“Leadership is just convincing people to sacrifice for your vision while you take the credit and compensation”
Agree
- Leaders always paid exponentially more
- They delegate risk while hoarding rewards
- Charisma masks exploitation effectively
- Vision means others execute your ideas
Disagree
- Good leaders actually serve their teams
- Vision and execution both have value
- Leaders face different kinds of pressure
- Someone has to make final decisions
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