This was a funny painting in the gallery.
A naked lady with a big colorful sun hat on.
Be careful you don't want to get too much sun!
The painting also makes me think of the saying "The empress (or emperor) has no clothes."
The leader thinks they are wearing beautiful clothes, but the reality is they are naked in front of their subjects.
People see when their leaders are shelling out a clouded vision, tempting them with empty (campaign) promises, or pushing ideas that don't hold water in the real world, but often people are simply too afraid to say anything.
Instead, they acknowledge the beautiful clothes or brilliant ideas that aren't there and in groupthink fashion, they fail to call out the folly for what it is, when it is.
Naked is naked, and we should say the truth albeit with respect and in a constructive way, if we really want to make genuine collective progress.
True--lauding or blinding following what simply isn't there and has no substance may land you a seat at the royal table, but what good is it, if you are sitting with some leaders that may be nothing more than naked idiots. ;-)
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
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