• ZeroGravitas@lemm.eeOP
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      10 months ago

      I was thinking about the future. Think of a cornered Hitler with access to hydrogen bombs.

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        10 months ago

        Yes he is. His military decision making was thankfully shit, his hatred of Jews caused a brain drain ahead of the war; nuclear research wasn’t prioritized because it was considered a “Jewish science”. Also his rearmament of Germany was completely unsustainable and would have collapsed the German economy if not for the onset of the war. Effective demagoguery =/= successful leadership.

        If I set out to make a thousand year empire that only lasted 11 years would you consider that successful leadership?

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            10 months ago

            Okay, so to be clear, your critera for “great” leadership doesn’t include any sort of decision-making skills nor effective delegation when said leader is out of their depth?

            If I worked at a company that had leaders making a long series of bad calls at a tactical and/or strategic level, for instance, I shouldn’t call that “bad leadership”?

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        10 months ago

        So you mean “those with the least ability to lead”. Yet Trump is still somehow running and he can’t even wipe his own ass.