Where have All the Leaders gone?

Leadership is not a popularity contest, much less being nice and goodly-goodly.

Leaders do what needs to be done (and not what they like to do), with certain unremitting inner composure and detachment.

It is all about loving what you do and learning to love what you have to do. Knowing the last part (loving what you have to do and doing it cheerfully) makes all the difference in life and leadership.

The more one studies the current chaos in leadership ranks and ranks to be, the more one appreciates Shakespeare’s insight: ‘Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.’

Perhaps the bard of Avon forgot two more categories: some have hallucinations about greatness and some precious few have greatness bought for them!