#leaders #tyrants #leadership #power #servants #sychophants
Leaders look for win-win situations.
Tyrants always want to win and always want their opponents to lose.
Leaders build teams and help each member of the team succeed.
Tyrants acquire servants, whose only job is to please the tyrant.
As tyrants acquire servants, leaders serve their teams.
Leaders don’t care whether they get credit for success. They ALWAYS take the blame for failure.
Tyrants only want all the credit for success and none of the blame for failure.
Leaders’ strength is not always shown, and they are OK with that. They are never cruel.
Tyrants love to show “strength” through cruelty, implying that everyone else is weak.
Leaders always want to accomplish, whether the accomplishments are obvious or not.
Tyrants always want the “show” of success, regardless of whether what they are doing accomplishes anything worthwhile.
Leaders look for good, qualified people, regardless of their opinions about the leader.
Tyrants look for sycophants, whose main qualification is an opinion that matches the tyrant’s.
Leaders make mistakes and admit to them.
Tyrants, in their minds, make no mistakes. Only others make mistakes.
Leaders create worlds around them in which everyone benefits, regardless of how much the leader benefits.
Tyrants create worlds with them at the center, with only the tyrant and those loyal to the tyrant benefiting.
Leaders give and get.
Tyrants only take.
Leaders know that helping others succeed is the only way to their success.
Tyrants only want others to help THEM succeed.
Leaders never look over their shoulders. If someone better comes along, so be it. The leader likely helped that person succeed.
Tyrants always look over their shoulders. If someone better comes along, he or she is a fraud, in the tyrants’ minds.
Who would you prefer at the top? Sometimes, what is an obvious answer does not translate as such to the populace.
But, as the populace is fooled, they can then get hurt.
It’s always best to choose those who know how to succeed properly. It’s always best to choose the unselfish, servant leader.
Peter
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DON’T CONFUSE BULLIES WITH LEADERS
#leaders #bullies #leadership #success
Leaders don’t have to know everything.
They only have to know what they don’t know, find people who do know and create a space/atmosphere for them to do their best work.
A leader doesn’t have to be an expert in the company/agency he or she is leading. He or she has to make sure the people he or she is leading – the actual experts – have what they need to do their best work. The leader also may have to defend and support the work being done in the company or agency.
A leader also has to embrace the mission of the company/agency he or she is leading.
Bullies, on the other hand, do not lead. They tear things down. They denigrate the people within the company or agency. They don’t embrace the agency’s or company’s mission. In fact, they want the agency or company to do the opposite of what it is supposed to do.
Strong leaders don’t always show their strength. They often exercise strength behind the scenes, and always in an effort to help those they are leading.
Bullies want their “strength” on display. They often deploy their “strength” by acting against those whom they are supposed to lead. In such a situation, people usually get hurt and the company or agency crumbles.
Leaders know their success doesn’t come strictly on their efforts. They know it takes a team to pull off success, and are eager to credit that team with the success. If there are failures along the way, leaders take the blame themselves, and take responsibility for the repairs.
Bullies believe they are the only ones who can achieve success, and those under them merely do as they say. They credit no one but themselves for success, and only blame others for failures.
While the leaders work diligently to help others succeed, bullies work only to help others fail, so they can claim success.
Leaders lift people up. Bullies beat people down, to paraphrase a campaign theme from the recent U.S. election.
Bullies are skilled at breaking things. They are less skilled at building, or rebuilding, things.
Leaders try not to break anything, but, instead try to build or rebuild with existing structures, materials and people.
Indeed, some things must be torn down to rebuild. Bullies do that for sport. Leaders do that only when necessary, to try to save as much of what was there as possible.
Most of us have worked for leaders. Some of us have worked for bullies. If you are an aspiring leader working for a bully, you may have to cut your losses and find a leader(s) to work for. You’ll learn from a bully how not to be, and learn from a leader how to be.
The bully’s apparent “strength” hides overwhelming weakness. Over that so-called muscle is very thin skin.
Bullies have to look over their shoulders constantly, lest they be sabotaged. Leaders have to observe their teams constantly so they can learn more, support more and advocate more.
If you are put in charge of something, choose to be a leader. It’s safer for you and better for your organization.
In golf, the player lets the club do most, if not all, the work, while providing the best swing possible. In leadership, the leader lets the team do most, if not all, the work, while providing the best atmosphere possible.
Peter