In every field of endeavour, he that is in First<\/strong>, must constantly live in the white light of publicity.<\/p>\n Whether the leadership is vested in a man or a manufactured product, emulation and envy are ever at work.<\/p>\n In art, in literature, in music, in industry, the reward and the punishment are always the same.<\/p>\n The reward is widespread recognition; the punishment, fierce denial and detraction.<\/p>\n When a man\u2019s work becomes a standard for the whole world, it also becomes a target for the shafts of the envious few.<\/p>\n If his work be merely mediocre, he will be left severely alone-if he achieved a masterpiece, it will set a million tongues a-wagging.<\/p>\n Jealousy does not protrude its forked tongue at the artist who produces a common-place painting. Whatsoever you write, paint, play, sing or build no one will strive to surpass or to slander you, unless your work be stamped with the seal of genius.<\/p>\n Long, long after a great work or a good work has been done, those who are disappointed or envious continue to cry out that it cannot be done.<\/p>\n Multitudes flocked to Bayreuth to worship at the musical shrine of Wagner, while a group of those whom he had dethroned and displaced, argued angrily that he was no musician at all.<\/p>\n The little world continued to protest that Fulton could never build a steamboat, while the big world flocked to the river banks to see his boat steam by.<\/p>\n The leader is assailed because he is a leader, and the effort to equal him is merely added proof of that leadership.<\/p>\n Failing to equal or to excel, the follower seeks to depreciate and destroy, but only confirms, once more, the superiority of that which he strives to supplant.<\/p>\n There is nothing new in this.<\/p>\n It is as old as the World and as old as human passions, envy, fear, greed, ambition and the desire to surpass.<\/p>\n And it avails nothing. If the leader truly leads, he remains the leader.<\/p>\n Master-poet; Master-painter; Master-workman, each in his turn is assailed and each holds his laurels through the ages.<\/p>\n That which is good or makes itself known, no matter how loud the clamour of denial.<\/p>\n That which deserves to live LIVES.<\/strong><\/p>\n Theodore F. McManus Saturday Evening Post, Jan 2, 1915<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Penalty of Leadership In every field of endeavour, he that is in First, must constantly live in the white light of publicity. Whether the leadership is vested in a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-educator"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"MasterMason","author_link":"https:\/\/ashlarcollege.ca\/ashlar-archived\/author\/mastermason\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"The Educator<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"The Penalty of Leadership In every field of endeavour, he that is in First, must constantly live in the white light of publicity. Whether the leadership is vested in a…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashlarcollege.ca\/ashlar-archived\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashlarcollege.ca\/ashlar-archived\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashlarcollege.ca\/ashlar-archived\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashlarcollege.ca\/ashlar-archived\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashlarcollege.ca\/ashlar-archived\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashlarcollege.ca\/ashlar-archived\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashlarcollege.ca\/ashlar-archived\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashlarcollege.ca\/ashlar-archived\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashlarcollege.ca\/ashlar-archived\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}