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Clear and Present Leadership

151 points by tate 7y ago

woozyolliew 7y ago
I value clarity. But I fear some of this advice about being present could be badly misinterpreted by those inclined to micro-management.
readingnews 7y ago
One way to strive for clarity is to not make structural errors in a blog. Like "Avoid a having a hard conversation because of how uncomfortable it is, or fear for how poorly it can go."
- exotree 7y ago
  A rather simple mistake should not be used as a reason to dismiss the overall message.
  - hinkley 7y ago
    I wonder what the correlation is between people who feel threatened by a message and those who nitpick at it. There's a certain number of people in any crowd who get lost in the weeds, regardless of 'sides'.
EliRivers 7y ago
"Let me how I can help" isn't just a phrase, but means what it says Does it. Does it really.
- vecter 7y ago
  From the HN guidelines: "Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  - EliRivers 7y ago
    I can see why you might think it was a shallow dismissal, but it actually has depth. You see, the words I was highlighting for their lack of meaning are themselves talking about meaning. It's possible this was an accident on the author's part, but it's also possible that it was deliberate, in which case the author is using irony (actual irony, not that rubbish the kids say is irony) to make their real point, and I'm applauding it. Hardly a dismissal. Either way, the reader extracts extra layers of meaning at this point. Remember all that stuff in school about literature and how to read beyond the literal, that HN tends to ignore in favour of pretending to be rational cyborgs? It was for this sort of thing. You missed the possible original point of the author, and my point as well. On the plus side, this comment could well have been a learning experience for you, so you should be happy with it.
    - techslave 7y ago
      it’s too subtle for HN. i’ve found myself too often on the wrong side of this as well. i’ve learned to just take the downvotes in stride. your rebuttal OTOH is overboard, deserving of the downvotes IMHO. sometimes you just have to make your point and take your licks.
    - Aeolun 7y ago
      Honestly, I think you are seeing things here. Nowhere in the original message do I detect even a hint of irony. Maybe this is something that is only visible for you because of your particular situation (e.g. someone always uses that phrase)? To be honest, I’m more bothered by the lack of a question mark though.
- mcrad 7y ago
  It sound pretty meaningless to me! It's like saying you're on your own and if anything goes wrong, don't tell me I didn't offer to help. Or the worst phrase ever: "let me know if you have any questions" (often following a barrage of gibberish empty talk). Kind of like saying if you have no questions then you totally agree with my poor vision/leadership.
  - Aeolun 7y ago
    I always make it ‘please correct me if you think anything wrong’.
Ididntdothis 7y ago
“Let me how I can help" Besides not forgetting the word “know” make sure that you are actually prepared to honestly listen and act on what people tell you. I hear this phrase quite a bit but when you tell them how to help they promptly ignore it because it wasn’t what they wanted to hear. A lot of today’s management phrases are totally empty and just sound good without any meaning. “Let me challenge that assumption” or “but what if we had an anti-gravity drive?” are fashionable phrases that sound insightful to the person saying them but really aren’t.
- chrisseaton 7y ago
  > “but what if we had an anti-gravity drive?” What does this one mean? I know you said you think they're meaningless, but in what context is this one used?
  - Ididntdothis 7y ago
    I have been in several meetings where somebody said that a thing is simply not possible and a manager asked "but what if it was possible?". How are you supposed to respond to that? It's just a silly thing to say. Now if somebody says "I think it may be possible because of A, B and C" you have something to discuss. Otherwise it's just an empty phrase.
    - chrisseaton 7y ago
      I'm not so sure that's silly. There's two discussions - one is 'is X possible', and the other is 'what do we do if X is possible'. They're asking you the second question, and you're answering with the first, which is probably the silly thing here. They're possibly asking you the second question because they have context that you do not about the first, or they have conflicting advice from another expert on the first question. It may not be possible to pass on that context, for example for reasons of time or security, but they want your answer to the second question anyway. It's reasonable to answer the second without the first.
    - taneq 7y ago
      It’s not always necessary to explain why you think something might be possible in order to ask whether it’s useful. Ideally you could trust your team enough to assume that they wouldn’t waste your time with “what if X was possible” unless they had reason to think that it was possible.
kornacki 7y ago
Wag The Dog: First was feigned impeachment hearings, now an attack on Iranians in Iraq. Here is what they are trying to distract from and cover up to retain power under their rule. $79+ Billion in bribes to the highest offices in this country. Over 600 deaths from child rapes to prove loyalty. \\%; FBI Director Wray, AG Barr, SoD Shanahan, & SoS Pompeo each raped boys and were paid billions in bribes for a Soros & Koch funded child rape org. So did Trump & his "impeachment" team Nadler,Schiff,Mueller.So did media moguls Redstone,Murdoch,Moonves. What are they trying to set up? Who can arrest them since they are all bribed and in on it ? Their strategy to stay in every office and obstruct until forced to leave no matter what. Feigning impeachment: see page 130. \\case;Download the video/audio file, put on headphones and turn up the volume. You will hear these people committing these crimes. Audio was broadcast into my apartment by outdated surveillance equipment illegally embedded within my walls. This very same technology was being used to broadcast me to the internet for five years without my consent. I own this footage. Please use this to prosecute all found within. Note:: I am obliviously speaking throughout the video, and it can be quite loud at times relative to the desired content. The are dozens more links, including these, that can be found in this 146pg doc, last updated a day ago: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Sj9EN_pHmicKS6rFQlmk67knMdJc9cGk/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Sj9EN_pHmicKS6rFQlmk67knMdJ... All members of the "Illuminati"; "....an underground organization of homosexuals and child rapists..." (from pg 26: Barack Obama with Jack Dorsey). President Donald Trump: Demands a fo$4billion dollar bribe here at 10:18am 4Jan2019: 3JanCh3_900-1100.avi https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Grdr8xF2psKNsuYlEnl9dIRV-77YG0Vr/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Grdr8xF2psKNsuYlEnl9dIRV-77... 3JanCh2_900-1100-avi https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LUmVygl_q0XVs8h2cWr8jZl-24fY0vBB/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LUmVygl_q0XVs8h2cWr8jZl-24f... 3JanCh4_1000-1100!mp3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZpP1pJbJakBgg-y-MWNozTxp3wJojHge/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZpP1pJbJakBgg-y-MWNozTxp3wJ... President Trump rapes and kills twelve boys, including 5 boys in a "who can rape five boys to death the fastest" game: 14JanCh3_600.mp3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ufPmglde9Mep0m6xYMJ9c4TWTjj258zB/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ufPmglde9Mep0m6xYMJ9c4TWTjj... 14JanCh2_600-700.mp3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/136qLJdEn8eCs9tI4QtIxl4opW_Lw_gCF/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/136qLJdEn8eCs9tI4QtIxl4opW_L... Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi: Accepts a $3 billion dollar bribe at 1033 am on the 17th of Jan 2019 to ensure Asian boys can get through the border at "Monterey" undocumented to be raped: 17JanCh3_949-1100.avi https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eodHu4o5Cm3xEWhDqipSuTj-M1CZUvmE/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eodHu4o5Cm3xEWhDqipSuTj-M1C... 17JanCh4_1017-1100.avi https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y-nWEQbempkVZSz230j9wTyduZNjDmnk/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y-nWEQbempkVZSz230j9wTyduZN... Speaker Nancy Pelosi also "preps" boys with First Lady Melania Trump, defined as in she performs oral sex on the boys’ penis and anus, as a child rapist like Henry Porter would, while trying to remove fecal matter from the boy prior to handing them over to be raped and then subsequently murdered, for Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, who apparently decides he would rather just have ten billion dollars instead. US Attorney for Western New York James Kennedy rapes these boys instead: 12JanCh3_1533-1638.mp3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AgFkDsbPbI4b5Xd3Wbz2EVNNx25kW2Oz/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AgFkDsbPbI4b5Xd3Wbz2EVNNx25... Attorney General William Barr with FBI Deputy Director Christopher Wray raped and killed boys for billions in bribes in Buffalo, New York on the 17thJan2019 at 7:50am: 18JanCh4_700mp3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UIdZkS5ZVksZdHYsnHk2t5losi0N0Bp7/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UIdZkS5ZVksZdHYsnHk2t5losi0... 18JanCh2_700.mp3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DFK8IAxm5pQVqZv9L518nfgP7_odB2Um/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DFK8IAxm5pQVqZv9L518nfgP7_o... 18JanCh3_725-.mp3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DG5ej59Ic8RT9UhbyMdwT0BDcKIifGGm/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DG5ej59Ic8RT9UhbyMdwT0BDcKI... Secretary of State Michael Pompeo and Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan each raped and killed boys on 5Jan2019 at 17:39 for billions in bribes: 5JanCh3_1600 1800.mp3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ghgmNrQvJ8WfJ2TsDVx1ruDU36hrhx6S/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ghgmNrQvJ8WfJ2TsDVx1ruDU36h... 5JanCh2_1721-1818imp3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eSlD4otX4KZqWXboQM92Mu-6J02Mjwrg/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eSlD4otX4KZqWXboQM92Mu-6J02... Leaders of the "impeachment" effort Jerrold Nadler, Robert Mueller, and Adam Schiff all rape and kill boys between 11:20pm and 1:10am: 14JanCh4_2300-0000.mp3 Nadler starts at about twenty mins in. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Kuvv2Zmbw5Jw7onbRI2hCZ0M8FU66GuU/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Kuvv2Zmbw5Jw7onbRI2hCZ0M8FU... 14JanCh2_2304-2359.mp3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nofp5xF-aXXcCSgQVwj30KlzE9WLr1x1/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nofp5xF-aXXcCSgQVwj30KlzE9W... Mueller at 12:25am, next is Schiff who starts 12:55-ish: 15JanCh2_000-100.mp3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EsmHfguwBuo2PbavJ1WYyhiML62tgCkj/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EsmHfguwBuo2PbavJ1WYyhiML62... 15JanCh2_100-200imp3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NZnWRnBryalNQu2yJmfJUdS2pA_rGSFH/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NZnWRnBryalNQu2yJmfJUdS2pA_... 15JanCh4_000-100.mp3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZEDJR6jb6ARpcNnWJTokBUKb2J2OQnwZ/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZEDJR6jb6ARpcNnWJTokBUKb2J2... 15JanCh4_100-200ump3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/173aYWvWHH4VGht1h_2nM0IMdw746LeCL/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/173aYWvWHH4VGht1h_2nM0IMdw74... Complete Media Protection: Lester Holt, of NBC NightlyNews, apparently a member of the Illuminati since the 80's, along with ABC Nightly News lead anchor David Muir, stop over to the Porter studio in Buffalo, New York on 14Jan2019 at 5:00 am. They both rape and kill about two dozen boys by 6:00 am. Muir starts around 5.15am, then Holt about 5:38 am. Multi-billionaire Rupert Murdoch, owner of News Corp and also Fox Corporation, takes his turn after Holt. Video links below: 14JanCh3_500-601.avi https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i7NKepeyG_FfdQRrM7KsnFOZOOX3o7UL/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i7NKepeyG_FfdQRrM7KsnFOZOOX... 14JanCh2_530-600.avi https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NZzgN5ilI7ToroU5cfqMaL4o2u1RwidV/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NZzgN5ilI7ToroU5cfqMaL4o2u1... Adding to the media protection and reason this is not picked up by the media, CBS and Viacom owner Sumner Redstone and Leslie Moonves rape and kill boys following the President. 14JanCh3_700.avi https://drive.google.com/file/d/10XDw6x3ldnnQiq7oIjpdYVENyXaB4aI0/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/10XDw6x3ldnnQiq7oIjpdYVENyXa... 14JanCh2_700-800.avi https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NS_e6AzEZ05wnfljkGMETGU5CWYKfRDp/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NS_e6AzEZ05wnfljkGMETGU5CWY... 146page PDF [last update: Jan|2|2020]: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Sj9EN_pHmicKS6rFQlmk67knMdJc9cGk/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Sj9EN_pHmicKS6rFQlmk67knMdJ... \\. Please repost in USA! Post gets clipped
m0zg 7y ago
Having been an executive myself (in the past), my theory is the "clear" part of this is the root cause of ageism in tech. On anything more complex than Minesweeper, unless you've done it a couple of times in the past you won't be "clear" on anything when you lead people. You can create the _impression_ of clarity, but it'll be clear as mud to you all the same. Younger people don't see through this facade, so they take your bullshit at face value. Older people for whom it's not the first rodeo see right through it and most "leaders" feel really insecure in this situation. When I was younger myself, I sort of assumed competence on the part of everyone. The older I get the more I see that people around me (as well as myself) don't really know much about anything and don't care to know. This includes "leadership" and, as painful as it is to say, myself. Coincidentally, the article doesn't mention "honesty" even once. I've found honesty to be the best policy. I can't _always_ be honest when I lead (everyone would quit and go into depression if I were perfectly honest), but I try to minimize the blind spots and somewhat accurately give people a sense of difficulties and tradeoffs without making the situation look as hopeless as it usually looks to me when running "hard" projects. That way, if they care at all, they'll steer things in the right direction on their own, and focus on the right things. I'm in my mid-40's though, so I sort of assume (knowingly incorrectly) people around me think like I do, and bullshit doesn't work in the long term.
- AndrewKemendo 7y ago
  This is an underrated comment IMO and hits on a critical point that people complain about but don't really understand. That is, "The people at the top don't know what they are doing." For IC's and other people actually doing most of the work, they interpret this as base incompetence on the part of leadership. It's certainly fair to say that there is a lot of incompetency at the top. However, even for very competent senior leaders it's often completely unclear how to get from "Here" to "There" because the organization may not be positioned to actually get there. It's an extension of the technical debt problem, what made you successful in the past may not be what makes you successful in the future - and as a senior leader, it's your job to help the organization make that transition. The costs/risks to getting "There" might be considered impractical or devastating to the current organization. You can see this with any major company that fails to capture some huge new market. On one hand you want to take care of your people, and a complete pivot with a 20,000 person organization might see huge layoffs or "restructuring." Is doing that, not knowing if it's going to work in the long run the right plan? We praise those who made the right pivots, but forget those who mistimed them, so corporate survivorship is real - and it's not about pure genius competence. Now, try and communicate all of that to everyone on the team, considering all of the market dynamics, funding personnel issues etc... for context, and it's just not something that is feasible to communicate with everyone in a way that doesn't totally spook the whole organization. That said, it doesn't mean you shouldn't try. Communicating WHY smaller decisions are made and what the assumptions and context behind them are made is something feasible at some levels generally. This is where competence and maturity do play a huge role, and where great leaders distinguish themselves.
thendrill 7y ago
In my opinion leadership is a mental disorder. If you look at people most of them are not interested in making others do their bidding. But there are people so useless on their own they need to develop the skills to get others to do what they can't. The really good ones we all know the names of.
fourthark 7y ago
You shouldn’t use a phrase just because it sounds familiar, without considering the meaning of that phrase. It wasn’t a bad article, but in my head I was hearing “danger, danger, danger!”
alexfromapex 7y ago
If they’re not clear and present it’s a good sign of clear and present danger
ra1n85 7y ago
>Vision, goals, key results, what we are allowed to do and not do, are clear. Likely written down, understood, repeated frequently, taught to new members of a team. On the nose. Amazed by how many leaders that I've worked under that can't seem to set direction. That's all - communicate what's important, what's going to make the company differentiate itself, and then allow the smart folks you have hired to set their priorities accordingly, execute, and then adjust where needed (but sparingly).
Guthur 7y ago
Why is this the only spot where a gender pronoun is used `The leader is aware of her staff as complete human beings and has empathy towards them.` Reinforcing the stereotype that female is the emphasising gender. The rest of the article is gender free from what I can see.
- sverhagen 7y ago
  I noticed that in the text too. But could you elaborate on the expression "female is the emphasizing gender"? My search skills failed me here.
  - nostromo95 7y ago
    Believe they meant “empathizing gender.”

151 points by tate 7y ago

I value clarity. But I fear some of this advice about being present could be badly misinterpreted by those inclined to micro-management.

readingnews 7y ago

One way to strive for clarity is to not make structural errors in a blog. Like "Avoid a having a hard conversation because of how uncomfortable it is, or fear for how poorly it can go."

exotree 7y ago
A rather simple mistake should not be used as a reason to dismiss the overall message.
- hinkley 7y ago
  I wonder what the correlation is between people who feel threatened by a message and those who nitpick at it. There's a certain number of people in any crowd who get lost in the weeds, regardless of 'sides'.

EliRivers 7y ago

"Let me how I can help" isn't just a phrase, but means what it says Does it. Does it really.

vecter 7y ago
From the HN guidelines: "Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- EliRivers 7y ago
  I can see why you might think it was a shallow dismissal, but it actually has depth. You see, the words I was highlighting for their lack of meaning are themselves talking about meaning. It's possible this was an accident on the author's part, but it's also possible that it was deliberate, in which case the author is using irony (actual irony, not that rubbish the kids say is irony) to make their real point, and I'm applauding it. Hardly a dismissal. Either way, the reader extracts extra layers of meaning at this point. Remember all that stuff in school about literature and how to read beyond the literal, that HN tends to ignore in favour of pretending to be rational cyborgs? It was for this sort of thing. You missed the possible original point of the author, and my point as well. On the plus side, this comment could well have been a learning experience for you, so you should be happy with it.
  - techslave 7y ago
    it’s too subtle for HN. i’ve found myself too often on the wrong side of this as well. i’ve learned to just take the downvotes in stride. your rebuttal OTOH is overboard, deserving of the downvotes IMHO. sometimes you just have to make your point and take your licks.
  - Aeolun 7y ago
    Honestly, I think you are seeing things here. Nowhere in the original message do I detect even a hint of irony. Maybe this is something that is only visible for you because of your particular situation (e.g. someone always uses that phrase)? To be honest, I’m more bothered by the lack of a question mark though.
mcrad 7y ago
It sound pretty meaningless to me! It's like saying you're on your own and if anything goes wrong, don't tell me I didn't offer to help. Or the worst phrase ever: "let me know if you have any questions" (often following a barrage of gibberish empty talk). Kind of like saying if you have no questions then you totally agree with my poor vision/leadership.
- Aeolun 7y ago
  I always make it ‘please correct me if you think anything wrong’.

Ididntdothis 7y ago

“Let me how I can help" Besides not forgetting the word “know” make sure that you are actually prepared to honestly listen and act on what people tell you. I hear this phrase quite a bit but when you tell them how to help they promptly ignore it because it wasn’t what they wanted to hear. A lot of today’s management phrases are totally empty and just sound good without any meaning. “Let me challenge that assumption” or “but what if we had an anti-gravity drive?” are fashionable phrases that sound insightful to the person saying them but really aren’t.

chrisseaton 7y ago
> “but what if we had an anti-gravity drive?” What does this one mean? I know you said you think they're meaningless, but in what context is this one used?
- Ididntdothis 7y ago
  I have been in several meetings where somebody said that a thing is simply not possible and a manager asked "but what if it was possible?". How are you supposed to respond to that? It's just a silly thing to say. Now if somebody says "I think it may be possible because of A, B and C" you have something to discuss. Otherwise it's just an empty phrase.
  - chrisseaton 7y ago
    I'm not so sure that's silly. There's two discussions - one is 'is X possible', and the other is 'what do we do if X is possible'. They're asking you the second question, and you're answering with the first, which is probably the silly thing here. They're possibly asking you the second question because they have context that you do not about the first, or they have conflicting advice from another expert on the first question. It may not be possible to pass on that context, for example for reasons of time or security, but they want your answer to the second question anyway. It's reasonable to answer the second without the first.
  - taneq 7y ago
    It’s not always necessary to explain why you think something might be possible in order to ask whether it’s useful. Ideally you could trust your team enough to assume that they wouldn’t waste your time with “what if X was possible” unless they had reason to think that it was possible.

kornacki 7y ago

Wag The Dog: First was feigned impeachment hearings, now an attack on Iranians in Iraq. Here is what they are trying to distract from and cover up to retain power under their rule. $79+ Billion in bribes to the highest offices in this country. Over 600 deaths from child rapes to prove loyalty. \\%; FBI Director Wray, AG Barr, SoD Shanahan, & SoS Pompeo each raped boys and were paid billions in bribes for a Soros & Koch funded child rape org. So did Trump & his "impeachment" team Nadler,Schiff,Mueller.So did media moguls Redstone,Murdoch,Moonves. What are they trying to set up? Who can arrest them since they are all bribed and in on it ? Their strategy to stay in every office and obstruct until forced to leave no matter what. Feigning impeachment: see page 130. \\case;Download the video/audio file, put on headphones and turn up the volume. You will hear these people committing these crimes. Audio was broadcast into my apartment by outdated surveillance equipment illegally embedded within my walls. This very same technology was being used to broadcast me to the internet for five years without my consent. I own this footage. Please use this to prosecute all found within. Note:: I am obliviously speaking throughout the video, and it can be quite loud at times relative to the desired content. The are dozens more links, including these, that can be found in this 146pg doc, last updated a day ago: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Sj9EN_pHmicKS6rFQlmk67knMdJc9cGk/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Sj9EN_pHmicKS6rFQlmk67knMdJ... All members of the "Illuminati"; "....an underground organization of homosexuals and child rapists..." (from pg 26: Barack Obama with Jack Dorsey). President Donald Trump: Demands a fo$4billion dollar bribe here at 10:18am 4Jan2019: 3JanCh3_900-1100.avi https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Grdr8xF2psKNsuYlEnl9dIRV-77YG0Vr/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Grdr8xF2psKNsuYlEnl9dIRV-77... 3JanCh2_900-1100-avi https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LUmVygl_q0XVs8h2cWr8jZl-24fY0vBB/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LUmVygl_q0XVs8h2cWr8jZl-24f... 3JanCh4_1000-1100!mp3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZpP1pJbJakBgg-y-MWNozTxp3wJojHge/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZpP1pJbJakBgg-y-MWNozTxp3wJ... President Trump rapes and kills twelve boys, including 5 boys in a "who can rape five boys to death the fastest" game: 14JanCh3_600.mp3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ufPmglde9Mep0m6xYMJ9c4TWTjj258zB/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ufPmglde9Mep0m6xYMJ9c4TWTjj... 14JanCh2_600-700.mp3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/136qLJdEn8eCs9tI4QtIxl4opW_Lw_gCF/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/136qLJdEn8eCs9tI4QtIxl4opW_L... Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi: Accepts a $3 billion dollar bribe at 1033 am on the 17th of Jan 2019 to ensure Asian boys can get through the border at "Monterey" undocumented to be raped: 17JanCh3_949-1100.avi https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eodHu4o5Cm3xEWhDqipSuTj-M1CZUvmE/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eodHu4o5Cm3xEWhDqipSuTj-M1C... 17JanCh4_1017-1100.avi https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y-nWEQbempkVZSz230j9wTyduZNjDmnk/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y-nWEQbempkVZSz230j9wTyduZN... Speaker Nancy Pelosi also "preps" boys with First Lady Melania Trump, defined as in she performs oral sex on the boys’ penis and anus, as a child rapist like Henry Porter would, while trying to remove fecal matter from the boy prior to handing them over to be raped and then subsequently murdered, for Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, who apparently decides he would rather just have ten billion dollars instead. US Attorney for Western New York James Kennedy rapes these boys instead: 12JanCh3_1533-1638.mp3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AgFkDsbPbI4b5Xd3Wbz2EVNNx25kW2Oz/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AgFkDsbPbI4b5Xd3Wbz2EVNNx25... Attorney General William Barr with FBI Deputy Director Christopher Wray raped and killed boys for billions in bribes in Buffalo, New York on the 17thJan2019 at 7:50am: 18JanCh4_700mp3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UIdZkS5ZVksZdHYsnHk2t5losi0N0Bp7/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UIdZkS5ZVksZdHYsnHk2t5losi0... 18JanCh2_700.mp3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DFK8IAxm5pQVqZv9L518nfgP7_odB2Um/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DFK8IAxm5pQVqZv9L518nfgP7_o... 18JanCh3_725-.mp3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DG5ej59Ic8RT9UhbyMdwT0BDcKIifGGm/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DG5ej59Ic8RT9UhbyMdwT0BDcKI... Secretary of State Michael Pompeo and Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan each raped and killed boys on 5Jan2019 at 17:39 for billions in bribes: 5JanCh3_1600 1800.mp3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ghgmNrQvJ8WfJ2TsDVx1ruDU36hrhx6S/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ghgmNrQvJ8WfJ2TsDVx1ruDU36h... 5JanCh2_1721-1818imp3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eSlD4otX4KZqWXboQM92Mu-6J02Mjwrg/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eSlD4otX4KZqWXboQM92Mu-6J02... Leaders of the "impeachment" effort Jerrold Nadler, Robert Mueller, and Adam Schiff all rape and kill boys between 11:20pm and 1:10am: 14JanCh4_2300-0000.mp3 Nadler starts at about twenty mins in. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Kuvv2Zmbw5Jw7onbRI2hCZ0M8FU66GuU/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Kuvv2Zmbw5Jw7onbRI2hCZ0M8FU... 14JanCh2_2304-2359.mp3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nofp5xF-aXXcCSgQVwj30KlzE9WLr1x1/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nofp5xF-aXXcCSgQVwj30KlzE9W... Mueller at 12:25am, next is Schiff who starts 12:55-ish: 15JanCh2_000-100.mp3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EsmHfguwBuo2PbavJ1WYyhiML62tgCkj/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EsmHfguwBuo2PbavJ1WYyhiML62... 15JanCh2_100-200imp3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NZnWRnBryalNQu2yJmfJUdS2pA_rGSFH/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NZnWRnBryalNQu2yJmfJUdS2pA_... 15JanCh4_000-100.mp3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZEDJR6jb6ARpcNnWJTokBUKb2J2OQnwZ/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZEDJR6jb6ARpcNnWJTokBUKb2J2... 15JanCh4_100-200ump3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/173aYWvWHH4VGht1h_2nM0IMdw746LeCL/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/173aYWvWHH4VGht1h_2nM0IMdw74... Complete Media Protection: Lester Holt, of NBC NightlyNews, apparently a member of the Illuminati since the 80's, along with ABC Nightly News lead anchor David Muir, stop over to the Porter studio in Buffalo, New York on 14Jan2019 at 5:00 am. They both rape and kill about two dozen boys by 6:00 am. Muir starts around 5.15am, then Holt about 5:38 am. Multi-billionaire Rupert Murdoch, owner of News Corp and also Fox Corporation, takes his turn after Holt. Video links below: 14JanCh3_500-601.avi https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i7NKepeyG_FfdQRrM7KsnFOZOOX3o7UL/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i7NKepeyG_FfdQRrM7KsnFOZOOX... 14JanCh2_530-600.avi https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NZzgN5ilI7ToroU5cfqMaL4o2u1RwidV/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NZzgN5ilI7ToroU5cfqMaL4o2u1... Adding to the media protection and reason this is not picked up by the media, CBS and Viacom owner Sumner Redstone and Leslie Moonves rape and kill boys following the President. 14JanCh3_700.avi https://drive.google.com/file/d/10XDw6x3ldnnQiq7oIjpdYVENyXaB4aI0/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/10XDw6x3ldnnQiq7oIjpdYVENyXa... 14JanCh2_700-800.avi https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NS_e6AzEZ05wnfljkGMETGU5CWYKfRDp/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NS_e6AzEZ05wnfljkGMETGU5CWY... 146page PDF [last update: Jan|2|2020]: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Sj9EN_pHmicKS6rFQlmk67knMdJc9cGk/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Sj9EN_pHmicKS6rFQlmk67knMdJ... \\. Please repost in USA! Post gets clipped

m0zg 7y ago

Having been an executive myself (in the past), my theory is the "clear" part of this is the root cause of ageism in tech. On anything more complex than Minesweeper, unless you've done it a couple of times in the past you won't be "clear" on anything when you lead people. You can create the _impression_ of clarity, but it'll be clear as mud to you all the same. Younger people don't see through this facade, so they take your bullshit at face value. Older people for whom it's not the first rodeo see right through it and most "leaders" feel really insecure in this situation. When I was younger myself, I sort of assumed competence on the part of everyone. The older I get the more I see that people around me (as well as myself) don't really know much about anything and don't care to know. This includes "leadership" and, as painful as it is to say, myself. Coincidentally, the article doesn't mention "honesty" even once. I've found honesty to be the best policy. I can't _always_ be honest when I lead (everyone would quit and go into depression if I were perfectly honest), but I try to minimize the blind spots and somewhat accurately give people a sense of difficulties and tradeoffs without making the situation look as hopeless as it usually looks to me when running "hard" projects. That way, if they care at all, they'll steer things in the right direction on their own, and focus on the right things. I'm in my mid-40's though, so I sort of assume (knowingly incorrectly) people around me think like I do, and bullshit doesn't work in the long term.

AndrewKemendo 7y ago
This is an underrated comment IMO and hits on a critical point that people complain about but don't really understand. That is, "The people at the top don't know what they are doing." For IC's and other people actually doing most of the work, they interpret this as base incompetence on the part of leadership. It's certainly fair to say that there is a lot of incompetency at the top. However, even for very competent senior leaders it's often completely unclear how to get from "Here" to "There" because the organization may not be positioned to actually get there. It's an extension of the technical debt problem, what made you successful in the past may not be what makes you successful in the future - and as a senior leader, it's your job to help the organization make that transition. The costs/risks to getting "There" might be considered impractical or devastating to the current organization. You can see this with any major company that fails to capture some huge new market. On one hand you want to take care of your people, and a complete pivot with a 20,000 person organization might see huge layoffs or "restructuring." Is doing that, not knowing if it's going to work in the long run the right plan? We praise those who made the right pivots, but forget those who mistimed them, so corporate survivorship is real - and it's not about pure genius competence. Now, try and communicate all of that to everyone on the team, considering all of the market dynamics, funding personnel issues etc... for context, and it's just not something that is feasible to communicate with everyone in a way that doesn't totally spook the whole organization. That said, it doesn't mean you shouldn't try. Communicating WHY smaller decisions are made and what the assumptions and context behind them are made is something feasible at some levels generally. This is where competence and maturity do play a huge role, and where great leaders distinguish themselves.

thendrill 7y ago

In my opinion leadership is a mental disorder. If you look at people most of them are not interested in making others do their bidding. But there are people so useless on their own they need to develop the skills to get others to do what they can't. The really good ones we all know the names of.

fourthark 7y ago

You shouldn’t use a phrase just because it sounds familiar, without considering the meaning of that phrase. It wasn’t a bad article, but in my head I was hearing “danger, danger, danger!”

alexfromapex 7y ago

If they’re not clear and present it’s a good sign of clear and present danger

ra1n85 7y ago

>Vision, goals, key results, what we are allowed to do and not do, are clear. Likely written down, understood, repeated frequently, taught to new members of a team. On the nose. Amazed by how many leaders that I've worked under that can't seem to set direction. That's all - communicate what's important, what's going to make the company differentiate itself, and then allow the smart folks you have hired to set their priorities accordingly, execute, and then adjust where needed (but sparingly).

Guthur 7y ago

Why is this the only spot where a gender pronoun is used `The leader is aware of her staff as complete human beings and has empathy towards them.` Reinforcing the stereotype that female is the emphasising gender. The rest of the article is gender free from what I can see.

sverhagen 7y ago
I noticed that in the text too. But could you elaborate on the expression "female is the emphasizing gender"? My search skills failed me here.
- nostromo95 7y ago
  Believe they meant “empathizing gender.”