Do I have to be a dickhead to be a world class leader/run a world class company?

[Magnanimous]

I've seen so many videos exposing Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerburg for their extremely harsh leadership styles on their employees. And not just their leadership but some very damaging decisions towards employees and business partners like diluting shares, threatening to pull ads if a deal doesn't go through, etc.

I'm worried as I think I wanna be a world class leader myself with a world class company. Can I really make it world class in both if I'm not an asshole?

[Miguel1]

If you want to be a leader at that scale, then yes you need to be ruthless. You don’t get that huge by being a conscious and a loving leader. It’s survival on steroids up there.

That being said, Obama was a more empathetic leader. And the good thing is, no one really needs to be a leader at that scale to be a ’world class’.

It just depends on how you define it. Sadhguru to me is a world class leader. But so is Leo with his tiny following base.

 

[Magnanimous]

47 minutes ago, Miguel1 said:

If you want to be a leader at that scale, then yes you need to be ruthless. You don’t get that huge by being a conscious and a loving leader. It’s survival on steroids up there.

That being said, Obama was a more empathetic leader. And the good thing is, no one really needs to be a leader at that scale to be a ’world class’.

It just depends on how you define it. Sadhguru to me is a world class leader. But so is Leo with his tiny following base.

 

@Miguel1Well if we're just concerned with being a world class leader ALONE - so not taking a desire to have a world class company into account - I don't have to be that ruthless?

[Elliott]

What industry, what are you selling?

The reason those guys were like that is because they were selling products that were actually meaningless. If you come up with an actually meaningful business you wouldn't need to do that. Sell organic food with revolutionary holistic cultivation practices, find an inspired team to work with, and you can do it. Sell something just to sell something, you'll need to be a strong villain, because you are a villain.

[blackchair]

No, they are dinosaurs on their way out, mortality comes to everyone knocking on the door, new generation of young people are on the way, ffs mayor of NYC is 34 with 0% of chance of success of winning.....

[Thought Art]

@Magnanimous You don’t need to be a dickhead. But, you need thick face black heart.

Respecting your employees is best. 
 

Brendon burchard has lesson on this in growth day pretty sure

Edited 19 hours ago by Thought Art

[peaceful_ape]

I think generally that is the rule of thumb but there is one example outlier that comes to mind - the CEO of Wholefoods. He was more into love and all that good stuff.

I would recommend the Founders Podcast because the guy does breakdowns of a ton of great entrepreneurs and leaders in history. Listening to those might help you wrap your head more around what those people were thinking.

[Ishanga]

First I think it is wise not too Judge too critically ppl like Zuckerberg, Musk, Besos, and these type of super ultra wealthy ppl, we cannot judge critically from afar because we have no idea of what it is like to be that Wealthy, that Powerful, that Connected, so its a mind fuck for sure!

I think the system we have in place is Corrupt, all systems education, economic, medical, political, etc are corrupt and go against the Masses in terms of the Masses Wellbeing POV vs, Individuals getting too Wealthy and Powerful, but we have what we have, they have to do what they do to make sure they continue to make profit and grow in size and this sort of Bullshit, its a game of sorts..

Miguel1 mentioned Sadhguru, he is a world class leader, he is a Master Yogi/Guru, and runs many businesses thru Isha Foundation, if he was all for himself, a power hungry ego maniac as some think he is, then why build temples, why put yourself out there so much and be in physical harm almost daily (see save soil video where he almost died riding 30K kms on his motorcycle), why build and run more ashrams, if he want to horde the money he wouldn't do these things, so he's legit and he talks allot about Conscious Business and how to Lead via a higher Consciousness outlook and go from there.. He's aware of the scam of the Elites but he meets with them all to help make them more Conscious, its like You have to try to make change in these power hungry ppl to make change and transformation in the world since they are the real controllers of the World!!

 

Edited 1 hour ago by Ishanga

[Arion]

cool with Sadhguru , listened to him alot in the past but i would admit that'his wife's death is fishy