JUSTICE VS FAVOR -- THE LEADERSHIP BATTLE IS ALWAYS ON

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Leadership always has a battle on hand. Whether to offer justice or favor? Favor fetches loyalties and huge favor in terms of money, power and patronage to further the threesome brings in loyalists. Loyalty is more of an isolated faithfulness that vanishes with time as well as denial of further favors. But loyalists having tasted the benefit of loyalty to power choose to support the leadership irrespective of their corrupt, criminal and even immoral acts and also turn as spokesperson to defend or deny the wrongs as they are elements of the beneficiary as well as conduit to the wrong.

Justice is widely liked and easily forgotten as people believe they deserve it. Justice is also not realized as justice till acts of injustice start as part of the system. Leaders indulge in justice for overall good image, support of good Samaritans and also inevitably. Justice when met out as punishment especially through imprisonment or death also has huge emotional facet that leaders prefer to handle  with safety glove or silence as opposing by going with the emotion would tarnish their ability of good sense.

A shrewd leader mixes justice and favor deftly. He does favors as justice where discretion rescues him out of the favor charge though there are others vying for the benefit. But leadership perennially has weakness for loyalists since any leadership is always under challenge with someone else vying to capture it. The leader feels secure with a known set of loyalists hence they tend to overstep in justice by favoring them who ultimately help in their personal effectual leadership. 

Yet a leader needs to spread justice without the support of loyalists. While loyalists   rebel in such instances the leadership has to implant the message that discretion management is not exclusive domain of a few individuals. Discretion throws up many possibilities for decision making. When a favor is made, the majority need to see one explanation that is convincing to see it as "not injustice". The role of leadership would be incomplete without favors though justice has to be the ultimate goal. How much of favors can be inbuilt to use the system as a vehicle of justice is a decision the leader has to take.

In that process successful leaders use loyalists to reach the ultimate goal of justice by assigning them the arduous job of auditing the real meting out of justice. Having been beneficiaries of many favors they do perform this job albeit with grudge. In a society persons who have multifarious abilities are inevitable and seek to grab more than their share of rewards. Curbing such tendencies without losing their support by extending temporary and invisible favors is a sure and successful way of rendering overall justice to the society and many successful leaders practice it.

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