The Essential Leadership Model
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2023
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2023
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The Essential Leadership Model is a revisioning of leadership, systems, narrative, dependence, and independence for leading in the Related-world. The Related-world approach transcends the Indigenous single-world, the Western single-world, and other Two-world models. It recognizes that all these systems have benefits and faults. Related-world leaders recognize paradoxes in their own system and the other systems at their periphery. They are willing to change or reinvent their approach based on new knowledge from other systems and leaders.
ELM provides leaders with a framework to better understand and tell their leadership story. ELM provides the Essential knowledge to enhance their skills, create a network of others (Seedsters) that are similarly looking to be better innovators and catalysts for the change that is necessary. ELM pulls leadership understanding from many sources; the Indigenous Medicine Wheel, the PDCA cycle in business, the Adaptive Cycle of environmental systems, to create a new way forward using the growth cycle of the Elm tree.
ELM is for those that travel through the world as leaders but are ready to grow to a new level. A level of growth they know is there, but they cannot identify just where ‘there’ is or how to get ‘there’―whatever ‘there’ is for them. This book introduces a leadership model to get leaders to ‘there’.
Tree Lore
Seeds (Definitions)
The Essential Leadership Model
Acknowledgements
About the Authors
CHAPTER 1: THE STORY OF BUDDY AND RAVEN
1.1 INTRODUCTION
1.2 ALL MY RELATIONS—IT’S ALL RELATED
1.3 A POST-RECONCILIATION FRAMEWORK
1.4 PLANTING A NEW FOREST―THE STORY OF BUDDY AND RAVEN
1.5 BUDDY―A WESTERN SEED
1.6 RAVEN―AN INDIGENOUS SEED
1.7 ELM: A LEADERSHIP RETHINK
CHAPTER 2: THE RELATED-WORLD: PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS
2.1 SYSTEMS, THE METASYSTEM, AND THE ESSENTIAL LEADERSHIP MODEL— OPENING PERSPECTIVES
2.2 A WESTERN SYSTEMS PERSPECTIVE: THE ADAPTIVE CYCLE
2.3 AN INDIGENOUS SYSTEMS PERSPECTIVE: THE MEDICINE WHEEL
2.4 RELATED-WORLD PERSPECTIVE: ELM
CHAPTER 3: THE SEED AND THE SEEDSTER
3.1 THE EMERGENCE OF THE SEEDSTER
3.2 CARRYING THE SEEDS
3.3 EMBRACING CROSS-CULTURAL ASSETS
3.4 ELEVATION AND CULTURAL BLINDNESS
3.5 CULTURAL ASSETS ON THEIR MERITS
3.6 RECEIVING THE GIFT OF CURIOSITY
3.7 NEW LEADERSHIP ASSETS ABOUND
CHAPTER 4: NUTRIENT GROUPS AND GROWTH GOALS
4.1 THE SOIL NUTRIENTS GROUP
4.2 THE ROOTS NUTRIENTS GROUP
4.3 THE TRUNK NUTRIENTS GROUP
4.4 THE BRANCH NUTRIENTS GROUP
CHAPTER 5: THE ESSENTIAL NUTRIENTS
5.1 ABSTRACTISM
5.2 REALISM
5.3 HOLISM
5.4 REDUCTIONISM
5.5 RESPONSIBILITY
5.6 ALIGNMENT
5.7 LANGUAGE
5.8 CEREMONY
5.9 CLARITY
5.10 MARKINGS
5.11 LIVING
5.12 CELEBRATION
5.13 TOOLS
5.14 TECHNIQUES
5.15 EVALUATION
5.16 STORIES
CHAPTER 6: GROWTH
6.1 THE ELM METASYSTEM
6.2 THE ELM G.R.O.W.T.H. PROCESS
6.3 ONE-WORLD AND TWO-WORLD OUTCOMES
CHAPTER 7: THE RELATED-WORLD RECIPROCITY PROCESS
7.1 RECIPROCAL SOCIETIES
7.2 NO-EXIT OR EASY EXIT: UNDERSTANDING YOUR SYSTEM FROM WITHIN
7.3 THE ELM RECIPROCITY PROCESS
7.4 RECIPROCITY PROCESS OUTCOMES
CHAPTER 8: TELLING YOUR STORY
DON G. MCINTYRE (“RAVEN”)
Don’s parents were Scottish and Algonquin; his father’s family came from Tiree. By his mother, he is Anishinaabe, from the Timiskaming Nation. Don was adopted into the Potlatch by the Dangeli family of the Beaver Clan and was gifted a Blackfoot name by Elder Tom Crane Bear. He spent much of his life working to reconcile the position of Aboriginal populations in Canada.
As a painter in the traditional style of his territories, Don juxtaposes contemporary visions and themes into works for a broader, general audience and incorporates them into his teaching. Working with the Nisga’a, he has provided opportunities to be part of the creation team making totem poles, ocean canoes, and other projects.
Don worked for a large international law firm in corporate litigation, and eventually ran his own law corporation practice focusing on the areas of Aboriginal law and governance, intellectual property, and art law. He has spoken at public schools, colleges, universities, Indigenous nations, and communities around the world in the areas of law, socio-legal pluralism, art and tradition, colonization, Indigenous trans-systemics, social innovation, justice systems, Native American studies, negotiations, and treaty.
Don taught in the Native American Studies department at the University of Lethbridge before moving to the Dhillon Business School in the Faculty of Management as assistant professor in Indigenous governance and business management. Previously he was faculty lead for several programs at The Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in the Aboriginal Leadership and Management Development program. Don holds a bachelor and master of laws degree from UBC Law School and an ABD on his PhD in laws looking at Indigenous trans-systemics, property, and the abilities of Indigenous socio-legal practices to enhance and improve Western legal paradigms.
MURRAY DION (“BUDDY”)
Murray is an entrepreneur, strategic consultant, and visual thinker with more than 40 years of national and international experience in project development, sales, partnership management, and strategic consulting. Throughout his career, he has held leadership positions at Honeywell, Prime, Siemens, Sixdion, Khiasma Health, and Syntolis.
Murray is highly skilled in quickly absorbing complex subjects and challenges in order to develop practical solutions and visual tools to lead teams to deliver results. He is known for his passion, enthusiasm, and ability to develop unique approaches that position individuals and organizations to excel.
In addition to his work with the private sector and governments, he has worked extensively in the Indigenous community for more than 25 years at the strategic, tactical, and operational levels in areas that include leadership development, economic development, health, policing, project management, and strategic consulting. Murray was a faculty member at The Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity from 1999 to 2020, where he lectured on leadership development, strategic planning, tactical planning, and project management. He was also a faculty member at The Logistics Institute’s Executive Certification Program for 5 years, where he lectured on leadership and visual thinking. Murray is a member of two of Algonquin College’s Program Advisory Committees: Business and Project Management.
He lives in Ottawa, Canada, with his wife, Lynn. They enjoy spending time with family at their cottage and the outdoors.