What if Often Tell Captured a More Secular View of Leadership?

The Greco-Roman world was preoccupied with honorary and official titles across all levels civic and imperial. Paul reached out for a fresh batch of terms to describe leadership in God's upside down kingdom. What if often tell captured a more secular view of leadership so that when we look at parallels of often tell in the wider secular literature, we can find statements that don't seem too negative? That's the problem that Paul has with the word authentico.