Tiger, the reluctant leader?

Tiger Woods is a very successful golfer and perhaps deserving of the name "CEO of golf", and an idol in ways more than one. But is he a leader? Leading what other than scores in the game of golf?

Without condoning his extra marital behavior his behavior remains his personal problem. When are we going to wake up to the fact that even national heroes have their dark side and it is silly or even immature of us to expect a "perfect person" in every aspect of one's public and private life, whatever the public "image" may portrait. Except in our idealized world we are not going to find a perfect angel or a total evil.

The US view of our athletes, entertainers and other "stars" is sad. We are looking for someone to emulate, look up to, follow, be our role models. Sadly, they are us -- excepting they happen to have a God given talent in a narrow field (golf, singing, etc.). So, when they exhibit signs of weakness (adultery, drinking, gambling, etc.) we are outraged at their behavior. This is our problem, not theirs. I liken this to the fans that extoll the virtues of their favorite college team (football, basketball, etc.) but have no interest in, nor knowldge of, the graduation rates of the athlete students (not student athletes) that are the object of their fandom.

The days of Public Role Models are over. From religious leaders to sports figures, the bottom line is that these are humans and these 'role models' are often so taken with “living life large” that they begin to think that they are invincible. The result is that at some time the public is going to feel betrayed by the bad behavior of these role models.

We can certainly admire the abilities these 'greats' have in their given field of excellence but that is it period – end of role model use.

A lot of the blame for these problems comes from the media – the same media that builds up these people with stories about their great contributions to noble causes, or their exciting lifestyles. This same media is like a pack of wild dogs when they ‘discover’ a flaw in their role models. They shred them for weeks until the situation has been milked for every possible saleable storyline. The media is totally about getting a audience regardless of cost to the object of interest and anyone connected to them.

So maybe the answer is that Tiger’s situation is just as much a product of the media feeding frenzy as it is a result of his behavior. And further more we the public are responsible in part for our ready acceptance and fascination with public figures as ‘role models.’ We need to stop putting these people up on impossibly high pedestals. We need to acknowledge that many of these public figures are relatively immature, overpaid, hyped up ordinary people who developed a skill or talent and through some good breaks are now out their for us to observe.

We need to take situations like Tiger Wood’s and use it to educate our young people ourselves that nobody on this earth today is perfect or invincible.

Who cares about Woods? He's just a guy who's very good and putting little white balls in holes in the ground. He is NOT an important person.

A leader of what? Mr. Woods ha never lead anything.

He's a golfer.

There are real leaders out there - he isn't one of them.

Sports figures, in and of themselves, aren't leaders by default. you have to earn that title.

Mr. Wood's hasn't.

Your "news" marketing piece about the noble opinions of the CEO of Novartis is repulsive. Big pharma has essentially evolved to the point of stifling the development of new drugs more often than they develop new ones. Their main supply line for new drugs is the purchase of other smaller companies that have already developed a new drug. Then if they can't make billions of dollars a year they just don't market the drug, so "orphan" diseases don't get treated.
The entire industry is as phony now as the derivatives sold by the big banks. Most of the new drugs are not new, simply recycled versions of old drugs that were just as effective. These companies are essentially criminal enterprises. What should be done is to break up their monopolies and stop giving them decades of patent protection.

Mr. Woods does influence the sports world whether we recognize it or not. Leadership is influence and leading yourself is often the toughest leadership challenge.

Commodore Crash-n-Burn always reminds me of the Agony of Defeat. Tiger reminds me of the attainment of the American Dream through hard work and dedication. And he is nearly always the Winner.

Another Chairmen of the Board had a pretty wild lifestyle running with the rat pack and he was certainly no Arnold Palmer. Frank had personal problems. Frank nearly died prematurely by ignoring his problems and "livin the high life". No one could take away the fact that Frank was a great entertainer. He was the Boss before the Boss. Frank's music will probably survive forever.

Good CEO helps the company survive the storm. Problem is Tiger created this storm. I am all about facing Liabilities head on and taking appropriate corrective actions. Quality of integrity includes omissions of defeats or failures as any fallible human being, in this case infidelity.

Problem I have with those other guys right now is that their plan, their plank, did not work, a political plank based on idealism to delusion. So, as they zealously still try to implement trickle down incentives, they looking to be the bigger fools. Is it not because there is a defect in their system, the God Complex, that denies or ignores human fallibility.

I wish Tiger and his family all the best at turning these lemons into lemonade. He is a winner and bouncing back up really high would be a great example for those who can't seem to make it through adversity. Stay out of the bars Tiger.

Fade in:

."..I pick myself up and get back in the race

That's life (that's life), I tell you I can't deny it

I thought of quitting, baby, but my heart just ain't gonna buy it

And if I didn't think it was worth one single try

I'd jump right on a big bird and then I'd fly..."

What comes to my mind is my one diagram and one sentence article entitled 'modern history's biggest by-pass'.
Basically the aforesaid says that a person should look towards the Creator and the Mechanism that looks after the entire Universe,as opposed to seeking heroes for example/emulation----paricularly more so after having come to know of the truth regarding various personalities.

Any worth-while person should be frank and truthfull about the totality of one's life.