Comment on Do we really want a leader who celebrates firing people?

index@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Leadership is a useful tool in coordinating the efforts of large numbers of people, in order to efficiently gather information, develop best practices, and accurately evaluate the results of organizational efforts.

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  • index@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A whip is a useful tool to force people into coordination, in order to efficiently do stuff. You may want one along your leadership.

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    • princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well done, you’ve indeed just described the role of Whip that a person can fulfil perfectly. And you’re right, you do often need those people alongside leadership. And no, the term doesn’t come from literally using a whip, though I suppose it does make for some rather evocative imagery. I do really love the term “lose the whip” to mean that someone is expelled from their own party.

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      A whip is a useful tool to force people into coordination

      It’s an awful tool. It can’t convey complex ideas, doesn’t maintain a useful catalog of effective uses, and only works on a very limited range for a tiny number of subjects.

      I might suggest replacing your whip with a library. Libraries have been far more successful at organizing and commanding large numbers of people over long periods of time. The library was arguably the most effective tool of the Pharaohs of Egypt, the Chinese Dynasts, and the Catholic Church in commanding populations by the tens of millions.

      Wielding a whip makes you a nuisance. Wielding a library makes you a God.

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      • index@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Good you seem to be interested in libraries. Here’s one with many interesting books to read:

        theanarchistlibrary.org/…/michail-bakunin-god-and…

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• calcopiritus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Do you want the current president’s duties to be carried out at the snail pace of Congress?

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  • index@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The biggest president’s duty is to lie to the public. We can do fine without that.

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    • calcopiritus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Don’t cut yourself on that edge.

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    • Dagwood222@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Are you pushing that ‘sovereign citizen’ nonsense?

      You may believe that you aren’t a part of the system, but the system is much bigger than you are and it has other ideas.

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