CHAPTER IWhere Have All the Leaders Gone?
1“Where have all the leaders gone?” That could well be the song for the last part of the twentieth century. In the national press, scarcely a day passes without extended discussion of the lack of political leadership and the apparent inability of the major political parties to raise up anyone who remotely looks the part.
Corporate America is in little better shape. The strong, charismatic, decisive leader of yesteryear has seemingly been replaced by colorless men. Bold strokes have given way to defensive strategies, aimed less at defining the future than at preserving the past.
Indeed, to the extent that heroes and leaders of the people still populate the planet—at least the U.S. portion of the planet—as ...
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