Good Leadership
I have a respectable collection of books, more than a dozen, on leadership; not a huge selection, but solid. All use, or depend on, examples of high profile personalities, which serves twin purposes to be both clear and motivating. And each author grounds his message in basic, real, principles of personal integrity, especially of humility. It’s all good stuff to read, reminding me why I read them: those prominent pursuits in life, with their versions of high profile and high impact leaders, can often feel empty. But like an antidote for this creeping emptiness, those authors on my shelf provide the inside stories where commitment to, and struggle for, integrity plays out to happy ends. And this encourages me to engage in similar struggles. “…whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these thi...