09/17/2017: Travel Log Entry #3Week 3 of Creative Leadership took a trek through nature, and I also took a bit of a detour on this route.
After reading through the weekly overview, I watched some of the videos and some quick reading. Ultimately, I started off with activity 3.2, looking at natural models of leadership. I've embraced the pattern of doing the blogging at the end of the week, as more of a reflection at regular intervals. In researching the 4 models of natural leadership, I found it interesting that for humans, multiple models may work, depending on the situation or type of organization, and we can consciously choose which one might fit best. In nature, the structure of the organization is all performed out of instinct and learned behavior, and the best working model is chosen from natural selection. In addition to the 4 models we looked at, I have also been thinking about the decayers, as mentioned in the introductory video. What role do scavengers/opportunists play in the bigger leadership picture? In blogging and reflections, I am pretty satisfied with the selected blogs I'm following. I might swap out the Daring to Live Fully blog because there are a lot of banner ads and some pseudoscience-y elements, like the wellness shots. Otherwise, the map was a nice way to journey back to some previous trips, and it made me realize that I haven't really been on a long backpacking trip in years, even though it's something I self-prescribed. Looking forward, I liked some of the aspects talked about in the natural leadership PDF's in 3.3. One that stuck out to me was from the BCI publication, where they talked about leaders in sustainability as "Positive Deviants". As a nerd, in DnD, I've always gravitated toward Chaotic Lawful characters, which fit this description well. Maybe these fictional/fantasy locations will end up on my map!
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AuthorAlex Wong, MASD Student Archives
December 2017
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