\u2026D\u2019Addario was a rare breed of supervisor for a paramilitary organization. He had learned long ago to suppress the first impulse of command that calls for a supervisor to intimidate his men, charting their every movement and riding them through investigations. In the districts, that sort of behavior usually resulted from a new supervisor\u2019s primitive conclusion that the best way to avoid being perceived as weak was to behave like a petty tyrant.<\/span> This petty-tyranny is what leadership isn\u2019t. Leadership is getting men to love what you love. (\u201cTalent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.\u201d) Leadership is about creating future leaders, who can see what you couldn\u2019t see. Command is always, at its best, a form of submission<\/span>: submission to the target, to the unseen, to the mission, to the barely-apprehended beloved.<\/p>\n [edited to clarify what I meant by \u201cthis\u201d!]<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u2026D\u2019Addario was a rare breed of supervisor for a paramilitary organization. He had learned long ago to suppress the first impulse of command that calls for a supervisor to intimidate his men, charting their every movement and riding them through investigations. In the districts, that sort of behavior usually resulted from a new supervisor\u2019s primitive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
\u2013David Simon, Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets<\/span><\/p>\n