INTRODUCTIONIt’s a Crazy, Fractured World
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilousto conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to takethe lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
NICCOLÒ MACHIAVELLI (1469–1527)
It’s a crazy world, and it is a fractured world, and we all feel the stress and see the fractures, and frustratingly ask, “Where is the leadership?” I have been wrestling with this question for a long time.
As a young doctoral student, I lived for a time in the remote rainforests of Borneo with a nomadic tribe called the Penan, where I studied social and cultural adaptation. The Penan hunted with a blowpipe, wore a simple loincloth, and had boar tusks protruding through their pierced earlobes. One ...
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