Follow the leader

Joshua Jones

Having held a few positions of relative authority in my working life in retail management, one thing that was beat into me from my early days was to always lead by example i.e not asking anyone to do anything you wouldn't do yourself and always appearing to be honest and above reproach.

I was just wondering what sort of example the Irish people have had from their leadership in recent years. Be it celebrating that rouge Haughey or the "I cant remeber kid" Bertie to the thieving bankers.

My point is can we actually admonish people who take part in tiger raids or fraud when it appears our great leaders are anything but angelic?. Or do you feel that everyone should obey their own moral compass no matter how morally bankrupt certain people in positions of authority have been?.

Tipsy McSwagger

leader leader follow the leader (repeat until head explodes)

stephen_k

Na na, na na, na na, na na, na na, na na, na na... Leeeaaaader

syklops

Aww brilliant! Another bankers and politicians thread!

policarp

Follow the carrot. . .

Joshua Jones

syklops wrote: »

Aww brilliant! Another bankers and politicians thread!

Sorry for ruining your day :pac:.

Granted though Psycology forum probably the best home for this.

mconigol

You think people give a **** about their managers?!

No one listens to me!
:pac:

syklops

Joshua Jones wrote: »

Sorry for ruining your day :pac:.

Granted though Psycology forum probably the best home for this.

Humanities I think would be best. Its a bit like what AH was before AH went to sh!t.

mackg

It's not that we learned all this from the politicians. We simply have had politicians that went about their business in the same way that things are done on all levels of Irish society.

"what are you doing when you finish school?"
"My old man's in the council he'll get me in there"

We accept this kind of I'll vote for you if you get me a council house thing at local level if it suits us and then can't understand why the national politicians are in bed with the banks. They learned their trade at grass roots level and saw no reason to operate any differently on a national level. We need to start looking at all levels of government if we really want to improve the system as a whole.

stimpson

The leader is good. The leader is great.

We surrender our will as of this date.

Absurdum

I remember watching my boss clear the snow and ice from outside my office while I had my feet up on the radiator.

I'm not a follower.

Frank Black

D'ya wanna be in my gang my gang my gang my gang?

policarp

Joshua Jones wrote: »

Having held a few positions of relative authority

You should know that incest is not best. . .

Kojak

black francis wrote: »

D'ya wanna be in my gang my gang my gang my gang?

No thanks, I have my own....

Stinicker

If she jumped off a bridge would you follow her? This was drilled into me from an early age and I am very anti-authoritative today and always suspicious and question everything, I never take things at face value so no I am not a follower rather I see myself as an individualistic laissez faire type of person.

cml387

I know Bertie used a bit of rouge, but he had proper make up artists.

im invisible

cml387 wrote: »

....make up artists.

Were they not called 'spin doctors' ??