thoughts on leadership

[2eclipse]

i have been doing a lot of thinking about this subject lately. So i'm wondering...

Do you see yourself as a leader in your workplace, social group, family or community?
What are the leadership skills you value most in yourself? in others?
Do you like leading or do you prefer to follow?
Do you think the same things make for a good leader of a small group and a large group?
What makes for a bad leader?

Comments

[kfringe.livejournal.com]

Those are not exclusive criteria.

[2eclipse.livejournal.com]

and you seem too busy to give a satisfying answer.

[kfringe.livejournal.com]

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.

[2eclipse.livejournal.com]

that is a MUCH more satisfying answer.