(Matrix of) Leadership

Five Leadership Lessons From James T. Kirk – seemed like a good title for an article, so it attracted my attention. And I’m not even a trekkie.

#1, “Never Stop Learning”, while true for any human being in existence (ffs, even V.I. Lenin thought this way) storms out with an out-stretched comparison of the said words of wisdom with Kirk defeating the Gorn captain using a handmade black-powder powered cannon.

Out-stretched? Well, staying in the realm of entertainment, here’s Mythbusters take on the matter: Gorn Cannon. It’s fun to watch, but to save 15 minutes, the conclusion is the hand cannon couldn’t have worked.

This is a particularly funny comparison because building a cannon is a tech thing, which is opposed to the leadership. Building or standing behind a wrong tech solution, as a boss, is particularly troublesome for the people you’re trying to lead because: IT’S NOT YOUR JOB TO DO IT! (unless you actually have the skills to, which is not always the case, but even if you do it, IT’S STILL NOT YOUR JOB!). Coming to think of, TheDailyWTF is full of such stories.

To push this a bit forward, the final blow  is that the hand made cannon is/was lethal to wielder 🙂 Couple this to #3 in the original article (Risk is out business!). Does is spell…disaster? 😀