Anthropic Leadership: The leadership of
human being
(Greek) – Anthrop (ἄνθρωπος) means human
Nir Golan, an educational and leadership
expert, suggests a new term, Anthropic Leadership: to mean human leadership.
Leadership should be carried out alongside the comprehensive
development of the human being regardless of his/her biological age. This new
term is based on Anthropogogy.
Felix Adam first defined the term Anthropogogy
in 1977 as: "The science and the art of permanently teaching and educating
a person throughout any period of his/her psycho-biological development and in
the functioning of his/her natural, ergo logical and social life."
In 1981, K.D Benne described the term as: "The
guideline of learning and education of people of all ages, as the basis for
human survival, highlighting the importance of controlling the processes of
critical thinking and innovation, ability to listen and communicate with others
whose views are contradictory. Provide the ability to learn how to learn again."
Nir Golan offers a new definition of
Anthropogogy as: "Leadership a person (regardless of age) throughout
significant learning towards behavioral change that can be implemented
immediately." (Golan, 2014)
In today's reality, culture is changing
rapidly, so leadership has to be a lifelong process: where the leader helps the
person discover the unknown without repeating information about the known.
According to Golan, Anthropic Leadership has
four basic principles:
1.
The independent person: the perception of
oneself as an independent entity. A person sees him/herself as someone who is
self-directed; choosing what to be led to, how much and how to be led. The role
of the leader is not to give ready answers to predetermined questions, but to
help the person find out for him/herself what the important questions are and how
to answer them. Through these questions, the dependence – independence conflict
will decrease and there will be fewer objections to leadership.
2.
Adapting leadership to that person's needs: the person is
ready to be led when he/she needs that specific leadership process, and it is incorporated
into daily tasks and social functioning. He/she sees that the leadership
process serves his/her personal development.
Since every person has their own
characteristics and needs, therefore, the most effective way of leadership is to
adapt leadership to the needs and characteristics of that individual person
with reference to their emotional and mental components, and not only to
cognitive and behavioral aspects.
3.
Renovating leadership: In the digital age
where there is widespread availability of network information, leadership should
give news and added value to the person.
People approach leadership in possession of
their life experiences. For leadership to be more significant, the person needs
to connect the current leadership knowledge with his/her prior knowledge. As
such, leaders have to find out the prior knowledge of the person and his/her
previous experiences in order to connect it to the leadership experience and
not lead him/her things they already know. Thus the leader who leads should
renovate leadership.
4.
Immediate and practical leadership: The main motive for
human leadership is for problem solving. The person has a need for the immediate
application of the results of the leadership process, so leadership has to be
more focused in giving solutions to the particular problem. Leadership which cannot be implemented
immediately is perceived as a waste of time.
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