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LEADERSHIP
The Dark Side Of Leadership
6 things leaders don’t like to admit
"With great power comes great responsibility”
- Uncle Ben, Spider-Man (and maybe Voltaire at some point)
There is a lot of crap said about leadership. Don’t get me wrong organisations need leaders. But they also need a lot of other competencies as much if not more. After all how many leaders do we need? But very few ‘roles’ encourage as much boring self-aggranylsis (TM) than the concept of leadership. So in an attempt to return some balance to a subject I love. Here’s a list of the things that even good leaders will do at some point.
- You will use your power over others to suppress them
Yep. You are Darth Vader. OK perhaps that is an exaggeration. But at some point someone will be too enthusiastic, too traditional, too innovative, too structured or too ‘something’, to get the job done. And the chances are you won’t leave it up to them to decide when and how they should use this potentially useful and positive attribute. You will tell them to stop. And if you didn’t have the power of your status, relative to theirs, you probably wouldn’t dare. Congratulations, for all the right reasons, you chose power over logic.
