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Leadership
BY DR. GLENN FRANK
The man who- is giving genuine leader
ship to an enterprise is likely to seem
guilty of snobbery to the superficial obser
ver.
There is a large; literature about the
loud-voiced, table-thumping, generalissimo
type of leader who sits at his desk, buzzing
for this and that subordinate, with cring
ing underlings rushing in and out to
receive and execute his autocratic orders.
This kind of leader is-found in the old
melodrama rather than the modern manu
facturing establishment.
Great leaders are becoming less auto
cratic, less snobbish, less aloof from their
men. Even kings unbend today. But
there is a kernel of truth in' the popular
impression that great leaders are a bit
snobbish.
The great leader is not' arrogant,
swanky, or snobbish. He feels as much
at home with .his .servant as with his
first vice-presidenit.
But a man cannot be a, great leader
unless he keeps himself always in position
to command, if necessary, and to com
mand in a. way '.that will evoke respect
for his command. And so the great
leader makes sure that his relations with
his men are never of the sort. that
cheapens his hold upon their fundamental
respect for him and. for his judgment.
The great leader, just because he must
hold himself in position to command,
sometimes seems snobbish, but he is sim
ply wise.
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