A person learns by doing.
Real military typically has training, schooling, and tons of precedent and procedure to produce the desired outcomes.
Potential emerging leaders in DAoC only have stubbornness, thick skin, and hopefully the ability to obtain the advice of proven others to get up to speed.
After that, it's all just a matter of learning lessons.
The only advice I’ll continue to offer, is make it fun. A leader should never have a bad day. Even if you are more pissed off than you have ever been in yoru life… Be gracious - Thank everyone profusely for helping, take the blame for everything, and call out a few good deeds for all to know.
People will walk away with a good feeling, and the next time that leader steps up, odds are you’ll have more people’s respect than the previous battle, regardless of outcome.
Keep going out and applying your learnings, and eventually you’ll become a winning leader. Unless you are fighting Hibs. Or Mids. I mean, let’s be realistic here.
I’ll hook up to help a person who can lead a group to a good time, even if their track record of success is low. But, have a leader go off and berate their army, calling names, or placing the blame publicly on an individual or group, and I’m unlikely to be inspired to donate a couple hours of my life in the future in support of their goals.
That being said? I think this conversation would best be dealt with if associated more with “thick skin†and “graciousnessâ€.
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