Being able to relate to just about every job at the company meant I was the one people came to with problems.
Poor you. What I’m seeing here, is two things:
- People thinking of you as a born leader.
- That they must have over-estimated you.
What we attract from others by way of how they respond to us, tells us many things, only one of which is about what we project, whether we mean to be or not.
But it also tells us what we are capable of, or what we aren’t, when others come looking for leadership, example or counsel because we somehow have suggested that we had them to offer. If it turns out we don’t after all, I’d also assert that this is far more an indictment of the one who projects leadership then resents being called on to deliver it, than it is of those who are simply responding to what they thought were someone’s best traits.
Blaming them for their “attitude”, simply for seeing what they erroneously thought were strengths, indicates better than anything that one’s persona is a false one, and one’s intentions among others less than honest ones.
Doubling down on the judgments, by going to the next level and blaming the whole happenstance on some kind of societal flaw, just makes you look more a cynical fraud than ever.
And all they wanted, was leadership. Too bad for you and them both, that you never had it to offer to begin with.
