Monday, October 13, 2025

Mini-Post: Leadership

What is becoming more and more clear is how Trump governs. 
  • Great leaders build coalitions. 
  • Greats leaders negotiate, 
  • Great leaders motivate. 
  • Great leaders build consensus. 
  • Great leaders unite people in difficult times. 
  • Bad leaders use fear.
  • Bad leaders use extortion.
  • Bad leader use intimidation.
  • Bad leaders divide the people.
AZ Central wrote...
The administration announced plans for mass layoffs of federal workers if negotiations failed to progress, with Trump stating that reductions were already underway. Approximately 750,000 federal employees remained furloughed, and the White House circulated a memo suggesting that some may not receive back pay, despite previous legal guarantees.
Threats! You do it my way or else!
Meanwhile in the U.S., protests erupted in Chicago over recent immigration raids, with demonstrators clashing with police outside a federal building. The raids, part of Trump’s broader crackdown on undocumented immigrants, have drawn criticism from civil rights groups and local leaders.
Fear, threats and intimidation! He governs using:
  • Authoritarian Tendencies: Top-down decision-making & loyalty-focused.
  • Transactional Leadership: Quid pro quo dynamics.
  • Disruptive and Unconventional: Breaks norms & governs by chaos.
  • Short-Term Focus: Prioritizes optics and media cycles & reactive rather than strategic
Does Trump sound like a great leader in the the style of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill?
Or does he govern like Stalin, Franco, or Tito?



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