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  • M Mark_Wallace

    There's no such thing as a "leader", there are just people who have abilities and knowledge that are appropriate for a leadership role under particular circumstances and conditions, and to whom other people allow a measure of authority. Take someone you think of as "a good leader" from here and place him there, and he can become a useless, annoying piece of cr@p, because the people there don't think of him as a leader. Scrap any self-improvement books that tell you otherwise. Actually, just scrap any self-improvement books. You are who you are. If that's not good enough for you, just check in to an insane asylum, and save everyone else a lot of bother in dealing with you.

    I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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    Tarek Elqusi
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    Thans for reply, but don't you think that :

    Mark_Wallace wrote:

    If that's not good enough for you, just check in to an insane asylum, and save everyone else a lot of bother in dealing with you.

    could be phrased in a more nice way!

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    • M Mark_Wallace

      There's no such thing as a "leader", there are just people who have abilities and knowledge that are appropriate for a leadership role under particular circumstances and conditions, and to whom other people allow a measure of authority. Take someone you think of as "a good leader" from here and place him there, and he can become a useless, annoying piece of cr@p, because the people there don't think of him as a leader. Scrap any self-improvement books that tell you otherwise. Actually, just scrap any self-improvement books. You are who you are. If that's not good enough for you, just check in to an insane asylum, and save everyone else a lot of bother in dealing with you.

      I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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      Tarek Elqusi
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      Mark_Wallace wrote:

      You are who you are.

      I agree with you

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      • T Tarek Elqusi

        Thans for reply, but don't you think that :

        Mark_Wallace wrote:

        If that's not good enough for you, just check in to an insane asylum, and save everyone else a lot of bother in dealing with you.

        could be phrased in a more nice way!

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        Tarek Elqusi wrote:

        Thans for reply, but don't you think that :

        Mark_Wallace wrote:

        If that's not good enough for you, just check in to an insane asylum, and save everyone else a lot of bother in dealing with you.

        could be phrased in a more nice way!

        Nope. Someone who is convinced that trying to change himself in accordance with other people's ideas will improve his personality needs a slap, not encouragement, to knock those ideas right out of his head. Trying to be someone you're not makes you a worse person, not a better one.

        I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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        • M Mark_Wallace

          Tarek Elqusi wrote:

          Thans for reply, but don't you think that :

          Mark_Wallace wrote:

          If that's not good enough for you, just check in to an insane asylum, and save everyone else a lot of bother in dealing with you.

          could be phrased in a more nice way!

          Nope. Someone who is convinced that trying to change himself in accordance with other people's ideas will improve his personality needs a slap, not encouragement, to knock those ideas right out of his head. Trying to be someone you're not makes you a worse person, not a better one.

          I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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          Mark_Wallace wrote:

          Trying to be someone you're not

          You seem you based your reply on this idea that you though about me, I know that I can't be anything other than what I'm really is. By the way , I'm not a leader!

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            Mark_Wallace wrote:

            Trying to be someone you're not

            You seem you based your reply on this idea that you though about me, I know that I can't be anything other than what I'm really is. By the way , I'm not a leader!

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            Mark_Wallace
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            Tarek Elqusi wrote:

            You seem you based your reply on this idea that you though about me

            I wasn't commenting on you or your personality, I was answering your question. The "you" is used impersonally, in English.

            I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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            • T Tarek Elqusi

              If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams I got it from a message posted by ahmed zahmed[^]

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              GuyThiebaut
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              I prefer the Royal Marines take on leadership which is that the person with the most knowledge and skills in a 'situation' takes leadership irrespective of rank.

              “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”

              ― Christopher Hitchens

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              • M Mark_Wallace

                Tarek Elqusi wrote:

                You seem you based your reply on this idea that you though about me

                I wasn't commenting on you or your personality, I was answering your question. The "you" is used impersonally, in English.

                I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                :)

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                • M Mark_Wallace

                  Tarek Elqusi wrote:

                  You seem you based your reply on this idea that you though about me

                  I wasn't commenting on you or your personality, I was answering your question. The "you" is used impersonally, in English.

                  I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                  Tarek Elqusi
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                  So, np, as I'm not that perfect in English.

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                  • M Mark_Wallace

                    There's no such thing as a "leader", there are just people who have abilities and knowledge that are appropriate for a leadership role under particular circumstances and conditions, and to whom other people allow a measure of authority. Take someone you think of as "a good leader" from here and place him there, and he can become a useless, annoying piece of cr@p, because the people there don't think of him as a leader. Scrap any self-improvement books that tell you otherwise. Actually, just scrap any self-improvement books. You are who you are. If that's not good enough for you, just check in to an insane asylum, and save everyone else a lot of bother in dealing with you.

                    I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                    Mark_Wallace wrote:

                    You are who you are.

                    <Up the back> I'm not. </Up the back>

                    Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004

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                      Mark_Wallace wrote:

                      You are who you are.

                      <Up the back> I'm not. </Up the back>

                      Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004

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                      Mark_Wallace
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                      Keep talking -- give the bouncers a chance to find ya.

                      I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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