More Hesselbein on Leadership

The Leaders We Need

As this winter issue of Leader to Leader is being prepared for publication, we face an abrasive political campaign in a country divided and in the midst of war. By the time this issue is published, the campaigns will have ended and the country will know who its president will be, but the divisions will remain. Healing the wounds will be one of the challenges to leaders everywhere.

This is a time of testing for leaders as well as a time for a new kind of courage—the courage to lead in a time of great divisiveness. In an earlier issue of Leader to Leader (Number 20, Spring 2001) and on our Web site (www.l2li.org/leaderbooks/l2l/spring2001/fh.html) is a checklist for an organization’s relevance and viability—When the Roll Is ...