Cesar Millan's dog-training principles translate surprisingly well to human leadership. Nine lessons.

1. Calm assertive energy beats anxious or aggressive. Leaders who are calm under pressure are followed.
2. Body language before words. Humans read leadership from stance, pace, and composure before content.
3. Exercise, discipline, affection — in that order. Millan's sequence for dogs also applies to teams: shared exertion, clear expectations, then recognition.
4. Rules, boundaries, and limitations. Dogs and teams both thrive with clear constraints.
5. Don't project anxiety onto the follower. Anxious leaders produce anxious teams.
6. Correct the behaviour, not the being. Separate person from behaviour — critical in both domains.
7. Consistency matters more than intensity. Small daily signals outperform rare big gestures.
8. Earn respect; don't demand it. Authority demanded is obeyed briefly; authority earned is followed long-term.
9. The follower's state reflects the leader's. A chaotic team has a chaotic leader. Fix the top.

Nine lessons. Cross-domain metaphors often reveal leadership truths that pure management books obscure.