What Leaders of Today Think

By David Pepin

It has been said in this chat that people have been in trying times from getting the COVID-19 when this happened people have been working from home that can, and social distancing have slowed everything down. The leaders make people work from home even though it has slowed some people down, it can be affectable with good communication, and holding people accountable after the job is done (Hickman, Robison,).  It seems simple enough to just take your time and let the chips fall where they go and talk with people to get it done the right way.  People that can be a problem with leaders today when Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic said, “We appear to want leaders who are charming and entertaining, but as most of us know, there is a big difference between an effective leader and being a stand-up comedian.”  This can be seen at all levels even with the election as people are seeing that the impeachment on Trump and that he was a conniving his way into the office.  For instance, on the conniving Trump a member of Trump’s committee Barry Berke said, “While serving as special counsel to the House Judiciary Committee, I warned in my opening statement for the committee’s impeachment hearings that if the president got away with what he did, “our imagination is the only limit to what President Trump may do next.” (New York Times).  The Impeachment trials have only made Trump more likable to people and can be shown that if unchecked he can overlook anyone he wants.  People need to wake up and smell the smoke over the horizon, because if we start from the top with ego-driven maniacs as a likable president even of a company bad things happen (Premuzic).  The idea that this person is still running our government is mind-boggling to me that the impeachment didn’t work.  Which brings me back to people working from home as Premuzic said, “But this has been turbocharged by the recent digital age.”  The problem isn’t that people aren’t noticing this is happening but that Republicans would rather turn away from losing at any cost.  Many ways people could become complacent from this pandemic as “Some workers are beginning to realize that the presence of others and the structure of the office kept them focused. Others now know people and external structure slowed them down and that solitude increases their productivity.” (Hickman and Robison).  The divide of people working from home and working in the office has been shown that it works for both people of extroverts and introverts.  The pointing of fingers could happen and bring disfunction if we don’t have good leaders managing what goes on in the workplace after this pandemic.  The big problem that needs work will become who gets benefits as Bernie Sander said, “As tens of millions of Americans are losing their jobs and incomes as a result of the pandemic, many of them are also losing their health insurance.”  Sander’s on many occasions has danced for more health care as everyone needs health care in America, is that ability now?  In many ways right now not everyone coming back to the workplace could get health care or any benefits that people would need to survive another pandemic.  The pandemic has demonstrated both our health care system and that communities provide enough care in these trying times (Walkowicz).  People need to stop and look around, during this pandemic, and maybe a work strike for all jobs is needed to stop people from being mistreated in America.  We need to as a people to stop staring at famous people with our interests in hand as it would change how we feel with ourselves (Premuzic).  The President and his people working for him have made us weak now, gave us now way but ourselves for the most part to combat it, and we need a win when we come back to the workplace.  When Trump cares more about money as Burke stated, “The reason he dismissed early pronouncements of the dangers of the virus by the health experts in his administration, and denied their validity, is because he cared more about the stock market falling and potentially harming his re-election prospects.”  This is what happens when people watch too much of The Apprentice than how can we make the world a better place.  In a lot of these blogs people have said that Biden isn’t the man to take down Trump or if he does, he might forget something and becomes just like Trump in the same way or manner.  I never said that Biden would be better, I know that Biden would be better than Trump, but better doesn’t solve issues sometimes and can create a shouting match that doesn’t do anything.  Does creating a point that both sides need to talk about these issues and get all of us better health care?  I hope the world’s social experiment has shown people that need some common ground or it will stay a shouting match.

Berke, Barry. “Impeachment Taught Trump All the Wrong Lessons.” The New York Times. The New York Times, April 19, 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/19/opinion/trump-impeachment-coronavirus.html.

Chamorro-Premuzic, Tomas. “Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? And What Can We Do About It?” ideas.ted.com. ideas.ted.com, January 14, 2020. https://ideas.ted.com/why-do-so-many-incompetent-men-become-leaders-and-what-can-we-do-about-it/.

Hickman, Adam, and Jennifer Robison. “Remote Work Trends to Guide High Performance During COVID-19.” Gallup.com. Gallup, April 24, 2020. https://www.gallup.com/workplace/309170/remote-work-trends-guide-high-performance-during-covid.aspx.