**Guides v. Masters**
—Guide: a leader who persuades by example and suggestion, based on experience or informed speculation (expressed as such). Practices voluntary relationships. Legitimate.
—Master: a leader who manipulates through duress or deceit, based on experience or misinformed speculation (often concealed). Practices coercive relationships. Illegitimate.
—_____: leadership by bribery. Illegitimate.

**Anti-Authoritarian Leadership Criteria**
—Active Choice – followers actively and voluntarily decide their roles with informed consent, constantly re-evaluate
—Anarchistic Skepticism – the burden of justification rests on guides rather than followers
—Contextual Merit – guides' proficient in a specific context
—Egalitarian Integrity – absence of force and fraud in interactions
—Egalitarian Purpose – no compensation requested beyond effort expended or direct need; guides and followers live in the same material conditions
—Empowering Trajectory – concrete processes for empowering followers, sharing information or materials, rotating roles, decentralizing agency, and rendering further guidance unnecessary
—Finite Duration – guidance duration directly linked to mutually-agreed upon goal(s)
—Immediate Recall – the followers' ability to immediately revoke status of guide(s), followers can withdraw at any time
—Radical Accountability – guides redress force, fraud, and failure
—Radical Transparency – honest and empowering explanations of guides' logic and aims
—Responsible Teaching – guides want responsibility to followers rather than power over them
—Social Leveling – the followers thwart guides' senses of entitlement, arrogance, & contempt
—Stakeholder Accessibility – the inclusion of all parties deserving agency, based on expressed or implied need

**Anti-Authoritarian Leadership Models**
1. task-oriented leadership – focuses on tasks & structures; “the teacher"
2. stimulus-oriented leadership – focuses on motivation & morale; “the instigator"
3. example-oriented leadership – focuses on providing a good & inspiring example; “the achiever"
4. relationship-oriented leadership – promotes better group communication & cohesion, individual development; “the mentor"

**Types of Power Anarchists Oppose**
—rulers: leaders w/ power to punish, power to give rewards & bribes, power to force participation, power from class & wealth, power via insider access to authorities; leaders w/ narcissism

—sense of omniscience, sense of omnipotence, sense of invulnerability

—sadistic, sociopathic, psychopathic, or supremacist leaders
—politicians: issues of managerialism, representation, bureaucracy, recuperation

—empathy gap created by hierarchy

—pyramidal structure / chain of command v. individual conscience

—linear & despotic hierarchies

—one-way communication of superiors-subordinates + discipline & reward structure → filtered awareness, false optimism & flattery (Hagbard Celine's 2nd Law / upward info distortion + downward ambiguous orders)

—pillars of oppression (hierarchy + objectification + submission + violence)