BusinessWeek - Ask people to name great leaders, and chances are that they will choose a person who "fought to improve the state of the world" in one way or another; Gandhi, perhaps, or Winston Churchill. They will also name -- more provocatively but just as accurately -- someone such as Adolf Hitler or Osama bin Laden, individuals who turned a genius for leadership to diabolical ends. This means that any serious examination of what it means to be a leader must include the recognition that one can be responsible for causing great harm as well as great good.
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