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Heroes are individuals who introduce a new solution in the community they live in.

As Joseph Campbell says*:
“A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow booms on his fellow man.”

*From his book: “The hero with a thousand faces”.

To achieve this, heroes need to have a maximal strategy that is given by the implementation of the new solution and a minimum strategy which implies accepting his or her death.

Are there heroes in business?

Following Peter Belohlavek’s metaphor:

“Three men see a block of marble.
One sees the beauty of the marble.
The other sees the value of the marble.
The sculptor sees the statue within the marble…”

A hero is the one who sees the statue in the marble and is able to make it accessible to the community. Heroes see what no one sees and are able to overcome the difficulties to make it exist. They have both maximal and minimum strategies and are willing to pay any price to achieve what is a transcendent goal for the community.
They are the individuals who build institutions or shift institutions with added value.

Heroes vs. Pseudo-heroes

There are also Pseudo-heroes in organizations. They are those for whom creating problems is a good business to become needed to “solve” them.
While heroes are part of evolution cycles, pseudo-heroes are part of involution cycles. Pseudo-heroes are individuals who seek a heroic role in their activity but are really “survivors”. Survivors are such because they are forced by the objective characteristics of the environment or by the parallel reality they have built in their minds.
Pseudo-heroes are individuals that do not have a concrete idea of a superior solution but a utopia of what should exist.
Their pseudo-heroic role needs to be sustained by their personal difficulties to solve problems. That is why the more problems they have, the more self-fulfilled they feel, and the more they need to complain about these problems. Involution is being fostered when these complaints are considered.
Thus if there are no problems they need to create them. When these pseudo-heroes have a high IQ, then they create sophisticated fallacies to produce the problems they need for their self-fulfillment.
At the end of the road they leave no added value behind.

Conclusion

Over qualification, under qualification, inferiority complexes or superiority complexes are the main characteristics of pseudo-heroes. Therefore, pseudo-heroes can only have minimum strategies; they cannot deal with evolution strategies.
Heroes are necessarily qualified and have no complexes, so they are able to introduce a new solution in the community.
Institutions need to have a policy to foster heroes to sustain their evolution and at the same time have antidotes to inhibit the existence of pseudo-heroes.

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Diana Belohlavek

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