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How to get noticed when ruled by bad leadership ...
3/6/2007 6:18 am Last Read: |
i just figured it out! i mean, i've known about it for several years now. my last job was the perfect example of this. Want to get noticed when you're dealing with supervisors who are insecure and acting only on situational power rather than inner personal power? Slam your co-worker! Yep -- it works everytime. The more you put down your peers, the better you look in a bad leader's eyes. That's because bad leaders don't recognize merit because they're too busy being threatened by it. If Milton complains that Joey is late to work again, Joey looks bad and Milton, by default, looks brilliant -- why he's on time to work, never mind he stole half the inventory from the warehouse! The focus in such an environment is ALWAYS on the negative. We're not going to recognize betty's hard work in organizing shipping supplies, we're going to condemn her for not lining up her steno pads properly on her desk. Bad leadership breeds corruption and it breeds SERIOUS dissent. The team NEVER comes together and as a result, instead of a leader building a productive, rewarding environment, he builds an oppressive empire. This is it -- the divide and conquer theory: Get everyone back-biting -- divide the ranks -- and they'll all be sidling up to you rather than each other. The bad leader is then CONTROLLING but what does he gain? ONLY power and a big fat ego. What is power if you don't allow everyone to reap some glory from your ability to do as you will? REAL POWER is what a real Master owns -- good Leaders unite the masses and while competition will exist, rewards are given to those who excel rather than those who seek to destroy. Well, the reason i bring it up is because i finally figured out what alt is doing with this front page nonsense! Being a "top blogger" is a big deal apparently, so much so that some will fight within instead of supporting each other. God forbid they have the SAME ideals in reaching for self-expression -- nope -- the competition is ruthless and its by design. Alt created the top ten idea so that competition would DRIVE the blogs. Blogs are HARDLY an American Idol competition -- NOTHING is based on talent. The more one can slam a peer, the better they look on the surface. Isn't that what drives political campaigns -- although never mind that because who is the leader creating the cat-fight there? -- let's forget i said that. When the competition LEAVES the healthy mark and becomes so bitter a race, you know who is to blame, right? The leader. We all follow the leader. If the leader doesn't recognize us for our own merit, we seek to destroy what's around us in order TO BE SEEN. This happened with my own father. He was the ULTIMATE bad leader. NEVER show pride in your kids and what happens? The siblings destroy each other in order to get their daddy to notice them. Its a great way for a bad leader to get loads of attention -- he hasn't the personal power to see success in others because he himself has no confidence, no self-esteem, so he uses SITUATIONAL power to draw attention to himself -- he sees the little ones as wanting to please him when in fact they just want attention themselves. Have a boss who won't give a deserved promotion? Narc on sarah who just stole a Bic pen from the supply cabinet -- watch how fast you'll see the narc in her new position: "Supply Cabinet Supervisor". Before you know it, you've got all sorts of little pets ratting on each other, all vying for a spot as the boss's special-favorite. They can't get noticed any other way. i guess i'm a little bitter when i see WHAT sells and when i see what passes me by. i should take comfort in understanding reality and that includes the realization that popularity, like bad leadership, are never based on quality or principle. Maybe if i didn't attempt to make suggestions for improvement here at alt, i could get ahead. Maybe i ought to figure out a way to sabotage my peers ... the very ones who one day are your pals and the next your enemies. i've got drive and ambition -- i mean, why not?! Its better than stewing, isn't it? Just remember this: when bad leadership prevails, you don't have friends, you have allies and allies shift with the wind. The one thing that won't get swept up with the wind is integrity. Hold tight, little ones. Hold tight. Its pretty windy out there. |
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3/7/2007 7:56 am |
i just think... i dunno do you wanna be starbucks or do you wanna be the cute, eclectic little coffee shop where the cool people go? do you wanna be the gap or some funky boutique where one can purchase one of a kind items nobody else has? there are very specific things that you can apply if you want to have a highly popular numbers blog, but i'd hate to see you do that- and while i see where you're going with the whole negative leadership leads to negative blogging thing- i don't know how truly accurate it is in this instance- i don't know that anyone really looks to the top bloggers for any kind of leadership or example- also there are plenty of always positive people in the top ten- there are actually some really good blogs there- trinity, boston boi and some others i can think of- there was a time when i was really frustrated because the top blogger (or whatever) seemed so...stupid to me, and not just stupid but mean and he was constantly fighting with somebody- i thought, jeez, anyone can see how he got to where he is, and i really let it get to me- but then i thought, man, what a stupid thing to care about, you know? i mean, the most popular restaurant in america is freaking mcdonalds for pete's sake i would never want to have mass appeal like that i will tell you that i enjoy your blog immensely and read it all the time even if i almost never comment- i bet you have a lot of readers that never say anything because you leave them speechless so there put that in your pipe and smoke it
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3/7/2007 9:06 pm |
My top bloggers are the 150 in my watched blogs.  plus one.I'm happy down where I am although when my muse strikes most readers won't know about it. I'm always happy to see some wonderful, deep writers on the top list. Others I wish would get out of Dodge because they are so transparent. Some readers like commenting on the silly blogs, and that's fine too. I think you have some truth that some act like leaders, and some readers perceive them to be leaders; some are and some aren't............. .......... Peace. Evidently my "asshat" signature was deleted . . . . That ever happen to you? *Carry Onnnnnnnnnn *Flash. News.
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