EFFECTIVE LEADERS KNOW THEIR AUDIENCE’S WEAKNESS

Effective leaders know the rules, the leadership drill, and when to move off script.

Ten skills could be a hundred, but a top ten works best.

More important, leaders know their audience and what they need from them.

How do leaders stay relevant?

What do they need from their audience?

What does the audience need from them?

Let’s go to the list:

One of the most effective leaders showed up on the biggest stage two presidencies ago and so many people loved his leadership style.

Communication

The normal fashion for effective leaders is telling people what you need them to do and how you will help them achieve the goals set.

This astonishing jump in falsehoods is the story of Trump’s tumultuous reign. By the end of his term, Trump had accumulated 30,573 untruths during his presidency—averaging about 21 erroneous claims a day.

I’m not sure I’ve heard that many lines of crap in my lifetime, but big boy kept throwing it at the media wall to see what stuck.

What stuck is his fans willingness to submit their common sense to a higher power of bullshit, even if they know better.

Agility

A normal leader uses their agility to reframe their message based on changing circumstances while staying on task.

The punk-ass leader looks down on their followers and knowingly feeds them the same line over and over and over until they say it to themselves in their sleep.

“Trust me while I do stupid things.”

“Believe what I say, not what you see with your own eyes.”

“I’m the most stable, more intelligent person, on the planet.”

When a leader constantly reminds you who they are, and you know who they are, take a harder look.

Trust And Respect

If a leader praises his followers for being willfully ignorant, or under-educated, look for a red flag.

No one in the history of education praises their students for being stupid.

If you are wrong, and you know you’re wrong, but your idol says you’re right, be wary. They are not worthy of trust or respect.

Of course, when they address their people with over 30,000 lies, things get blurred to the point of just wear a red hat and scream.

Delegation

A leader with their head on straight knows how to assign tasks that need to be done in a timely manner.

A poor leadership example says, “Only I can do this,” along with, “No one can do it better than me,” and the ringer, “I’m the smartest person in every room.”

An effective leader brings in people with expertise in subjects they need help with; a jackass leader brings in sycophant yes-men who start meetings with praise for the leader.

How many of them wanted to delegate the butt-kissing on those days? Pass that lipstick.

Motivation And Passion

In a nation of wide economic disparity, a man of wealth and taste gained acceptance from the low end while rewarding the top end without missing a beat.

He fired up his base with motivation and passion on Jan. 6, though not the same money base if you’ve seen the video. How many rich guys were on the Capitol steps?

Those were some of the people who still fawn over the loser of the last election.

Even the lawyer for one insurrectionist had a pointed message.

Accountability

In normal times we welcome the checks and balances of a fair system.

The buck stops with the boss, unless the boss is a con-man.

Who looks at someone dodging their responsibility and sees nothing there?

When their guy says he’s not the problem, then that’s enough for his followers.

Sounds easy enough. Give it a try the next time you have any legal issues. PS: It won’t work.

Give And Receive Feedback

See Delegation.

Creativity

Has there been anything more creative than the Russian influence during the recently past presidency?

With creativity comes accountability and feedback for a normalized leader.

Abnormal is a different kind of creative.

Empathy

Effective leaders try and feel what their followers need.

The other side of that is telling people what they need and expecting them to accept it.

After you’ve convinced them they’re too stupid to know what’s best for them, the rest is easy.

Go ahead and tell them to break the law, that you’ll be right there with them, then walk away.

If nothing comes of it, all the better. Then, if they land in jail, convince them that it hurts you more than it hurts them.

See Motivation and Passion.

Humility In Effective Leaders

Effective leaders use humility to connect. A lack of humility from a leader who still connects is a reflection on their audience.

Ten Rules Of Effective Leadership show a good interpretation of what it takes to step up and lead. A search on leadership in this blog turns up ten pages of leadership posts.

I take responsibility for these posts and would be full of leadership happiness if you gave them a look.

But I’m not telling you what to do, calling you under educated, or below average.

None of that could possibly be true for those who’ve read this far.