The leaders I have been around fall into 3 categories…mentors, nice but neutral, and tormentors.
Real mentoring is a high bar: an unwavering faith in people mixed with toughness and wisdom. It is the only real place to shoot for.
Tormentors have their own skills: ego-centric and playing a power game they think they understand but don’t. Not the real power.
And our friend Hafiz about 900 years ago in Persia said it well:
The small man builds cages for everyone he knows.
While the sage, who has to duck his head when the moon is low,
Keeps dropping keys all night long for the beautiful rowdy prisoners.
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