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Shut Up and Sit Down

Why the Leadership Industry Rules



Editorial Rating

8

Qualities

  • Analytical
  • Applicable
  • Eye Opening

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Confronting a crisis tests the character of leaders by making them grapple with darkness and despair. Think of Abraham Lincoln facing the US Civil War or Franklin D. Roosevelt confronting the Depression. Yet, as Joshua Rothman reports in his New Yorker review of Leadership: Essential Writings by Our Greatest Thinkers, author Elizabeth Samet finds that 21st-century crises are often so intricate and interconnected no leader could solve them. Even so, the public sees today’s problems as a leadership crisis. Amid current uncertainties, Rothman reports finding welcome perspective in Samet’s informative anthology.

Take-Aways

  • An authentic leader pulls people out of crises.
  • Despite the world’s complexities, people often attribute problems to a leadership crisis.
  • Thinkers distinguish between “bureaucratic” and “charismatic” leaders.

About the Author

Joshua Rothman, who has been with The New Yorker since 2012, is the ideas editor of newyorker.com.


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