Becoming the Leader of the Pack
Rick Piraino
I’ve been reading Cesar’s Way by Cesar Milan of Dog Whisperer fame and am learning a lot about leadership. Dogs are very tuned in to energy and communicate with each other through it. He describes pack members as having calm and submissive energy while pack leaders are calm and assertive. Submissive in this context means the willingness to follow and be led rather than the human associations we have with the word that are undesirable such as: passive, subservient, meek, acquiescent, docile, etc. Pack Leader – calm and assertive; pack member – calm and submissive. Not a bad business culture model. Let’s learn what we can from man’s best friend and see what we can apply to our work and home life (think kids here).