On the surface, this is a very polished presentation, but scratch that surface and you reveal a message that is condescending to women and misandry by a male promoting what he’s selling to an audience wanting to buy-in. It’s quite despicable really.
This video implies that incompetent male leadership is an epidemic, and it’s not! It also implies that males are viewed as competent based on them being ‘aggressive, assertive, bold, abrasive and over-confident’, but this is absurd and stereotypes all confident male leaders as incompetent, linking this to what the ‘Left’ has characterised as ‘Toxic Masculinity’. It’s unlikely that Human Resources departments the world over have included these characteristics as mandatory selection criteria for hiring senior executives.
We’ve all seen our fair share of incompetent male and female leaders. Incompetence is gender-neutral. The masculine traits describe in the video are not in themselves the problem, at least no more a problem than the over-emphasis placed on feminine traits being better for leading. They’re not.
This is unfortunately a weak argument and typical of the current, popular assault on men, especially in positions of power. On the surface the premise of this argument seems completely plausible; however, in the context of this argument, competence is much more a function of management than leadership. True leadership has little to do with technical ability, which seems to be what is being equated to competence or gender, although males tend to want to lead more because anthropologically they are more dominant than females. There are also a vast array of psychological, social, and personal reasons why females are less interested in rising to the top of organisations and into senior leadership roles, and that’s ok.
The quantity of male leaders has its roots in biology, not gender, and technical ability is a poor measure of one’s competence as a leader. It’s important not to confuse technical ability, being termed here as competence, with pure leadership. It’s also important to understand that gender is a factor in the male to female leadership ratio due to males being predisposed to being dominant.
A much more concerning fact is that many leaders are psychopaths. They exude charisma and win leadership positions but have no empathy, are toxic, and ruin organisations.
Imagine for a second that we flipped this video to be about incompetent female leaders. It would break the internet!
Unfortunately, it is entirely probable that the quest for equality, especially the push for equal quantities (quotas) of females in leadership positions, CEO roles, and on Boards will lead to females being promoted too quickly or beyond their capability. This problem is statistically exacerbated due to the pool of suitable females being low, compared with their male counterparts. The only way to prevent incompetent females from being over-promoted is to allow their rise to be organic and at the ‘right pace’.
