Problem: the leader may not be able to have the good will of his/her followers and the status that prizes confer simultaneously
The leader may not be able to have both the good will of his/her followers and the status that prizes confer.
WHY this may be a problem
Leadership may be legitimized in a number of ways, sometimes contradictory. In Iliad One Agamemnon derives legitimacy from both the quantity and special quality of his possessions and from his generosity in giving them. Losing either one may take him down a peg, at least as far as he sees it.
Consider one possible solution offered by Xenophon's Cyrus the Great (see "He Will Rock You", in the scene with Croesus where he explains how willingly others will give back what he has given (Xenophon Cyropaedia 8.2.13-23). His rule of liberality might be characterized as "Giving to the Grateful."
QUESTIONS to consider
Are there situations today where a leader is expected both to have a lot of resources and to be generous with them?