More Psychology of leadership!

I've been thinking a lot about leadership lately, and idly watching the TV one night recently, I came across 'The Dog Whisperer'. One in a range of programmes about how to control your unruly dog, this programme seemed like all the others. But the presenter, Cesar Millan, is different. He doesn't talk about bribes and punishment, but explains the psychology of what he is doing. He explains that dogs need to know who is the leader, and nearly all his coaching is focused, not on the dog, but on its owner!

Cesar can establish his leadership over a strange animal within minutes of meeting it - and he never raises his voice, nor even appears to pay the dog much attention. He simply is the leader. And that's what he teaches the owners - to establish a state of quiet, centred confidence, to which animals instinctively respond. And people quite clearly respond to it too. As I said last time, it's a transformation - all about focus and being…

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