Greetings good citizen, what makes a 'leader'? How do we know the individual has the 'presence of mind' to weigh all of the factors, devise a workable plan then execute that plan successfully [last part is key.]
Currently the answer is we don't. We don't because the people running to be our 'leaders' don't have a track record of solving the kind of problems civilization is likely to face.
Why is this important? A 'good' leader leaves the world a better place than when they started, a bad leader tears it apart because they are either myopic or inept. [Like your typical Trump appointee.]
Political appointees aside and the perils of living under a sockpuppet/rubber stamp government (where the true power rests with myopic oligarchs) how do we 'elect' competent decision-makers?
Short answer is WE DON'T.
Under A Simple Plan ALL occupations lead to the top. Like now, recent graduates start at the bottom, doing the grunt work so they can observe how things get done. In many cases, college won't be 'necessary'. You'll learn what you need to know on the job and you'll [like now] be trained in the local way of doing things. [Different environmental factors result in procedural differences in otherwise standard practices.]
Which is to point out what most of you already know. College is a social club where you meet people you wouldn't ordinarily run into and form relationships that could yield lifelong benefits.
Educational? Certainly. Necessary? Hardly.
While you can learn about management styles and leadership traits, either you have it or you don't. Like Stupid, ignorance can be a stubborn disease, often defying your best efforts to eradicate it.
Only the 'adept' can internalize the mechanics of good management practices. Fools will try to 'mold' them to fit their mindset [the way they think things should be rather than the way they are] but a 'natural' leader will work within what's possible to achieve optimum results.
Sometimes optimum is pretty dismal but you can only do so much with a sow's ear...
Leadership is also defined by the ability to recognize and work with 'reality'.
Some of you have already picked up on the idea that your reputation [both on and off the shop floor] will affect your effectiveness as a leader.
The golden axiom for any leader is to 'lead by example' which means never asking anyone to do what you wouldn't do yourself. [This separates the adults from the children...and people who should never be given authority over another!]
So if you're a dick to deal with socially you aren't fooling anyone by pretending to be a 'team player' at work. {Zero irony should be lost on the fact that Dick's go to phrase is 'be a team player' even when they are taking a steaming dump on YOU. He want's everybody else to think he didn't single you out for crap detail.
Under ASP Dick gets his...by being denied promotion. If you're the personification of 'difficult to work with' you aren't fooling anyone and it will show when the tests for promotion are held. [Where your co-workers get to state who they think is a good candidate to replace the incumbent...]
Smart shines and you already instinctively know who to ask when something doesn't look right. Leaders stand out from the pack, mostly because they're 'focused'.
Only half the loaf...often times someone might be a crackerjack at one aspect of a job but you wouldn't eat lunch with them if you knew they made it. This is also why some people become 'fixtures' in certain aspects of an operation. It's what they're good at and they are 'happy' there.
Lots of 'one trick ponies' out there [and some of them are full of themselves.] Sometimes taking 'ownership' a lot further than is, er, 'frugal'.
Don't be 'that guy' either, a competent leader listens [to everyone.]
But that's what the tests are for, they test both your technical competence AND your character [honesty] as well.
Heads up: if you 'waffle' an answer it's an automatic 'red flag'.
FULL STOP:
You get where this is headed...EVERY job leads to the Presidency or leadership of our species {ASP is designed to operate globally} so some of you must think it's a bit shady that the future president should start off emptying the trash but I'd rather have a leader that had walked even a few steps in my shoes than one who would look at me like I was an alien from another planet because our backgrounds were so different. [Like those presented to us as potential leaders today...]
Some of you [foolishly] believe Donald Trump is the kind of guy you could sit down and have a beer with...understand the idea itself would horrify HIM! [you go to his house you put booties on so you don't scratch the floors...bet you money you don't have to do that at your house!
Zero irony is lost on how W was billed by the media kingmakers as a man you could sit down and have a beer with...what they left out is it would be like drinking alone, the man didn't have a thought in his head!
Do I need to explain the IMPORTANCE of having leadership that appreciates HOW YOU LIVE and what's important to YOU?
If YOU should be concerned about ANYTHING, it is the huge piles of money sitting on the sidelines with NO PLACE TO GO!
They built China from the ground up, remodeled India and sold them the 'Western Lifestyle' [Notice how most commercials are shot in Bollywood these days? [with Indian talent?]
There is nothing to invest in. Taxpayer funded infrastructure that capitalism relies on isn't going to happen as they let America slide into the cesspool they made for it. [This is meant to be a 'lesson' for the Liberals that had the balls to stop monopolies and trusts. It is also 'payback' for raising the income tax to 90% on incomes over a million.]
Trump, like W. and Obama all 'talked' about rebuilding battered and ancient American infrastructure but all they DID is pave a few freeways, snarling traffic while the roads still need to be bombed just to smooth out the potholes!
Did I mention mismanagement? [Nevermind the trillions sitting offshore that NOBODY is doing anything about!]
This is what you get when you ALLOW a segment of society to treat itself like it's 'better' than the rest.
Only the feckless media loves Royalty, the rest of us find it a 'curiosity'. Disney was built on Princesses but hell, they are all CARTOON princesses!
You don't really want to be ruled by someone who grew up thinking THEY were a cartoon princess?
Well, don't look now cuz guess who is in the Oval Office...
Since we will vote directly on the law, we will no longer 'vote' for our leaders, the job demands competence and that's something popularity contests suck at proving.
Worse, the electorate agrees that the 'standards' for who gets to run for national office have slipped below even our parent's abysmal level.
Since commerce IS society, decision makers directly from the world of commerce [not profits before people commerce or commerce that exists to enrich shareowners [funny how 'own' has become a 'bad word' and companies are substituting just about anything to avoid the negative connotations because nobody want to 'own' the downside...which is coming on like a freight train!]
Let our leaders PROVE they have the chops to handle the job by building a track record of problem resolution and teambuilding as well as besting their 12 'rivals' in the competition to be Leader of the human race!
No more 'incompetents' that only represent the worst of us.
Thanks once again for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
Currently the answer is we don't. We don't because the people running to be our 'leaders' don't have a track record of solving the kind of problems civilization is likely to face.
Why is this important? A 'good' leader leaves the world a better place than when they started, a bad leader tears it apart because they are either myopic or inept. [Like your typical Trump appointee.]
Political appointees aside and the perils of living under a sockpuppet/rubber stamp government (where the true power rests with myopic oligarchs) how do we 'elect' competent decision-makers?
Short answer is WE DON'T.
Under A Simple Plan ALL occupations lead to the top. Like now, recent graduates start at the bottom, doing the grunt work so they can observe how things get done. In many cases, college won't be 'necessary'. You'll learn what you need to know on the job and you'll [like now] be trained in the local way of doing things. [Different environmental factors result in procedural differences in otherwise standard practices.]
Which is to point out what most of you already know. College is a social club where you meet people you wouldn't ordinarily run into and form relationships that could yield lifelong benefits.
Educational? Certainly. Necessary? Hardly.
While you can learn about management styles and leadership traits, either you have it or you don't. Like Stupid, ignorance can be a stubborn disease, often defying your best efforts to eradicate it.
Only the 'adept' can internalize the mechanics of good management practices. Fools will try to 'mold' them to fit their mindset [the way they think things should be rather than the way they are] but a 'natural' leader will work within what's possible to achieve optimum results.
Sometimes optimum is pretty dismal but you can only do so much with a sow's ear...
Leadership is also defined by the ability to recognize and work with 'reality'.
Some of you have already picked up on the idea that your reputation [both on and off the shop floor] will affect your effectiveness as a leader.
The golden axiom for any leader is to 'lead by example' which means never asking anyone to do what you wouldn't do yourself. [This separates the adults from the children...and people who should never be given authority over another!]
So if you're a dick to deal with socially you aren't fooling anyone by pretending to be a 'team player' at work. {Zero irony should be lost on the fact that Dick's go to phrase is 'be a team player' even when they are taking a steaming dump on YOU. He want's everybody else to think he didn't single you out for crap detail.
Under ASP Dick gets his...by being denied promotion. If you're the personification of 'difficult to work with' you aren't fooling anyone and it will show when the tests for promotion are held. [Where your co-workers get to state who they think is a good candidate to replace the incumbent...]
Smart shines and you already instinctively know who to ask when something doesn't look right. Leaders stand out from the pack, mostly because they're 'focused'.
Only half the loaf...often times someone might be a crackerjack at one aspect of a job but you wouldn't eat lunch with them if you knew they made it. This is also why some people become 'fixtures' in certain aspects of an operation. It's what they're good at and they are 'happy' there.
Lots of 'one trick ponies' out there [and some of them are full of themselves.] Sometimes taking 'ownership' a lot further than is, er, 'frugal'.
Don't be 'that guy' either, a competent leader listens [to everyone.]
But that's what the tests are for, they test both your technical competence AND your character [honesty] as well.
Heads up: if you 'waffle' an answer it's an automatic 'red flag'.
FULL STOP:
You get where this is headed...EVERY job leads to the Presidency or leadership of our species {ASP is designed to operate globally} so some of you must think it's a bit shady that the future president should start off emptying the trash but I'd rather have a leader that had walked even a few steps in my shoes than one who would look at me like I was an alien from another planet because our backgrounds were so different. [Like those presented to us as potential leaders today...]
Some of you [foolishly] believe Donald Trump is the kind of guy you could sit down and have a beer with...understand the idea itself would horrify HIM! [you go to his house you put booties on so you don't scratch the floors...bet you money you don't have to do that at your house!
Zero irony is lost on how W was billed by the media kingmakers as a man you could sit down and have a beer with...what they left out is it would be like drinking alone, the man didn't have a thought in his head!
Do I need to explain the IMPORTANCE of having leadership that appreciates HOW YOU LIVE and what's important to YOU?
If YOU should be concerned about ANYTHING, it is the huge piles of money sitting on the sidelines with NO PLACE TO GO!
They built China from the ground up, remodeled India and sold them the 'Western Lifestyle' [Notice how most commercials are shot in Bollywood these days? [with Indian talent?]
There is nothing to invest in. Taxpayer funded infrastructure that capitalism relies on isn't going to happen as they let America slide into the cesspool they made for it. [This is meant to be a 'lesson' for the Liberals that had the balls to stop monopolies and trusts. It is also 'payback' for raising the income tax to 90% on incomes over a million.]
Trump, like W. and Obama all 'talked' about rebuilding battered and ancient American infrastructure but all they DID is pave a few freeways, snarling traffic while the roads still need to be bombed just to smooth out the potholes!
Did I mention mismanagement? [Nevermind the trillions sitting offshore that NOBODY is doing anything about!]
This is what you get when you ALLOW a segment of society to treat itself like it's 'better' than the rest.
Only the feckless media loves Royalty, the rest of us find it a 'curiosity'. Disney was built on Princesses but hell, they are all CARTOON princesses!
You don't really want to be ruled by someone who grew up thinking THEY were a cartoon princess?
Well, don't look now cuz guess who is in the Oval Office...
Since we will vote directly on the law, we will no longer 'vote' for our leaders, the job demands competence and that's something popularity contests suck at proving.
Worse, the electorate agrees that the 'standards' for who gets to run for national office have slipped below even our parent's abysmal level.
Since commerce IS society, decision makers directly from the world of commerce [not profits before people commerce or commerce that exists to enrich shareowners [funny how 'own' has become a 'bad word' and companies are substituting just about anything to avoid the negative connotations because nobody want to 'own' the downside...which is coming on like a freight train!]
Let our leaders PROVE they have the chops to handle the job by building a track record of problem resolution and teambuilding as well as besting their 12 'rivals' in the competition to be Leader of the human race!
No more 'incompetents' that only represent the worst of us.
Thanks once again for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
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