Vine: Leadership and the Dominating Will

Vine is the weather of the person who knows, quickly, and would like you to know too.

The weather

Traditional language says the capable, dominating, the leader who may become a tyrant of small rooms. Number 1 and the Sun rhyme. Leadership is a skill. Vine weather is what happens when the skill cannot bear disagreement.

Beside the profile

Vine already lives in this house as a profile: “The dominating will.” Knowing the way, and making others take it. Leadership that becomes a climate of control. A name for force, not a condemnation of leaders. Bach filed it under Over-care for the welfare of others — for those who over-care for the welfare of others. The profile is the door. This essay is a longer walk around the same weather. Neither is a diagnosis, a product, or a treatment plan.

Will is a tool. As a climate it leaves no air.

A takeaway

Ask someone to change your plan. Survive it. That is the whole practice. If you cannot, you are not leading. You are occupying.

Readers exploring this theme may also find neighbouring rooms interesting. Similar weather across traditions is not proof that one system explains another.