There are some positions that I don’t even like as a person. I’m talking of the vice president or the deputy of any position, any deputy of any position. I always see it as the PA of that position not even working as the deputy. No one gets known as the deputy of the president or the deputy governor. You would want to know the 1st man. Nobody cares about the second person. And this kind of a thing is not something that started today. When a leader leaves the people that are underneath him, either a second in command or third in command never gets noticed or unknown.
Only very few men that raised up the hand of those that are following them. Others they make sure that they wreck the whole thing and those second in commands will make sure that they fight their way to the top. Some people going as far as removing their leader.
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Out of the line so that they can become the 1st man on the job. It can be that desperate and we have seen so many of such scenario plays out in life.