Nat Turner Leadership Model

In the 2015 film Reversing the Mississippi, viewers are presented with two unconventional leaders within their respective communities. Both of these leaders tackles social problems plaguing certain communities by informing their followers about becoming self-sufficient, whether it be instruction on urban farming to teaching kids how to be able to explore the ins and outs of farming technology and economics. Nat Turner and Marcin Jakubowski, the two leaders discussed in the film, give an excellent example from which to compare Keven Cashman’s model of “leadership from the inside out,” as well as the seven forms of mastery that accompany such a model of leadership.

According to Kevin Cashman’s argument on leadership, he believes, “that leadership

He founded Our School at Blair Grocery in the infamous ninth ward of New Orleans, Louisiana, post Hurricane Katrina. Seeing the vast destruction and subsequent lack of resources and help that students, and people in general were receiving in the wake of a tragic hurricane, Turner founded the school to help the kids in this community become self-sufficient not only for themselves, but for the greater good of the community as a whole. He attempts to achieve this by giving the kids an unusual environment from which to learn, teaching them about farming within an urban capacity, and showing them that learning can happen anywhere, especially outside of a classroom, among other

This pathway, “focuses on understanding and using your gifts and talents to add value to those around you” and “involves seeking ways to move from doing what you ‘have to do’ to doing what you ‘want to do’” (Hackman & Johnson 2013, 192). He exhibits this in the way that his whole mission in starting Open Source Ecology stems from using the knowledge and abilities he has to achieve a greater goal overall. He also shows that he can curtail that “have to do” mentality, as is shown when a volunteer approaches him with an issues of providing incentives to other volunteers to encourage their participation and he bends his initial stance to do something he would like to