leadership

what good leadership actually is

any goal that requires course correction from the current path of least resistance in order to succeed requires:

1. A willingness to engage with manifest problems
2. A willingness to identify problems that are unmanifest –maintaining an inner-outer consciousness of the attitudes and beliefs of the people involved as well as the consequences of both failure and success in any action
   1. Basically, you are unwilling to ignore the behaviors and variables that would derail such a correction
3. A willingness to learn how to take a variety of courses of action successful individuals are capable of doing this for themselves first, and can handle goals that require much bigger efforts when working as leaders, implementing the same process on a much larger scale.

we judge leaders on skill first

we often judge leaders on their ability to interact well with others. However, this judgment stems from their skill with people. Ultimately, we will view any leader as effective if they symbolize strength to people the leader acts on behalf of. This can be a high degree of intelligence in the case of engineers or creativity in the case of artists.

however, a leader that intends on making a difference at scale must also exhibit a strong willingness to engage with others and have no aversion to engaging in politics (i.e. the unmanifest). No leader can be fully prepared for the unmanifest, but the ones who are most effective are constantly preparing for it and learning how to take coures of action that they may never even have to use.