not narcissism. It’s theatre. Sorry but you’re making two catastrophic errors: 1

http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2014/10/narcissism-hubris-and-success.htmlIt’s not narcissism. It’s theatre.

http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2014/10/narcissism-hubris-and-success.html

Sorry but you’re making two catastrophic errors:

1) that rational argument is persuasive. That leadership of a body of people is rational. Only very naive people who lack experience as leaders make this error. Quite the contrary: mastering delivery, mastering body language. Mastering moral intuitions. Mastering not rhetoric but sermon is both difficult, an art, and mastery of leadership. I would enumerate the reasons why but this is the wrong forum.

(2) Any reasonable student of Michels, Burnham, or the vast body of data on organisations would remind us of the obvious: that leadership is necessary, and great leaders are in fact worth their high cost to organisations.. Man is a tribal creature and a moral creature. Reason is a thin layer of justification and nothing more. We do not make great organisations by rational argument but by constructing a moral narrative in which all members are heroes.

Some people should get out more.