Are you a leader or a follower?
I once met a girl who said she was a natural follower.It’s a valid point,she had been in a managerial position three months and hated it so much that she asked for a transfer to her previous position in another area .
Her company asked if she would be willing to be a floating manager,covering sickness as she had the ability and the skills etc,but hated leading or being seen to lead a team of people she knew .In other words, her team of followers had not acted as followers at all but were instead would be leaders.Hence the girl had had a miserable time managing her team.
In the end, she loved being a floating manager because she could do what she was good at without having to manage a team of people who she knew and who thought they knew her.
Following on from that humble example, we have dictators,as per the current situation in Tunisia,where the “laws” of Tunisia have been overturned in order to facilitate “change” in the country.Basically what the President says goes.
In Tunisia today , someone thinks they are a leader,but they can only lead by force or by undermining the constitution of that country .It is potentially very dangerous to believe you have “the right” to lead,particularly for those who oppose your leadership and are no longer protected by the laws of the country.
All the financial ,health ,and business scandals in the UK where I live and that have been unearthed so far have been leader led.
These scandals ,for example Dido Harding “Test and Trace”, Robert Maxwell “Pension Funds Scandal”to mention two.
Billions of Public Money frittered away so that one individual can get a benefit either for themselves, or their friends or their family.
The interesting thing is that these are figure head leaders,bogey men, and bogey women.Put in that position to do the dirty work and then blamed and pilloried and held up as an example.
Leadership in the UK is on the whole faceless and nameless.Things happen, and you never quite know why.That is not healthy either. No one can be accountable, yet our fate is decided.
I suspect these non-leaders follow no one but themselves and are actually convinced that nameless,unaccountable control is a valid aim and that no one would follow them anyway,but they know what’s best for us public and our purses.
So,yes, neither a Leader or Follower be if you want to get ahead or indeed keep your head.
thenotsomightyom 