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[Kevin Sevcik]

Originally Posted by Ian Curtis

I agree you don't have to win an award or an event, or even get picked for eliminations. But, I think you do have to care about winning and you've got pick up some wins along the way (sometimes those wins are simply "We scored a point!"), which was the original poster's point.

I'm pretty sure leadership just requires a goal to lead towards. For some that may be winning in various forms. For others that might be the whole learning, inspiring, engineering thing. Karthik's Game Strategy presentation points out you have to have a goal to work towards and he pretty clearly notes that it doesn't have to be winning. It could be "designing a cool robot" or "having the best autonomous". Winning competitions is an obvious choice, but it's not the only one.

Unless you're defining winning as "achieving your goals". In which case I agree that winning is necessary for effective leadership. That's probably not the definition we're talking about here, though.