"Where Have All the Leaders Gone?"

When a problem is this pervasive it must be systemic. Who or what is responsible? Is it the federal government? Is it the escalation of tensions in the Middle East? Are terrorists to blame? Or is it good old-fashioned greed that accounts for these large-scale leadership meltdowns?

It is my conviction that organizations don’t collapse because there are not enough managers; organizations collapse because there are not enough leaders. In the 1960s, the folksingers, Peter, Paul, and Mary, made popular a song that asked the question, “Where have all the flowers gone?” Perhaps today’s headlines should cause us to ask, “Where have all the leaders gone?” As Peter, Paul, and Mary pondered, “Long time passing?”