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“A quick thought experiment: name a leader in a position of power you (really) admire, trust, and respect. Not just the head of an “alternative” company or political party, but a well-known, mainstream, orthodox, leader of the status quo. Can you?
Even after a few moments to reflect and consider, most people can’t name a single one. Obama? Bernanke? Cameron? Blankfein? They’re hardly Churchill, Roosevelt, Lincoln, or even JP Morgan.
I’d like to advance a simple thesis: today’s leaders are failing on a grand, epic, global, historic scale — at precisely a time when leadership is sorely needed most. They’re failing me, everyone under the age of 35, and everyone worth less than about $50 million. I can excuse leaders who are boring, mean, stingy, greedy, uninteresting, self-obsessed, vacuous, and generally lame. I can even excuse lying, cheating, and stealing. But I can’t excuse the fact that they’ve failed.” – Umair Haque