNology@Hotmail.com Mechanicsburg Pa 17055
Gregory Bodenhamer’s PeopleNology Curiosity of People - Medicine for Your Trucking Company
Faith in Leadership
does not mean
Employee
Participation
CULTURE
Faith in leader
"What a great person and manager, he’s the best in the business.”
It’s nice to have people think you’re the smartest manager on the block. The
follower/employee is really blind to any solution but is very willing to follow you
because they have faith in you. Notice the reasons
to follow are getting a little more positive as we
move down a persons thinking trail.
People that believe in you remains blind to the
solution because of their tremendous faith in you.
They are still not participating in your business,
they wait for you. They believe that you will always
supply the magic of the future, the best plan, the
brightest idea and provide them with everything
they need.
Their faith in you as the leader is still based on
hope and they may become disappointed down the
road, but there is more of a commitment to you. If you have a plan that fails, by
the logic, faith and belief in the leader, the follower/employee will accept some
situational explanations for failure rather than looking for the real reason.
Greg Bodenhamer
write me today.. for more
Gregory Bodenhamer’s PeopleNology Curiosity of People
PeopleNology is a protected Gregory Bodenhamer Intellectual Property - All Rights Reserved and Protected 2006
PeopleNology@Hotmail.com Mechanicsburg Pa 17055
Gregory Bodenhamer’s PeopleNology Curiosity of People - Medicine for Your Trucking Company
Faith in Leadership
does not mean
Employee
Participation
CULTURE
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