Excerpt from a YouTube video by Chris Collins arguing that some leaders prioritize being liked over achieving outcomes. Collins says leaders who seek approval lack clear goals, authority, and boundaries, and criticizes common leadership training as misleading—calling it "barely management."
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Yeah. On one side, if you're asking that question, you want to be liked more than you want to win. You don't have a clear purpose or goal that you're really committed to. Yeah. An outcome that you're committed to. So you're trying to just be liked. In a sense, it's. It's more important to you to be like than to. To win. The. The second one is you don't have any sort of authority or boundaries. Once again, what I'm saying is.
Yeah, I mean, this is a lot of what the leadership book is about, because the thing that drives me crazy is that all this leadership training out there is. Is not telling the truth of what it is to be a leader. Like, that's not leadership. That's barely management. It's not even management in a sense. Like.