In business, to be a successful leader often requires unpopular decisions. Your job is to deliver value for the company and it's shareholders, not to be popular

In business, to be a successful leader often requires unpopular decisions. Your job is to deliver value for the company and it's shareholders, not to be popular. In politics, unpopular decisions end careers. To be a successful political leader, you need to be popular because you need to get reelected. > Yes and no, but mostly no. By defintion, leaders - any / all leaders - make difficult and yes sometimes unpopular decisions. If that isn't happening, that isn't leadership. Yes, in theory we have politicians in leadership positions. The reality is, very few meet the defintion of leader. That is, getting elected is simply not enough to qualify for the title of leader. The writer is too generous, to a fault. Such sloppiness needs to stop. Put another way, if your pet barks do you still call it a cat? Of course...OhHellNo. The same rule applies to leader/leadership. People need to stop doling it out like candy on Halloween. The title should be earned and honored. It shouldn't be one of those trophies everyone gets just for showing up. Else we'll continue to stuck in this Orwellian infinite loop were complete muppets are considered leaders and no one stops to say that's no true. We don't need more fake leaders.