Leadership is an interesting facit, how one views leadership, and how another does is very different. Moreover, too much emphasis is put on leadership, when in fact people should be leading themselves, and putting someone in a figurehead position to only speak for them in differing venues. If a leader is failing, then the people who choose the leader are failing to make the leader hear their voices, or failing to make their leader act in accordance with larger organizational decisions, and thus they are failing themselves. Remind provides many explanations for the failure of workers to take action. The only one missing is failure of leadership.
We saw this anti-progressive leader action play out in the last election where it became all about the leader, in each of the parties, when indeed we have a political party system for very good reasons. This false notion of a "leader" being the be all and end all, is buying into right wing or patriarchial philosophy, or conceptual framework, and it should be rejected everytime it rears it's ugly false head. It is divisive and disempowering to those that comprise the whole of the party, and indeed the whole of society.
I have had a good many tussels with so called "leaders" of things I was involved in, and upon occasion I completely discounted their "leadership" position as not being pertinent. Mostly over things pertinent to my sphere of actions and deliberations, and sometimes others than my own, whereas the leader was working for/from their own self-interest at the time and not for the good of the many, and thus refused action. And hell ya, I undercut their actions pertaining to what I/others were trying to acheive. But I did not undercut their broader leadership, as there needs to be someone who can be the voice of the many, and who can communicate effectively the message, unless of course their leadership is/was completely flawed.
Take for example hockey, where the team players nominate a team captain. In no way does this position mean that the puck must be passed always to the captain and never carried alone, or passed to another. But still the captain speaks for the team and thus is their leader in differing venues.
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"watching the tide roll away"