In this paper, I respond to calls for more critical reflection on the power dynamics of caring leadership. I consider how a combination of care and impotence might unfold as Nietzsche’s ‘slave morality’, crystallised in the phenomenon of ressentiment. At the heart of slave morality is an inversion of values in which everything represented by the Other is denigrated so that the slave can find meaning and solace in his own place in the world. The Nietzschean inversion transforms impotence, inferiority and submission into virtue, identity and accomplishment. In contrast to recent elaborations of ressentiment in followers, I argue that slave morality is something to which leaders, especially caring leaders, are also vulnerable. When caring leadership awakens or exposes the slave-within, we are unable to take charge of – or responsibility for – ourselves, because we have ceded control of the self to forces beyond the self. This is the risk of ‘care ethics’ as a systemic inversion of values which constructs an ideology out of letting others define who and what we are. It creates a breeding ground for ressentiment, feeding off unspoken and unspeakable grievances about the injustices of one’s lot, especially those involving a clash between the rhetoric of empowerment and the experience of impotence. The Nietzschean warning is: Be wary of leadership models which might look and even feel nice, but which turn self-sacrifice into virtue and silence into necessity.

在本文中，我回应了对关怀领导力的动力动态进行更批判性思考的呼吁。我认为，随着尼采的“奴隶道德”在，媚现象中得到体现，关怀与阳imp的结合将如何展开。奴隶道德的核心是价值观的倒置，在其中他人的一切被贬低，以便奴隶可以在自己的世界中找到意义和慰藉。尼采的反转将阳imp，自卑和顺从转变为美德，身份和成就。与最近关于娱乐的阐述相反在追随者中，我认为奴隶道德是领导者，特别是有爱心的领导者也容易受到的伤害。当有爱心的领导唤醒或暴露内部的奴隶时，我们将无法对自己负责或对自己负责，因为我们已将对自我的控制权交给了超越自我的力量。这是“护理道德”作为价值观念的系统性反转的风险，这种价值观念建构了一种意识形态，而不是让他人定义我们是谁和什么。它为娱乐创造了温床，对于个人的不公义，尤其是那些涉及授权的言辞与阳of经验之间的冲突的人，发出了无声无形的抱怨。尼采的警告是：警惕可能看起来甚至感觉很好的领导模式，但是这种领导模式会将自我牺牲变成美德，将沉默变成必要。