Solitude and Leadership: On Learning to Be Alone With Your Thoughts
You will find yourself in environments where what is rewarded above all is conformity. I tell you so you can decide to be a different kind of leader. And I tell you for one other reason. As I thought about these things and put all these pieces together—the kind of students I had, the kind of leadership they were being trained for, the kind of leaders I saw in my own institution—I realized that this is a national problem. We have a crisis of leadership in this country, in every institution.
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The American Scholar
Published: Mar 1, 2010
Length: 24 minutes (6,030 words)