Comment by morgan814
5 days ago
> leaders
Don’t play their game and call them leaders. They are management, bosses, executives.
> They are making decisions about things that they just don't understand. And are completely unworried about it.
Clowns, even.
> Just blindly following whatever the news cycle is about AI.
But followers might be most apt.
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This is such a huge pet peeve of mine. Describing management goofs using their language that makes them sound all-so-brilliant. We constantly watch these people do the dumbest shit and then they go around describing themselves as “thought leaders” and “servant leaders”. When, really, most are just clowns with fragile egos.
And, while I’m rambling, they’ve tried to take away the fact we are workers by calling us individual contributors. Using language to attempt and hide the hierarchy and power dynamic at play. It just…bothers me so much.
I don't hear them refer to themselves as "job creators" much these days.
And many of them still claim they are "risk takers", but have effectively insulated themselves from risk by socializing losses.
> Don’t play their game and call them leaders. They are management, bosses, executives.
You're falling into a common trap here: the ambiguity of the English language.
"Leader" means multiple different things. Yes, it means someone who has leadership qualities—who genuinely inspires those around them to do better, or who boldly marches into the unknown and gets people to follow them.
But it also means "someone in charge of a thing."
Now it's certainly true that many people in charge of things who are also really bad at actually inspiring or getting people to follow them (aside from with threats of destitution) also play on that ambiguity to try to convince people that because they're in charge of things, they must also be Good Leaders, and that's crappy...but yelling at others for using the term casually is very much an "old man yells at cloud" situation.