"Wussified"

Thinking about effective leadership styles and I can't help but come back to those who are uncompromising in their values and steadfast to their goals.  What happened to these guys?  Have we become so wussified  that they have disappeared?   While we were saving the three toed salamander, we vilified the leader with a moral compass, the explorer, the entrepreneur.  I'm not talking about political parties here.  I'm not talking about man vs. woman.  I'm talking about those who have held firmly to their beliefs through the storms of life, the hail of criticism and endured the tests of time.  Where are they now?

Have we rejected them so badly these thought leaders no longer wish to lead?Has the pain of suffering finally tilted the scale and now weighs heavier than their values and sense of duty?  The urban dictionary defines it like this:

Wussified: Something or somebody good and authentic that has been dumbed down, gentrified and made palatable to metrosexuals, and even girls.

Say it ain't so, Joe.  If all leaders are becoming wussified then who will stand up to the outlaws?  True leaders will never succumb to the vocal minority.  They push back and they don't back down.  They don't ask for quarter yet they may offer it to their adversaries (no guarantee). Leaders unite their followers toward a goal or series of goals.  God knows we are not short on causes more serious than that three toed salamander. Who would top your list of non-wussified leaders?