What makes a great leader, and how to spot baloney.

[PracticalMac]

Some great articles to read and learn.

What makes a great leader

What makes a great leader, explained in eight counterintuitive charts

A couple of years after starting my most recent company, I had a scary realization. I noticed that by the time the business had grown to a hundred employees, my day-to-day role had gone from “guy who decides and builds things” to “guy who manages other people who decide and build things”—and I...

qz.com

Baloney detector (the PC title for the more well known term)

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/...es-for-********-busting-and-critical-thinking

And to get this link to work, replace the ****** with the common version of "bullstuff"

 

[Hieveryone]

Some great articles to read and learn.

What makes a great leader

What makes a great leader, explained in eight counterintuitive charts

A couple of years after starting my most recent company, I had a scary realization. I noticed that by the time the business had grown to a hundred employees, my day-to-day role had gone from “guy who decides and builds things” to “guy who manages other people who decide and build things”—and I...

qz.com

Baloney detector (the PC title for the more well known term)

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/...es-for-********-busting-and-critical-thinking

And to get this link to work, replace the ****** with the common version of "bullstuff"

Strength and toughness is what makes a great leader, great. Diplomatic when possible, but brutal if necessary.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Strength and toughness is what makes a great leader, great. Diplomatic when possible, but brutal if necessary.

Brutal?

I'd have said ability, judgment, (judgement in choosing colleagues, in choosing which option, or course of action to take, judging when it is appropriate to yield, or to compromise, and when to hold the line), some sense of steel, a rough sense of decency (you are governing for the people, not for yourself), intelligence, integrity, competence, compassion, experience, a sense of fairness, a sense of humour, a life informed by what it means to live an ethical existence, some vision of what can be achieved (for the better) when one is elected to public office.

 

[Hieveryone]

Brutal?

I'd have said ability, judgment, (judgement in choosing colleagues, in choosing which option, or course of action to take, judging when it is appropriate to yield, or to compromise, and when to hold the line), some sense of steel, a rough sense of decency (you are governing for the people, not for yourself), intelligence, integrity, competence, compassion, experience, a sense of fairness, a sense of humour, a life informed by what it means to live an ethical existence, some vision of what can be achieved (for the better) when one is elected to public office.

I’m just speaking from personal experience. Sadly, niceness rarely gets one anywhere in competitive environments, although I do see good around me in everyday life which always is refreshing

 

[PracticalMac]

I’m just speaking from personal experience. Sadly, niceness rarely gets one anywhere in competitive environments, although I do see good around me in everyday life which always is refreshing

Those who always are forceful are jerks and despised.

Teddy had it right, only do that when absolutely necessary.