We often talk about leaders wearing blinders, being xenophobic in their focus, engaging in group think, and indulging in cognitive dissonance. Not only are these captains of the Titanic the victims of icebergs they are the creators of the icebergs. Finally, when it’s much too late they try to turn the ship around but the course to destruction has long ago been set and the first ship to go down was “The Bear Sterns.”
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Yesterday, I ran a video clip of Desmond Tutu discussing Leadership. In the clip the Nobel Prize winner draws our attention to the importance of sacrifice. The problem with sacrifice is not whether you make it but how you feel about it and how you present it
Leaders should keep in mind that we don’t need their sacrifices if their going to present themselves as a downtrodden slave, dragging their angst across the board room floor. …

That’s right. If someone hasn’t told you to “go to hell” in the last few months, something is probably wrong. Maybe not literally telling you to “go to hell” but you need people around you who have the courage to do so when all their options have been exhausted. You have to have people around you with the courage to stop you in your tracks.
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There has been much made of servant leadership in recent years. Desmond tutu, in this video, speaks from a pragmatic, but moral perspective.
In the following video 1984 Nobel Peace Laureate Desmond Tutu talks about what, in his opinion, makes a good leader. A servant leader must carry the burden of responsibility internally while inspiring people. He sites the Dali Lama, Nelson Mandela, Mother Theresa, and MLK Jr. as great examples of servant leaders. Tutu places …

Leaders, when trying to fulfill their sense of mandate, obviously need to have their people in places throughout an organization. They need to have a sense that individuals in positions of power, who are accountable to them, will see the world in the exact image that they see the world.  For presidential administrations, this seems to be a primary litmus test.  Consistently, they demand, be it the position of Attorney General, judgeships, or the UN, …