Managing People More than 85 years ago, an advertising appeared in the Saturday Evening Post (January 2,1915) Titled “ The Penalty of Leadership,” It offers an insightful look into the pain and the pleasure of dealing with others in the workplace. In every field of human endeavor, he that is first must perpetually live in the white light of publicity… Whether the leadership be vested in a man or in a manufactured product, emulation and envy are ever at work. In art. In literature, in music, in industry, the reward and the punishment are always the same. The reward is widespread recognition; the punishment fierce denial and detraction. When a man’s work becomes a standard for a whole world, it also becomes a target for the shafts of the envious few. If his work is merely mediocre, he will be left severely alone. If he achieves a masterpiece, it will set a million tongues a-wagging. Jealousy does not protrude its forked tongues at the artist who produces a commonplace painting.