Characterizing the ideal minion

[Tuannon]

A lieutenant and a minion are not the same.

Are we talking about a servant who does everything without question and executes his or her orders to perfection or an acceptable alternative to perfection?

Or are we talking about a lieutenant who can organize your servants and motivate them to achieve what broad plans your organization makes?

There's plenty of wiggle room in the minion game, you can achieve your employer's goals in any number of ways, and really speaking from someone who was a minion for many years it's just as dependent on the person giving the instructions as it is on the person taking them and applying them.

The relationship between superior and inferior and how it works out is far more important than either the superior or the inferior, in my opinion and experience.

[Tetra]

A minion is somebody who works for someone else.

Lieutenants are also minions, in that they are beholden to another authority above them.


A good minion is a leader.  Not in the sense of a leadership role, but they have qualities of leadership.  That is what makes them valuable and promotable in the first place.

[Tuannon]

Hmm, all right then. I have nothing further to attempt to contribute, carry on.