This is an excellent talk. I think it is also true that a good leader always takes responsibility for something bad that happens on their watch. They may not have personally caused it but they will certainly deal with it. Roosevelt apparently had a poster in his study in the White House saying "The buck stops here" whereas by the turn of 1944 to 1945 when Germany was clearly loosing the war Hitler added the Germans themselves to the very long list of people he hated and detested. He decided that the second world war and the holocaust were not his wrongdoing - rather the German people had let him down by not fighting and persecuting Jewish people strongly and efficiently enough. I think you will find this business of leaders blaming others, albeit in a more minor way is common elsewhere including among some boarding school survivors. The weak leader says who can I blame. The strong leader says what lessons can I learn from this and how can I do it better in the future.
Thank you @BedandBreakfastCoach, I so agree. I feel that our leadership doesn't seem interested in the people that they are meant to be leading. Take care, Piers
This is an excellent talk. I think it is also true that a good leader always takes responsibility for something bad that happens on their watch. They may not have personally caused it but they will certainly deal with it. Roosevelt apparently had a poster in his study in the White House saying "The buck stops here" whereas by the turn of 1944 to 1945 when Germany was clearly loosing the war Hitler added the Germans themselves to the very long list of people he hated and detested. He decided that the second world war and the holocaust were not his wrongdoing - rather the German people had let him down by not fighting and persecuting Jewish people strongly and efficiently enough. I think you will find this business of leaders blaming others, albeit in a more minor way is common elsewhere including among some boarding school survivors. The weak leader says who can I blame. The strong leader says what lessons can I learn from this and how can I do it better in the future.
Thank you Richard for sharing about Roosevelt and Hitler. I had not heard of that. How fascinating. Yes, I so agree. Take care, Piers
Great video, thank you Piers. Our national leadership is very weak right now and is reflected in the state of the country.
Thank you @BedandBreakfastCoach, I so agree. I feel that our leadership doesn't seem interested in the people that they are meant to be leading. Take care, Piers