Sunday, March 08, 2009

Leaders that pull up the ladder behind them

Strong leaders, people we admire and respect, people who seem to know what to do and when to do it, people with confidence, perhaps a little arrogance which we forgive them for.

These people just seem to do everything right, or at least enough right that the world is a different, hopefully better, place for them and there vision and action. Indeed when they are gone the world is place that how have things that we probably did not even dream before.

I am thinking of perhaps Winston Churchill, John Kennedy, Margaret Thatcher, Martin Luther King, Gandhi

Why is there such a vacuum after them?
Is there really a vacuum at all?
It is inevitable that true greatness is comparative and so inevitable in short supply?

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