If our leaders are to enjoy the trappings of their position in the hierarchy, then we expect them to offer us protection. The problem is, for many of the overpaid leaders, we know that they took the money and perks and didn’t offer protection to their people. In some cases, they even sacrificed their people to protect or boost their own interests. This is what so viscerally offends us. We only accuse them of greed and excess when we feel they have violated the very definition of what it means to be a leader.
Great leaders and great organizations are good at seeing what most of us can’t see. They are good at giving us things we would never think of asking for. Children are better off having a parent who works into the night in a job they love than a parent who works shorter hours but comes home unhappy.
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