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Sorry, but I'm about to Godwin this thread: "If Adolf Hitler was such a bad leader why did so many people follow him?" I think both statements are ludicrous a
by kitsune_ 16y ago
Sorry, but I'm about to Godwin this thread:
"If Adolf Hitler was such a bad leader why did so many people follow him?"
I think both statements are ludicrous and smell of intellectual laziness.
- Jun8 16y agoI think you've totally nailed the naiveté of the OP. The reason both statements are ludicrous is that they judge the person in question outside the applicable context. Hitler was a brilliant leader and speaker, but he was a monster in other aspects. Horror stories about Steve Jobs abound, generally coming from people not working day in day out with him. The fact that he is a narcissistic, egotistical guy ("I'll be employee zero, then") has nothing to do with him being a bad boss in this sense.
- siglesias 16y agoIn this title I think "bad" is being used in the sense of possessing qualities of bad leadership, not moral badness. For example, the stereotype of having a bad temper, being controlling, calling names, are all traditionally qualities of bad leadership. However, why do some leaders get away with it? What compensates for it? Seems like a perfectly sensible question to me.