in thinking about this, I have an interesting point,
but lack time to really think this out, so I am going
to hit the high points and later when work is not so pressing,
I shall flesh this out into something coherent…
an idea of leadership, we have two types of leadership.
one type is called transformational leadership and the other
type is transactional leadership…
what I am thinking is this, perhaps, perhaps we can
remove the word leadership and say, we have two types
of actions and/or two types of behavior or two types of looking
at the world and drop the word leadership…
I think that people can fall into two different types of actions
or behavior… one is transactional and the other is transformational…
so we have to understand what is considered transactional and what
is transformational…
from my friends at wiki…
"Transactional leadership: is a style of leadership that focuses on supervision,
organization, and performance; transactional leadership is a style of leadership in which
leaders promote the compliance by followers through both rewards and punishment…
Unlike transformational leaders, those using the transactional approach are not looking
to change the future, they look to keep things the same. Leaders using transactional leadership
as a model pay attention to followers work in order to find faults and deviations…
This type of leadership is effective in crisis and emergency situations, as well
as for projects that need to be carried out in a specific way…"
Looking at this definition, it screams out people who follow the GOP
and their mind set…it is the GOP and those who believe in the same,
they follow this transactional approach to leadership and to people…
so let us remove the leadership aspect and approach it from a behavior
and as a model of action for people…for one person who act or behaves,
this is one model for people to behave… transactional behavior…
it isn’t about changes, it is about keeping things the same… and the
need to find fault in an attempt to maintain the status quo…sound like
republican actions and behavior to me…
again wiki:
“Transformational leadership, this is a style where a leader
works with subordinates to identify needed change, creating a vision to guide
the change through inspiration, executing the change in tandem with committed
members of a group. Transformational leadership serves to enhance the motivation,
morale and job performance of followers through a variety of mechanisms: these
include connecting the follower’s sense of identity and self to a project and to the
collective identity of the organization; being a role model for followers in order
to inspire them and to raise their interest in the project; challenging followers to
take greater ownership for their work, and understanding the strengths and weaknesses
of followers, allowing the leader to align followers with tasks that enhance their
performance.”
once again, remove the idea of leadership and take this as a standard or model
of action or behavior… and we see this is as a working definition of left wing,
liberal actions or behavior… the collective working together for a common goal
which is not given by the leader but decided within the group… that practically
is the formula of a liberal…to challenge and inspire… isn’t that what Obama did?
and isn’t that what MLK did? we see these not as leadership styles but
as individual and collective ideas as to how we are to operate in the world
and achieve our goals… not by rewards or punishments but by challenging
followers to achieve goals that make them better…if that isn’t liberal,
I don’t know what is…
conservative behavior is about transactional behavior and liberal behavior
is about transformational behavior…
transactional behavior is about maintaining the status quo
transformational behavior is about creating change…
that is in a nutshell the difference between conservative
and liberal…
transactional behavior is about the lower level instinctual
behavior… the lower level instincts like hate, anger,
violence, greed, envy,
transformational behavior is about the higher level thoughts…
love and peace and hope and justice and equality and charity…
Caesar is transactional and Jesus is transformational…
this is very interesting but I am running out of time
and must get going to get ready for work…
dammmmm
Kropotkin