Rebuilding the appeal of leadership in an age of uncertainty.

[daftandbarmy]

Kids these days don't want your leadership positions. Here's a good article that explains why, and what you might be able to do about that...

The Leadership Aspiration Gap
Rebuilding the appeal of leadership in an age of uncertainty.

Corporations, societies, nations. All require a mix of different qualities to succeed, including quality leadership. Yet, as today’s leaders prepare to pass on the mantle to a new generation, leadership seems to be approaching a moment of crisis. A growing body of evidence suggests that fewer young professionals today aspire to traditional leadership roles.

https://knowledge.insead.edu/leadership-organisations/leadership-aspiration-gap

 

[daftandbarmy]

Whoa... this is a wild ride

The Daddy Effect: Hierarchical Narcissism and the Manufacture of Command Climate​

Special operations and special tactics units select for a narrow behavioral phenotype: high dominance drive, low fear reactivity, elevated risk tolerance, and rapid threat appraisal under physiological load.

These are adaptive traits in a combat environment and maladaptive traits in a peer hierarchy. This article examines a recurring pattern in high-performing tactical units, informally termed here the daddy effect, in which men who ascend to positions of nominal authority over former peers begin to exhibit dominance behavior indistinguishable from the coercive patterns documented in interpersonal abuse literature, but expressed institutionally rather than domestically.

Drawing on the toxic triangle model of destructive leadership (Padilla, Hogan, & Kaiser, 2007), the abusive supervision construct (Tepper, 2000, 2007), U.S. Army War College research on toxic command climate (Reed, 2004; Steele, 2011), and the social neuroendocrinology of testosterone-mediated status competition (Mazur & Booth, 1998; Terburg & van Honk, 2013), this article proposes that hierarchical narcissism in tactical command environments is not simply a leadership deficiency but a predictable neurobiological and characterological outcome of placing dominance-selected individuals into unearned authority over their former equals.

The article extends the analysis to a documented but rarely named secondary harm: the informal extension of a commander’s coercive reach into the households of the men under his authority, in which noncompliant spouses are punished through retaliation against the service member rather than through any direct or lawful channel.

This pattern is examined as an institutional analogue to coercive control as defined in the intimate partner violence literature, distinguished by the fact that the coercive agent has no relationship to the victim at all, only unlawful proximity to the one person whose career, pay, and physical safety the victim’s compliance is used to secure.

The Daddy Effect: Hierarchical Narcissism and the Manufacture of Command Climate

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[SeaKingTacco]

Whoo boy.

That is something else, for sure.