Unless you’re going to lead an army of demons, remove the charisma potion and add:
- Resilience
- Become Kinder in All Ways
- The Social Bonder (don’t let the title mislead. this is for trust-based, anxiety-free relations)
- Stop Procrastinating as part of leading by example.
- Ego Dissolution “A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves”
This isn’t a joke or condemnation. 4 years of my 10+ years professional experience, I’ve been leading teams and projects, currently leading 40+ developers, and I’m telling you what yields the highest results.
My journey started with having charisma, higher intelligence and superiority in general, but “charisma”/idolatry creates either zombie-minded useless followers that you’ll have to work your ass off to manage or jealousy and unethical competitiveness that you’ll have to deal with.
On the other hand, “the invisible servant leader” yields the highest results by being an enabler+conduit among the team members. Without the anxiety and burnout.
To get more technical, there are 2 structures that work the most effectively:
- Fear-based vertical hierarchy, functioning with continuous pressure from top to bottom.
- Trust-based flat hierarchy, functioning through a leader that acts as an enabler/conduit/attention-manager.
The 2nd type is superior because an invisible team hive-mind takes place and each member’s intelligence/productivity is multipled by the synergy of the whole team. Each member increases the team productivity exponentially (after the normalization stage).
This isn’t just some textbook material. I have direct experience leading both types of teams.
If you’re okay with some spiritual sideeffects, Purity Alchemy (8-Arms Yoga) is probably the best field to establish the foundation of a great leader. True power seems weak.