You should be suspicious of people who want to be in a position of leadership. Leadership should happen naturally as a result of group nomination and reluctant acceptance. There are many people who believe being in charge is about exerting your will on others. When in reality leadership is a burden of carrying and balancing everyone else’s desires in an effort to make everyone under your stewardship content. If you ever meet a person pining for power thinking he or she should be in charge, that person will be actively harmful in any leadership role you or the group may be dumb enough to put them in. Good leaders are competent and capable and they are selected on that basis. Not because they want to be chief bossy person in charge. That’s just some petty tyrant. Know the difference.

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1776 yesterday
The contentedness of the group is rarely what’s best for the group. Imagine trying to lead a group of men toward a high risk objective in a military conflict, where everyone knows there will be losses. The guys doing the highest risk parts of the mission don’t need to be content. They just need to love the man next to them enough to place his survival in front of their own.
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Benking yesterday
Absolutely agree. A true leader doesn’t chase power; they accept responsibility. The person who craves control usually isn’t looking to serve others, they’re looking to rule them. Leadership is earned through trust, not demanded by ego.
@HODL the people i trust most in bitcoin are the ones who keep saying they do not speak for it. i have watched a couple of them get pushed toward a microphone and go quieter instead.
This speaks to an experience I had this past spring/summer from a different perspective. A friend of mine had been asking for help in getting his business set up for success. He wanted me to be his "shop manager" a foreman type position. After 6 months of him asking me to come work for him last year, I agreed. I started working with him, but he had me working totally isolated from the rest of the techs in the shop on projects that didn't give me any experience on what the techs were doing. The result, he asked me if I was ready to take on the shop and I had to tell him no... I told him he had a better fit in the shop and needed to utilize the individual who has demonstrated those leadership qualities already. I knew that being thrust upon the techs as an arbitrary manager selected through nepotism was not going to work. Unfortunately, we are the weird ones. I say "we", referring to the bitcoiners who live by the principles we've developed on our journey. 8 years ago, I probably would have jumped at the opportunity and never let go of that power. It really is true what they say "You can't change Bitcoin, Bitcoin changes you".
It can be. Usually in a small group. In a large group the leadership role is usually about not allowing discontent to spread
Says the guy that decided to be Trump’s Nostr campaign manager 😂
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Teo yesterday
This happened to me. I just wanted to play music and somehow ended up as the Executive Director of a non-profit. Kicking and screaming the whole way 😅
Leaders are the ones that lead by example everyday. All we have now in corporate talking heads who tow beauricratic policies.... Not people who know how to complete the job and get in the trenches to accomplish the mission. As someone who's been in the corporate world for far too long, there's a lot of neuance to this but I totally agree.
Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. ~Frank Herbert
To have any validity, this analysis must apply to those who run for office to enrich themselves and to avoid prison. The Cheetoh In Chief comes to mind.
It's about bringing beauty into the world. Absolutely not about contentment. Of course we would all hate leadership if it were about trying to maximize everyone's utility (contentment).
That's the error that Game of Thrones made with Bran. A reluctant leader is not always a good leader. Passion isn't evil.
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Socrates 21 hours ago
People capable to lead don't want to (unless absolutely necessary) and people that don't have any clue how to lead, always try to (and usually get the chance).
Socrates spent decades in Athens questioning everyone (plebs and elite) about justice, piety, and knowledge. He wrote nothing, founded no formal school, sought no office, and accepted no payment. He walked a path, alone. Taight what he thought. And died for his beliefs. In his wake, he left the Socratic Method, Aristotle's teachings and western civilization. The Trivium is a direct result of one man, who walked a path then people followed. Not a leader, but a pioneer.
Yes, I relate to this extremely hard having run a gameserver for so long. I am the "Starts his own thing" kinda leader, although also the one who gets granted power due to being useful. On my server if they want admin? 99% of the time that ends terribly. I have given people benefit of the doubt in the past, never goes well. If I choose someone as admin its maybe a 40% chance it goes well, but at least that is a lot higher number. Some of them quit the game sooner than i'd expect or still abuse when given power, but usually I know who to pick and its the first case where the admin is just less active than I expected. But theres so many who want power and will pretend to be helpful in exchange. While in reality they could have done the exact same thing without the power by just reporting things to me and giving people help in the game. Hard thing for people to understand when they are power trippers.
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Majestic Entity 13 hours ago
sucked when he was revealed as a zionist puppet and sacrificing americas well being, american lives, american resources; in favor of a group of people that claim to be "israel"?
Good leaders lead themselves like a team first, @HODL. You can find a leader, even if they're bad, by their numerology. For instance, my soul urge of 1 makes me a leader. However, in Vox Day's Socio-Sexual Hierarchy, I happened to be a Gamma (almost Delta, though). In my case, a Gamma who's self-directed and anti-coercion. Otherwise, my intelligence is quite high (I have a 145 max due to adversarial collaboration and prompting with LLMs), I'm not fat (most Gammas are), and I have PDA (that's a part of autism). I would also be disruptive to the workplace, because I'd question everything on a moral, lawful, and ethical basis, and not get stuff done unless everything was proven good.
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jhog57 8 hours ago
anyone who seek to be a leader clearly doesn’t deserve it.