Lee Iacocca's Where Have All The Leaders Gone?

Where Have All the Leaders Gone?

What is each of us giving back to our country? Do we truly love democracy? Are we too fat and satisfied for our own good? Do we really care about our children’s futures? And who will save the middle class? These are all tough questions examined in Lee Iacocca’s Where Have All the Leaders Gone? A self-made man who many Americans once hoped would run for president, Iacocca saved the Chrysler Corporation from financial ruin, masterminded the creation of the minivan, and oversaw the renovation of Ellis Island. Iacocca has also institutionalized the Institute for leadership at Lehigh University and the Iacocca Foundation, which is dedicated to finding a cure for diabetes in honor of his late wife. Lee is a
Charisma is the quality that makes people want to follow you. It’s the ability to inspire. The final two C’s are Competence and Common Sense. Both of these seem obvious, right? Maybe that’s why they or largely deficit in today politics. The first sign of competence to me is the fixing of problems and it seems that the most important problems with today’s society are on the back burners. That doesn’t sound like common sense to me. Lee throws one final C in at the end claiming that he didn’t want to be accused of impersonating Moses by have “The ten C’s of leadership”. This is the biggest C, being Crisis, where leaders are born as we talked about earlier. Are we the good guys anymore? Isn’t that one of the thing America prides itself in? Sometimes I just feel like a bully in a high school called the world. You know what the bad thing about bullies is? There is or is going to be a bigger one. Iacocca uses the example of when we where kids and there was that one kid who had the best marbles or cards and no one wanted to make him mad because if you did he wouldn’t play with you. America is slowly becoming like that. This mentality is costing us all of allies and