Jon Antonucci explains how bad leaders create cycles: they delegate without support, bark orders, dodge responsibility, then their subordinates repeat it all. Breaking the pattern takes courage, but someone has to stop passing it down.
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I often tell people that you should be the leader you wish you had, and that's not original to me, but, but I think it's a good strategy, right? Because we tend to be the leader we had. We tend to be something that's, that's not great. And I think a lot of leaders, we say that they're copies of copies. So you had a bad leader that barked orders and, and had unreasonable demands and, and didn't want to do any of the work, so delegated it down and so they could do nothing. And so what happens? Well, the minute you get to that role, it's like, okay, cool, now it's my turn to not have to do anything and to give it all to somebody else and to bark orders and to blame them when things go wrong. And what happens when one of them demoted? Now it's my turn. And it just becomes copies of copies. And it really takes a very courageous person to step in and say, ends with me. Like you just said, I'm not going to do that. And when I get there,