VIRTUE OF SIMPLICITY IN LEADERSHIP
Just as important to a leader as credibility, is something most vital that creates belief in him: simplicity. Simplicity includes the capacity of a leader to avoid becoming in any way entangled in the confused web of his own power. To keep a clarity of purpose in the midst of the most devious machinations. Not to live many lives, as did a simple enough man like Warren G. Harding, or a complicated one like Woodrow Wilson, but instead to embody a few unmistakable goals, as did Lincoln, who was a very complicated, simple man. A leader’s simplicity is often expressed in grossly sentimental terms — Nasser’s weeping; de Gaulle’s defiant singing of the Marseillaise to a silent, hostile crowd — but it awes even a leader’s opponents. Encyclopedia of 7700 Illustrations.
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