Leaders are all around us: in mass media, in meeting rooms, in universities, hospitals, metro, etc. and when we think about various leaders I bet you might find 2 quite clear polarities in today's world:
- leaders that inspire
- and leaders that order
- leaders that care
- and leader who care to be right
- leaders that listen
- and leaders who pay mass-media to push their agenda.
Well, I can continue, but you get the point and the interesting thing is that usually, the first row in each description is more characteristic to one group of leaders and the second row refers to another kind of leaders. Either you see a leader that inspires with new revolutionary ideas, helping others around to develop and grow, or you see narcisistic leaders that thing they are always right and the others are fulls.
In the following paragraphs I want to describe you 2 real leaders, demonstrating those extreamd and let see if you are going to guess who are they. Don't take as one of them is wrong and one of them is right. I just want to show you 2 different models of leadership that drives today socieaty (but if you find another one, let me know in the comments).
So, first leader is an astute and high-risk-high-reward inclined maverick. A revolutionary and fearless thinker who regularly pushes all his chips in for his brilliant vision and an inspiring leader. Unlike a huge number of his contempories (billionaire industrialists) he seems to be motivated by a desire to tackle some of the world's greatest problems, such as for instance: pay safely for things online, make tunnels cheaper to dig and making it easier to get from one city to another, reduce the cost of a satellite launch by 50% (and those are the least knowing things he is driving).He cares about one thing above all else: saving our species. He cares so much about this that it doesn’t matter if people think he’s a jerk.
Second example: He appears to seek the attention and respect of authoritarian dictators, has an alarming history of making racist and xenophobic remarks against Muslims and Mexicans. If somebody had a different opinion than his, he woould even fair them or tell that they are lying. He just didn't care unless if it would profit him. He had a quite significant position, but treated it in his own interests, even involving family memebrs in advicory which created conflict of iterests. He showed skepticism of climate change, slowing down the change to more modern and fussill free cars and encouraging business to be careless about their emissions of CO2.
Have you been able to guess who are those leaders described above? Let me know who do you think they are in the comment ;)
And meanwhile I hope you get inspriring and thoughtfull leaders in your life journey.
KR, Leo Kleo
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