“What is your version of a leader?” asked the driver.
“I believe,” was my explanation, “a leader should have an immense, a profound conscience that can see and understand his people’s problems and care for.
“Do you mean he should be a versatile?”
“Multifaceted and resourceful he should,” responded I, “ but it’s not a great virtue.”
“Why not?” asked he.
“Because all the resources he needs are waiting for him on the wings. For example, if he is not good at politics, he can hire an excellent politician. If he doesn’t know economics, he can avail himself of prodigious economists. If he isn’t well informed of educational theories and developments, he can make use of very talented educationalists. If he isn’t talented at psychology or sociology, or philosophy, or science, or other important fields of knowledge, he can take advantage of many experts in these fields and domains...”
“Then this leader is a jack?” he interrupted me.
“But,” I continued, “if this leader is not a man of conscience, I’m sure, he will not consult anybody in the matter of conscience, and thus his sense of honesty and justice and prudence will entirely be disputed, and then his people will be in the hands of a jack.
“But,” he asked, “Do you think it is practical that a leader should see and understand his people’s problems and care for?”
“My friend, this is a real version of a leadership. Leadership means mountains of responsibilities.
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