Most leaders avoid openness and vulnerability like the plague; some even view it like kryptonite. Nevertheless, good leadership requires good relations with subordinates and good relationships require vulnerability. It's that simple. Good leaders don't operate in a vacuum. Many, striving for success, submit in some way to the seductions of tyranny, and within this limited submission they find their best efforts yield either benevolent dictatorships or Ivory-Tower-style-manipulations.