To be a leader, you have to kill

I like the topic of leadership. Maybe it’s the aftermath of having attended Harvard Business School. At HBS leadership was a buzzword. If you’re trying to get into HBS here’s a tip that will get you in: in your admissions essay mention leadership in every other sentence.

Just now I visited my alma mater’s website, guessing I’d see “leadership” mentioned in some form. No surprises:

Last night I wrote about Steve Kerr and Steph Curry. My note was an exaggeration but I do think Steve and Steph are true leaders in their craft.

In their craft.

What about politics? What about world leaders?

Here it gets complicated. Kerr could never be President. He seems too nice.

I don’t think I could ever be a true leader, not that I even have the skills or ambitions. I’m also too nice. I’m not virtue signaling, rather I am saying that I absolutely don’t have the balls to make decisions that will lead to other people’s deaths.

To be a leader on the political scene (of which Presidency is the highest stage) you will necessarily end up killing people with your direct decisions, no matter the political party, no matter your demeanor.

You have to fight wars. You send your country’s people to fight and potentially die and they will be…