About this Episode
Bonus bonus: Amos here. I remembered the thing that I forgot. It was about Nazis. I was taking a "Transformational Leadership" class through his work a little while back. At the end of the day, the trainer gave a list of examples of transformation leaders, people who used expression of their values to lead people to do great things. It included some people you might expect, like MLK. It also included Erwin Rommel, the German general from WWII who fought Patton in North Africa. I raised my hand and pointed out that Rommel was, literally, a Nazi. The trainer acknowledged this, but said
- He didn't execute prisoners.
- He was involved in a plot against Hitler.
I responded that you don't get points for going after Hitler in 1944, and that not committing war crimes seems like a pretty low bar for "transformational leadership." The whole thing was creepy.