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| CEOs lead the world? Yeah right. |
Those in the world
with the capacity to change the world are out of touch. The child’s fable of
the Emperor Has No Clothes keeps coming up over and over again on the Internet to
describe all the inept, corrupt, uncompassionate, uncaring spreadsheet systems
of control, non-leadership, and incompetence in place in the world today in
business, government and religion.
Two-thirds of the hungry of the
world are women.
Two-thirds of the illiterate of
the world are women.
Two-thirds of the poor of the
world are women.
That can't be an accident; that
has to be a policy.
Where are the leaders who will
change these things?
But how do we know what it
means to really be a leader and how do we know who should do it?
There are some clues to those
answers in folk literature, I think. The first story is about two boats that
meet head on in a shipping channel at night.
As boats are wont to do in the
dark, boat number 1 flashed boat number 2: "We are on a collision course.
Turn your boat 10 degrees north."
Boat 2 signaled back:
"Yes, we are on a collision course. Turn your boat 10 degrees south."
Boat 1 signaled again: "I
am an admiral in her majesty's navy; I am telling you to turn your boat 10
degrees north."
Boat 2 flashed back
immediately: "And I am a seaman 2nd class. And I am telling you to turn
your boat 10 degrees south."
By this time, the admiral was
furious. He flashed back: "I repeat! I am an admiral in her majesty's navy
and I am commanding you to turn your boat 10 degrees north. I am in a
battleship!"
And the second boat returned a
signal that said: "And I am commanding you to turn your boat 10 degrees south.
I am in a lighthouse."
Point: Rank, titles and
positions are no substitute for leadership....
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