> Leadership is fundamentally about manipulating people. This is true...if you are the leader of a cult, which exist to deify you more than benefit the group.

> Leadership is fundamentally about manipulating people. This is true...if you are the leader of a cult, which exist to deify you more than benefit the group. > If the people already agreed, they wouldn't need leadership. Your job as leader is to get them all working in more or less the same direction, even though they don't really want to. Yes, but if you're having to puppet people to do it, it's not leadership. It's just manipulation. You should be able to do this through inspiration, and transparently in group settings, not by compartmentalizing lies and half-truths privately. That's just fucking embarrassing. Altman's leadership skills are on par with a 14-year old influencer. I feel like you're taking the argument for why "we let Pearl Harbor happen" and using it to excuse the whims of a psychopath.