Leadership can be defined in a number of different
ways. Peter F. Drucker stated,
“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” And
Dwight Eisenhower said, “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do
something you want done because he wants to do it.” I’m here to tell you that they’re WRONG! Nice try, but true leadership is convincing
or manipulating others to think that YOUR goal is their common goal.
Leaders are born. In Star Wars, you can’t just learn the force;
you must be born with it. According to Davis Miller, an Imperial Stormtrooper out of Baltimore, MD, stated, "You must be
born with midichlorians to experience the force and they determine the ceiling
of your potential." As great of a person
Han Solo was; he will never be able to move things with his mind. If you look at Han Solo’s destiny when he
tried to be a leader and he ended up trapped alive in carbonite. Not to mention, every leader at some point
was born.
Manipulation; not open communication. In my professional opinion, manipulation is
what made Obama such a great leader. He
convinces Americans that the economy is going to be fine when it’s clearly in a
downward spiral. He sold Americans that
he would take us out of the war only to expand it to other countries. None of this progression would be possible
without the leadership of Obama. In
“Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure”, they provide the most excellent proof of
great leadership by manipulating some of the world’s most influential people
into traveling through time to do their report.
Needless to say, they passed.
Top leadership structures are top down. Think of a ladder. The leader is always the person on the top of
the ladder and since he found his way up there, you should listen to him*
because his view is awesome.
Authority grants great leadership. It is much easier to make people follow you
than to ask them to follow you. Like
I’ve always been told, “you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it
drink…unless you hold a gun to its head.”
“Lord of the Rings” is another great example of authoritative
leadership. Sauron didn’t have any
problem with rebellion from his army because they knew their fate if they
rebelled. Not to mention, Sauron’s army
was much more badass than the elves.
Principles cause problems.
What happens when have to choose between your principles and the easy
road? Obviously it’d be easier to go with
the easy road! Say, for instance, you
hold honesty as one of your principles and you are leading an army into battle
where death is certain; what are the chances that they’ll follow you? Not very.
You must guarantee they will live and be back for supper.
In conclusion, I’m RIGHT and the popular majority is WRONG.
*I use the masculine “him” because the only leaders are men.
You left out sexuality
ReplyDeletedude it's 'midichlorians', with an R. also, i'd like to make it publicly known that the sentences referencing star wars before "han solo" are verbatim plagiarized from me.
ReplyDeleteBobby, I left out sexuality because I thought it was obvious that only men can become leaders. For those who weren't sure if women could be leaders, I made a quick reference at the bottom to make it clear that they can't...not at all.
ReplyDeleteDavis, Correction: I plagiarized that from George Lucas and you. Also, I referenced you in my Twitter.
I'm not sure what Bobby means, but he's right if he's inferring that sexuality can be a major part of Leadership. The more people you have sex with, the more people are afraid of your power and the more people will submit to you. That's just a proven fact. So you automatically become a great leader. Bonus.
ReplyDeleteDavis, thanks for teaching Jamie a valuable lesson on right and wrong. Jamie, when you use someone else's verbatim you need to give them credit in the place you used it, not on a separate social network.
Kate, valid points.
ReplyDeleteDavis, I went through the correct social network and made the necessary changes. I hope you're happy, haha.