#true leadership

[girl4music]

The problem with Maya as Captain over Andy or Jack.

It’s not that she’s power hungry, as Jack put it. Being power hungry isn’t necessarily a bad thing if you know and understand the benefits of collective power as well as individual power and know how to use both and to delegate effectively. I totally understand where Maya’s coming from being a woman myself that has also been made to feel like they are less than they’re worth and then the one day they get a leg up - they’re going to take it because they know what they’re worth even if they may not be ready for what they’re worth.

But Andy has a right to feel upset about being passed over for Captain because she knows she’s worth it too.

No, the problem with Maya as Captain is that she makes everyone work to HER high standards, not THEIRS. Being an Olympic gold medalist who won her victory on a sprained ankle and all, her all out certainly isn’t everyone’s all out and she’s not recognizing that. Her philosophy of “embrace the pain” won’t be helpful or even inspirational to everyone because everyone does differently, thinks differently, feels differently.

A true leader knows the difference between being a leader and being a boss. Yes, they’re both, but they recognize when one is needed over the other in different situations and circumstances with different people. Andy does. Jack does. Maya doesn’t because she’ll push and she’ll push forgetting that her limit on being pushed is way above everybody else’s limit and this is something she would learn about her team if she spent enough time in the position of a lieutenant. She’s jumping the gun because she’s being offered it and she’s hungry for it. Not because she’s ready for it.

Now if Sullivan truly thought that he had to make the call not to make Andy Captain… then he should have chosen Jack over Maya instead. I’m guessing the reasons as to why he didn’t choose Jack was because of his recent PTSD problem and the fact that he is a man and he wants a woman in leading power for once. The problem with that? They’re both discriminatory reasons because Jack has earned his position as Captain. Has had worked through and overcome his PTSD problem and he is well aware of some things that are in desperate need of change and solution and he really cares to change and resolve them. But he can only attempt to change and resolve those things if he is in a position of power. He can’t do it as a lieutenant. Being passed over for Captain just because he is a man is not right just as much as it wouldn’t be if a woman earned the position and was passed over because she’s a woman. Sullivan was discriminative in not choosing Jack if he wasn’t going to choose Andy.

If it wasn’t going to be Andy, it had to be Jack. It should not have been Maya. Maya is not ready for Captain because while she may know the team well enough to know their individual strengths and weaknesses and how to use them, she doesn’t recognize that they can’t work to her high standards. Both Andy and Jack would recognize that along with knowing their team well enough to know their individual strengths and weaknesses and how to use them to their most influential and beneficial purpose. Maya is ready for a lieutenant position, but she’s not ready for Captain because she has a lot to learn about true leadership. That’s just the truth of it no matter how much blood, sweat and tears she’s put into finally getting a leg up as a woman in a position of power.

A woman should definitely be in a position of power. But it should be Andy, not Maya, that was chosen. That’s what Andy is upset and has gone into passive-aggressive mode against Maya and Sullivan about. That she knows it’s her time to lead. She’s right. Her father has intervened yet again to prevent it because HE thinks she’s not ready for it when she absolutely is. HE thinks she’s not ready because he has no respect for her as a grown woman who knows her autonomy. Sullivan didn’t know what to do about Pruitt’s request of him. Not only may it be the final words he says to him but also Pruitt has already caught on to his feelings for Andy and so if he chose Andy as Captain against his request to not to, he’d worry that Pruitt would think that he only did it because he is in love with Andy and not because he believes she’s earned it.

The ironic thing about all this though is that’s exactly why Sullivan has fell in love with Andy. It’s because he has seen her earn her rightful position as Captain of Station 19 that has what has enamoured her to him. And he has made the wrong call to go with Pruitt’s request over his genuine love for and belief in Andy.

Sullivan should have went with his gut… And his heart.

In only one day, Maya has proven Sullivan wrong about his choice to make her Captain and Maya’s aware of it. This is only going to cause more complication and conflict within the team’s ranks and they really do not need that right now when changes need to be made. When they really need to work as a well-oiled machine and only Andy or Jack know how to run the rig right.

#station 19 #house where nobody lives #andy herrera #jaina lee ortiz #maya bishop #danielle savre #robert sullivan #boris kodjoe #jack gibson #grey damon #captain #true leadership

[b0bthebuilder35]

#leader #leadership #leaders #leadership role #leadership qualities #true leadership #life #lessons #lesson #life lessons #life lesson #lessons in life #lesson in life #reality #real shit #true shit #truth #true #no bullshit #no bull #real #facts #no bs #no but seriously #real life #no but fr #equality #integrity #intent #intention

[blueskittlesart]

I get the impression from your posts that you don’t think there’s a future where Zelda would end up queen of hyrule (I can see where her becoming queen would undermine her entire arc of getting freedom from the painful expectations of princess/chosen etc), but how do you think that hyrules government will work beyond that? Is the population recovered enough for that to even be something established within their lifetime?

honestly, based on what we see in other games, hyrule was never REALLY a proper monarchy. I think it's pretty likely that the hylian monarchy was functionally a symbolic one, especially by the time that botw rolls around. in most games in the franchise, hyrule is largely made up of sort of mini single-race societies that function by defaulting to whatever small tribal government they happen to have. With a kingdom technically made up of multiple different species, each with their own differing cultures, customs, and even lifespans, it makes much more sense to have small governments united in name alone. i think any genuine attempt at true united government of such widely varied and relatively isolated races would not end well for hyrule (can you imagine being a hundred-year-old zora and being told that you have to listen to laws made by hylians who have been alive for a fraction of the time you have?? no way.) But by having a technical alliance under the symbolic hyrulian royal family, all of these races reap the benefits of alliance amongst each other while maintaining their relative independance. This is why most of the villages in hyrule are race-isolated and have their own governing bodies--the zora have a king, the rito, gorons, and gerudo have chiefs, and several of the hylian/sheikah villages have mayors or other governing bodies. these are the actual, functional governments of hyrule. the royal family serves both symbolic and practical purposes as a symbol of the kingdom's allyship and as an entity that can build, maintain, and direct a widespread military force (and i think there's also definitely a religious element to their rule over hyrule, as literal descendants of god in-universe,) but other than that it isn't doing a whole lot of actual governing. (the exception to this rule is MAYBE post-wind-waker on the new continent, and maybe immediately post-sksw, specifically because in both those cases the hyrulian royals would have needed to take a more active governing role in order to rebuild the country.) so with that in mind, I think botw and totk make it pretty clear that this method of small government works pretty well for hyrule. I think the most zelda would EVER be is a sort of ambassador between villages and races, especially as hyrule becomes more intermingled in the aftermath of the calamity. small democratic government largely appears to be working for hyrule and for zelda in totk, so i think that's the road she would choose to continue down rather than attempting to reinstate a monarchy that never actually did that much in the first place.

#hyrule's government is fascinating to me bc like obviously the hylian monarchy isnt REAL bc not a single other race in the country actually #defaults to their governance. even the sheikah have their own village governments in most games #the zora literally have their own secondary monarchy despite also supposedly being under hyrulian governance #so like it's fairly obvious that the hyrulian royals are symbolic/religious leadership and nothing more #EXCEPT for when they're building an army. that's the only true power they seem to have #and i think that's probably to do with the religious aspect. i think the reason a symbolic monarchy was able to build an army like what the #did in botw is because they were functionally fighting a religious war against. the devil. lmao #anyway. yeah #asks #zelda analysis

[terezicaptor]

I'm so obsessed with that clip it's insane. Like

The second cellbit jumped into that hole with tubbo he was doomed. When he jumped in he was immediately knocked down to 4 hearts. And he doesn't realize his hearts are low until he's at 2 and he immediately goes for the tea but it's already too late because tubbo doesn't stop digging the second he has started

AND YOU CAN SEE earlier in the clip tubbo digging at the ground and cellbit lands a hit on him before tubbo runs off into that bare bit of stone and cellbit follows right after

Cellbit's laser focus + Tubbo's quick thinking leading cellbit right down to his death...

I'm obsessed with that clip it's so good

#txt #qsmp #qsmp purgatory #RAAAHHHHH IT MAKES ME INSANE #Purgatory wasn't very fun but I think it rly showed off Tubbo's leadership capability and quick thinking and strategy and pvp skill #Ppl like to point to elimination day to say tubbo wasn't respected by his teammates but that isn't true at all #Look at any other moment and you'll see just how insanely loyal soulfire was to their coach #Bad and pierre only didn't follow him on elimination day bc they were sure ggn would kill them given the chance

[ikram1909]

A sextuple winning captain btw.

#come back king #we need our players to see what true leadership is #carles puyol #fc barcelona

[bumblingbabooshka]

Janeway in 'Nothing Human' vs Tuvok in 'Resolutions' There's something here I know there is I can almost wrap my teeth around it.

#I can't watch Nothing Human bc the puppet really disconcerts me #but I cannot believe Janeway really came into B'Elanna's room after all that and the FIRST thing she says...her OPENER is #'Wow it smells awful in here~!' #DUDE....................TIME AND PLACE #HEHEHHE #C'MON MAN #B'Elanna: Is [putting it behind us] an order? / Janeway [normal!]: Yes. #'And what emotion is that?' C'MON MAN!!!!!! #Janeway & Tuvok #Kathryn Janeway #Tuvok #I can see why she and Tuvok are friends #'I understand you're upset but fall in line' #You can be upset but not if effects your work #<- Something which would be fine on a regular ship but is very difficult on Voyager #I think Janeway's certain coldness or ruthlessness which can be aimed at either friend or foe is an interesting #aspect of her personality #Ex: She and B'Elanna COULD have feasibly had a more touching scene together to close out the episode but they don't #I don't know if I'm explaining myself well right now I'm a bit ill and more than a bit tired #Something about uhh maybe....people under their command vehemently and emotionally disagreeing with them/their decisions?? #you can disagree with me but not if you don't follow me anyway #Voyager a ship full of contradictions #they have to all work together and they are all closer emotionally than any other starship due to their situation #but they are also still 'at work' and are expected to follow orders. It's like a 'casual' hierarchy but it's still a hierarchy #and you can't fall too far out of line bc you're someone dear to me #but you're also a valued cog in the machine #and even though you ARE valued you ARE still a cog in the machine #but you're also my dear friend. and all of these things are true at once. #all of that of course but also Janeway & Tuvok are displaying a very particular kind of shared leadership style in these moments #Janeway is obviously on the whole MUUUCH more charismatic and understanding than Tuvok but still - when push comes to shove...

[common-blackbird]

He was crying ;__;

#Sw: tbb #Tbb spoilers #The bad batch spoilers #Tbb hunter #And here my friends we can see his world falling apart 💁‍♀️ #Still not over this #I hope we see him next season struggling even more with leadership 😭 #Like when omega snooped around the room the only hunter's thing she found was a picture of all of them together #Hunter's whole thing was protecting his squad and his worst fear came true 😭

[20s-turtle-posting]

i need to watch back through 2k3 again bc i swear Raph and Leo barely even fight about the whole “leadership thing.” Like I can’t really recall any of their fights explicitly being “im a better leader than you”??

maybe my memory is faulty but i swear that most of the fights are literally just Raph essentially butting heads against any idea he even slightly disagrees with or doesn’t see the point of, even if half of hose nitpicks are just that, Raph being an obstinate nitpick and being loud and gruff about it. Most of them never blow up into real fights

the only big fight i can remember Raph and Leo engaging in is the fight during City at War, in which situation they both had extremely relevant points, and Raph wasn’t even challenging Leo’s position as leader, he just thought Leo’s point of view was rash and stupid

#TMNT 2003 #TMNT 2k3 #Raphael #Leonardo #20s musings #like ive never understood ppl saying that raph always challenges leos leadership in every iteration #bc i never saw it in 2k3 unless im just really oblivious lol #Also doesn't that make Raph a pretty good second? #A leader whose ideas are never challenged might start thinking he's hot shit #Raph will never let Leo think he's hot shit bc that's just his dumbass brother and he's only /full/ of shit dkjfsl #<-- true sibling experience #2k3 #raph #leo

[ut-girl666]

Idea: The Matrix, being a parasite that uses the Primes as it’s hosts, slowly turns the Primes into eldritch horror-ific beings, and the forms they hold in front of people to make them appear normal are actually just a ‘cloaked’ form for their ‘true’ form (Maccadam from CV for example). This happens to all the Primes, it just usually takes a long time even by their standards to build up enough, and usually the newer/younger ones are like baby horrors.

Another idea: Rodimus, having been born in the primacy essentially as Optimus’s son, has grown up with them, and seen them in their true forms from a young age. It is now impossible to freak him out with them, because before Hot Rod could walk, he looked Nova dead in the face in it’s true form as it cradled him in it’s arms, and cooed up at it. Optimus now says that to Rodimus, they’re not horrors, they’re eldritch wonders. He genuinely looks at them and believes some to be quite pretty. Or he calmly/casually asks if Op thinks Quintus’s Subnautica octopus ass could fit in a flower vase, because octopuses don’t have bones, and this is long dead ghost, so it’s gotta be possible, right? (Op just wants one normal conversation about the Primes with his son. one. that’s all he asks (while snorting laughs but that’s beside the point-).)

In short: The Primes are eldritch horrors in their true forms + Rodimus isn’t bothered in the slightest about this fact.

#ut’s og trash post #ut talks #transformers #rodimus #optimus prime #primes #the primes #nova prime #the matrix of leadership #eldritch horrors #the primes are eldritch horrors #rodimus looks at Quintus and goes ‘ooh octopus!’ #he cannot understand what the goddamn hell they are #but he doesn’t particularly care #they are terrifying ungodly entities that always have and will out date Cybertron’s populace to most #to Rodimus’s they’re just funky little pretty butterflies of their own kind #and yes #rodimus is in fact aware that as time passes he is very very slowly turning into such a creature himself #Optimus told him way back and showed his own true form #that only got him questions like ‘so will I turn into a phoenix monster?’ and ‘is that why your creation name is Orion?’ #Rodimus is entirely unphased and finds it actually a little intriguing #Optimus is exasperated and laughs in pain every time it happens ‘but at least Rodimus isn’t traumatized by it?’ #anyway enjoy

[cantaloupe]

The Terror (AMC) Episode 1: Go For Broke / Publilius Syrus / Moby Dick, Herman Melville

#LOVE the design of this scene at the end of episode 1 #the helm is so bright on the otherwise weathered and grey erebus #all for show + putting a good face on it even with the abdication of true leadership from franklin #ANYWAY #the terror #theterroredit #the terror amc #my edits

[gladiator1977]

The grand admiral was smart and subtle, but never used his brilliant to show up or humiliate anyone. He demanded results, but never perfection, and had amazing stores of patience for those who were truly working to their fullest ability. He cared about his people, to the point of standing up for them even against the disapproval of the powerful men.

Star Wars Thrawn: Alliances

#truth #quotes #star wars thrawn #quote #true leader #Leadership #life #knowledge

[mitskijamie]

Yeah that never felt fair to me, you've got Jamie working hard to earn forgiveness from the team who are blaming him for everything (most of it deserved, but some not) and become a better person and becomes a sweetheart, you've got Isaac who work hard to become a good leader and becomes the most responsible one who always looks out for the others, then you've got Colin. Do they think him being gay cancels out his dickhead behaviours or something?

Yeahhh tbh....I do think Colin grew as a person through his whole gay arc (examining and unlearning the toxic masculinity he had been perpetuating) but I didn't like the way he acted like he was a hapless victim of Jamie when he was a willing lackey who played a major role in the negative environment Jamie created. He shirked accountability for sure

#ask #Also Isaac's leadership growth arc sooooo true. And so underrated

[b0bthebuilder35]

#leader #leadership #leadership qualities #life #lessons #lesson #life lessons #life lesson #lessons in life #lesson in life #leadership role #roles #it’s true #important #important to know #important to remember #a true leader #true leadership #employer #employers #community leaders #community leader #organizational leadership #reality #facts #fact #need to know #understanding #understood #important message

[midnight-els]

Thinking, as always, about Molly Cobb, but especially about how much I wish we had had more of her at NASA in season three from a disability rep perspective. As a disabled person, I thought her journey in season two was one of the better portrayals of someone reckoning with what an aquired disability means for them in the hellscape that is current disability rep in tv.

And then at the start of season three it was incredible to see her just doing her job excellently, with her adaptations, with the respect of her co-workers and, ultimately, still being exactly herself. She doesn't become a stereotype of a disabled person and god do I wish we had more of that.

#spin off show with margo ellen and molly being being a terrifying yet incredible NASA leadership trifecta between s2 and s3 when #I'm not visually impaired so I can't comment on that aspect of it but her emotional journey just rings so true to me #I think what makes it work is that it's not explicitly about becoming disabled but focussed on her not being able to go to space/fly anymor #it takes it from abstraction about disability and the pitfalls re disability stereotypes that usually come with that and makes it personal #I may have more coherent thoughts on this when it is not nearly midnight #also when I have finished my current s2 rewatch #anyway molly should have lived to become the first blind astronaut #hell she should have already been the first blind astronaut between s2 and s3 #damn now I'm going to have to write that fic aren't I #for all mankind #molly cobb #disability stuff #mine

[ganymedecatamitus]

I'm not going to pretend to know what I'm talking about. My family has lived in America since 1952. I've never been to Israel, I've never been to Palestine. I'm not a diplomat or an aid worker. But I do know that people in the same position as me like to pretend that they know more. I ask only in the coming days that you do not take anyone at face value, that you give the time for at least a cursory Google search to make sure what they say is even true. That you question everything, from every side. That you not rely on black and white moralism, that you care about people as people, and that you form your own deeply held beliefs.

Because people in my position will be regurgitating the opinions of others, either of those in the same positions as us, or of random authority figures (which is arguably worse than unvetted opinions of other people, as they have elections to win and public opinions to sway). People are dying, people have been dying. The only thing we can do is accept the truth, not what we think is the truth, not what makes us feel better, not what empowers us, but the truth.

But I will say an obligatory "this is the British empire's fault" because, well, that's the truth.

#it drives me crazy that no one points that out because its TRUE #britain colonized palistine first and then hoarded it for 90 years deploying taxes #then after the holocaust the european leadership REALLY didn't want jewish people moving back jnto their homes #cause then. y'know. they'd actually face conseuences for allowing all that to happen #and britain was like 'hey guys great idea. what if i just scooted these people over' #'and we dumped the jews over here. and then blamed it all on a fringe political movement' #'and then anything that happens there isn't our fault. we can blame that fringe idea that doesnt have majority support' #'wipe our hands clean of the whole thing. ee get to make a mess and then leave #'we LOVE doing that its our favourite thing' #i don't wanna tag this post because it feels ghoulish I might change my mind but idk

[fallingbyjuleecruise]

i think most art that tries to critique christianity, and specifically american charismatic christianity, is shallow and honestly corny unless it comes from someone who has experience w that institution

#and by experience i mean either grew up in it or has done a lot of research #i'm listening to saved! by reverend kristin michael hayter (lingua ignota's new project) and parts made me very nauseous in a good way #like for the most part she's just playing it straight and that's more effective than any over the top parody could ever be #like being raised to believe that you are constantly at war w yourself and your mind and your body and you cannot trust yourself #bc you're inheritantly sinful and these authority figures (both the church leadership and god) are the only ones who can properly guide you #and all of the ppl you love but aren't christian are going to hell and it's your job to either convert them or leave them behind #bc they'll just tempt you to abandon your own road to salvation so you should only form relationships w other christians #is already terrifying on it's own w no more random bits hooked on to it and her voice is so haunting and the production is so off putting #like she sounds so desperate in parts of this album like she NEEDS what she's saying to be true and she's gonna force it to be real #anyway parts of this album brought me back to being a child and seeing ppl collapse screaming sobbing and speaking in tongues around me #and i forgot how much that scared me #my posts #.txt