The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
A leader should have higher grit and tenacity, and be able to endure what the employees can't.
"It's not about what you say, it's about what you do."
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.