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Originally Posted by Pretzel
by elections in the fall.
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Originally Posted by The other Gabe
popular election
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Originally Posted by Sperkowsky
we would do voted elections
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Its like every other team uses elections!
Here is what happens if you force your group to
elect a leader:
Narcissistic Personalities Tend to Emerge as Leaders. That is a good and a bad thing, you just need to make sure the right qualities emerge, and make sure you have the right support organization in place.
The
Harvard Business Review points out that there are two types of Narcissists, Productive ones, and Unproductive ones. Embrace the strengths by quickly developing the following upon the election of your leader.
1)
A Team Vision (there are plenty of docs in the CD-Media library to surf through,
HBR has some great tips too. What you want is a macro-strategy document to say this is what we are going to do and your short term action plan for how to do it ("Create the best STEM team ever", something like that). Make it a powerpoint! Or find an innovative way to do this.
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Make your team loud. Narcissistic leaders are often skillful orators, and this is one of the talents that makes them so charismatic. Do fun things to grow your team, and grow your resources, let your leaders sell the vision you just created. If you want to do well you need the 5 M's. Money, Machinery, Materials, Mentors and Masses. Start small, recruit more students, then build up to mentors, then materials, then machinery, then money.
HBR highlighted there are downsides to this, so the rest of the teamneeds to make sure the team ensures success
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Develop a leadership council early to make sure you outline the path to success for the team. You want major stakeholders in the team to advise your team captain on future endeavors.
4) Read the rest of this
https://hbr.org/2004/01/narcissistic...nevitable-cons
To make sure you minimize the inevitable cons.