LEADERS
When I started my professional career, I had the opportunity
to work for many of the cities in our state. Without fail, the leaders of those
cities, not necessarily the elected ones but those holding power, looked like I
do today.
Old fat white men.
Yep. And as time passed, I heard a consistent message from
younger potential leaders. “Those old men won’t step aside and let us assume
leadership positions.” Of course, women and minorities weren’t even part of the
conversation. But that’s how the baby boomers felt.
Now the baby boomers are in charge, today even joined by
selected females and people of color. Guess what the young folks are saying?
Yep. As a friend pointed out during a lunch yesterday, it’s
probably true with each generation.
“They just won’t get out of the way and let us in to lead.”
That’s one—just one—of the magnificent aspects of President
Joe Biden’s speech this week. The most powerful man in the world, not the leader
of some mid-sized town in Arkansas but the most powerful man in the world, is “getting
out of the way.”
One immediately hears the opening of the fourth movement ofBeethoven’s Fifth symphony erupt.
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