RESTORING HUMANS— MASLOW, LEADERSHIP, AND NEURO-SEMANTICS

Fifty years before Persey and Blanchard Popularized Situational Leadership Theory, and Hackman and Walton Popularized Functional Leadership Theory; Abraham Maslow had encountered such concepts during his Anthropological Studies, as he observed The Black Foot Indian Culture of Alberta, Canada. The Black Foot Indians were applying what are considered today to be "developed," "modern" approaches to Leadership and "Organizational" well-being. To them though, as Maslow found out, it wasn't an intellectualized theory as much as it was their Cultural Heritage and Human Legacy passed down from generation to the next. So what kind of culture, society, environment has made such concepts an actualized reality?