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Why is leadership so lauded? All I have seen is +100% of worrying for maybe +25% pay... Be a follower!

• Frost1x 4y ago
  In corporate structures I think this is very true until you get to high C-level roles where the stress may be a reasonable tradeoff for the comp. There's a tremendous increase in expectations, effort, and risk with what I dub an inappropriate tradeoff in comp. If I'm striving for what I consider a true leadership role, the only option in my mind is entrepreneurship. Why take the stress and risk for little potential reward as a leader in a small corner of a massive organization? I suppose this could be dubbed a "dipping your toe in the water" of the broad skills needed by successful entrepreneurs without eating all the risk as a learning experience, but I think that would be misguided as an entrepreneur in a startup environment, you're going to manage and think very differently in terms of approach than some middle management in a corporate structur. The dynamics are just very very different between these roles from my observation and experience.
• roenxi 4y ago
  Humans are hard wired to respect positions of high social status (ie, ones that influence what other people do with varying degrees of indirectness).