In my opinion the biggest reason that the American institutions are failing is that people are induced into being "pretend leaders," acting more capable and competent and knowledgable than they really are
A pandemic is not a PR exercise!
Real leaders are fallible
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Replying to @DanielleFong @SamoBurja
Real leaders also have real followers. People that will support them and keep them in confidence. People that will bring them solutions and also help enact the bigger picture. When the base is trying to erode the top in order to take its place, the entire structure crumbles.
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this is what happens when there's an obsessive focus on leadership as a strength and virtue, which places a high value on guiding everyone to try to be a leader "leadership" over "organization" just ends in some fucked king of the hill game
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I think the balance is leader-followers. A good org has autonomy but structure. Reporting and accountability but freedom of movement. Like a railroad or building, structure has to have wiggle room. The most difficult, overlooked imo is mental burden, relief. Resource modeling.
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ngl, I don't think you can get there within capitalism as is, the focus on leadership makes perfect sense if you're trying to get status&money. leaders are in control of those. even HFST coders pale to minor CEOs. it's a response, not a spontaneous organization. burn it down!
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I think the most evil phrase is "fiduciary responsibility." When the money holders at the top, outside the org, can look in and see only a resource fissure they want to suck dry..this is inherently malignant. They are a parasite sitting on top of the host. A facehugger.
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pretty much. Any public company has their only duty to make money for the shareholders. it's easy to buy and sell stock so it's mostly about short term gains. the board of directors makes sure that this is followed, and can replace anyone, so... It's just all short term $$
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The problem is that this is a really bad strategy and that it’s over invested in so everyone’s chasing the same short term gains and it doesn’t allow for the things that really make a long-term difference to emerge
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absolutely. I actually don't think you can disentangle that from all the other parts of capitalism :(
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look, the question is how to transition to another system. revolution has not yet succeeded long term, there's always some store of durable value.
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