How leaders gain legitimacy

• Be seen as credible to others (members, institutions, public)

• Use coactive and confrontational strategies• Proven through effective decision making• Personal experiences • Do things no one else will

Leaders as organizers

• Campaigns/events• Bringing people together• Started from nothing• Recruiting members• Fundraising• Legislation/Policy

Leaders as decision makers

• Not the same level of authority as other leaders

• Have to influence others• Not the same “power” distribution: w/out

rewards or punishments

Leaders as Symbols

• Captivate audiences• “Face” of the movement• Traits, characteristics related to movement

Charismatic leaders

• Engaging others• Show emotion• Awe inspiring• Providing an example

Leaders expressing “truth”

• Fundamentals and ideals of the movement• Ideology/ies• Texts: writings, speakings

Leaders as pragmatists

• Make movement inclusive• Ensure Secure and stable movement• Survive, succeed, grow

Maintaining leadership

• Mix of attributes: mix of 2-3 essential characteristics

• Handling conflicting roles• Changing as the movement changes• Adapting to events• Leading by not getting too far ahead or behind

Geoffrey CanadaHarlem Children’s Zone Inc.

“Innovative, efficiently run programs that are aimed at doing nothing less than breaking the cycle of generational poverty for the thousands of children and families it serves.”

Majora Carter

Greening the South Bronx

“I believe that you shouldn’t have to leave your neighborhood to live in a better one.”

David Flink

Project Eye-to-Eye

“I had a feeling of hopelessness and of being left out of education as a whole.”

Darell Hammond

KaBOOM!

In August 1995, Hammond noticed a small item in the Washington Post that 2 children had suffocated in southeast DC playing in an abandoned car.

Zainab Salbi

Women for Women International

The daughter of Saddam Hussein’s personal pilot, she helps women around the world access job training, loans, and support to make them self sufficient.

Paul Rieckhoff (former Army Lieutenant who assisted at Ground Zero on 9/11)

Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America

“I was outraged by the direction of the country and the way veterans were treated upon their return to the United States. I saw a country that did not understand the war, the military, and the plight of veterans.”

Dr. Eboo Patel

Interfaith Youth Core

Believes that the central question of the 21st century is how young people from different religions will interact: will they build bombs of destruction or bridges of cooperation?

Things to think about while watching the videos: All Groups

• How did this leader gain the right to lead/legitimacy?

• If you could ask this person one question, what would it be?

Things to think about while watching the videos: Group A

• How is this leader an organizer?

• What do you see that is charismatic?

Things to think about while watching the videos: Group B

• What does this leader make decisions about?

• How does this person express the “truth” of the movement?

Things to think about while watching the videos: Group C

• How is this leader a symbol for the movement?

• How is this person a pragmatist?