Comment by danaris

> 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.