Bullying and scam-artistry, is learning to manage these the basis of good leadership in society?

The mark of effective manipulation is that the other person is completely unaware that they are being manipulated. Whether it's based on marketing, behavioural science, NLP, social dynamics, sales techniques or whatever.

Your vision is too limited.

Bullying is clumsy and generally creates resistance. That's bad because your ideas aren't being accepted, and without acceptance, you'll never assume any kind of authority in the situation.

Same with scam, because scamming is based on a lie. The whole message/communication is tarnished from the beginning by that lie, and so, your ability to convince others has an expiry date. Especially nowadays that people are more aware of scams, and trickery whether it's the media, the politicians, or mainstream advertising, people are far more aware of emotional manipulation, and the techniques used to anchor emotions to particular actions or verbal cues.

People management is a completely different scenario because ultimately the believe is rooted in improving the capabilities of that other person, and most recipients are aware of that, so there's less resistance to external beliefs. General management is different but operates under many of the same limitations.

Although, I'd recommend that you don't lean so heavily on psychological science to reinforce your beliefs on the topic. Psychology, in spite of it's general acceptance in society, isn't as reliable as people want to make it out to be. It forces categorisation on to others, through the assumption of authority, but it's still somewhat iffy as to the consequences. Many psychologists end up creating a self-fulfilling prophecy when identifying and treating others "problems".

So.. honestly, I'd direct you to the 80s/90s aspects of social programming, marketing theory related to market/behavioural science, and some of the videos by Richard Bandler (not because he's perfect, but because he had some amazing insights into how people interacted with each other, and how a person could step into those interactions). NLP has a lot of flaws, as does all techniques/belief systems, but it's pretty good at identifying behaviours and how to manage them. But as with all such things, it's best to take a little from everything, and not focus on any one methodology.

Because from your post, you seem rather scattered, meshing scenarios together even though what happens and how it happens is unrelated.

Ahh I guess I misunderstood. I though he was referring in his OP to general manipulation/bullying/scamming others, so the effect of emotions on communication.

Hmm. Ah well.

One aspect of the corporate ideology that has taken over a lot of the western world the last 20 years is this push towards leadership..

Surely being a leader is the last thing you should be?..When you have foresight, wisdom etc..

What you see now is a load of narcissistic idiots running around going "I'm a leader.."

I dunno is it a way of getting people to push themselves to work more?..(It does seem to have grown out of the corporate world..)

Like, A lot of our current problems are down to being led by midwits..