[ClearCase_guy]

The military is a special case, and the lack of leadership there is especially painful.

But corporations have made similar mistakes. Check boxes. Keep metrics (that are rarely looked at). Get promoted. Showing leadership is often a quick way to get fired. Only fools try to lead. It’s a thankless task. Be a mindless Yes Man and have a solid career.

We used to be a different country.

[Nervous Tick]

>> We used to be a different country.

As a nation, we’ve gotten used to coasting on the achievements (and blood sacrifice!) of generations before. In the process the average American has lost all kinds of “fitness” (physical, mental, spiritual).

“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”

I pray we’ll recover, but according to the above we’re “stage 4”.

[Fraxinus]

Check boxes. Keep metrics (that are rarely looked at). Get promoted. Showing leadership is often a quick way to get fired. Only fools try to lead. It’s a thankless task. Be a mindless Yes Man and have a solid career.

In partial defense of not looking at the metrics, many of the metrics are meaningless, and some of the most important factors of leadership are very hard to measure. The big problem is that instead of admitting that the metrics are at best partially relevant and putting effort into finding and developing better metrics, so many organizations just ignore inconvenient metrics.