Worklore #13 : Leader and Bleeders

Good leaders like to be challenged all the time - it inspires them, helps retain their edge, and makes them stronger. More importantly, it helps them to think laterally, ideate aggressively, and foster out-of-box thinking - with the result that the organisation grows, and the teams grow along with their leaders. Such leaders always recruit sharp, inquisitive, hungry people.
On the other hand,  bad leaders are invariably insecure managers - they like to be surrounded by people who are less qualified, who know less, who are non-confrontational, who are instruction-driven, who take readily to micro-management and who are not particularly ambitious. Bad leaders are invariably at the forefront of an army of obsequious, myopic, complacent people; and they spend far too much time with these people - at the cost of an indifferent organisation. Organisational culture feeds the seeds of leadership : most leaders are born, but some are also made. Look for such an organisation; and try and work with such leaders.