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The Best Way For Business To Move Out Of The Hall Of Shame Is To Demonstrate A Commitment To Social Causes. This Also Makes Business Sense. A Focus On Solving Social Problems Has Motivational Benefits In Lean Economic Times.

It Takes Courage To Speak Up Against Complacency And Injustice While Others Remain Silent. But That's What Leadership Is.

Not Everyone In An Organization Is In A Position To Accumulate Power Through Competent Performance Because Most People Are Just Carrying Out The Ordinary And The Expected - Even If They Do It Very Well. The Extent To Which A Job Is Routinized Fails To Give An Advantage To Anyone Doing It Because 'success' Is Seen As Inherent In The Very Establishment Of The Position And The Organization Surrounding It. Neither Persons Nor Organizations Get 'credit' For Doing The Mandatory Or The Expected.

In Most Important Ways, Leaders Of The Future Will Need The Traits And Capabilities Of Leaders Throughout History: An Eye For Change And A Steadying Hand To Provide Both Vision And Reassurance That Change Can Be Mastered, A Voice That Articulates The Will Of The Group And Shapes It To Constructive Ends, And An Ability To Inspire By Force Of Personality While Making Others Feel Empowered To Increase And Use Their Own Abilities.

Time Is A Function Of Impact. The Longer A Book Of Mine Has Been In Print, The Greater Its Impact Seems To Be As People Absorb And Digest My Ideas. I Am Especially Proud Of The Change Master: Innovation And Entrepreneurship In The American Corporation, First Published In 1983, Because It Raised Questions And Addressed Issues At A Time When So Many Great Changes Were Occurring In Our Society, Indeed Throughout The World.