Goals can and do change. For one thing: you expect to achieve them. Loyalty to the people who put their trust in you is always paramount. Accepting a leadership role means accepting responsibility to and for the people who follow you. If there are situations in which a leader must ask someone to make a sacrifice, that person should trust that he is not being discarded callously. Treating people as nothing more than replaceable tools is contemptible.
Ideas are only tangential to the practice. Ideas may inform your goals, or attract you to following someone who shares them, but a man with loyalty only to ideas should be considered a danger rather than a leader.
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Date: 2006-10-20 09:05 pm (UTC)Ideas are only tangential to the practice. Ideas may inform your goals, or attract you to following someone who shares them, but a man with loyalty only to ideas should be considered a danger rather than a leader.