Leadership Roles

The right 'Man' for the right job.*

How often does it seem that the boss thinks he can do everything better than everyone else.

And this same boss shies away from delegating for fear that the person delegated will not do a good job, or will even make a career-felling error or mistake the message they are supposed to be presenting.

So too it seems that Presidents also fear that their lackeys cannot match up to the roles they have been given.

No tariff agreement can be made without his direct involvement!
No peace can be settled without his direct involvement!
No ceremony can be hosted without him doing it himself!

And this must be the final straw!!!

A boss must be on point — always aware of what is going on and making carefully considered decisions to drive the narrative so that the best possible outcome is achieved.

I guess that a certain Steve Jobs set a dangerous precedent when he stood up and presented the revolutionary iPod, then the iDevices that followed. It was the man himself that sold the product, the innovation — and this is now seen as a vital marketing ploy, leveraging what sells.

Following up on this success has been the norm for leaders from Amazon, NVIDIA, Apple (again) and a great many others. But to think that the President of the US feels it necessary to host a Smithsonian premier presentation seems absurd, to say the least.

I guess he must have gotten a taste for this during the Club World Cup ceremony where his attempts to steal the limelight seemed ridiculous at best.

But then again, there is the other type of Boss.

Yep — the one that knows nothing and prefers to steal their lackey’s ideas and sell them as their own.

So which is the worst, you might ask?

Neither is particularly wholesome. Theirs is simply the desire to win at all cost, to keep the spotlight pointed solely on them.

It’s kind of sad to think that so much could be achieved — for both company and country — if the right people adopted the right attitudes and did the right thing for everybody.

Perhaps too much emphasis is placed on fame, on being the star, the best, constantly at the top.

I despair of such a need and would expect, in a perfect world, to never have to see this at all.

But this is not a perfect world.

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