Followed immediately by resigning her post as leader rather than following through and briefly delaying the execution of her own orders for personal gratification.
That was “demonstrating leadership” in the same way that coming up with a rough idea for a story or game is “writing” or “game design”. It had some of the trappings of it and it makes a decent first step, but completely avoids any of the actual work involved in being a decent leader. In short, giving orders isn’t leadership unless you can follow through, to ensure your instructions are carried out or adapted as needed to get the job done. That’s the hard part, the time-consuming part, the important part, and what separates true leaders from those who merely think they are.
The blaming herself part would actually count as a good quality in a leader since you do want someone who’s willing to take responsibility for their mistakes rather then someone who’s self-satisfied no matter how badly they mess up. @_@
If by Leadership, they mean someone who will follow all the rules in the smallest of details, without deviation, and blame themselves without mercy if they even one is missed or out of line, to the point of self-destruction, then yes. But to me this sounds more like the perfect Bureaucratic Stooge.
Personally I think Sweetheart is better than that, but her obsessive compulsiveness is her own demon of madness.
Given that so far Skin Horse has had strong, independent leadership that was actively working against The Man’s attempts to keep nonhuman sapients down, “Bureaucratic Stooge” sounds exactly like what they want running the place.
Assuming we take what Mr. Green said out loud to his exposition minion was true, he’s not looking for an proactive group, he’s looking for a ‘toes the line’ Project Skin Horse. Sweetheart, for better or worse, showed a lot of qualities he’s probably looking for. She’s a literal thinker, she won’t have plots within plots like the old boss of Skin Horse.
Does he even have the authority to do that? Skin Horse is a publicly funded government agency, and he’s just the CEO of a large and powerful corpora—oh, right. Never mind.
Alright Agent Fancy, we just need you to sign these documents, and you’ll have all the authority you ever dreamed of. Just sign here, and here, initial here, . . . use my pen. The reddish-brown ink? No, don’t worry, this is a special ink for contracts. Once you sign with this, it’ll never be removed. We collected . . . , er, created this batch while you were in the simulation just for this contract, we were that confident that you accept our terms.
Don’t mind the music, I’ve always been a fan of the Rolling Stones.
I’m wondering how she’ll take the change in expectations and responsibilities.
The whole Civil Service landscape changes when one takes on a Directorship.
That’s why the Directors get the big bucks.
When I saw “leadership fitness” in bold text I automatically tried to figure out what the actual swear words were. Then I remembered that it’s not Nick here.
I can’t think of a single moment in that test where Sweetheart showed leadership. Being /easily led/ on the other hand…
That was probably the test!
The joys of wordplay.
I can think of one. Here: http://skin-horse.com/comic/eat-a-2/
Followed immediately by resigning her post as leader rather than following through and briefly delaying the execution of her own orders for personal gratification.
That was “demonstrating leadership” in the same way that coming up with a rough idea for a story or game is “writing” or “game design”. It had some of the trappings of it and it makes a decent first step, but completely avoids any of the actual work involved in being a decent leader. In short, giving orders isn’t leadership unless you can follow through, to ensure your instructions are carried out or adapted as needed to get the job done. That’s the hard part, the time-consuming part, the important part, and what separates true leaders from those who merely think they are.
You know, I’ve had worse tests than “doom the world and jump into this volcano to win”. Not many, but there’s one or two…..
She passed the leadership fitness test by freaking out, giving up, and blaming herself?
I get the feeling this is going to be a test where everything goes her way, in contrast to the previous one.
The blaming herself part would actually count as a good quality in a leader since you do want someone who’s willing to take responsibility for their mistakes rather then someone who’s self-satisfied no matter how badly they mess up. @_@
If by Leadership, they mean someone who will follow all the rules in the smallest of details, without deviation, and blame themselves without mercy if they even one is missed or out of line, to the point of self-destruction, then yes. But to me this sounds more like the perfect Bureaucratic Stooge.
Personally I think Sweetheart is better than that, but her obsessive compulsiveness is her own demon of madness.
Given that so far Skin Horse has had strong, independent leadership that was actively working against The Man’s attempts to keep nonhuman sapients down, “Bureaucratic Stooge” sounds exactly like what they want running the place.
Assuming we take what Mr. Green said out loud to his exposition minion was true, he’s not looking for an proactive group, he’s looking for a ‘toes the line’ Project Skin Horse. Sweetheart, for better or worse, showed a lot of qualities he’s probably looking for. She’s a literal thinker, she won’t have plots within plots like the old boss of Skin Horse.
Put Tip in charge. There will be no regrets.
No regrets!
I can think of a few. New uniforms springs to mind.
Makeovers for everyone!
The Make overs are the new uniforms
Director of Skin Horse?
Does this mean no more field work?
I mean field work for Sweetheart.
Does he even have the authority to do that? Skin Horse is a publicly funded government agency, and he’s just the CEO of a large and powerful corpora—oh, right. Never mind.
Like he said, the Feds are doing it. He just runs the corporation they outsource testing to.
Poor little puppy. Can’t ever keep herself under control, can she? It looks like she’s just going to be led down another rabbit hole now.
Wasn’t Gavotte trying to “toughen up” Sweetheart awhile ago, when the gang took their simultaneous vacations at the Whimsey park?
Dogs don’t take leadership roles. Cats on the other hand…
(First order of business: figure out which way is north so Sweetheart can lie down properly.)
I thought that was cows
“Cow” is a pretty nasty thing to call a dog like Sweetheart…
Alright Agent Fancy, we just need you to sign these documents, and you’ll have all the authority you ever dreamed of. Just sign here, and here, initial here, . . . use my pen. The reddish-brown ink? No, don’t worry, this is a special ink for contracts. Once you sign with this, it’ll never be removed. We collected . . . , er, created this batch while you were in the simulation just for this contract, we were that confident that you accept our terms.
Don’t mind the music, I’ve always been a fan of the Rolling Stones.
They don’t have access to Sweetheart’s real body—she’s still onboard Nick.
Cute that you think that would stop them.
They’re the Illuminati. They have everyone’s
spitblood.I guess it’s not Agent Fancy anymore, it’s Director Fancy!
I’m wondering how she’ll take the change in expectations and responsibilities.
The whole Civil Service landscape changes when one takes on a Directorship.
That’s why the Directors get the big bucks.
“You want to proofread and collate the orientation packet? Congratulations on passing the real Leadership Test. Here is the real orientation packet.”
When I saw “leadership fitness” in bold text I automatically tried to figure out what the actual swear words were. Then I remembered that it’s not Nick here.
…I’m amused that she thinks she didn’t go crazy.
To “go” crazy you have to be sane to begin with.