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Walter Lippmann, commemorating the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote, “The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.” That’s a pretty optimistic definition because among other things, it assumes that common sense abounds in society.
As everyone who has elected a leader who showed promise and then turned out to be…..
In corporate America, there are as many leadership styles as leaders. In my novel “Skyscrapers” I contrasted two CEO’s, both flawed. They shared a number of positive traits: alpha personality, a drive to succeed, an ability to manage a large and complex industry, enough charisma to motivate subordinates, and an ethos which so far had worked for them. At the…..
