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a "great leader" also needs to be able to manage people. If you're passionate but spend your time being abusive to others then you're not a leader, you're a di
by olliej 6y ago
a "great leader" also needs to be able to manage people.
If you're passionate but spend your time being abusive to others then you're not a leader, you're a dictator. And that is what RMS is - we've seen time and time again he expects his opinion to be the law, and anyone with whom he disagrees is wrong and should themselves be expelled.
- why_Mr_Anderson 6y agoNo, great leader must recognize his weaknesses and hire people to compensate for them. If you think leaders/owners of big companies are not dictators, I have a bridge to sell to you.
- Denvercoder9 6y ago> No, great leader must recognize his weaknesses and hire people to compensate for them. Which he didn't do.
- Daho0n 6y agoWhat does everyone else do? https://www.fsf.org/about/staff-and-board/ https://www.fsf.org/about/staff-and-board/
- notriddle 6y ago> No, great leader must recognize his weaknesses and hire people to compensate for them. Hell yeah. And RMS didn't do that.
- why_Mr_Anderson 6y agoApparently not. But wasn't he out of FSF for a long time and only recently came back?
- notriddle 6y agoSept 2019: https://lwn.net/Articles/799375/ https://lwn.net/Articles/799375/
- newsclues 6y agoI think with sufficient leadership and charisma you can attract managers to allow you to focus on your vision while they organize it’s execution. I’m sure there are good ideas but all I can think of is cult leaders.
- Daho0n 6y agoSo to be clear would you categories Steve Jobs as "a great leader" or "a dictator"? Because he fell between your two chairs being both extremely abusive but were also able to manage people.
- danaris 6y agoHe's a very interesting case that probably gets to be classified as both. He produced amazing results. He's definitely not someone I would ever recommend attempting to emulate in general. These two facts can both be true at the same time. He was an extremely polarizing figure. Importantly, though, from what I've heard (so take with appropriate seasoning), his worst excesses were more toward the earlier parts of his career, and as he got older, he became less abusive and unreasonable, while honing his visionary side. If he had lived to today, he might have changed how people think about him.... ...or he might have shown himself to be just as bad as the worst people think, and been "canceled" himself.