08/06/2020
Epstein Killed Himself (ClickBait):
I’ve watched a couple of documentaries recently about people (men in particular) that have accumulated nearly unlimited power and nearly untold wealth in the world. They then, quite predictably, grossly and horrifyingly abuse the heck out of these means to evil and unfortunate ends. Jeffrey Epstein was one of them. I won’t recap the documentary (feel free to watch it), but it shines a glaring light on what can happen if a person acquires huge amounts of Power (influence and resources) and is then never challenged on how it is being used nor where the trail is leading. He thought he was invincible. He believed his own press. He inhaled the aromatic vapors of the things which stroked his ego and found them not to stink. He thought since he had all the markers of worldly success, that he was immune from consequences… Now, whether he hung himself or not is yet to be determined, but regardless, his choices are what really killed him. None of us may be in that kind of danger, but none of us should find ourselves in anything that even looks like an abuse of power, either.
As a , one must accept the fact that there is (to one degree or other) a little Epstein in all of us. I know that’s not what anyone wants to hear, but it’s the truth. It’s a Condition of humanity. Sad experience has shown it to be true time and time again. As soon as we get a little Power, almost all of us (if left to ourselves) will begin to abuse it. Knowing this, one of our top priorities as Leaders should be to bring people around us to advise us and with whom we can share leadership. These aren’t “yes people”. These are people who share your vision of the Advantage you seek, and will not allow you to derail yourself from the Mission.
At the top of too many of our organizations, institutions, and governments sit men (and presumably women) who have let their nearly absolute power run out of control. They have allowed their desire to serve themselves to consume entirely any care or concern for anyone or anything else. It’s time for this to stop. We need an Evolution. It’s time for us to change ourselves and then Influence others to do the same. It’s time to put Virtue back into Leadership in a way that has been gone for a long, long time.
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