True leaders listen without being condescending. They are willing to hear what others have to say without rushing to judgment. They are patient and genuine in their desire to understand
A Fake Leader
Tip #1There are no Facts or Truth
Tell people what they want to hear without any knowledge of facts. Tell them anything so they believe in a great tomorrow that will never come. Tell them so they cheer for you in the belief you will take them to a better place or offer suggestions of well being. Over the centuries there have been leaders who were able to rally people to take action that was not in their best interests but they took the action because the Fake Leaders, charlatans, disguised themselves as caring human beings with an ability to achieve all that they promised. I will give you want you want by telling you about it. I will create the proverbial carrot and stick routine without ever producing results. Promising anything without any tangle results produces nothing but useless aspiration of dreams that were never real. Hope is a tangible reality with direction while a daydream is wasted words. Hope becomes a reality through the support of a clear vision, evidence, and actions of both the leaders and followers to fulfill the promise of Hope. Facts are concrete action points that can fulfill the hope people want and need. What a terrible thing it is to lose hope based on empty, long winded, and unfounded promises from Fake Leaders.
Tip #2 Impulsivity
Impulsivity appeals to the raw instinct because people want to believe in the Fake Leaderβs capabilities to achieve greatness. Impulsivity is based on the spontaneous thoughts of any moment usually lacks reason and truth. The Fake Leader makes irreverent comments and states unfounded truths that deflect from self on to an identified person projecting evil. That person then, becomes the patsy, the cause of all ills. These Fake Leaders revert to the language of the street so that they can be perceived as common folk representing us and addressing our anger and mitigating our frustrations. The followers want to believe these Fake Leaders can bring about change but that will never occur. FLs are great at portraying themselves as representing the common folk when in essence they only are satisfying their own selfish needs of power given to them through the acceptance of the common folk who have swallowed the foul stench of half-truths covered in chocolate. Impulsivity becomes a mantle to motivate those in such need of change that they believe without rational thought, no premeditation of a plan, no calm, no deliberate consideration, just a resulting chaos. Impulsivity also is the enemy of attention-focused achievement and its correlate, attention to detail, accurate historical perspective and plan development. The impulsive statements have no fortitude, no timetable for implementation and no basis in fact.
Tip #3 Stability
Stability is the key to leaders who create the steady course of change and direction. There have been many examples of leaders who create stability from chaos. FLs create more chaos from the chaotic situation of the present. Fake Leaders thrive on chaos and call it organized and clarity of leadership knowing that it does not represent nor fulfill what was or will be expected. Fake Leaders create such unstable environments that the second tier of leaders realizing they have been placed in untenable situations find themselves having to chose between failure or leaving, vote with their feet and leave. Or the Fake Leader, who creates the untenable and chaotic environment, relieves the second tier leaders of their duties and blames them for the unorganized mess. This is a mere distraction from the truth that the narcissistic Fake Leader justifies by ridiculing and dismissing the now emotionally depleted fallen second tier leader.
Tip#4 Exaggerated Results
Fake Leaders love to exaggerate their own personal successes. They will tell followers how good they are, how they have created success and how they single handedly have accomplished so much. They take the successes and accomplishments from others and exploit their fake success. They forget that the only reason they are successful is because of others. While exaggerating success, they also act tough even though they have never placed themselves in a given difficult situation. They are politically savvy and capable of telling a story of accomplishments never achieved. FLs ridicule and create simplistic mantras upon which they can be known. The problem is the mantras are based on their half-truths without foundation to solicit support from the naΓ―ve person who wants to believe s/he can do what they said they could do. By the time the Fake Leader is found out it is too late: they are entrenched in their cocoon of lies and deceit continuing to attack others as fast as they can. In todayβs technically driven workplace, it is possible to continue to spew lies and half-truths hastily bypassing the hard work of negotiating, following through and measuring successes and greatness. But technology will be the verifier to show their half-truths as fake truths. FLs donβt have to measure success because they create innuendo, and quickly move from topic-to-topic and person-to-person with continual distraction from staying the course of action and success. FLs never demonstrate the ability to work down in the trenches that eventually cause success. Because they have to stay ahead of the questioning body of followers the FLs continue to attack past leaders as the reason for todayβs failures even when it is clear too much time has elapse and past leaders are no longer the logical reason for failure.
Tip #5 Applying Successes from Unrelated Situations. Applying successes from unrelated situations is not a reason to expect future success. A man who is an effective stockbroker may not be an effective speechwriter or architect. Those are different professions. A Fake Leader who runs an organization as a sole proprietor may not be able to transition to a charismatic leader who is an influencer and caring person. An ogre may have a tough time getting other leaders to follow and only stop when threats impose the greater risk than taking unfounded action. What causes leaders to be successful? How should we measure success? The cause of success is not the ability to tell me I am going to be successful rather it is outcome based. Success factors are important milestones for all to follow and utilize in understanding if a leader is a success or failure. Another measure of effective leadership is to ask followers if they want to follow this leader? If a followerβs life depended on it would they follow the Fake Leader into battle knowing their life and the lives of family members depended on it. The FL will tell you it will be great, it will be the best, but what past successes can they give as examples. Usually NONE
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